{"id":1196622,"date":"2022-01-07T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196622"},"modified":"2022-01-07T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:04:36","slug":"senior-white-house-climate-official-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-white-house-climate-official-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior White House Climate Official Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenior-white-house-climate-official-resigns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196622&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Cecilia Martinez, a member of the White House Council for Environmental Quality (CEQ), announced that she would resign Friday, nearly one year after accepting the role.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez explained that she needed rest and wanted to spend more time with her family in an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/climate-joe-biden-science-environment-and-nature-environment-a5eeb966bca1aba76c4d2c5a0706b610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a> with the Associated Press. She was in charge of crafting the White House\u2019s aggressive environmental justice policy which had been lauded by climate activists but <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/27\/energy-prices-gasoline-republicans-kevin-mccarthy-democrats-oil-gas-joe-biden\/\">criticized<\/a> by Republicans and the fossil fuel industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a hard decision,\u201d Martinez told the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez previously served as the executive director of the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy, and she was a professor at the University of Delaware. President Joe Biden selected her for the White House position shortly before taking office last year, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2021\/01\/14\/biden-climate-staff\/\">reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the campaign and the Presidential Transition to this critically-important first year of the Administration, Cecilia has been the heart, soul, and mind of the most ambitious environmental justice agenda ever adopted by a President,\u201d CEQ Chair Brenda Mallory said in a statement, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/06\/politics\/cecilia-martinez-environmental-justice\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/06\/federal-judge-texas-keystone-xl-pipeline-joe-biden\/\">(RELATED: Federal Judge Tosses Lawsuit Challenging Biden\u2019s Authority To Block Keystone Pipeline)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, Martinez and White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/fix\/letter-to-the-environmental-justice-community\/\">penned<\/a> a letter to the environmental justice community, outlining how the Biden administration was committed to addressing a variety of issues.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7348828\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7348828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with 40 world leaders at the White House on April 22. (Al Drago\/Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBlack, brown, and Indigenous people across America face disproportionate health burdens from environmental pollution,\u201d they wrote. \u201cToo many communities sit in the crosshairs of climate change, facing increasing safety and health risks without the resources and support they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ceq\/news-updates\/2021\/12\/02\/delivering-on-justice40\/\">wrote a separate letter<\/a> in December, listing the administration\u2019s successes under the so-called Justice40 initiative. The achievements included awarding funds to low-income communities for clean energy, giving prizes to organizations committed to the green transition and investing in energy storage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen first-hand Cecilia\u2019s passion and commitment to addressing environmental injustice, and am so proud of her service as the first-ever White House Senior Director for Environmental Justice,\u201d Interior Secretary Deb Haaland told CNN in a statement. \u201cThe work she has accomplished will be foundational as we continue our efforts to center equity and inclusion as a cornerstone of this Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s decision to choose Martinez to lead environmental justice efforts at the White House was also applauded by climate groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has dedicated her life\u2019s work to advancing equity and environmental justice and is exactly who we need at CEQ,\u201d Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen <a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/news\/press\/2021\/outstanding-leaders-chosen-to-advance-bidens-climate-and-environmental-justice-agenda\">said in a statement<\/a> in January 2021, calling her a \u201csuperb choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cecilia Martinez, a member of the White House Council for Environmental Quality (CEQ), announced that she would resign Friday, nearly one year after accepting the role.Martinez explained that she needed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":1893980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}