US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will serve on a panel helping Joe Biden develop climate policy, an aide to the congresswoman said, providing a prominent liberal voice who could help the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s efforts to win his party’s full support.
Ocasio-Cortez, who had backed fellow liberal U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for the Democratic nomination, will advise on climate policy as one of Sanders’ representatives on a council Biden set up in collaboration with his onetime rival, a representative of Ocasio-Cortez said by email on Tuesday.