MORE PICKS FROM OBAMAMORE PICKS FROM OBAMAPresident-elect Barack Obama made much of appointing a team of rivals when it came to national security and economic policy, but his energy and environment candidates appear largely to think alike. Obama's pick for Interior Secretary, Colorado Senator Ken Salazar Kenneth Lee Salazar (born March 2, 1955) is an American politician, rancher, and environmentalist from the U.S. state of Colorado. Salazar, a Democrat, served as state Attorney General before winning a U.S. Senate seat in the 2004 Senate elections. He has been the junior U.S. , has been best known recently for his go-slow approach toward oil-shale production. The Energy Secretary choice, Nobel laureate Steven Chu, runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientific research centers run by the Univ. of California, located in Berkeley, Calif., and Livermore, Calif., respectively. at the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. , where he championed accelerated work on alternatives to fossil fuels. Meanwhile, on Dec. 17, Obama chose Mary Schapiro, head of the private Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Not to be confused with NASD. In the United States, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is a new self-regulatory organization (SRO) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, successor to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). (Finra), to run the SEC. 
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