Policy snapback on global warming
December 10, 2008
AP: “former New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection commissioner Lisa Jackson and Mary Nichols, who heads the California Air Resources Board, are in the running for the EPA administrator post. Both women worked at the EPA under Clinton EPA chief Carol Browner, who is leading the energy and environmental policy team for Obama’s transition.
Browner, who ran the agency for 8 years, is expected to be named to a new position in the Obama White House overseeing energy, environment and climate matters.” Later: we learn that position may be as head of a new Climate Council.
I continue to be impressed at how President-elect Obama is filling out his team with many who represent a sharp break from the past . . . with Shinseki, Browner et al. he is sending a message that things are going to be the polar opposite of the policies of the past eight years.
