wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 12/11/2008
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The Washington Post’s Al Kamen has the scoop that Carol Browner, the Clinton administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, has been tapped for a new position “as head of environmental, energy, climate and related matters ” in President-elect Barack ...
michellemalkin.com - 12/12/2008
voices.washingtonpost.com - 12/10/2008
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
By Al Kamen President-elect Barack Obama is expected
to announce -- perhaps as early as Wednesday --...
that Clinton administration Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner will take a new White House position as head of environmental, energy, ...
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Browner to Take White House Energy and Environment Job
blogs.tnr.com - 12/11/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
NAME: Carol Browner AGE: 53 NEW APPOINTMENT: Environment,
climate, and energy "czar" (expected) HOW SHE KNOWS OBAMA:...
Campaigned for him through the League of Conservation Voters ; named head of the transition's energy and ...
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Getting to Know Carol Browner
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Hullabaloo —
... Carol Browner is a former regulator who administrated at the EPA under Bill Clinton, and believes that government action to regulate the climate can create economic opportunity. Lisa Jackson was ...
Death To The "Czar"
Political Animal —
... director Steve Chu to be energy secretary; New Jersey's Lisa Jackson as head of the EPA; and Los Angeles deputy mayor Nancy Sutley as chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. All are low-profile picks, and diverse ones." I don't yet know enough about these people to say much, though from what I can tell, they sound like very strong picks. (More on the whole team here , here , and here ; on Chu here and here ; on Browner here ; and on Jackson here .) But I was absolutely thrilled by one fact in this post: the claim ...
Death To The "Czar"
Obsidian Wings —
... Steve Chu to be energy secretary; New Jersey's Lisa Jackson as head of the EPA; and Los Angeles deputy mayor Nancy Sutley as chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. All are low-profile picks, and diverse ones."
I don't yet know enough about these people to say much, though from what I can tell, they sound like very strong picks. (More on the whole team here, here, and here; on Chu here and here; on Browner here; and on Jackson here.) But I was absolutely thrilled by one fact in this post: the claim ...
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Reuters: Politics 12/11/2008
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.