Obama taps former Clinton official, BP scientist for DOE

The New York Times
By BEN GEMAN, Greenwire
Published: March 23, 2009

President Obama plans to nominate David Sandalow, who held several environmental positions in the Clinton administration, to be the Energy Department's assistant secretary for Policy and International Affairs, the White House announced Friday.

Obama also plans to nominate BP chief scientist Steven Koonin to be undersecretary for Science. The pick reunites him with Energy Secretary Steven Chu after both helped form a major biosciences energy research partnership when Chu headed the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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