President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of Jennifer Granholm to be his energy secretary is a sign the president-elect’s team will try to spur automakers to sell cars that need little to no gasoline. The relationship that Granholm, the former two-term governor of Michigan, has with Detroit automakers may prove crucial to the incoming administration’s effort to cut climate-warming emissions spewing from the millions of cars and trucks on American roads. Biden intends to nominate Granholm to run the sprawling department also responsible for overseeing the nuclear weapons arsenal and managing radioactive waste, Will Englund, Juliet Eilperin and I report . Cleaning up the transportation sector, now the largest source of greenhouse gas pollution in the United States , will be critical to meeting Biden’s lofty goal of net-zero emissions by the middle of the century. Biden, the son of a car salesman, pitched no- and low-emissions vehicles not only as […]