Biden’s Climate Czar on the Texas Electricity Mess, Green Energy
Gina McCarthy wants market-based signals to power America’s push to achieve its climate goals
Gina McCarthy during a Bloomberg Politics discussion in Washington in 2015. The EPA administrator at the time spoke about how President Obama's Clean Power Plan would survive even if a Republican president were elected in 2016.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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As the first White House National Climate Advisor, Gina McCarthy is carrying a lot of weight for Joe Biden’s administration. It’s her job to fulfill his very ambitious climate agenda, which includes a carbon-free grid by 2035 and a net-zero economy by 2050. This past week the president returned the U.S. to the Paris climate accord, which requires countries to set their own voluntary goals for reducing greenhouses gases. McCarthy, who led the Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama, has pledged “the most aggressive” carbon cut the U.S. can make ahead of a climate summit Biden is hosting with world leaders to mark Earth Day on April 22.