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...only chick there. Sarah Palin got a $150,000 makeover when it was obvious to everyone outside the party that John McCain needed it more. As the year went on, people got even more entranced by risk, placing their roulette bets on green. Barack Obama picked Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. Heidi married Spencer. Coors got rid of Zima...
...press conference on Monday in Chicago; in addition to Chu, Obama named Lisa Jackson, a respected state environmental official from New Jersey, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama also created a new position for Carol Browner, who was head of the EPA under former President Bill Clinton. She'll be responsible for coordinating the Administration's work on climate change across departments - a necessary post, since global warming touches on science, the economy and politics at home and abroad. All three appointees are charged with one of the most important items on Obama's agenda: getting...
...each member of the new green team brings unique, and necessary, talents to the White House. Jackson, the current commissioner of New Jersey's department of environmental protection, has experience and approachability. She served under Browner in the Clinton-era EPA, and though she is not as well known as Browner or Chu, what she lacks in name recognition she makes up for in workplace recognition, with the firm support of her boss, Governor Jon Corzine. Politico and ProPublica report that some New Jersey environmentalists believe she's too close to industry to be effective, but that might not prove...
...fast-forward global-warming legislation to catch up with ongoing international climate negotiations, which are headed for a major deadline next December in Copenhagen. The longest-serving chief in the EPA's admittedly brief history (the agency was established in 1970), Browner earned a tough reputation during the Clinton Administration. Industry advocates haven't forgotten, blanching at her appointment - Myron Ebell, director of energy and global-warming policy at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, called it a "most unfortunate decision" - but Browner's steel backbone will be needed to corral the many federal departments involved in climate-change action...
...course, Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates are heavyweights too, and State, Defense, Justice and Treasury are all Cabinet jobs that have kept their clout. (Bush's latest Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, is apparently the new leader of the free world.) But the "team of rivals" analogies only go so far because Cabinets are no longer teams. And Cabinet Secretaries are increasingly chosen to send messages to interest groups and ethnic groups...