President Obama on Monday announced his nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head up the White House budget office, a senior administration official told The Hill.
Also, Obama will nominate Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Ernest Moniz as the next Energy secretary.
Burwell has long been considered the leading choice for the director's spot at the Office of Management and Budget. She served as deputy director of the agency from 1998-2001 during the nation's last budget surplus under President Clinton.
The selections of Moniz and McCarthy will round out Obama’s second-term energy and environment team, following his nomination last month of Sally Jewell to head the Interior Department.
McCarthy, currently the EPA’s assistant administrator for air and radiation, would be replacing former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who left the agency in February.
Moniz, Obama’s Energy pick, is a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the MIT Energy Initiative. He has long been seen as the front-runner to replace outgoing Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Green groups are putting pressure on Obama to do more to confront global warming, and in Congress, Republicans are vowing to push back against environmental regulations they say are burdensome to business.
Read more on The Hill's E-2 Wire.
