Carol Browner to be Obama's Energy Coordinator

Browner, 52, would be charged with coordinating environment and energy initiatives across the administration, the aides said.

Browner, who is part of Obama’s transition advisory board, told reporters on Dec. 1 the new position wouldn’t change the roles or duties of the secretaries of Energy and Interior or the EPA administrator.

“Every department retains all of its statutory responsibilities,” Browner said. “These are offices and councils that bring together all of the authorities that rest in individual departments creating more opportunity to do the kind of things that the president wants to do.”