Former Obama Climate Adviser Browner Takes Post at Center for American Progress

Carol Browner, until recently President Obama’s top adviser on climate change and energy, has been named a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress where she will focus on international and domestic policy, the group announced April 20.

Browner also served as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for all eight years of the Clinton administration from 1993-2001.

She joined the White House staff when Obama took office in 2009 and served for two years as assistant to the president for energy and climate change. Browner was among the Obama administration’s lead advocates for cap-and-trade legislation to address climate ...