ELECTIONS
New President Elect Biden
ECA Staff | 11/9/2020
We have a transition to a new President elect Biden Administration. ECA has developed its priority list and is beginning to reach out to the DOE potential transition team.
This will be a unique transition as the President is challenging the results of the election and the General Services Administration is the coordinator for all transition activities. The formal transition will likely not take place until the President concedes the election. We will see this week if a “normal” transition is permitted by the Administration. DOE is expected to focus on zero carbon emissions and climate change issues (in addition to continuing the EM and NNSA missions).
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NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
New NNSA Leadership
ECA Staff | 11/9/2020
On Friday, NNSA changed leadership. The new acting Administrator of NNSA is William Bookless (Principal Deputy Administrator). DOE announced on Friday the departure of Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty. Gordon-Hagerty submitted her resignation, according to a report in Defense News, which first reported her departure. The press identified tensions between Gordon-Hagerty and Secretary Brouillette as a reason for her departure. Regardless, inside sources tell ECA she was likely leaving the Administration as the new Administration was unlikely to keep her as
Administrator.
2016 Transition Book for Insights
The 2016 transition books created by the President Obama’s Administration can be found HERE, for insights into the priorities of the last Democratic Administration.
TRANSITION
Early Names Floated for DOE Secretary
POLITICO | 11/9/2020
Politico reports (reminder that no one predicted Secretary Chu's appointment):
"Arun Majumdar: Majumdar is a renowned scientist who spent most of his non-government career at Stanford, but he is best known in Washington, D.C. as the first leader of the Advanced Research Project Agency - Energy, making it a permanent fixture in the federal government. He later became acting under secretary of the Energy Department under then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz. During the Trump administration, he did
a stint at Google before returning to Stanford.
Ernest Moniz: The former Energy Secretary could be welcomed into the administration, either taking back his old job or as a climate czar, though that would likely draw protests from progressives because of his work with fossil fuel and nuclear power companies. Moniz is an experienced hand who already knows Biden. He is widely respected across the energy industry, and he has spent the last three years pumping out reports on decarbonizing the world's economy. Greens have
criticized him in the past for serving on advisory boards to BP and General Electric.
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall: A former deputy energy secretary to Moniz under Obama, Sherwood-Randall has long been seen as a strong candidate for the job. She would be the rare Energy Secretary with a background in defense and foreign policy, having served at the Clinton Defense Department and as an arms control adviser to Obama before she joined DOE. That experience makes her unusually qualified to lead a department whose public facing work focuses on research, but the bulk
whose budget is to manage the nation’s nuclear stockpile."
ECA will keep you posted on the transition as we move forward.
ECA and ECOS: Post-Election Insights
November 12, 1:00PM - 3:00PM EST
For insight on the transition, please join us on November 12, as the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) and Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) will host a webinar with post-election analysis from experts.
How will the transition to a new Biden Administration impact DOE issues? What can we expect in future budgets and potential stimulus legislation? What is the outlook for state and local governments post-2020? Join the webinar to hear from our panel of Washington insiders!
Featuring:
- Jaime Shimek, Clerk, House Appropriations Committee
- Marty Schneider, Senior Vice President, Longenecker & Associates
- Bob DeGrasse, Vice President and Manager of Government Relations, Bechtel
- Colin Jones, Vice President and General Manager for North American Nuclear, Jacobs
- Ben Husch, National Conference of State Legislatures
- Tim Peckinpaugh, Partner, K&L Gates
Moderated by:
- Carolyn Hanson, Deputy Executive Director, ECOS
- Seth Kirshenberg, Executive Director
Nov. 9 Understanding the Outlook for New, Advanced Nuclear Technologies and Fuels with Dr. Everett Redmond, NEI; Virtual [Closed to ECA Members Only]
Nov. 12 ECA and ECOS: Post-Election Insights; Virtual
Nov. 17-18 Annual Intergovernmental Meeting; Virtual [Closed to ECA Members Only]
Dec. 16, 2020 New Nuclear Webinar; Virtual
Feb. 4 Annual ECA Meeting; Virtual
Sept. 8-10 National Cleanup Workshop 2021
Read about DOE's High Level Waste Interpretation
Have questions about DOE’s recent high-level waste (HLW) interpretation? Download ECA’s Key Points and FAQs on the issue to better understand what ECA believes are the potential benefits of implementation.
Interested in learning more? Read the ECA report “Making Informed Decisions on DOE's Proposed High Level Waste Definition” at www.energyca.org/publications
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