{"id":1631256,"date":"2022-09-02T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T19:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631256"},"modified":"2022-09-02T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T19:49:14","slug":"top-climate-adviser-gina-mccarthy-leaving-white-house-john-podesta-joining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-climate-adviser-gina-mccarthy-leaving-white-house-john-podesta-joining\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy Leaving White House, John Podesta Joining"},"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\">22<\/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%2Ftop-climate-adviser-gina-mccarthy-leaving-white-house-john-podesta-joining%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=1631256&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>White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy is leaving her position, the White House said Friday as it also confirmed reports that former Hillary Clinton campaign manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-john-podesta\">John Podesta<\/a> is joining the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGina is indeed leaving us,\u201d White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing Friday in response to questions about McCarthy\u2019s departure.\u00a0\u201cShe, as you know, has been a leader in what we have seen as one of the largest investment in dealing\u201d with the climate, Jean-Pierre said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear why McCarthy is leaving the White House. She has not issued a public comment about leaving.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, President Joe Biden said in a statement that Podesta, whose emails were leaked by WikiLeaks ahead of the 2016 election and contained controversial material, will be joining the administration to serve as a senior advisor on \u201cclean energy innovation and implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Podesta served as the White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton and was also a senior Obama administration official before he became Clinton\u2019s campaign manager. Podesta was most recently at the left-wing Center for American Progress think tank, which he founded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fortunate that John Podesta will lead our continued innovation and implementation,\u201d Biden said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/09\/02\/president-biden-announces-senior-clean-energy-and-climate-team\/\">statement<\/a> on Friday. \u201cHis deep roots in climate and clean energy policy and his experience at senior levels of government mean we can truly hit the ground running to take advantage of the massive clean energy opportunity in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/05\/25\/GettyImages-612473498-1.jpg\"><\/a> John Podesta is seen looking on before the first vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., on Oct. 4, 2016. (Paul J. Richards\/AFP\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Podesta was tapped to \u201coversee implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act\u2019s expansive clean energy and climate provisions and will chair the President\u2019s National Climate Task Force in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy is leaving her position, the White House said Friday as it also confirmed reports that former Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta is joining the Biden administration. \u201cGina is indeed leaving us,\u201d White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing Friday in response to questions about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631256","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}