Secretary Clinton names Climate Envoy

From Mike Allen at Politico

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17964.html

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday named Todd D. Stern, a trusted top aide in her husband’s White House, to serve as a special envoy for climate change.

Sterns' appointment, she said, sends "an unequivocal message that the United States will be energetic, focused, strategic and serious about addressing global climate change and the corollary issue of clean energy."

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This is good news that I found while searching for the latest on Susan Rice supposedly announcing direct talks with Iran.  That would be good but funny how I thought that would be Hillary's job.

Update: I found it

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-26-voa54.cfm

Asked to comment on what action the new administration might take on Iran's nuclear pursuits, Ambassador Rice said the United States remains "deeply concerned" about the threat that program poses to the region and the international community. She said the U.S. would pursue vigorous diplomacy that would be both directly with Iran and continued collaboration with the other four permanent members of the Security Council and Germany through the group known as the "P-Five Plus One".