US President-elect Barack Obama has tapped physics Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu as his new energy secretary. Dr Chu shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light and is a leader in the field to combat climate change using scientific methods. He now is the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Mr Obama also picked former head of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Lisa Jackson, to lead the environmental protection agency (EPA), and has named Nancy Sutley, a deputy mayor of Los Angeles, as head of the White House's council on environmental quality.
Announcing the environment team, the president-elect vowed to "move beyond our oil addiction and create a new hybrid economy".
I don't know much about the new appointee-elect (is that what you would call them?) but I know their home state and towns don't have the best relationship with nature right now. Maybe they have done a lot respectively.
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