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Obama nominates Moniz for energy, McCarthy for EPA
US President Barack Obama moved to fill a pair of key posts in his energy and environmental team on Monday. Confirming weeks of speculation, the president nominated Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Ernest Moniz as secretary of energy while promoting Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
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