President Joe Biden’s climate lead, Gina McCarthy, reportedly had grown frustrated with the pace of slowing globe-warming emissions and was close to resigning. McCarthy denied the reports of her impending resignation.
President Joe Biden campaigned on an aggressive plan to step up the U.S.’s leadership role as a rich nation in slowing its globe-warming emissions and he named Gina McCarthy as his domestic authority in the effort.
The alleged frustration was mounting, the reports said, even though the Biden administration has used executive orders like making government buildings more efficient, taking a bigger leadership role with John Kerry as climate envoy, and other steps in what officials have called a “whole of government approach” to help keep the Earth from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius in coming years.
McCarthy, whose title is White House Climate Adviser, in a tweet late Thursday denied reports she is leaving the post. Her imminent departure was first reported by Reuters, citing associates of McCarthy, and later by the New York Times.
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