Browner to Take White House Energy and Environment Job | 44 | washingtonpost.com

President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce -- perhaps as early as Wednesday -- that Clinton administration Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner will take a new White House position as head of environmental, energy, climate and related matters, according to Democratic sources.

Stanford Discussions | Carol Browner (Free Podcast)

Carol Browner, who headed the Environmental Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton, is armed with data. During this talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, she illustrates the rapid warming of the Earth’s atmosphere, and advises her audience to look for nonpartisan, business-friendly ways to address the looming crisis.

“If we fail to act we’ll become the first generation that has left to the next generation a problem that can’t really be resolved,” she says. “No generation has yet left a permanently altered planet. There is not a single engineer in the world who could reverse the rise in the sea level once it starts to happen.”