Barack Obama has made his most decisive break so far with the past eight years of George Bush by appointing a Nobel laureate in science and a supporter of Al Gore to head his energy and environment team.
The announcement in Chicago on Monday of the appointments of the physicist Steve Chu for energy secretary and the veteran regulator Carol Browner for the newly created White House "climate tsarina" received almost unanimously positive responses from environmentalists.
The greater responsibility for dealing with issues of energy and climate change falls to Ms Browner, who will co-ordinate the government agencies that deal with energy policy.
She was head of the Environmental Protection Agency under Bill Clinton and has worked with Mr Gore.
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