Report: Obama to nominate Chu, Jackson, Browner to energy team

The Associated Press is reporting that President-elect Barack Obama is set to nominate key members of his administration's energy and environmental teams, including Nobel Prize in Physics winner Steven Chu:







A Chinese-American, Chu is a professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley and has been the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2004, where he has pushed aggressively for research into alternative energy as a way to combat global warming.



Obama is expected to make the announcements in the coming weeks. Still unclear is whom Obama will tap for interior secretary. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal selections that have not been made public.



...Obama has selected a deputy mayor of Los Angeles to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, transition officials said Wednesday. Nancy Sutley is the first prominent member of the gay and lesbian community to earn a senior role in the Democrat's new administration.