President Barack Obama nominated two more people for his Cabinet on Monday.
Gina McCarthy was nominated to lead the
Environmental Protection Agency. She currently serves as an assistant administrator at the agency.
Ernest J. Moniz was nominated to lead the
Department of Energy. He's a professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"So these two over here, they're going to be making sure that we're investing in American energy, that we're doing everything that we can to combat the threat of climate change, that we're going to be creating jobs and economic opportunity in the first place. They are going to be a great team. And these are some of my top priorities going forward,"
Obama said at the White House yesterday.
The announcement came as Obama held his first Cabinet meeting of his second term as president.
"Obviously, we’ve got some familiar faces, we have some new faces, we have some familiar faces in new positions," he said, according to the
transcript of his remarks.
One of the Cabinet members, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, will be stepping down sometime this month.
His replacement,
Sally
Jewell, the chief executive officer of
Recreational Equipment Inc., will go before the
Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee for her confirmation hearing on Thursday.
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Gina McCarthy, EPA’s air chief, nominated to head agency
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Ernest Moniz, MIT physicist, nominated as energy secretary
(The Washington Post 3/5)
Cabinet Picks Could Take On Climate Policy
(The New York Times 3/5)
Committee Notice:
FULL
COMMITTEE HEARING: To consider the nomination of Sally Jewell to be the
Secretary of the Interior (March 7, 2013)
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