My choices for a new Secretary of the Interior.

[Cleita]

Al Gore if he would consider it

Mike Pappantonio, or his partner

Bobby Kennedy, Jr.

It's time to give this cabinet office to someone with a good environmental record and who isn't in bed with those industries that are destructive to the environment for real oversight for a change.

[Cetacea]

1. Excellent choices.

K&R

[monmouth]

2. I'd say...n/t

[zeemike]

3. You would be responsible for the explosions of many heads

On the right.
But good choices all....I would even like to se Ralph Nadar get the job.

[Scuba]

4. Agreed. Great choices.

[Kalyke]

5. Can I add one?

Gloria Flora

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gloria-flora/6/4b/177

Experience:

Executive Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions

Project Coordinator, Center for Climate Strategies

Ecosystem Synthesizer, Biomimicry Guild

Forest Supervisor, United States Forest Service

Board Memberships:

EARTHWORKS (Board Member)

Defenders of Wildlife (Board Member)

Post Carbon Institute (Fellow)

Center for Environment and Natural Resource Policy - University of MT (Senior Fellow)

Women's Voices for the Earth (former Board Member)

EcoTechnologies Group (Affiliate)

Orion Grassroots Network (Adviser)

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (Adviser)

A little less known, but certainly capable.

[joeybee12]

6. I'd take any of them...n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. The position is not currently vacant

[bvar22]

8. I endorse ALL of your picks,

but none of them are on the Chamber of Commerce approved list for High Ranking White House appointments.

The DLC New Team

(Screen Capped from the DLC Website)

[LiberalFighter]

9. How about James Carville?

That might shut that loudmouth. And put all the pressure on him to not make mistakes.

[joeybee12]

10. Well, he'd be better than Salazar...then again, so would the lint from my belly button...n/t

[dgibby]

11. Erin Brockovitch! n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

12. Give the oil companies someone they deserve.

Ralph Nader.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Robert Kennedy Jr.'s completely fucked in the head.

He's unfit for any position that requires rational thought.

[lazarus]

14. +1

[Captain Hilts]

15. He named a Superfund opponent for GE as DOJ's top environmental enforcement officer

Really.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/15/ignacia-moreno-superfund/

President Barack Obama has nominated a lawyer for the nation’s largest toxic polluters to run the enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws. On Tuesday, Obama “announced his intent to nominate” Ignacia S. Moreno to be Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division in the Department of Justice. Moreno, general counsel for that department during the Clinton administration, is now the corporate environmental counsel for General Electric, “America’s #1 Superfund Polluter“:

Number five in the Fortune 500 with revenues of $89.3 billion and earnings of $8.2 billion in 1997, General Electric has been a leader in the effort to roll back the Superfund law and stave off any requirements for full cleanup and restoration of sites they helped create.

This February, General Electric lost an eight-year battle to “prove that parts of the Superfund law are unconstitutional.” One of the 600-person DOJ environmental division’s “primary responsibilities is to enforce federal civil and criminal environmental laws such as” the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Superfund.

Before General Electric, Moreno worked as a corporate attorney at Spriggs and Hollingsworth. Moreno’s name is found in the Westlaw database as an attorney defending General Motors in another Superfund case, the GM Powertrain facility in Bedford, Indiana:

Historical uses and management of PCB containing hydraulic oils and PCB impacted materials has contaminated on-site areas as well as the sediment and floodplain soil within Bailey’s Branch and the Pleasant Run Creek watershed.