Obama to nominate Steven Chu as energy secretary: reports

Market Watch ^ | Dec. 10, 2008 | By Sue Chang

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Nobel laureate Steven Chu as energy secretary and Lisa Jackson to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, according to media reports Wednesday. Obama is also expected to name Carol Browner as energy 'czar,' the reports said. Chu, a Chinese-American, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1997.

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Steven Chu (Chinese: 朱棣文; pinyin: Zhū Dìwén) (b. February 28, 1948, St. Louis, Missouri)[1] is an American experimental physicist and rumored by NBC News to be President-elect Barack Obama's future Secretary of Energy-designate. He is known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997.[1] His current research is concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. He is currently Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology of University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. As global warming warnings grow more dire, Chu is currently pushing his scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and industry to develop technologies to reverse climate change. Chief in Chu's campaign is an unprecedented research pact reached between UC Berkeley, oil industry giant BP, the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and the University of Illinois.

[remaxagnt]

zero better appoint someone to cover up blagogate first!

[SolidWood]

Oh great! A Berkley nut who wants to “revert climate change”.

[anniegetyourgun]

Great...an over-educated mad scientist who is trying to “reverse global climate change.”

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Before her nomination by Governor of New Jersey Jon S. Corzine, Jackson served as the NJDEP’s Assistant Commissioner for Land Use Management during 2005. Jackson headed numerous programs including Land Use Regulation, Water Supply, Geological Survey, Water Monitoring and Standards, and Watershed Management. She focused on developing a system of incentives for stimulating the right growth in the right places. Under her leadership, the NJDEP crafted regulatory standards for implementing the landmark Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act.

As the state’s chief environmental enforcer, Jackson led groundbreaking compliance sweeps in Camden and Paterson, communities in which the effects of pollution on public health had long been neglected. She launched the environmental initiative following multicultural outreach efforts to inform and involve community residents and businesses. Working with county officials, New Jersey State Police and the EPA, the NJDEP then mobilized more than 70 inspectors to conduct upward of 1,000 compliance investigations in the two cities, the first of a series of enforcement sweeps.

[johncocktoasten]

Reading that bio, it sounds like the Republican Filibuster Machine Better Get Cranking for the new “climate change” agenda.

Otherwise, we may all end up living in government approved tent cities.

[Bahbah]

As global warming warnings grow more dire, Chu is currently pushing his scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and industry to develop technologies to reverse climate change.

This is not a good sign...a man who thinks he can control the climate.

[Tarpon]

Another no energy fruitcake to defend the tax scam

[anniegetyourgun]

But hey....he fits the quota for Asian staff.

[SteamShovel]

As global warming warnings grow more dire, Chu is currently pushing his scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and industry to develop technologies to reverse climate change.

Chu is just like all these other egghead stupid idiots. No Common Sense.

We are in deep trouble.

[ThreeYearLurker]

Don’t you know that Dick Cheney has a hurricane machine he used to start Hurricane Katrina?

[avacado]

Oh great! A Berkley nut who wants to “revert climate change”.

As long as he sees technology as the solution to the warming hoax I am okay with it. Better than had Obama picked some kook from the Sierra Club.

[SolidWood]

Silly. That was Rove. Cheney was responsible for killing refugees in the Louisiana swamps. Cynthia McKinney told so.

[SolidWood]

Technology to revert a hoax, that will swallow billions of taxpayers’ money to develop.

[ari-freedom]

Forget global warming for just a moment

Can someone say Wen Ho Lee?

[Roscoe Karns]

Ah, Chu.

[Arkinsaw]

Why not? The Democrats have been doing this for years. why not fight back a bit instead of rolling over all the time.

The primary requirements for US Department Heads is PR, ability to manage people, familiarity with government, etc.

An academic is going to be lost in all that. From his autobiography he likes erector sets, linear thinking, and working directly with minutiae. I am not sure he is going to be so happy with a Secretary job.

[E=MC2]

California, Berkeley

Coolest Shirt Award. I saw a group of USC fans wearing these at a USC-CAL game a few weeks ago.

[Army Air Corps]

Basically, his staff will actually do all the work.

[AndyJackson]

This is one of the best choices for DOE that we could ever hope for. This is a fabulously good choice, and I cannot believe the clueless troglodytes on this forum who are trashing a great scientist and superb laboratory director.

It is a crying shame that Clinton is making some far better choices than Bush ever thought of.