From the Times blog on politics, The Caucus:
President-elect Barack Obama plans to hold a press conference to formally announce members of his energy and environment team today. The rollout is expected to include Steven Chu, Mr. Obama’s choice for energy secretary,Lisa Jackson as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Carol Browner to lead the policy council on environment, energy, and Nancy Sutley to direct the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
The Associated Press reports on the steep challenge Mr. Obama and his team face in tackling global warming, which after a meeting last week with former Vice President Al Gore, he called “a matter of urgency and national security”:
But there are powerful political and economic realities that must be quickly overcome for Obama to succeed. Despite the urgency he expresses, it’s not at all clear that he and Congress will agree on an approach during a worldwide financial crisis in time to meet some of the more crucial deadlines.
Obama is pushing changes in the way Americans use energy, and produce greenhouse gases, as part of what will be a massive economic stimulus. He called it an opportunity ”to re-power America.”
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