"Campaign 2016: Energy Gurus Take Reins Of Clinton Team"

"Ken Salazar and Jennifer Granholm will be helping to pick agency leaders and map out policy goals and could be in line for top administration jobs if Hillary Clinton clinches the White House.

The former Interior secretary and former Michigan governor — familiar faces in the energy policy world — will be leading Clinton's Washington, D.C.-based transition, the campaign announced today. Salazar has been picked as chairman of the team, where he'll be flanked by four co-chairs: Granholm, Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden, former Obama national security adviser Tom Donilon and longtime Clinton aide Maggie Williams.

They'll be key players in preparing to hire for federal agencies' political positions and set policy agendas should Clinton win in November. Their top roles on the transition team also suggest they could be in line for prime posts in a Clinton administration; transition leaders often go on to become top White House aides or Cabinet secretaries or work in other high-ranking positions.

John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman and the president of its transition project — and the founder of CAP, where Tanden works — announced the leadership team today. Getting those officials in place in Washington will enable the Brooklyn-based campaign staff to focus exclusively on the election, he said."

Robin Bravender reports for Greenwire August 16, 2016.