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One Year Later: Obama's Most Defining Environmental Moments (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein/Eve Solomon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Drilling in Alaska, Obama Environment, Lisa Jackson, Copenhagen 2009, Steven Chu, Slidepoll, One Year Later, Epa, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Green News

As part of HuffPost's One Year Later series, we're looking back at many of the significant moments since Obama was elected. After 8 years of an admini...

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The U.S. Department of Energy and the Power of Transformative Science

James M. Gentile | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: National Academy of Sciences, Energy, Obama Administration, Department of Energy, Stimulus, Steven Chu, Green News
James M. Gentile

Transformative science is high-risk high-reward inquiry. It's crucial that government take the lead in this regard, especially with the U.S. economy struggling.

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Weatherization: Saving Money by Saving Energy

Steven Chu | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: ARRA 2009, Energy Efficiency, Green Energy, Steven Chu Energy Secretary, Weatherization, Steven Chu, Green News
Steven Chu

Long before I learned about the risks of climate change, I was fanatical about energy efficiency because I'm cheap. We want to help millions of families seize the same opportunity to cut their utility bills.

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The Race Is On for Clean Energy

Gene Karpinski | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Barbara Boxer, Economic Stimulus Package, Green Jobs, John Kerry, Steven Chu, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Green Energy, US Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Green News
Gene Karpinski

As President Obama has said many times: the nation that leads in the creation of a clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

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At the White House, Clean Tech Gets a Push

Mike Signer | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama White House, Obama Green Tech Speech, Clean Energy, Retrofitted-Buildings, Green Energy, Carol Browner, Steven Chu, Barack Obama, Green News
Mike Signer

W.H. Climate Change Policy Director Carol Browner said, "I've been in and out of D.C. for twenty years, and there's sort of that tipping point that happens, where everyone who talks starts saying not 'if' but 'when.'"

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Energy Spending Bill Loaded With Pork Spending

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Steven Chu, Energy Earmarks, Steven Chu Research Labs, Energy Bill Earmarks, Steven Chu Earmarks, Business News

Energy Secretary Steven Chu likely won't get the network of new biofuel research labs he wanted. That's because Congress has loaded an energy-spendin...

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Turning Up the Pressure on the U.S Chamber of Commerce

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, General Electric, Ed Markey, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, President Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, PNM Resources, Accce, San Jose Chamber of Commerce, Alcoa, Climate Change, Americans With Disabilities Act, New Yorker, Apple, Nike, Kevin Grandia, Adam Green, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, PG&E, Blue America, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Politics, Service Employees International Union, Exelon, CREDO Mobile, Global Warming, Family and Medical Leave Act, Political News, Steven Chu, Efca, Natural Resources Defense Council, Duke Energy, Health Care, Chamber of Commerce, Senator Graham, Frank Knapp, Levi Strauss, Move On, Seiu, Entergy, Psef, Green News
Josh Nelson

Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.

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Steven Chu Announces $34 Million In Renewable Energy Grants For Colorado

Yahoo! Finance | Steven K. Paulson, Associated Press Writer | Posted 09.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Steven Chu, Renewable Energy, Colorado, Green House Gasses, Global Warming, Energy Secretary, Bill Ritter, Denver News

DENVER (AP) -- Colorado will get more than $34 million in federal stimulus money for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, U.S. Energy Secr...

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Colorado Democratic Lawmakers Ally Against Mesa County Nuclear Storage

Posted 09.26.2009 | Denver

Read More: Steven Chu, Mark Udall, Nuclear Storage, John Salazar, Mesa County, Michael Bennet, Energy Secretary, Nuclear Power, Denver News

Colorado's senators and Rep. John Salazar sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu this week urging him to remove a Mesa County storage site fr...

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Tackling the Threat to U.S. Scientific Competitiveness

James M. Gentile | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Energy, India, Science, Steven Chu, China, Tom Friedman, Education, Politics News
James M. Gentile

Other nations are producing more scientists than we are, and increasingly their economies are offering better job opportunities. America's future can be great, but it depends on preserving our preeminence in science and technology.

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Young Science USA

James M. Gentile | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Science, Department of Energy, Steven Chu, National Institutes of Health, Barack Obama, Albert Einstein, Competitiveness, Doe, Us-China-Economy, Education Budget, India Economy, Stimulus Higher Education, Steven Chu Energy Secretary, China Tech, National Institute of Health, Education Policy, U.S. Department of Energy, Relativity, Higher Education, Nih, China Economy, Cambridge University, Scientists, Politics News
James M. Gentile

If the future of our nation is not continually renewed by young Americans well supported in their advanced scientific research, we likely will have a very dim future indeed.

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Is This the Most Important Meeting?

A. Siegel | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Climatechange, Steven Chu, High Albedo Roofing, Agriculture, Environment, White Roofs, Biochar, Terra-Preta, Global Warming, Energy, Green News
A. Siegel

As with looking toward better sanitation options in Finland, some potentially critical sessions proceed with too little media attention. Right now, Boulder, Colorado, is hosting one such meeting: North American Biochar 2009.

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Ritter To Secretary Chu: Plan To Store Mercury In Grand Juction "Deeply Flawed"

The Denver Post | Lynn Bartels | Posted 08.31.2009 | Denver

Read More: Steven Chu, Grand Junction, Mercury Storage Grand Jucntion, Ritter Chu Letter, Bill Ritter, Governor-Bill-Ritter, Colorado Governor, Mercury Storage Western Slope, Mercury Storage, Denver News

The issue of where to store what could be 17,000 tons of hazardous mercury waste has pitted state against state and become an issue in Colorado's gub...

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Steven Chu's (Imaginary) Facebook Page

Grist.org | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Steven Chu Energy Secretary, Grist Steven Chu Facebook, Facebook, Steven Chu, Steven Chu Facebook, Green News

Grist.org images an awesome and hilarious facebook page for Energy Secretary Steven Chu....

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Jon Stewart Talks Cap And Trade, Interviews Energy Secretary Chu

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Video, Funny Video, Jon Stewart Cap and Trade, Jon Stewart, Climate Change, Steven Chu, Waxman-Markey, Jon Stewart Secretary Chu, Steven Chu Energy Secretary, The Daily Show, Green News

On Tuesday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart dedicated the program to talking about climate change, and The Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill. He immediately g...

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Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream

Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: fora.tv, Michael Pollan, Clean Coal, Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energy, Steven Chu, Agriculture, Blaise Zerega, Futuregen, Clean Energy, Coal, Australia, Climate Change, Australia Climate Change, Green News
Blaise Zerega

There's much to love about carbon capture, in theory. But carbon capture continues our dependence on coal-fired power plants, and does little to change the status quo.

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Obama Officials Urge Senate To Act On Climate Bill

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pollution, Climate Change, Steven Chu, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Enivorment, Senate, Agriculture Department, Interior Department, Carbon Emissions, Environment and Public Works Committee, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Saying global warming poses unprecedented threats to Americans' way of life, four of President Barack Obama's top environmental and...

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Why I'm Not Freaked Out About the Waxman-Markey Bill

David Roberts | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, States, Progressive Movement, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Cleantech, Todd Stern, Barack Obama, Steven Chu, Carol Browner, John Holdren, Fossil Fuels, Waxman-Markey, Aces, Hillary Clinton, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Green News
David Roberts

There is no reason to think that this bill is going to be Obama's only legacy on energy. Already there's been the stimulus bill, the new mileage standards and the big climate impacts report.

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Ford, Nissan, Tesla Get Govt Loans To Build Fuel-Efficient Cars

AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON and KEN THOMAS | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Nissan, Energy Department, Steven Chu, Fuel Efficient Cars, Fuel Efficiency, Government-Loans, Ford, Auto Industry, Tesla, Business News

DEARBORN, Mich. — Cultivating the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles, the Obama administration said Tuesday it would lend $5.9 billion t...

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Clean Coal Knee-Capping: Secretary Chu Makes $1 Billion Down Payment For More Dirty Coal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Department of Energy, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Carol Browner, Steven Chu, Futuregen, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

A lot of hot air has been emitted on the dangerous oxymoron of "clean coal. The truth is that carbon capture and storage technology is still in its experimental phase

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FutureGen Coal Plant Gets Green Light From Energy Secretary

AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 07.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Energy, Clean Coal, Alternative Energy, Futuregen, Futuregen Coal Plant, Steven Chu, Chicago News

WASHINGTON — The Energy Department is moving forward on a futuristic coal-burning power plant in Illinois that the Bush administration had decla...

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SMART GRID: US Energy System Poised To Make Digital Leap

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Steven Chu, Energy, Smart Grid, Renewable Energy, Green Energy, Green Technology, Green News

WASHINGTON — Thomas Alva Edison, meet the Internet. More than a century after Edison invented a reliable light bulb, the nation's electricity di...

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Energy Secretary Chu: "I Am A Nerd"

businessinsider.com | Jay Yarow|Jun. 5, 2009, 1:20 PM| | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Steven Chu, Green Living, Steven Chu Nerd, Nerds, Green News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) Even though he is 15th in the line of succession to the U.S. presidency, Energy Secretary Steven Chu still thinks he's a nerd....

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Cool Roofs Protect the Environment and Save Money

Arthur H. Rosenfeld | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Steven Chu, Cool Roofs, Cool Roof, Steven Chu Cool Roof, Dr. Steven Chu, Green News
Arthur H. Rosenfeld

The real question is not whether we should move toward cool roof technology: it's why we haven't done it sooner.

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Paint It White: Chu Calls For White Roofs, Roads To Fight Global Warming

AFP | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Steven Chu, Science, White Roofs, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white, as he took part in a climate ch...

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