Monday, December 8, 2008

Obama Names Energy, Environmental Team
President-elect Barack Obama Monday chose a Nobel physics laureate to be his energy secretary and picked a former top federal environmental regulator to coordinate his energy and environmental policies.
Steven Chu the head of the team and he won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics currently he directs the government's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California but after inauguration he will coordinate White House policy on energy, and climate change among the various federal agencies.