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Barack Obama named physics Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu as his and tasked him with finding alternatives to fossil fuels.

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Mr Obama has pledged to make big changes in environmental policies.

After eight years, he said, the US could not accept more broken promises when the new administration took over on 20 January.

Announcing his environment team at a press conference on Monday, Mr Obama vowed to “move beyond our oil addiction and create a new hybrid economy”

He said these “urgent dangers” were only eclipsed by the long-term threat of climate change.

“Unless we act, [climate change] will lead to drought and famine abroad, devastating weather patterns and terrible storms on our shores and the disappearance of our coastline,” said Mr Obama.

He added that there were boundless opportunities to create new jobs in the environmental industry.