Big environmental groups have an ambitious agenda, but success requires satisfying their Black, Latino and Indigenous critics.
When the leaders of the Big Green environmental groups realized last fall that they’d be confronting, at best, a closely divided House and Senate with only a wavering appetite for carbon restrictions, they knew President-elect Joe Biden would need an all-star EPA chief with the savvy necessary to use existing laws to lead the fight against climate change.He needed Mary Nichols.