‘Green dream team’

December 12th, 2008 at 08:39am Jennie Pollock

In case you missed it, here are President-elect Barack Obama’s choices for top energy and environment posts. And this article says they represent a major shift in policy (no shocker there).

Carol Browner, Energy czar
Age: 52
Current job: Principal with the Albright Group, a lobbying firm, 2000-present
Previous positions: Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1993-2001; head of Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, 1991-1993
Family: Husband, Thomas Downey, former Democratic congressman from New York; son from a previous marriage.

Steve Chu, Energy secretary
Age: 60
Current job: Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, an Energy Department facility focused on research into alternative energy, 2004-present
Previous positions: Professor at Stanford University, 1987-2004; chairman, physics department, Stanford, 1990-1993 and 1999-2001; head, quantum electronics research department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, N.J., 1983-1987
Family: Wife, Jean Chu; two sons.

Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
Age: 46
Current job: Chief of staff to New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, 2008-present
Previous positions: Commissioner of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 2006-2008; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1987-2002
Family: Husband, Kenny; two sons.

Nancy Sutley, White House Council on Environmental Quality chief
Age: 46
Current job: Deputy mayor of Los Angeles for energy and environment since 2005
Previous positions: Member of California State Water Resources Control Board, 2003-2005; energy adviser to Gov. Gray Davis, 1999-2003; special assistant to then-EPA administrator Carol Browner in the 1990s
Family: Single

 

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