[Jonathan Adler, January 31, 2009 at 12:15pm] Trackbacks
Freeman to White House Climate Office:

Via the new UC Berkeley-UCLA "Environment & Law" blog comes news that Harvard Law Professor Jody Freeman will join the Obama Administration as counselor to energy empress Carol Browner in the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change. More here.

[UPDATE: My initial post simply described the "Environment & Law" blog as a "UCal" initiative, which may have given some readers the mistaken impression that this was a Berkeley initiative. In fact, it is a joint project of environmental law faculty at both UCLA and UC Berkeley.]

J Richardson:
I wonder if they plan to lower the thermostat setting in the Oval Office. As Obama's senior advisor David Axelrod noted, "You could grow orchids in there."
1.31.2009 6:08pm
HLS Student:
Damn you, Obama! You're stealing our entire faculty! Jody Freeman in particular will be missed. This concerns me re: the fate of the future students of our illustrious institution.
1.31.2009 8:06pm
theobromophile (www):
I understand why there can/should be/would sanely be an Office of Energy, but appending the "Climate Change" part seems to be something that will either:
1) continue for generations to come; or
2) be laughed at for generations to come.
2.1.2009 12:38am
Fub:
theobromophile wrote at 2.1.2009 12:38am:
... but appending the "Climate Change" part seems to be something that will either:
1) continue for generations to come; or
2) be laughed at for generations to come.
Government has to keep up with changing times. This will make up for the Silly Walks gap.
2.1.2009 10:56am
Paul A'Barge (mail):
Because there can never be too many lawyers in government...
2.1.2009 11:28am
John Steele (mail):
Oh goody. What could go wrong, another #$%^%# lawyer in government, and even better an environmentalist lawyer.

Its going to be a long cold administration for America.
2.1.2009 12:17pm
courtwatcher:
I can see the concern about having a legal scholar in there, given how badly John Yoo screwed things up in the last administration. But by contrast to Yoo, she knows how to do sound, intellectually honest legal analysis.
2.1.2009 3:00pm
JM Hanes:
Hold onto your hats, because I have no doubt that Freeman is there to design new legislation.
2.1.2009 3:05pm
TokyoTom (mail):
Jonathan, what do you think of Freeman's work, and of this appointment?
2.2.2009 12:14am
mojo (mail):
"Empress", eh? Oh, very nice.

I guess she didn't care for the implications of "Tsarina", huh?
2.2.2009 11:58am

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