Truemors
mertekseo, this article is entirely copied from here. Please use our highlight tool to quote from outside sources.
is reporting from
Member
NP Rank:
NP Rank:
Obama Appoints 'Green' Team
Share:
by mertekseo | December 17, 2008 at 12:34 am
216 views | 2 Recommendations | 2 comments
Videos
US President-elect Barack Obama has his green team. And for environmentalists, it is a dream team.
Obama has selected Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu as energy secretary and Lisa Jackson, the former head of New Jersey's environmental department, to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Carol Browner, a confidante of former vice-president Al Gore, will lead a White House council on energy and climate. Browner, the longest-serving EPA administrator in history, headed the agency during the Clinton administration's two terms.
And while it wasn't officially announced on Monday, a transition official said Democratic Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado was Obama's choice to run the Interior Department, which oversees oil and gas drilling on public lands and manages the nation's parks and wildlife refuges.
The president-elect said he picked a team that signaled his determination to tackle global warming quickly and develop alternative forms of energy, vowing to "move beyond our oil addiction and create a new hybrid economy."
Salazar would probably bring an approach that Obama has said he wants - balancing the protection of natural resources while tapping the nation's energy potential.
Salazar, 53, has opposed drilling in the Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as well as the Bush administration's efforts to set up a program for leasing Western lands for oil shale development. It will be up to the Obama administration whether to go ahead with leasing.
Chu, 60, is director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and is a leading advocate of reducing greenhouse gases by developing new energy sources.
He won the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics and is the son of Chinese scholars who migrated to the US in the early 1940s from Taicang in Jiangsu province.
Chu will become the second Chinese American in a US administration after Secretary of Labor Elaine Lan Chao go out with the Bush administration next month.
Congressional Democrats and environmental groups praised the selections.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to the picks as "an extraordinary 'green team' that is more than equal to the enormous task of protecting our planet, launching a clean energy economy with millions of green jobs, and providing a more affordable and secure energy future."
snowraider,snow raider,solüsyon,kar ve buz çözücü,anti-ice,de-ice,kar çözücü,kar ve buzla mücadele,buz çözücü,kar ve buz önleyici,kar ve buza karşı etkili yöntem,snow raider ve klasik yöntemler,snow raider etkisi,snowraider avantajı,buz önleyici snowraider,insan ve çevreye duyarlı snowraider,mer-tek kimya,mertek,mer-tek
Advertisement
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (2)
at 02:12 on December 17th, 2008
Yep, see also:
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/president-elect-barack-obama-energy-and-environment-team
at 12:13 on December 17th, 2008
Coleman-Adebayo v. Carol Browner is the only pertinent part of the story you should have covered.
Look up the No FEAR Act of 2002 and see how it mandates that all Federal employees receive training in No FEAR law, because of the miserable record Ms. Browner left at EPA. The American public needs to know that a woman who publicly defended racism, retaliation, and denial of her employee's civil rights is now the official choice for Energy Czar.
See: Time magazine reported that Carol M. Browner's nomination Monday for the newly-created Energy Czar position, raises embarrassing questions in the Environmental Protection Agency's employee relations history due to Ms. Browner's loss in Coleman-Adebayo v. Carol Browner on charges of discriminating against employees based on sex and race, as well retaliating against whistleblowers and denying them their civil rights. The announcement was particularly ill-timed, as only 2 weeks ago the successful plaintiff in the case, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, was illegally fired by one of Ms. Browner's holdovers at EPA.
Time quotes Coleman-Adebayo as saying Administrator Browner "...wasn't at all sympathetic to complaints about civil rights abuses. We were treated like Negroes, to use a polite term. We were put in our place." — Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a former EPA employee whose complaints of a "racially toxic" environment there led to the signing of the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-Discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2001. (TIME, February 23, 2001)
Let's see if I have this right: Rosa sat down, so Martin could stand up, so Barrack could run, so Marsha could get thrown under the bus. This story needs to get out!