Climate in 2008 Election
Obama to name environmental leader.
President-elect Barack Obama has selected a deputy mayor of Los Angeles to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, transition officials said Wednesday.
Associated Press.
11 December 2008
Obama nears decisions on energy, environment teams.
The CEQ position—already a top environmental and energy advisory post—is likely to be further elevated in importance, given Obama's vows to make climate-change policies one of his top priorities.
Wall Street Journal.
11 December 2008
Corzine's chief of staff to head EPA.
President-elect Barack Obama is set to nominate New Jersey's Lisa P. Jackson, Gov. Corzine's chief of staff and for nearly three years his top environmental official, to lead the federal government's environmental protection efforts.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
11 December 2008
Obama expected to select Nobel physicist Steven Chu as Energy secretary.
President-elect Barack Obama will tap Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as his Energy secretary and former New Jersey environmental protection commissioner Lisa Jackson as head of the EPA.
Los Angeles Times.
11 December 2008
Lisa Jackson in line to be first black EPA chief.
President-elect Barack Obama intends to announce Jackson as EPA administrator in the coming weeks, barring unforeseen circumstances that derail his plans, according to Democratic officials close to the transition.
Associated Press.
11 December 2008
Ex-environment chief Obama's EPA pick.
President-elect Barack Obama will name New Jersey's Lisa Jackson to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency next week, a Trenton source and national news organizations said Wednesday.
Bergen County Record.
11 December 2008
Obama chooses Chu for energy secretary.
President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and three former Environmental Protection Agency officials from the Clinton administration.
Associated Press.
11 December 2008
Obama starts filling energy team.
President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Steven Chu, a Nobel physics laureate and advocate of alternative energy research, as his energy secretary, a Democratic aide said on Wednesday.
Reuters.
11 December 2008
Interior Secretary choice nears.
There are very few counties that have as much at stake as Sublette County when it comes to President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for Department of Interior Secretary.
Pinedale Sublette Examiner.
11 December 2008
Ex-environment chief Obama's EPA pick.
President-elect Barack Obama will name New Jersey's Lisa Jackson to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency next week, a Trenton source and national news organizations said Wednesday.
West Paterson Herald News.
11 December 2008
Obama meets with Gore and touts a 'green' recovery.
President-elect Barack Obama yesterday praised former Vice President Al Gore's ideas on the environment as one part of helping the nation's struggling economy to recover.
Associated Press.
10 December 2008
Transition's timing hits climate talks.
Barack Obama's election raised hopes of rapidly ending the long impasse in international negotiations over climate change, but the timing of the presidential transition has severely dimmed those expectations as the current round of talks comes to a head in Poland.
Washington Post.
08 December 2008
California dreaming: Selling green in Detroit and Poznan.
The movers and shakers in the world of climate change may have come to Poland this week for the United Nations' annual climate jamboree, but their eyes are on America.
Economist.
08 December 2008
Obama considers Jackson for EPA.
Barack Obama may be dipping into his own environmental team for an administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. And he could choose former NJ Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson.
Politico.
05 December 2008
In Transition: EPA Administrator and Interior Secretary.
The candidates for President-elect Obama's EPA Administrator and Interior Secretary are qualified and diverse. Follows is a brief introduction to the front runners.
Washington Post.
28 November 2008
Election results unlikely to reshape Texas' environmental policies.
Even as a Democrat-controlled Congress appears certain to pursue caps on emissions to combat global warming, the Texas Legislature, which has opposed engagement on the carbon dioxide issue, is largely unchanged.
Austin American-Statesman.
16 November 2008
Obama should compromise on carbon policy.
President-elect Barack Obama may have to compromise on a key point in his proposed climate policy if he wants to push through a program to regulate greenhouse gases, said the lead author of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study on cap-and-trade markets.
Reuters.
14 November 2008
Obama is key to global climate agreement, Danish official says.
Negotiators are ``on track'' to reach an international agreement next year on global warming, Denmark's chief climate negotiator said.
Bloomberg News.
14 November 2008
Greens want Obama to fulfill campaign pledges -- and more.
Two days after the election, a coalition representing 31 of the nation's top environmental organizations submitted a list of energy and climate change policy recommendations to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team.
National Journal.
14 November 2008
Wildlife groups see end of Bush environment abuse.
U.S. conservation groups on Thursday hailed the imminent end of "environmental abuse and neglect" by the Bush administration and promised to work with President-elect Barack Obama to reverse this course.
Reuters.
14 November 2008
