Washington Post: Add a new name to the list of Obama appointees devoted to aggressive action on climate change. President Obama yesterday named Jon Wellinghoff — a lawyer who once served as Nevada’s consumer advocate and a believer that electric-car owners could someday get paid to provide backup battery power to the electricity grid — as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Wellinghoff joined the commission in 2006 and has been serving as acting chairman since January. He …