Obama names energy secretary, environmental team

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Source: Reuters

President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose a Nobel physics laureate to be his energy secretary and picked a former top federal environmental regulator to coordinate his energy and environmental policies.

Steven Chu, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics and now directs the government's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, will head the Energy Department.

Chu will work closely with Carol Browner, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency under Bill Clinton, who Obama said will coordinate White House policy on energy, and climate change among the various federal agencies.

Obama also named Lisa Jackson, the chief of staff for New Jersey's governor, to lead the EPA and Nancy Sutley, a deputy mayor of Los Angeles, to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081215/pl_nm/us_usa_obama_energy_1

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Obama Team Release on Energy, Environment Team
http://thepage.time.com/obama-team-release-on-energy-environment-team/

[tabatha]

1. He is choosing a lot of women.

[Renew Deal]

3. Men are underrepresented in his cabinet.

:evilgrin:

[tabatha]

6. Well, it may just mean that for each particular position,

the best person happened to be a woman.

Maybe if it was another year, it would be different.

[goforit]

4. Yes, all those Hillary women activists can't complain.

[onehandle]

5. And Clinton Administration people.

I approve.

[Miss Chybil]

2. He said they're going to make decisions based on facts.

Imagine that!

[KoKo]

7. Watched his "Presser" and he hasn't given up his message of "HOPE IS COMING!"

and it's his "staying on message" that's the best about him. This is a view from a person who was Activist from Carter on.

OBAMA is the best we've ever had. I thought Clinton could do it...but it was "all about HIM" ...but Obama seems to be a different breed.

:applause: to Obama...and having that "Presser" at 5:00 p.m. to pre-empt all the vapid news whore media who are focused on what goes on in Chicago was BRILLIANT! This "Obama" has handlers and his OWN sense of TIMING that is just incredible!

GOOD ON HIM...He constantly SURPRISES in directions that us Lefties and Centrists can sort of ADMIRE!

[FloridaJudy]

8. Not shabby at all

An educated group of experts committed to developing green technology? What a refreshing change from the last eight years!

http://www.lcv.org/newsroom/press-releases/rumored-obama-picks-form-green-dream-team.html

[MasonJar]

9. Perhaps if women had been in charge (forget women like Palin), we

wouldn't be in this mess. Uh! oh! I forgot Condi! But Condi would never stand up to Bush, only implement his idiocy, and she is allegedly a smart lady..also a fool.

[tclambert]

10. Smart people are over-represented.

Obama needs to appoint a lot of stupid people to even it out. Oh, but those would all be current members of the Bush administration, nyet?