It’s Steven Chu, according to a report on the Swamp, and he will be officially nominated tomorrow. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist is director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has steered research to address climate change. With Chu’s nomination, Barack Obama answered two requests from recent Zócalo guests John Emerson, Maria Echaveste and Rudy deLeon: to nominate an energy secretary who is strong on new energy sources, and to nominate a cabinet member from California. Here, they discuss why the energy position is so important to the administration:

Watch the whole talk here.