Obama
nominated
nuclear
physicist
Ernest
Moniz
to
succeed
Steven
Chu
as
Energy
Secretary
and
air-quality
expert
Gina
McCarthy
to
replace
EPA
administrator
Lisa
Jackson,
who
stepped
down
in
February.
Moniz,
long
rumoured
to
be
Obama's
pick
for
the
position,
served
as
undersecretary
of
energy
during
the
Clinton
administration.
He
is
currently
the
director
of
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology's
Energy
Initiative,
an
academic
research
group
focussed
on
reducing
greenhouse
emissions
that
is
funded
in
part
by
companies
such
as
BP,
Chevron,
and
Saudi
Aramco.
McCarthy,
the
current
assistant
administrator
for
the
EPA
Office
of…
