President-elect Barack Obama has chosen a Nobel laureate for US energy secretary and is likely to pick an environmental veteran to serve as coordinator of climate policies, Democratic Party officials said on Wednesday.
Rounding out his cabinet, Obama planned to announce at a Chicago news conference on Thursday that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, would lead efforts to improve the health care system as the secretary of Health and Human Services.
Simmering in the background is the scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested on Tuesday and charged with attempting to sell the US Senate seat that Obama had held until he was elected president on 4 November. Obama on Wednesday called on Blagojevich to resign and has sought to distance himself from the disgraced governor.
Announcements to come in the days ahead include several key environment-related appointments - Steven Chu as energy secretary, Carol Browner as energy and climate coordinator, Nancy Sutley to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Lisa Jackson to run the Environmental Protection Agency.
Rounding out his cabinet, Obama planned to announce at a Chicago news conference on Thursday that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, would lead efforts to improve the health care system as the secretary of Health and Human Services.
Simmering in the background is the scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested on Tuesday and charged with attempting to sell the US Senate seat that Obama had held until he was elected president on 4 November. Obama on Wednesday called on Blagojevich to resign and has sought to distance himself from the disgraced governor.
Announcements to come in the days ahead include several key environment-related appointments - Steven Chu as energy secretary, Carol Browner as energy and climate coordinator, Nancy Sutley to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Lisa Jackson to run the Environmental Protection Agency.
Steven Chu shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for figuring out how to chill atoms to a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero.His undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics were from the University of Rochester and his Ph.D from UC Berkeley. He has been awarded ten honorary degrees and has held numerous visiting lectureships at universities including Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, and the Collège de France. (Dude this guy is smart!! No joke.)
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They will be charged with developing policies to reduce carbon emissions blamed for global warming, develop new sources of energy and create new jobs - a top priority for Obama.
Chu is director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was an early advocate for scientific solutions to climate change. Go Obama>>
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