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Energy Sec. Chu remembered for more than Solyndra scandal

2013-02-02 12:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

KGO: Energy Secretary Steven Chu is stepping down. The former head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab drew a lot of political fire during his tenure on the president's cabinet. But he also drew a lot of talent to the department as he worked to reshape its mission. At the White House on Friday, President Obama publicly thanked Chu for his service. "Steve has been a great friend a tremendous colleague over the past four years working on a whole range of energy issues but also designing a cap to...

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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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DOE Secretary Chu Announces Resignation

2013-02-01 22:45:26| ENR.com: Headline News

Chu's tenure saw doubling of renewable-energy production, a natural gas boom and controversy over loan guarantees to now-bankrupt Solyndra.

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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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