Carol Browner to be Obama's Energy Czar

By GottaLaff

Taegan:

President-elect Obama is expected to announce -- perhaps later this week -- that former EPA chief Carol Browner "will take a new White House position as head of environmental, energy, climate and related matters," the Washington Post reports.

The Post goes on to report:

Now a principal at The Albright Group, a "global strategy firm" founded by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, Browner was the longest-serving administrator in EPA history.

It was unclear if any of the related agency chiefs within her portfolio would be named along with her.

Via Wiki:

When Republicans took control of Congress after the 1994 elections, she took the lead in the Clinton Administration in successfully fighting efforts by the Republicans, especially in the House of Representatives, to weaken the Clean Water Act. She was able to work in a bipartisan manner, though, with Congressional Republicans in helping craft amendments to strengthen the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Food Quality Protection Act.

Browner came from Florida with a reputation as someone who could work with the private sector. [...]

As EPA Administrator, Browner also started the Agency's successful brownfields program, which, during her tenure, helped facilitate cleanups of contaminated facilities, especially in urban areas, and which leveraged more than $1 billion in public and private funds for cleanups.