After all the allusions to Camelot, is it possible that there will be no Kennedy in an Obama cabinet? While some have mentioned JFK’s daughter Caroline Kennedy as a possibility for Education secretary (Between 2002-2004, she led the highly successful effort to raise private funds to improve New York public schools, and currently serves as the vice chair of the Fund for Public Schools), it’s more likely that her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could end up heading the Environmental Protection Agency. RFK Jr., a longtime environmental activist, is the president of Waterkeeper Alliance and the chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper, as well as the author of Crimes Against Nature. He also spent time in Washington between 1995-1996 fighting anti-environmental legislation.  Kennedy’s appointment would not be without controversy. In 1983, at the age of 30, he was arrested and later convicted for heroin possession. He was also arrested in 2001 for trespassing at a U.S. Naval training facility during a protest.

Others possibilities:

• Lisa Jackson, head of New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection and co-chair of Obama’s transition group overseeing the EPA
• Her fellow co-chair, Robert Sussman, who served as the deputy administrator of the EPA during Clinton’s first term, and now is a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, which is headed by Obama transition co-chair John Podesta
• Kathleen McGinty, a longtime aide to Vice President Al Gore who created and chaired the White House Office of Environmental Policy during the Clinton years and went on to head Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection
• Mary Nichols, a former senior official at the EPA during the Clinton years who is currently the chair of the California Air Resources Board
• Dan Esty, Obama’s leading energy adviser, who also heads Yale’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy, as well as the university’s Center for Business and the Environment. Esty served in a series of senior positions in George H. W. Bush’s EPA and has written nine books, including Green to Gold, which details how corporations can use green policies to increase their productivity and profit.

UPDATE: In response to some of our comments re. Al Gore and the new administration: While insiders don't expect Gore to be interested in a cabinet position, there's some talk that if Obama creates a new position of Global Warming Czar or special envoy, Gore would be the obvious first choice.