By GottaLaff
Transportation Secretary possibilities:
The Washington Post's Al Kamen reports that Steve Heminger, executive director of the commission that oversees transportation planning in the San Francisco area, is the favorite for Transportation secretary. Former FAA chief Jane Garvey, former Deputy Secretary of Transportation Mortimer L. Downey and former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk are other candidates.
And Chu on this one:
Fans of clean energy and skeptics of "clean" coal and nuclear energy (like us) might take comfort in this Wall Street Journal blog post about expected Energy secretary nominee Stephen Chu. "Coal is my worst enemy" the Journal reports Chu said "repeatedly" in a speech earlier this year in which he raised doubts about the feasibility of "storing billions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions underground" as a way to stop coal from furthering global warming. On nuclear, Chu said, “The waste and proliferation issues still haven’t been completely solved.”
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