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Obama’s energy and environment appointments unveiled
President-elect Barack Obama has not yet officially announced his choices to fill key environmental posts in his administration, but the word is now out on the street. Transition-team officials say that Lisa Jackson will head the U.S. EPA, Steven Chu will be secretary of energy, Nancy Sutley will head the White House Council on Environmental […]
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Browner to get the nod as Obama’s top energy and climate adviser
Carol Browner. It’s looking increasingly likely that Carol Browner will be tapped to serve as “energy czar” in the Obama administration. The Washington Post first reported it Tuesday night, and now other outlets have gotten similar word from inside sources. No official word from the transition staff, however. The position does not yet officially exist, […]
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Likely Obama DOE head talks about climate change and renewable energy
Here’s Steven Chu, the likely Obama pick to head the Department of Energy, talking about climate change and renewable energy at the National Energy Summit in Nevada this summer: (Via Brad Plumer, via Brad Johnson.)
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International youth call out Merkel and Tusk in Warsaw
On the day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel publicly announced that she would block needed reforms to the European Union’s climate package, a crowd of 200 people from more than 20 countries loudly called her and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to task outside the prime minister’s residence in Warsaw. The rally began less than […]
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Obama likely to tap Nobel Laureate physicist Steven Chu to head DOE
Steven Chu. Photo: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory CNN is reporting (and others are following suit) that the Obama team has officially tapped Nobel laureate and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory director Steven Chu to be secretary of energy. Chu (whom Joe Romm just touted below) shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, has advocated for scientific […]
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Join us March 2 as we protest a coal-fired power plant near Capitol Hill
There are moments in a nation’s — and a planet’s — history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to an evil, bring it to wider attention, and push for its correction. We think such a time has arrived, and we are writing to say that […]
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D.C. buzzes about Stephen Chu, Nobel laureate and head of Lawrence Berkeley, for DOE
Steven Chu. No, I’m not talking Al Gore. The big buzz is about Dr. Steven Chu, the Nobel-laureate director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He would be a terrific choice for many reasons, as the Wonk Room has already noted, see “Energy Secretary Contender Dr. Steven Chu: Transform The Energy Landscape To Save ‘A […]
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Senate and House divided over state emission standards in auto bailout plan
It seems the House and Senate have reached an impasse on the automaker bailout bill, and it focuses on whether to force automakers to abide by state emissions regulations. The disagreement over the rules on doling out the $15 billion in loans centers on a single word — “federal.” The Senate bill says in order […]
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L.A. Deputy Mayor Nancy Sutley may head up Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality
Nancy Sutley. 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 member told me Wednesday. Sutley has a long but mixed track record in California on environment and energy policy, according to several people who have worked with and […]
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Missouri Senator says Obama will have to delay his cap-and-trade program
At a panel yesterday morning hosted by National Journal, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D) made some comments about Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal that are strikingly off-message. Or are they? The panel was focused on Obama’s first 100 days. McCaskill — a key Senate ally of Obama’s and the first female Senator to endorse him in the […]
