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Mind your CEQ | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
Mind your CEQ | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Nancy Sutley is expected to be appointed to head President-elect Barack Obama's White House Council on Environmental Quality, a transition team spokesperson said Wednesday. Combined with the expected nomination of Steven Chu from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to ...
Transition talk: Jackson action | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
Transition talk: Jackson action | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
gristmill.grist.org — Lisa Jackson is Obama's pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, sources close to the transition confirm. Jackson, who's been working on Obama's transition team for the EPA, has served since 2006 as commissioner of the New Jersey ... (more) Transition talk: Jackson action | Gristmill: The ...
Whose bailout plan is best? | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
gristmill.grist.org — The car companies have come back to D.C. begging for money. But this time they have put on the table serious restructuring plans. At first glance, Ford's plan [PDF] appears to me sounder than GM's plan [PDF]. I'm interested in your opinions. Assuming ... (more) Whose bailout plan is best? | Gristmill: The ...
Ray, it ain't so | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
gristmill.grist.org — People are saying that Ray LaHood, a downstate Illinois Republican representative, may get the nod for DOT . So far, the things mentioned as being in his favor are -- friendship with the president-elect and his chief of staff, some pro-Amtrak votes, ... (more) Ray, it ain't so | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
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A sterling team on energy, environment
Political Animal — ... of the climate crisis, and the ambitious quality of Obama's energy vision, he couldn't have picked a better team. These aren't officials you pick if you intend to just make a few tepid changes around the periphery of energy policy; these are officials you pick to overhaul the system and implement a bold, 21st-century agenda. I often turn to Grist to read up on environmental analysis, and the team over there seems elated by Obama's new team. Here's Joseph Romm on Chu; here's Janet Wilson on Sutley; and here's Kate Sheppard on Jackson. For the diversity ...

David Roberts: Browner's Second Chance: Obama's Green Team Traces Its Roots Back to Gore
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Nancy Sutley, Obama's choice to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), was special assistant to Browner when Browner ran the EPA. ...

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Steven Chu, Obama’s Remarkable Choice For Secretary Of Energy
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 12/10/2008 — President-elect Barack Obama’s reported selection of Dr. Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy is a bold stroke to set the nation on the path to a clean energy economy. Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, is the sixth director of the Lawrence ...
Who Is Steven Chu? A Nobel Physicist Who Believes In Bold Energy Transformation
thinkprogress.org 12/11/2008 — Numerous media outlets are reporting Dr. Steven Chu will be President-elect Obama’s choice to head the Department of Energy. Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, is the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California where he ...
He's a smooth operator
powerlineblog.com 12/11/2008 — Yesterday came word that Barack Obama (1) will nominate Steven Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be Secretary of Energy, and (2) will turn to Carol Browner, ally of Al Gore and EPA administrator under Bill Clinton, as his ...
Sutley to CEQ
politico.com 12/10/2008 — Mike Allen confirms an L.A. Times report : President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to name Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Nancy Sutley as a top member of his environmental protection team, a Democrat familiar with the appointment said Tuesday. Sutley is to be made chairwoman of the Council on ...
Nancy Sutley to Head White House Council on Environmental Quality
blogs.abcnews.com 12/10/2008 — Democratic sources tell ABC News that President-elect Barack Obama will name Nancy Sutley, Los Angeles's deputy mayor for energy and environment, to chair his White House's Council on Environmental Quality. The CEQ advises the President and Vice ...
An Energy Expert as Energy Secretary: Brilliant!culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily
This week Obama named one of his best cabinet picks yet: Dr. Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, former chair of Stanford University's physics department, and Nobel Prize-winning (for research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms) physicist, was named Obama's Energy ...
Unthinkable NominationDaily Pundit
Obama makes pick for energy chief President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Steven Chu, a physicist who runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his energy secretary, three Democratic officials close to the transition said. What a strange concept - bring in a subject-matter ...
Obama Picks Nobel Winner as Energy ChiefDrudge Retort
President-elect Barack Obama's team to address climate change emerged on Wednesday as Democratic officials said he had chosen a Nobel laureate Steven Chu, a physicist who runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for U.S. energy secretary.
Energy CzarClassical Values
A new energy czar has been picked by the incoming administration. Steven Chu, 60 years old, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will be nominated as secretary of energy, Democratic officials said Wednesday. The...
Steven Chu: Obama Pick For Energy SecretaryOliver Willis
Reuters : “Obama will also nominate Steven Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his energy secretary, a Democratic Party official said.” >> Steven Chu: Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 >> Video: “Steven Chu proposes an aggressive research program to ...
Obama Selects Nobel Winner Chu to Run Energy Dept.44
By Steven Mufson and Philip Rucker President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who heads the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be the next Energy Secretary, Democratic sources said today. He also has picked veteran regulators to fill out his ...
Getting to Know Steve ChuThe Stump
NAME: Steve Chu AGE: 60 NEW APPOINTMENT: Secretary of Energy (expected) OTHER TOP POSITIONS: Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (which is owned by the DOE); chair of KNOWN FOR: Winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 for his research on laser cooling. ...
Reports: Obama Picks Chu as Energy SecretaryThe Page by Mark Halperin
The president-elect is expected to nominate Steven Chu, the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his Energy Secretary. Chu shared the '97 Nobel Prize in physics and is a former chairman of the physics department at Stanford University. ...
Energy Secretary Contender Dr. Steven Chu: Transform The Energy Landscape To Save ‘A Beautiful Planet’Wonk Room
The Washington Post’s Al Kamen reports that there’s “buzz” that the Obama transition is “ looking hard at some scientific types ” to lead the Energy Department. Dr. Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is reportedly ...
Officials: Obama chooses energy, enviro posts (AP)Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and three former Environmental Protection Agency officials from the Clinton administration.
Obama makes pick for energy chief, sources sayCNN.com - Politics
President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Steven Chu, a physicist who runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his energy secretary, three Democratic officials close to the transition told CNN.
Obama chooses Steven Chu for Energy Secretary: reportReuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Steven Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his Energy Secretary, CNN reported on Wednesday.