Environmental attorney Sanders says President-elect Obama names his nominees to head U.S. EPA and U.S. DOE.

On Dec. 15, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama held a press conference where he named his latest nominees who will help "transform our economy so that our people are more prosperous, our nation is more secure, and our planet is protected."

The nominees are Steven Chu, Ph.D., secretary of energy; Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality; Carol Browner, assistant to the president for Energy and Climate Change; and Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the president for Energy and Climate Change.