Obama’s Interior Pick Seen Promoting Expanded Energy
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Sally Jewell, nominated to be U.S. Interior secretary, won praise from environmentalists as a conservation champion and from business groups that said she understands the importance of energy development on public land.
How well the head of a retail chain and former oil engineer manages the expectations of both camps will help determine if President Barack Obama can balance efforts to combat climate change with the push to extract more energy as a way to boost the economy, Joshua Freed, vice president for clean energy at The Third Way, said yesterday in an e-mail.