Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), a key player on congressional air pollution issues, said he hopes to work quickly with Lisa Jackson, President-elect Obama's pick to head U.S. EPA, to develop nationwide measures to curb air pollutants.

President-elect Barack Obama's expected choice of Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein to direct White House oversight of federal regulation has some advocacy groups worried that there might be less change than they had hoped on regulatory policy.

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen longtime friend Cass Sunstein, a Harvard University law professor and leading constitutional lawyer, to head the Office of Information and Regulatory affairs, a transition official said.

President-elect Barack Obama is assembling a new "super-Cabinet" of influential advisers inside the White House to direct Obama's pet domestic policies -- health reform, the environment and urban affairs -- to make sure they do not get mired in agency red tape or forgotten amid the ongoing economic meltdown and financial crises, but some see the potential for chaos within the administration.

President-elect Barack Obama today named Nancy Killefer, a management consultant and former assistant secretary of the Treasury, to a new White House position that would work to eliminate government waste and improve efficiency.

Sen. Ken Salazar today vowed to undertake a wide-ranging review of Interior Department policies if confirmed as secretary but remained mum on the specifics of which Bush administration policies he might keep or overturn. While saying he is "not there yet" on deciding whether to continue or reverse specific Bush plans, Salazar added, "We are going to take a look at everything in the department and figure out what we have got to do."