President-elect Barack Obama has his green team. And for environmentalists, it is a dream team. Obama has selected Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu as energy secretary and Lisa Jackson, the former head of New Jersey's environmental department, to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Carol Browner, a confidante of former Vice President Al Gore, will lead a White House council on energy and climate. Browner, the longest-serving EPA administrator in history, headed the agency during the Clinton administration. Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado was said to be Obama's choice to run the Interior Department. Obama announced Arne Duncan's appointment as his education secretary Tuesday at a school that he said has made remarkable progress under Duncan's leadership. “When it comes to school reform, Arne is the most hands-on of hands-on practitioners,” Obama said.
