{"id":5035,"date":"2008-12-16T10:51:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2008-12-16T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:51:20","slug":"obamas-green-dream-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/12\/16\/obamas-green-dream-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Green Dream Team?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigests121608\/2008_12_16_marcus.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigests121608\/2008_12_16_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/rids\/20081216\/i\/ra303081354.jpg?x=400&#038;y=273&#038;q=85&#038;sig=OtLA.uvbAhq07hGKbIwjtA--\" alt=\"Obama's Green Dream Team\" \/>President-elect Barack Obama announced the names of his Energy Secretary and other members of his environmental team yesterday: A Nobel-prize winning Physicist Steven Chu is Obama&#8217;s choice for Secretary of Energy. Chu specializes in carbon-neutral energy sources and currently heads the Berkeley National Laboratory. Carol Browner, a former Clintonite, is to be Obama&#8217;s energy coordinator. Browner served as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency or EPA under President Bill Clinton &#8212; her new position involves overseeing a range of issues involving energy, climate, and the environment, including the creation of so-called &#8220;green jobs&#8221; often touted by Obama as the way forward on the economy and environment. Finally, for head of the EPA, Obama has picked Lisa Jackson, the former head of New Jersey&#8217;s state EPA. Obama has also selected Nancy Sutley, a deputy mayor of Los Angeles, and his first openly gay cabinet member, to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Felicia Marcus, former EPA Administrator to California, Western Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council<\/em>. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\">www.nrdc.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program President-elect Barack Obama announced the names of his Energy Secretary and other members of his environmental team yesterday: A Nobel-prize winning Physicist Steven Chu is Obama&#8217;s choice for Secretary of Energy. Chu specializes in carbon-neutral energy sources and currently heads the Berkeley National Laboratory. Carol Browner, a former Clintonite, is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}