Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 2008, Moran akapa uchapupu kuUS Senate komiti yeZvakatipoteredza uye Veruzhinji Mabasa vachitsanangura humbowo hwesainzi hweshanduko yemamiriro ekunze, uye fungidziro dzeramangwana dzakabuda mukutsvaga. Pakati pa2009 - 2011 Moran akaendeswa kuWhite House Office of Science and Technology Policy yeMutungamiri Obama. Obama akarayira hurumende yemubatanidzwa kuti igadzire mutemo wegungwa, uyo wakabudiswa muna 2012. Moran akanga achibatanidzwa mukupindura kwehurumende kuDeepwater Horizon oil spill
muna 2010. Moran akasarudzwa kuti ave muboka raSecretary Steven Chu mukupindura ikoko. Moran anorondedzera nhamburiko dzacho se"mhinduro inoshamisa, chaizvoizvo, neBP nehurumende". Iye mutsigiri wesimba rinowedzerwazve, "apo ini ndakatanga kunetseka zvakakomba pamusoro pechokwadi chokuti tinofanira kurega [kusika] CO2, ndakabatanidzwa mumunda wokutanga wemhepo yegungwa muU.S".