Darius Dixon
Politico
1/18/2013
Jonathan Pershing, the nation’s No. 2 climate negotiator, is leaving the State Department for a spot at the Energy Department following Inauguration Day.
Starting Tuesday, Pershing will become the new deputy assistant secretary for climate policy under DOE’s Office of Policy and International Affairs.
In an email to policy office staff Friday, acting Under Secretary of Energy David Sandalow, who leads the office, called Pershing “one of our country’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the areas of climate change and clean energy policy.”
Pershing is taking a spot that has been vacant since Rick Duke left the agency last summer for a job at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
“In his new role at DOE, Jonathan will help lead our work on domestic climate and clean energy policy, as well as help manage key international engagements on clean energy including the Clean Energy Ministerial,” Sandalow told the staff…
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