Obama announced that he will be appointing Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu as Secretary of the department of energy. Obama spoke to reporters in Chicago minutes ago and CNN picked up the story shortly after that. Obama hinted at this nomination last week when he It is expected that Lisa Jackson will be nominated as the ambassador of the Environmental Protection Agency later this week. But much of this has been overshadowed by the controversy surrounding Blagojevich who returned to work today despite calls for his resignation.


Below is a video of Chu at last weeks National Energy Summit.