Energy Expert from Stanford to Lead New White House Climate Office

November 29, 2021

The White House is adding a new energy division to its Office of Science and Technology Policy to focus on solutions to climate change, The Washington Post first reported. Sally Benson, currently a professor and researcher at Stanford University, will head the division.

“We have a 120-year-old energy system that was built over a long time period, and we’re talking about very quickly changing that to a new system,” Benson told the Post. “And this is a huge opportunity for American industry, for American workers, to lead.”

Among the responsibilities of the new division is to implement climate-related provisions of the recently enacted infrastructure legislation.

Costa Samaras, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has also joined OSTP to focus on energy.

National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Herschel Talley

November 29, 2021

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