Ken Salazar has broad managerial experience and ties to the Obama administration. That's exactly what you need in transition team leadership.

And, believe it or not, even girl presidents get to "pick" their own cabinet members.

If Ken Salazar works in the White House, why is it a problem if his position doesn't involve environmental policy?

And we already know how many positions in the White House affect the "environment," even though we like to imagine it's only the edicts from the Interior Dept., and nowhere else, that have any bearing...

so it opens a door for concern, however tangential it may be. With President Clinton there will undoubtably be an uptick in scrutiny and concomitant complaints in some quarters. For some reason, for women candidates only perfection will do.

...actually matters to you, in terms of actual policies or appointments.

I'm somewhat new at DU and didn't realize this was an an environment thread. I thought it was just political discussion.

After you've read my apology, I'll self delete.

Yeah, there are a lot of issue-particular sub-groups here -- they might show up on the main page and seem to be part of a general discussion. So FYI.

For me, the environment is always the issue that gets shortest shrift from both main parties. The Republicans crap on it actively, of course, and the Dems give better lip service. But the planet heats and withers, extinction runs rampant, wildlands perish, and no one, really, is prepared to give up much in the way of juicy burgers, nice new "stuff," etc.

So the tab of that bill that's gonna be paid tends to grow more fearsome.

I mention all this because enviro discussions do tend to get my back up (going back to the 80's, when I was assured that "kooky fringe" stuff like climate change was alarmist, because there was no way we'd ever experience any of its effects in our lifetimes...)

Anyway, take care -- regardless of the extent to which we may disagree about the incoming administration's "optics" -- and welcome to DU.

Salazar was part of the Obama administration, and because of that should make transition more smooth

A trove of secret documents details the US government's global push for shale gas.

Mother Jones SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014 ISSUE

One icy morning in February 2012, Hillary Clinton's plane touched down in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which was just digging out from a fierce blizzard. Wrapped in a thick coat, the secretary of state descended the stairs to the snow-covered tarmac, where she and her aides piled into a motorcade bound for the presidential palace. That afternoon, they huddled with Bulgarian leaders, including Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, discussing everything from Syria's bloody civil war to their joint search for loose nukes. But the focus of the talks was fracking. The previous year, Bulgaria had signed a five-year, $68 million deal, granting US oil giant Chevron millions of acres in shale gas concessions. Bulgarians were outraged. Shortly before Clinton arrived, tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets carrying placards that read "Stop fracking with our water" and "Chevron go home." Bulgaria's parliament responded by voting overwhelmingly for a fracking moratorium.

Clinton urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance. According to Borissov, she agreed to help fly in the "best specialists on these new technologies to present the benefits to the Bulgarian people." But resistance only grew. The following month in neighboring Romania, thousands of people gathered to protest another Chevron fracking project, and Romania's parliament began weighing its own shale gas moratorium. Again Clinton intervened, dispatching her special envoy for energy in Eurasia, Richard Morningstar, to push back against the fracking bans. The State Depart­ment's lobbying effort culminated in late May 2012, when Morningstar held a series of meetings on fracking with top Bulgarian and Romanian officials. He also touted the technology in an interview on Bulgarian national radio, saying it could lead to a fivefold drop in the price of natural gas. A few weeks later, Romania's parliament voted down its proposed fracking ban and Bulgaria's eased its moratorium.

The episode sheds light on a crucial but little-known dimension of Clinton's diplomatic legacy. Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globe—part of a broader push to fight climate change, boost global energy supply, and undercut the power of adversaries such as Russia that use their energy resources as a cudgel. But environmental groups fear that exporting fracking, which has been linked to drinking-water contamination and earthquakes at home, could wreak havoc in countries with scant environmental regulation. And according to interviews, diplomatic cables, and other documents obtained by Mother Jones, American officials—some with deep ties to industry—also helped US firms clinch potentially lucrative shale concessions overseas, raising troubling questions about whose interests the program actually serves.

Geologists have long known that there were huge quantities of natural gas locked in shale rock. But tapping it wasn't economically viable until the late 1990s, when a Texas wildcatter named George Mitchell hit on a novel extraction method that involved drilling wells sideways from the initial borehole, then blasting them full of water, chemicals, and sand to break up the shale—a variation of a technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Besides dislodging a bounty of natural gas, Mitchell's breakthrough ignited an energy revolution. Between 2006 and 2008, domestic gas reserves jumped 35 percent. The United States later vaulted past Russia to become the world's largest natural gas producer. As a result, prices dropped to record lows, and America began to wean itself from coal, along with oil and gas imports, which lessened its dependence on the Middle East. The surging global gas supply also helped shrink Russia's economic clout: Profits for Russia's state-owned gas company, Gazprom, plummeted by more than 60 percent between 2008 and 2009 alone...snip
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron

Meet the Anti-Fracking Activist Hillary Clinton Laughed At

That was my reaction to the OP. Thank you for doing the research to back it up!

but won't, considering the TOS.

It rather makes one wonder just how many tigers are caught in transition, eh?

And how they earned their stripes...