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 Dorcheated A1 on -
Thank you Skipper,
Just a side note. When I get feeling down about today's youth. All I have to do is look at our young women and men serving in our armed forces and I know everything is going to alright.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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Ditto! And a double Salute!
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Permalink Reply by sesport on
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Dorcheated - Alas, I think you refer to the same Mr. Watson that Caddo ran out on a rail, so he's back in BR with Mrs. Tyler. Met him once myself while he was Caddo's interim, knew he wouldn't last long because he wasn't a "yes" man. I had a good laugh when I found out he was questioning research data on programs that were being shoved down teachers' throats, the pork kind of programs that are NOT based on independent data. But I knew then he wouldn't be here long.
Most good teachers want to teach because they love the kids, ALL kids from all walks of life. Unfortunately, too many teachers find out early in their careers that the only way to stay in the classroom & make a difference is to shut up and put up.
BTW, did you take that test? And, more importantly, did you ever have the opportunity to demonstrate what you knew & could do in a way that wasn't a formal test? That, in my opinion, is the true measure.
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Permalink Reply by sesport on
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You & I had similar experiences ... living in multiple states and thus exposure to a variety of systems. Some good, some okay, some dismal. But yet, even in the worst inner-city high school I was forced to attend, MY PARENTS expected me to achieve and so I did. Even while the science teacher sat on her stool eating her snacks and grunting at us, I was expected to do the work & maintain my grades. And even in those worst systems, there was always those teachers who did their jobs well. My brother had it rougher because he, like Dorcheated, wasn't the typically expected learner.
For all those kids today who don't have someone that cares, someone has to come along that MAKES A CONNECTION with them and cares. It won't always be, and can't always be, the teacher. But there will have to be some adult that the child views & respects as an authority figure, who sets the expectation for the child.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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Come on, KB. I doubt you would have sunk to that level. I think that you would have found your niche in ripping copyrighted software CD's and importing counterfeit Gucci handbags. Or, or what are those shoes? Monnolo Blonic? LOL! Thank goodness for your teachers. They did a good job.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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KB. My sincerest apologies to yourself and Mr. Blahnik.
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Permalink Reply by Bill G on
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Just because they are Ivey League Grads doesnt mean they have since enough to get out of the rain!
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Permalink Reply by Bill G on
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It always amazes me how some people have an answer for everything but still dont understand anything. I would take my common since over book smarts anyday! Book Smarts=sit on a computer all day typing useless information on a website trying to prove i am the smartest person here. Common since =looking on the website periodically to see if there is any new information that I can use to make money at or better my self!
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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KB. Let me see. Brooooownie. Boooob Joooones. Roooobert. Yep, I can do it but it hurts. Time for a pogram. Possibly an inquisition. Throw out the bums. Oops, forgot civil service. And many Bushies took demotions to positions protected by civil service laws. Should we consider Marshall Law? No, not just yet but it might be a future consideration. We, as a nation, have reached the point where half measures may not prove to be adequate to address the crisis. Of course we will blame it on the politicians and the lobbyists and partisan politics. "We" will not accept any responsibility. Just look for scapegoats. There is a bell ringing out there. Anyone hear it?
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Permalink Reply by Martin on
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Civil servants can be fired -- contrary to popular opinion. Incompetence, insubordination, refusing to take direction are the easiest causes to prove. I had a fellow worker who, at a former position, had fired several. Even in a heavily unionized federal shop. He said it only took proper documentation. I.E. the manager had to expend some effort. But he said that by the third year his shop was more productive and had much better morale than when he took it over. Also, some of the more self aware non performers had either transferred out of his department or had resigned to "take advantage of unique opportunities in the private sector" as they always say. Several other marginal workers had actually improved their performance to at least "meets requirements".
Chu at least can recognize a BTU at 100 yards, A Joule at 100 meters, and a watt hour when he turns on a light switch.
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