The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Californian Nancy Sutley expects to have the ear of President Obama as his chief environmental adviser, reviving a White House office that lay virtually dormant during the Bush years. The 46-year-old, Harvard-educated Sutley expects to meet regularly with Obama, who has moved to improve vehicle fuel efficiency, supported greenhouse-gas reductions in California and shelved plans to open much of the state's coast to offshore oil drilling. Before her appointment, Sutley, a prominent member of Los Angeles' gay and lesbian community, served as deputy mayor of energy and environment and was Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's representative on the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California's Board of Directors. Over the past decade, she worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the West Coast region and as a special assistant to the administrator in Washington under former President Bill Clinton. Prior to that, she was deputy secretary for the California EPA, where she supported the state's landmark policy on climate change and advised former Gov. Gray Davis on energy, water and air-pollution issues...
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