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Steven Chu to resign from top post at Energy Department
2013-02-01 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Steven Chu announced Friday he will resign his position at the Department of Energy, after serving four contentious years as Energy secretary. The Nobel-Prize-winning physicist made renewables a centerpiece of his tenure. But while surges in wind and solar installations garnered praise from Democrats, Republicans excoriated the Obama administration when clean-energy investments backfired. In a lengthy resignation memo to his staff, Mr. Chu ticked off what he counts as the department's accomplishments...
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