Christine Todd Whitman — American Politician born on September 26, 1946,

Christine "Christie" Todd Whitman is an American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. She was New Jersey's first, and to date, only female governor. She was the second woman and first Republican woman to defeat an incumbent governor in a general election in the United States. She was also the first Republican woman to be reelected governor... (wikipedia)

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.