The White House is standing by its Energy Department nominees after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., tanked President Biden's pick to oversee energy efficiency regulations this week.
to consider Biden's nomination of Jeff Marootian to lead the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy . The White House, though, is defending its DOE nominees, saying the president will continue to stand by them.
"The president stands by his well-qualified nominees to do the important work of DOE," a White House official told Fox News Digital on Thursday.Jeff Marootian, President Biden's pick for assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the Department of Energy, testifies during a Senate confirmation hearing in November.
Marootian was first nominated to take the helm at the EERE office in July 2022 after serving as special assistant to President Biden and, prior to that role, director of the Washington, D.C., Department of Transportation. The position has been vacant since Daniel Simmons, who led the office throughout the Trump administration, departed the DOE in early 2021.then hired Marootian as her senior adviser for energy efficiency and renewable energy in September.
Sen. Joe Manchin has increasingly pushed back on President Biden's climate agenda over the last several months. Since Marootian was hired to advise Granholm on energy efficiency and since his nomination was returned to the White House, though, the DOE has pursued a number of energy efficiency regulations impacting several household appliances,
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