Mary Nichols has been pivotal in California’s war on smog. But as her tenure ends next week, activists say she didn’t do enough to protect low-income communities and they scuttled her candidacy for Biden’s top environmental post. Wounded but tenacious, she’s contemplating her next battles.
Gov. Newsom’s chosen successor to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is a tech-minded voting rights booster, a Latino who came of age during the nativist political upheaval of the 1990s and a longtime Newsom loyalist.
El sucesor elegido por el gobernador Newsom a la vicepresidenta electa Kamala Harris es un impulsor de los derechos de voto con mentalidad tecnológica, un latino que creció durante la agitación política nativista de la década de 1990 y un leal a Newsom durante mucho tiempo.