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Steven Chu to leave as energy secretary
2013-02-01 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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. It...
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Energy Secretary Chu Resigns From Post
2013-02-01 19:30:00| OGI
President Obama thanked Chu for his help in increasing clean energy alternatives and moving the country towards energy independence.
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Energy Secretary Chu steps down, blasts climate-change skeptics
2013-02-01 18:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in 2011 (Larry Downing/Reuters)Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist frequently the target of Republican criticism, announced Friday that he was stepping down in the latest shake-up of President Barack Obama's Cabinet. Chu, who disclosed his decision in a letter to Energy Department staff, frequently clashed with GOP lawmakers over gas prices as well as government backing for green-energy companies like the failed firm Solyndra. In his letter,...
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu Announces Resignation
2013-02-01 07:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Energy Secretary Steven Chu is stepping down. The Energy Department said Friday Chu has offered his resignation to President Barack Obama. Chu won a Nobel Prize in physics but came under questioning for his handling of a solar energy loan. Chu is a former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He drew fire from Republicans who criticized his handling of a $528 million federal loan to solar panel maker Solyndra, which later went bankrupt, laying off its 1,100 workers. The White House...
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VA Assistant Secretary Joan Mooney in town for Street Count, community conversation about veterans issues
2013-01-31 23:31:51| PortlandOnline
Commissioner Nick Fish was very proud to join Joan Mooney, Assistant Secretary with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, for a volunteer shift with the one-night Street Count and a coffee discussion about veterans issues
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