'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Years after promising to revive the coal industry with new carbon capture technologies, the Energy Department has spent less than half of the $1.5 billion it targeted for "clean coal" projects under President Barack Obama's stimulus program.
Years after promising to revive the coal industry with new carbon capture technologies, the Energy Department has spent less than half of the $1.5 billion it targeted for "clean coal" projects under President Barack Obama's stimulus program.
President Obama recently announced his nomination of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Ernest J. Moniz to be the next secretary of energy. A professor of physics and engineering systems and the director of MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, on first glance, Mr. Moniz seems to signal a shift from outgoing Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
For proof that President Obama is getting serious about climate change in his second term, look no further than his pick Monday to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
Steven Chu, who is leaving his position as secretary of energy, might have been a great pick for the job, if only the real world worked like bad science fiction.
President Obama has been seeing off loyal retainers from his first term, and recently he bid adieu to Steven Chu, his in-house Nobel Laureate and secretary of energy. In doing so, the president praised Mr. Chu for “designing a cap to plug a hole in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico when nobody else could figure it out.
Outgoing and embattled Energy Secretary Steven Chu was chosen by President Obama on Tuesday night as the "designated successor" — the person in the Cabinet who does not attend the State of the Union address.
Laying out an activist, big-spending second-term agenda, President Obama called on Congress in Tuesday night's State of the Union address to spend more on job-creation proposals for the middle class and claimed it would not add to the nation's huge budget deficits.
Washington engineers waste. After pouring billions into a nuclear waste storage repository, the Obama administration has added its two cents: Start over.
Maine Sen. Angus S. King Jr. sees no strong reason to oppose President Obama's pick for secretary of defense.
President Obama will begin his second term with a much different leadership team than his first four years, with several of the key chairs in his Cabinet room yet to be filled.
The Obama administration would do itself and our economy a great service if it brought back the office of energy czar for the purpose of making this book's thesis a reality -- and made its co-authors, Anne Korin and Gal Luft, co-czars.
President Obama has his second term and will never face voters again. On one of his highest priorities -- energy and the environment -- he's free to be the "transformational" figure he always wanted to be.
While preaching vigilance to the utility industry, the Energy Department has failed to correct previously identified cybersecurity weaknesses in its unclassified information systems and has opened new vulnerabilities this year, an internal review found.
"If it moves, tax it if it keeps moving, regulate it and if it stops moving, subsidize it."
Chu told an audience in West Virginia in 2010 that development carbon capture and sequestration was " an economic opportunity" and key to coal's survival in a global market looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Feds fail to spend half of stimulus money promised for 'clean coal' →
“The United States is very serious about this,” Chu said at the time.
Feds fail to spend half of stimulus money promised for 'clean coal' →
