March 09, 2009
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has made it clear from Day 1 that he intends to get long-delayed loans out the door ASAP. Now he has knocked out one of the obstacles he saw creating drag for the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing incentive program: a set of hard deadlines. Chu wanted to do away w...
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Josie Garthwaite
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February 18, 2009
The electricity grid can only get so smart without a framework for interoperability; a common protocol would make it easier for utilities, appliances and software to share data about energy use and supply — in other words, it would help put the “smart” in smart grid. Secretary of E...
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Josie Garthwaite
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February 04, 2009
Much like trusting your mechanic when he says you need new brakes or a doctor when he tells you that your cholestoral is too high, you would hope that elected officials would listen to the experts in a particular field when it comes to developing common sense government policies. On the issue of glo...
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science
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Kevin Grandia
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January 20, 2009
A slew of cabinet confirmations comes through: WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. Senate began confirming new President Barack Obama's Cabinet on Tuesday, but it put off until Wednesday a vote on the designee for secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton. In a single unanimous v...
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SusanG January 14, 2009
Steven Chu established himself as a well-known scientist and administrator years ago, running the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and winning a Nobel Prize. He has called for urgent action on climate change and (now famously) described coal as his “worst nightmare,” so cheers from ...
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Josie Garthwaite
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January 13, 2009
Tuesday Night News Roundup I watched portions of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s confirmation hearing. From what I saw, I thought she performed well. I thought she reflected Obama’s foreign-policy positions extremely well. Senator David Vitter from Louisiana, connected with prostitutio...
Where's the Outrage?
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Pickens Plan, Redux: T. Boone says “the wind stuff is deader than hell right now,” but promises to push on with his plan to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil. — Wall Street Journal Who KO’d the Electric Car?:The concept of all-electric cars has faced resistance, but the ide...
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Josie Garthwaite
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January 05, 2009
Democrats, as would be expected, are lobbying intensely for senior jobs in the new administration. It's a bit more unusual to see top Bush administration officials lobbying to keep their jobs....
washingtonpost.com - Al Kamen's In The Loop Column
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Democrats, as would be expected, are lobbying intensely for senior jobs in the new administration. It's a bit more unusual to see top Bush administration officials lobbying to keep their jobs....
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Al Kamen
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December 16, 2008
Biotech, people, startups Luke Timmerman wrote: It’s cold outside, so I was a little bummed there was no actual fire at an event last night billed as a “fireside chat.” This get-together actually took some time to warm up (pun intended). But once it got rolling, three of the most e...
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