Obama Names Final 5 to Oil Spill Panel Commission

[tekisui]

Source: ABC News/AP

President Barack Obama has named the final five members to an independent commission he created to investigate the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Obama previously named Bob Graham, a former Florida governor and senator, and William K. Reilly, a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator.

The final five members are:

—Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

—Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science.

—Terry Garcia, a National Geographic Society executive.

—Cherry Murray, dean of Harvard's engineering school.

—Frances Ulmer, chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10914347

[Uzybone]

1. Thanks

a mix environmentalists and academics. I don't know anything about them, but I'm sure we will soon be told of their shortcomings.

[tekisui]

4. No oil insiders, that is a good thing.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. No Dick Cheney?

[polichick]

3. Very pleased with Bob Graham and Frances Beinecke...

Don't know anything about the others, but the organizations look good (no corporations).

[Robb]

12. I've heard of Cherry Murray

...and if what I've heard is true, she's pretty much smarter than all of us put together, on a good day. :D

[polichick]

17. Excellent - thanks! nt

[Bolo Boffin]

5. More info on the five from the White House:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-members-bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-and-offshore-drill

[polichick]

8. Thanks - looks good! nt

[peacebird]

6. final five okay - who were the first appointees?

[Uzybone]

7. in the OP

"Obama previously named Bob Graham, a former Florida governor and senator, and William K. Reilly, a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator."

[vaberella]

9. Good news. n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. I hope that they have teeth

[robinlynne]

11. Frances rocks!!!!!!!!!!! an excellent choice. I don't know any of the others.

[tekisui]

15. Which Frances?

They all seem like solid picks, which Frances are you familiar with? Their are two.

[Jennicut]

13. Donald Boesch is a great pick. He has done lots of studies on climate change and has a book on the

effect of it on LA. And he has pushed for clean renewable energy for years. http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/panelists/donald_boesch/

[FrenchieCat]

14. Very good group!

[glinda]

16. Great now he only needs to get the paid-off ones off the committee.