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Nobel-winning US energy secretary steps down

2013-02-05 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: Four years after his appointment as part of President Barack Obama's scientific dream team, US energy secretary Steven Chu is about to step down. How well did he perform in office, and who should fill his shoes? With budget cuts and continued attacks by climate sceptics likely to dog Obama's second term, a politician might be a better choice than another scientist, some observers say. As the first Nobel laureate appointed to a presidential cabinet, Chu ensured that science informed decisions about...

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Departing Energy Secretary Offers Climate Change Warning

2013-02-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

The Hill: Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who announced Friday that hes stepping down, is leaving with a warning that the U.S. must confront climate change. Ultimately we have a moral responsibility to the most innocent victims of adverse climate change. Those who will suffer the most are the people who are the most innocent: the worlds poorest citizens and those yet to be born, Chu writes in a lengthy letter Friday to Energy Department (DOE) employees. There is an ancient Native American saying: 'We...

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Energy secretary Steven Chu resigns

2013-02-01 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: Energy Secretary Steven Chu resigned Friday after a four-year tenure during which he handed out tens of billions of dollars of grants and loans to foster renewable energy technologies -- and ended up fostering controversy over whether the money was well spent. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who was brought to Washington by President Obama because of Chu's deep concern about climate change, found himself embroiled in controversy over a half-billion-dollar loan to solar-panel-maker Solyndra,...

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Outgoing Energy Secretary Warns Of Dangers Of Climate Change

2013-02-01 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: Secretary Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who came into office with high hopes. He was selected to help the president pursue his green energy agenda and fight climate change. It turned out to be a rocky road. Some of the green companies that got big government loans, like Solyndra, ended up going bankrupt, and the president had to drop his plans to get Congress to adopt climate change legislation. Still Chu helped the country make progress in becoming more energy efficient.

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