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Monday, February 11, 2013

President Obama to Appoint MIT Physicist as New Energy Secretary

President Obama to Appoint MIT Physicist as New Energy Secretary

Reuters have been told that President Barack Obama is thinking about appointing MIT nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz as the new Energy Secretary once Stephen Chu steps down.Moniz has experience in government, having acted as undersecretary at the Energy Department during Clinton’s time as president, and has often addressed congress at Capitol Hill on energy issues in the past.As director of MIT’s Energy Initiative, a research group funded by oil majors such as BP, Chevron, and Saudi Aramco to try and create technologies that can help…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/President-Obama-to-Appoint-MIT-Physicist-as-New-Energy-Secretary.html

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