Obama rounds out Cabinet with EPA, Energy picks

Reuters ^ | 3-4-2013 | Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced his nominees to lead a new U.S. push to tackle climate change on Monday, choosing an air quality expert to run the Environmental Protection Agency and a nuclear physicist to head the Department of Energy.

In a widely expected move, Obama selected agency veteran Gina McCarthy to replace Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator and scientist Ernest Moniz from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to take over for Steven Chu as Energy secretary.

Obama also announced his choice to lead the White House budget office - Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Walmart Foundation, a charitable group with ties to giant retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

McCarthy and Moniz Round out the team Obama hopes will carry out his second term energy agenda. They join Sally Jewell, nominated last month to run the Interior Department.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_McCarthy - Mass. Irish Catholic, worked in Gov. Romney's admin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Moniz - MIT-Boston, CFR, connections to BP, Chevron, Saudi-Aramco

http://www.janm.org/projects/inrp/english/sc_moniz.htm - Moniz's wife: Georgetown professor/feminist/globalist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Mathews_Burwell - Rhodes scholar, Gates Foundation, Catholic charities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Jewell - , Engineer/banker/CEO REI, tree hugger/dirt worshipper Seattle, WA

[Paladin2]

Rounds?

More like a coherent, leftist vector.

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And you just thought Lisa Jackson was bad.

[Alter Kaker]

Gina McCarthy worked for Mitt Romney, believe it or not.