People: Biden picks former Kerry aide as NSC climate director

President-elect Joe Biden has selected a former State Department official who served under then-Secretary of State John Kerry as director of the National Security Council’s assessment of climate change and energy risks. Melanie Nakagawa, who serves on the Biden transition team and was deputy assistant secretary for energy transformation at the State Department in the Obama administration, will be the NSC’s director for climate and energy. In that role, Nakagawa will be central to helping define the Biden administration’s unprecedented...