Until Judge Merrick B. Garland is confirmed as Attorney General, Monty Wilkinson, a longtime employee who works closely with Eric H. Holder Jr. worked when he was attorney general, in an acting capacity.
The acting deputy attorney general is John P. Carlin, who ran the Department of Justice’s national security division during the Obama administration. He only held the office until Lisa Monaco, who over the years worked closely with Mr. Carlin worked, as deputy attorney general can be confirmed. She serves as an adviser on homeland security under Mr. Obama and during the Trump years, she and Mr. Carlin runs a group that has studied the most difficult issues in cyber policy.
Just like the politicization of the justice department the critics of mr. Trump’s outraged, the sterilization of the Environmental Protection Agency has provoked the indignation of progressives, and it is probably no surprise that the agency is already in danger of transformation.
About a month before the inauguration day, a Trump official who runs the water office, Charlotte Bertrand, suddenly emerged as the woman who would take over as acting administrator as the head of the agency. When the moment dawned, she never had a chance to sit in the chair.
Only a few hours after his presidency, Mr. Biden Jane Nishida, the deputy chief of staff for the Office of International Affairs and Government Affairs, was appointed to lead the agency until its nominee, Michael S. Regan, the largest environmental regulator in North Carolina, is confirmed.
But long before Mr. When Regan arrives at the building, a group of young staff members will be at work – a roster that reads like a who of climate change policies, many of which are being scrapped by the Obama administration.
Tiernan Sittenfeld, the senior vice president for government affairs at the League of Conservation Voters, said the team of experienced staff members was specifically selected to work quickly to reverse Trump’s policies.
“It was clear that we were one of the most anti-environmental, anti-climate action administration we’ve ever had,” she said. Sittenfeld said. She added: ‘The need to act immediately would be of utmost importance. There was a very deliberate, very thoughtful, ambitious attempt to get highly skilled experts in place immediately. ”
Reporting was contributed by Lisa Friedman, Noah Weiland, Glenn Thrush, Helene Cooper, Coral Davenport, Katie Benner, en Zolan Kanno-Youngs.