Donors push Biden for a Cabinet free of fossil fuel connections

Liberal activists have opened a new front in their battle to push Joe Biden to the left on climate change: a campaign to pressure the Democratic presidential nominee to reject advisers with any ties to fossil fuel companies.

The targets include former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and others who served in the Obama administration.

Last week more than 60 deep-pocketed donors asked Biden to commit to a moratorium on all new coal, oil and natural gas development — and to select advisers who are “free from fossil fuel influence.”