Carol Browner is set to become Obama’s czar point-person on climate and energy issues. To get a flavor of her thinking, check out the short videos she did for the On Day One project.

Here she urges the next president to reassert the importance of independent science:

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Here she urges the next president to reverse the EPA’s blockage of California’s tailpipe standards waiver and hasten the EPA’s rulemaking on carbon:

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And here she urges the next president to implement a cap-and-trade system:

And as a bonus, here she is at CAP’s green recovery event, talking about how environmental regulations create market opportunities: