Obama Starts Filling Energy Team/Reuters report
By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Steven Chu, a Nobel physics laureate and advocate of alternative energy research, as his energy secretary, a Democratic aide said on Wednesday.
Chu, who would be the first Asian-American to lead the department, would work closely with former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner, who will head a new council coordinating White House policy on energy, climate and environmental issues.
Obama, who has said energy and environmental matters would be important to his administration, is filling out the team that will oversee them.
He wants to spend billions of dollars to promote alternative energy sources and create millions of green energy jobs.
Lisa Jackson, the chief of staff for New Jersey's governor, will also be nominated to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a Democratic aide confirmed. She would be the first African-American to lead that agency.
Earlier, a Democratic official said Obama had chosen Nancy Sutley, a deputy mayor of Los Angeles, to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Browner, a principal at global strategy firm The Albright Group LLC, heads Obama's advisory team on energy and the environment. During President Bill Clinton's administration, she became the longest-serving EPA administrator.
Chu, whose appointment requires U.S. Senate confirmation, shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light and has been director of the Energy Department's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California since 1994.
The laboratory's website said Chu was an early advocate for finding scientific solutions to climate change and had guided the laboratory on a new mission to become the world leader in alternative and renewable energy research, particularly the development of carbon-neutral sources of energy.
A spokesman for the Lawrence Berkeley laboratory said of Chu's selection: "We don't really know about it. Whatever contacts the Obama people have had with Steve Chu, he kept it offline from the laboratory."
Chu could not be reached for comment. He is traveling in Asia and Europe and will be back at work on Monday.
Jackson was New Jersey's environmental protection commissioner until she became the governor's chief of staff this month. She previously worked at the federal EPA for almost two decades.
(Writing by Tom Doggett, additional reporting by Deborah Charles; Editing by David Alexander and Peter Cooney)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Steven Chu, a Nobel physics laureate and advocate of alternative energy research, as his energy secretary, a Democratic aide said on Wednesday.
Chu, who would be the first Asian-American to lead the department, would work closely with former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner, who will head a new council coordinating White House policy on energy, climate and environmental issues.
Obama, who has said energy and environmental matters would be important to his administration, is filling out the team that will oversee them.
He wants to spend billions of dollars to promote alternative energy sources and create millions of green energy jobs.
Lisa Jackson, the chief of staff for New Jersey's governor, will also be nominated to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a Democratic aide confirmed. She would be the first African-American to lead that agency.
Earlier, a Democratic official said Obama had chosen Nancy Sutley, a deputy mayor of Los Angeles, to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Browner, a principal at global strategy firm The Albright Group LLC, heads Obama's advisory team on energy and the environment. During President Bill Clinton's administration, she became the longest-serving EPA administrator.
Chu, whose appointment requires U.S. Senate confirmation, shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light and has been director of the Energy Department's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California since 1994.
The laboratory's website said Chu was an early advocate for finding scientific solutions to climate change and had guided the laboratory on a new mission to become the world leader in alternative and renewable energy research, particularly the development of carbon-neutral sources of energy.
A spokesman for the Lawrence Berkeley laboratory said of Chu's selection: "We don't really know about it. Whatever contacts the Obama people have had with Steve Chu, he kept it offline from the laboratory."
Chu could not be reached for comment. He is traveling in Asia and Europe and will be back at work on Monday.
Jackson was New Jersey's environmental protection commissioner until she became the governor's chief of staff this month. She previously worked at the federal EPA for almost two decades.
(Writing by Tom Doggett, additional reporting by Deborah Charles; Editing by David Alexander and Peter Cooney)
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Permalink Reply by Anna Mauck-Member Services on -
Thanks for posting this Skip - I see Lisa Jackson from the NJ Dpmt of Environmental Protection (DEP) will be nominated to head up the EPA and that is a SCARY thing. My family is in NJ and the DEP has a HORRIBLE reputation for bulldozing people with absurb regulations and going beyond their authority, with NO checks and balances to reign them in. I'll have to keep a close on her with regards to how she treats drilling. She comes form the land where animals and trees and given god-like status over people.
"Lisa Jackson, the chief of staff for New Jersey's governor, will also be nominated to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a Democratic aide confirmed."
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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Jim. Though the comments in the PEER article are troubling, it appears their concerns have been passed along to the transition team vetting appointees. It seems doubtful to me that Pres. Elect Obama would choose someone that is not in agreement with his agenda and I can not imagine him appointing someone who is reported to be so closely linked to the Bush administration's disdain for science. I would suggest looking more closely at PEER. Especially where their funding comes from and what has been reported about their past activities. Many noble sounding nonprofit organization names do not fully disclose their agenda. The late TX. U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen coined a phrase for such organizations, "Astroturf lobbyists"! The "Friends of the Forest" often turn out to be founded and funded by the Timber Industry for example.
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Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on
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Sorry Skipper,
Your gonna see a whole more of this. Politicians talk outside both sides of their mouth Barrack is no different better get use to it.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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No apologies necessary D. I will reserve judgment until I know more. Nothing Obama has done to date would seem to indicate that he is not sincere about his energy/environmental principles. And much of the "talking out of both sides of their mouths" by both candidates was for the benefit of the so called "bases" of both parties. Obama's decisions to move to more centrist positions on a number of issues have not surprised me. But then again I did my own research early in the campaign and did not pay much attention to the political pundits or the "main stream" media.
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Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on
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Fair enough Skip. I do appreciate the fact you realize he is starting to move more to the center. Which indicates people are more tired of bad conservatives politicians than they are of conservatives ideas.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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D. I don't just realize it, I expected it. There are some surprisingly conservative mentors among his closest advisers. Particularly on economic matters. His long ties to the University of Chicago and it's well known and respected conservative economists tipped me off long ago that he was not as liberal as he was made out to be.
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Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on
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You mean not as liberal as he made himself out to be.
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Permalink Reply by Snake Stewart on
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Watch him Skip! This guy has been off line for weeks. (LOL)
Nice to see you out and about DCheated. Hows the back ?
Dont show it to Jim71006, he will use the ole kidney punch if given the chance. HA!HA!HA! -
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Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on
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Hey Snakester,
I'm still sitting on a heating pad as we speak. But I have got a lot more movement now. I guess that laying around and having people get things for me is coming to a end. -
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Please be gentle KB. Break him in slowly.
Wouldnt want a back spasm, or something like that, on your conscience now would ya ? (wink,wink)
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Forget I said anything KB . I for one wouldnt want you any other way then 100% RSP Maddog.
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