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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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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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