Meet Obama’s (probable) environmental team:

Officials said Mr. Obama would name Steven Chu, the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his energy secretary, and Nancy Sutley, deputy mayor of Los Angeles for energy and environment, as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Mr. Obama also appears ready to name Carol M. Browner, the E.P.A. administrator under President Bill Clinton, as the top White House official on climate and energy policy and Lisa P. Jackson, New Jersey’s commissioner of environmental protection, as the head of the E.P.A.

I don’t have time to research and comment now, so I’ll pass on words from one of my smartest friends, an environmental attorney based in New York:

In my extremely humble opinion, these are good choices. Browner is hands-down the best person to have headed the EPA in its history, and Dr. Chu (I’ve met him a couple of times) is a very smart, extremely well-informed guy with a command of the relevant issues and technology. Lisa Jackson seems to be a good administrator judging from my brief interactions with the governor’s office, mostly on zoning issues related to solar and biomass siting. Unsure whether she’s the kind of attack dog this position will require being in the coming years.