Granholm Clears Senate Panel Amid GOP Swipes At Biden’s Climate Orders

The Senate energy committee has approved President Joe Biden’s nomination of former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) to lead the Energy Department (DOE) in a bipartisan vote though some GOP senators mounted a protest vote, citing Biden’s climate orders and signaling hurdles for winning bipartisan support on broader climate efforts. “By signing executive orders to ban oil, gas, and coal production on federal lands, to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline, and to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, the president will...