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by Jackie Helling on Dec 11, 2008Obama appoints energy secretary
President-Elect Barack Obama has appointed Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who heads the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be energy secretary in his administration.
Obama also plans to appoint Carol M. Browner, Environmental Protection Agency administrator for eight years under President Bill Clinton, to fill a new White House post overseeing energy, environmental and climate policies, and Lisa P. Jackson to head the EPA.
Finally, Nancy Sutley, a deputy mayor of Los Angeles for energy and environment, will chair the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Read about the background of these appointees at the Washington Post.
I thought Obama was going to be all about corn ethanol but look at Dr. Chu’s comments on ethanol… “Biomass offers the hope for oil. Corn is definitely not a solution, but in Brazil it costs less to run your car on sugar cane ethanol than gasoline. (See http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news/releases/display.php?id=1342.) And, just recently he said “I think you have to go through this generation of biofuels so that it is not seen as a direct competition with food […] corn is a very heavy energy-intensive crop due to the fertilizer, all the tillage, everything else.” (Source: Speech at National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, according to Associated Press, 23 September 2008). Did he not get our memo?
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Ricky T Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 11:46 am