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Obama to name Browner as energy coordinator

CHICAGO
Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:52pm EST

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will appoint former environmental protection agency chief Carol Browner to a new position coordinating energy, climate and environmental issues, a Democratic aide said on Wednesday.

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Obama, who has said energy and environment issues would be important to his administration, is closing in on choosing the team that will oversee them all. Earlier in the day a Democratic official said Obama had chosen Nancy Sutley, a deputy mayor of Los Angeles, to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

(Reporting by Deborah Charles; editing by David Alexander)
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