[env-trinity] Washington Post 12 04 08

Fri Dec 5 13:38:02 PST 2008

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Next on Obama's Dance Card, Mother Nature

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next interior secretary. As this shot clearly proves, he's an outdoorsman.

Rep. Mike Thompson might be the next interior secretary. As this shot
clearly proves, he's an outdoorsman. (Rep. Mike Thompson's Office) 

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By  <http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/al+kamen/> Al Kamen

Friday, December 5, 2008; Page A23 

The Obama transition team, moving along smartly to fill Cabinet posts, is
planning to trot out nominees as early as next week for three jobs much
watched by enviros: the secretaries of energy and the interior and the
administrator of the
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protecti
on+Agency?tid=informline> Environmental Protection Agency. 

There's no shortage of names floating for energy secretary, a job where the
majority of the workload in the past has been dealing with nuclear waste,
nuclear weapons handling and the various nuclear laboratories. Even so, a
cast of luminaries have been mentioned, including
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Duke+Energy+Corporation?tid
=informline> Duke Energy executive
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Jim+Rogers?tid=informline>
Jim Rogers, former
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Department+of+Energy?t
id=informline> Energy Department official Dan Reicher, former top Clinton
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+White+House?tid=informl
ine> White House environmental aide Kathleen McGinty,
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Federal+Express+Corporation
?tid=informline> FedEx chairman and Republican backer Fred Smith, New Jersey
utility chief executive Ralph Izzo, and Rep.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Jay+Inslee?tid=informline>
Jay Inslee (D-Wash.). 

The chatter about each of them seems to have waxed and waned, doing more of
the latter of late. Recently retired California energy utility executive
John Bryson, who's well liked by the environmental community, may not make
the cut, but Kansas Democratic Gov.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Kathleen+Sebelius?tid=infor
mline> Kathleen Sebelius's considerable stock seems to be holding steady for
energy -- or at least some Cabinet post. 

There's buzz that the transition folks are also looking hard at some
scientific types for the energy job, including Steven Chu, director of the
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Lawrence+Berkeley+National+
Laboratory?tid=informline> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and
professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at Cal-Berkeley. Chu
co-chaired a group producing the international study "Lighting the Way:
Toward a Sustainable Energy Future." He also shared the Nobel Prize for
physics, but that was back in 1997. 

As for EPA administrator, California state environmental official Mary
Nichols and New Jersey environmental agency official Lisa Jackson have long
been considered the leading picks for the job. Jackson is said to have been
edging up in recent days. 

There's been a very crowded field in the running for interior secretary.
Inslee seems to have faded in the stretch, while former Oregon governor John
Kitzhaber and
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Richard+Moe?tid=informline>
Richard Moe, former vice presidential chief of staff to
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Walter+Mondale?tid=informli
ne> Walter Mondale and now president of the
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/National+Trust+for+Historic
+Preservation?tid=informline> National Trust for Historic Preservation,
appear to still be contenders. 

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Raul+Grijalva?tid=informlin
e> Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), had been edging up a bit, but his rise
may now have stalled. There's talk that Rep.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Mike+Thompson?tid=informlin
e> Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) may be making a move and could land the job. 

It's not lost on transition officials that Thompson is an avid hunter and
angler whose candidacy has been endorsed by sportsmen's associations.
President-elect
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Barack+Obama?tid=informline
> Barack Obama told Field & Stream magazine in September that he wants a
sportsman or sportswoman in the post. "I think that having a head of the
Department of Interior who doesn't understand hunting and fishing would be a
problem," Obama told the magazine. 

For more of the article.
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249.html

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