Obama to Announce Environment, Energy Team
Posted on December 15, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama, who has vowed to adopt an aggressive approach to global warming and the environment, will hold a news conference on Monday to announce his picks to lead the effort.
Obama will hold a news conference at 5 p.m. EST on Monday to talk about “the nation’s energy and environmental future,” his transition office said on Sunday.
At the news conference Obama is expected to name Nobel physics laureate Steven Chu as his energy secretary and former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner as the head of a new council that will coordinate White House policy on energy, climate and environment, Democratic sources have said.
Obama is also expected to announce he has chosen Lisa Jackson, the chief of staff for New Jersey’s governor, to run the EPA and Nancy Sutley, a deputy mayor of Los Angeles, as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
He is also likely to face questions about Rod Blagojevich, governor of his home state of Illinois and a fellow Democrat, who was arrested last week on charges of conspiracy to swap political favors for cash, including an attempt to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Obama last month.
Obama has said energy and environmental matters would be important to his administration, and he wants to spend billions of dollars to promote alternative energy sources and create millions of green energy jobs.
News of who would make up Obama’s energy and environment team began trickling out last week and the choices were applauded by environment groups.
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