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President-elect
Barack Obama has selected his top energy and environmental advisers, including a
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the former head of the
Environmental Protection Agency, presidential transition officials said Wednesday.
Collectively, they will have the task of carrying out Mr. Obama’s stated intent to curb
global warming emissions drastically while fashioning a more efficient national energy system. And they will be able to work with strong allies in Congress who are interested in developing climate-change legislation, despite fierce economic headwinds that will amplify objections from manufacturers and energy producers.
The officials said Mr. Obama would name Steven Chu, the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his energy secretary, and Nancy Sutley, deputy mayor of Los Angeles for energy and environment, as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Mr. Obama also appears ready to name
Carol M. Browner, the E.P.A. administrator under President
Bill Clinton, as the top White House official on climate and energy policy and Lisa P. Jackson, who until recently was New Jersey’s commissioner of environmental protection, as the head of the E.P.A.
If named to the White House climate post, Ms.
Browner, an
*acolyte of former Vice President Al Gore, will have forceful support in the new Congress, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, who will be the new chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Senator Barbara Boxer of California, who is returning as chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Opposing their efforts will be many Republicans and some Democrats, as well as manufacturers, utilities, oil companies and coal producers who will bear the brunt of the costs of any steps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the
main culprit in global warming. (Bull$hit!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/us/politics/11appoint.html?th&emc=th
*Acolyte can mean any of the following:
Acolyte - a rank in the clergy.
Acolyte - any devoted follower or attendant.
Acolyte, Inc. - an Indonesian manga publisher.
Acolyte Protection Agency - a wrestling (WWE) tag team.
Acolytes (comics) - a
Marvel Comics team of mutant supervillains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolyte_(disambiguation