San Francisco Chronicle: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Bay Area academic who became President Obama's point man on green jobs and renewable power, announced Friday that he will step down and return to California.
Rumored for months, Chu's exit gives Obama a chance to completely reshuffle his Cabinet team on energy and the environment. And it caps a turbulent four years in which the Department of Energy, once a bureaucratic backwater, took center stage in the administration's efforts to revive the economy.
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