Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who leaves office Dec. 31, may be line to become the next U.S. Secretary of Energy if Secretary Steven Chu leaves the post, Gongwer News has reported.
Chu, a Nobel Prize winning researcher, was named to the post by the Obama administration – presumably to lead a fight against the threat of global warming. But there has been a concern that Chu will not be willing to face questioning from an increasingly hostile, more Republican Congress.
So far, Chu has not indicated he will step down from the office, but observers say that Granholm’s name is near the top of the list of possible successors should he choose to do that.
Granholm is seen as a top contender in part because of her trying to champion alternative energy industries in Michigan as governor.
