Wild Speculation: A Massive List Of Possible Green Obama Cabinet Picks

Wild Speculation: A Massive List Of Possible Green Obama Cabinet Picks

The punditocracy is amusing itself by trading rumors about who Obama might tap to fill key leadership posts. Here are names that have been circulated thus far for environment-related positions. Warning: wild speculation to follow.

EPA Administrator
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attorney for Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council
Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board
Carol Browner, EPA head under President Clinton
Janet Napolitano, governor of Arizona
Kathleen Sebelius, governor of Kansas
Kathleen McGinty, former head of Pennsylvania EPA and or President Clinton's White House Council on Environmental Quality
Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute
Dan Esty, Obama energy adviser and environmental law professor at Yale
Ian Bowles, secretary of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs for the state of Massachusetts
Lisa Renstrom, former president of the Sierra Club
Lisa Jackson, commissioner of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

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