The Biden-Harris transition team includes 24 people who work at top law firms, and many of those firms do A LOT of fossil fuel work.

Here's how those firms stack up in terms of their climate-related work:

(1/18)

To be clear, most of these lawyers didn't do fossil fuel work themselves. But did they speak up when their colleagues were helping fossil fuel companies evade accountability in court, writing the contracts for pipelines, and lobbying to weaken enviro regulations? (2/18)

Members of the transition team should be able to answer why we can trust that they will build a Biden-Harris administration ready to take rapid and decisive climate action, not block climate action like many of their current employers do.

Let's start with the ugly:

(3/18)

The transition team includes 3 people from @lathamwatkins, more than any other firm.

Latham is one of the very worst firms on fossil fuel litigation and transactions. The firm financed the Dakota Access Pipeline and is helping ConocoPhillips evade climate accountability (4/18)

Worryingly, two of the members of the transition team from Latham are working on environmental issues: Matt Fritz on the EPA team and Nikki Buffa on the Council on Environmental Quality team.

Michael Bosworth is on the Department of Justice team (5/18)

Joshua Berman is on the Department of Commerce transition team.

His firm, @Clifford_Chance, loves doing commerce for the fossil fuel industry: fossil fuel transactions worth $115 billion from 2015-2019 (6/18)

Ken Choe from @HoganLovells is on the HHS.

It's hard to describe how bad Hogan Lovells is. It does significant amounts of fossil fuel litigation + transactions and more fossil fuel lobbying than any other firm, including for a coal co linked to paramilitary death squads (7/18)

Don't worry, it's not all bad! Jonathan Meyer from @SheppardMullin is on the DHS team.

Sheppard Mullin is one of only four firms to receive a #ClimateScore of A (8/18)

Now back to the bad. John Bentivoglio on the Treasury team works at @SkaddenArps

Skadden has done a lot to help out the treasuries of fossil fuel companies: fossil fuel projects worth $31 million from 2015-2019 (9/18)

Matt Axelrod on the DOJ team works at Linklaters. Linklaters has a #ClimateScore of F, having worked on fossil fuel projects worth $52 billion from 2015-2019 (10/18)

Shirlethia Franklin from @JonesDay is also on the DOJ team.

Jones Day has a #ClimateScore of D and is also representing the Trump administration in frivolous lawsuits to undermine the results of the election (11/18)

And some better news: Kathleen Harnett on the DOJ team works at @CooleyLLP.

We didn't find much evidence of Cooley addressing climate change, but at least it isn't exacerbating it like so many other firms (12/18)

Take @SidleyLaw, the employer of Christopher Fonzone on the NSC transition team

Sidley Austin pops up on the wrong side of almost every kind of climate litigation: constitutional rights, climate damages, challenges to clean fuel programs, you name it. (13/18)

Gaby Baca on the International Development team works for @WhiteCase, who loves to develop climate-destroying projects: fossil fuel projects worth $68 billion from 2015-2019 (14/18)

And here are the remaining members of the transition team coming from law firms that are really bad, just not quite as bad as some of the others:

Victoria Suarez-Palomo, Federal Reserve team, @Orrick, #ClimateScore D (15/18)

Lisa Barclay, HHS team, @bsfllp, #ClimateScore D

Bob Litt, Intelligence Community team, @MoFoLLP, #ClimateScore D

Joehn Salone Favors team, NSC, Wachtell, #ClimateScore D

Andrew Stanner, Office of Personnel and Management team, @CovingtonLLP, #ClimateScore D

(16/18)

Paul Rosen, DHS team, @Crowell_Moring, #ClimateScore D

Robert Silvers, DHS team, @Paul_Hastings, #ClimateScore D

Raj De, DOJ team, @Mayer_Brown, #ClimateScore D

Chai Feldblum, DOJ team, @MorganLewisLaw, #ClimateScore D

(17/18)

Neil MacBride, DOJ team, Davis Polk, #ClimateScore D

Charles Yi, Treasury team, @arnoldporter, #ClimateScore D

(18/18)