Preparing the US for the energy transition
Former President Obama special assistant Jason Bordoff says that government and industry need to work together to tackle climate change
Jason Bordoff is one of the world's top energy policy experts, with experience spanning academia, industry groups and the White House. He is an advocate of the government working with industry to mitigate and reverse climate change, creating efficient international markets and protecting the interests of the workers most affected by the energy transition. Bordoff's most prominent role was working in the Obama administration, from April 2009. He served until January 2013 as special assistant to the president and senior director for energy and climate change on the staff of the National Security Council. Before that he held senior policy positions on the White House's National Economic Council
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