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Saturday, February 2, 2013

News Update and Coverage of Chu Resignation

Energy Secretary Steven Chu resigning

Washington Post (blog) -
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu Resigns, Chastises Climate Deniers And Clean ...

Huffington Post -
In a wide-ranging and sometimes defiant letter to staff announcing his resignation on Friday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, while highlighting his agency's achievements over the last four years, blasted critics of the administration's investments in the ...

Chu praises Gregoire, possible choice for Obama energy team

Chicago Tribune -
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu resigned on Friday, he singled out for praise a former governor who has worked to clean up nuclear waste, a move that raised Christine Gregoires' profile as a possibility for the Obama ...

Energy Secretary Chu announces plan to resign

MarketWatch -
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Friday that he plans to resign. Chu detailed his intention not to serve a second term in a letter to employees posted on the agency's website. Chu said he will remain in his post until the ...

Energy Department secretary Chu will leave post soon

Boston Globe -
In this section : Politics. political notebook. Energy Department secretary Chu will leave post soon. February 02, 2013. Article · Comments · Subscribe. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winner, was the first scientist to lead the Energy Department. Reprints; E-mail ...

Steven Chu to leave as energy secretary

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 ...

Energy Secretary Chu to step down

Salt Lake Tribune -
Washington • Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who won a Nobel Prize in physics but came under questioning for his handling of a solar energy loan, is stepping down. Chu offered his resignation to President Barack Obama in a letter Friday. He said he will stay ...

CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-US Energy Secretary Chu is latest Obama Cabinet ...

Reuters -
Fri Feb 1, 2013 8:08pm EST. * Tenure marred by controversy over loans to failed Solyndra. * Obama to craft new team to address energy, climate. * Physicist not well schooled in Washington rough and tumble (Adds dropped word in second paragraph, ...

Energy secretary Steven Chu resigns

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 ...

US Energy Secretary To Step Down

Voice of America -
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is stepping down after a tenure marked by criticism of a clean energy program. Chu, who is a Nobel Prize winner in physics, offered his resignation to President Barack Obama Friday. Chu was criticized by Republican ...

Energy Secretary Is Resigning After 4 Years Focused on Clean Technologies

New York Times -
Energy Secretary Steven Chu will step down soon, possibly by the end of the month, he said in a statement on Friday, ending a four-year tenure in which he concentrated on fostering research and development of clean energy technologies, and opponents ...

US Energy Secretary Chu is latest Obama cabinet departure

Business Recorder (blog) -
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize winner who oversaw a nearly $40 billion effort to help spur a US clean energy economy, will step down after a tenure rocked by the high profile failures of some of those investments. For the last two years Chu ...

Why Steven Chu Was One Of Obama's Most Intriguing Choices

NPR (blog) - ‎18 hours ago‎
Of all the individuals in President Obama's first-term Cabinet, physicist Steven Chu was arguably the least likely to be found in official Washington. The Energy Department secretary, after all, was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from the University of California ...

Outgoing Energy Secretary Warns Of Dangers Of Climate Change

NPR -
Secretary Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who came into office with high hopes. He was selected to help the president pursue his green energy agenda and fight climate change. It turned out to be a rocky road. Some of the green companies that got big ...

Obama's energy secretary stepping down

Channel News Asia -
WASHINGTON: US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who has served under President Barack Obama since 2009, is stepping down, the White House said Friday. Obama praised Chu for helping him "move America towards real energy independence," in a ...

DOE Chief Steven Chu Makes It Official: He's Stepping Down

The Atlantic -
makes a speech during the 55th International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference at the UN headquarters in Vienna, Austria on September 19, 2011. (Reuters). It's different on the way out. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu is, ...

Letter from Energy Secretary Steven Chu announcing decision to step down

San Jose Mercury News -
WASHINGTON -- In a letter to Department of Energy employees Friday, Secretary Steven Chu highlighted the progress made in the past four years and announced his decision not to serve a second term. Text of the letter follows: Serving the country as ...

Steven Chu to resign from top post at Energy Department

Christian Science Monitor -
Energy Secretary Steven Chu testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mr. Chu will earn the title of longest-serving Energy secretary by the time he officially steps down. Evan Vucci/AP/File. Enlarge. Steven Chu announced Friday he will resign his position at the ...

Energy Secretary Steven Chu steps down

San Jose Mercury News -
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a well-known figure in Silicon Valley, announced Friday that he is stepping down from President Barack Obama's Cabinet and is "eager to return to California" and an academic life of teaching and research. With Chu's ...

Steven Chu to step down from energy post

Nature.com (blog) - ‎1
In his letter to Energy Department employees, Chu highlighted a string of accomplishments, including starting the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), founding Energy Innovation Hubs for applied research, and overseeing a doubling in ...

Obama credits Chu with designing cap for Gulf oil spill

Politico (blog) - ‎1
President Barack Obama took time out from an awards ceremony Friday afternoon to say a few personal words about outgoing Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "Steve has been a great friend, a tremendous colleague…, over the past four years working on a ...

Steven Chu steps down as energy secretary. So how did he do?

Washington Post (blog) -
On Friday, Steven Chu announced that he was stepping down as head of the Department of Energy. You can read his farewell letter to the agency here. Chu has garnered plenty of headlines over the years for a variety of reasons. A physicist by training, he ...

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu resigns

The Province -
FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2011 file photo, Energy Secretary Steven Chu testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Friday, the White House announced that Chu would be resigning his post. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File). WASHINGTON - U.S. Energy Secretary ...

Outgoing Energy Secretary Steven Chu's Parting Warning on Warming

TIME -
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that he would be stepping down. Chu's departure is not unexpected, and it's not rare—most second Presidential administrations feature a lot of Cabinet turnover, and a number of Chu's colleagues had ...

Energy Chief Defends US Green-Energy Loans in Resignation

Businessweek -
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, whose tenure was marked by questions about a troubled green-energy program, said in a letter to department employees today that he plans to step down and return to California and academics. Chu was criticized by ...

Energy Sec. Chu resigns: Another Gregoire possibility?

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) -
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced his resignation early Friday, giving the Obama administration the third major environment-energy-public lands Cabinet-level vacancy to fill as it begins its second term in office. Chu is a Nobel laureate in physics ...

Energy secretary resigning from Obama Cabinet

CNN (blog) -
Washington (CNN) – Energy Secretary Steven Chu will resign from President Barack Obama's Cabinet in coming weeks, he told Energy Department staff in a letter on Friday. Chu, who turns 65 this month, was a leading advocate in the Obama administration ...

Energy Secretary Steven Chu to resign

Detroit Free Press -
Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday he will leave the administration when a successor is confirmed. "I would like to return to an academic life of teaching and research, but will still work to advance the missions that we have been working on together for ...

US Energy Secretary Chu says will stay at post past end-February

Reuters -
WASHINGTON | Fri Feb 1, 2013 12:03pm EST. WASHINGTON Feb 1 (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a resignation letter on Friday that he intends to remain in his post past the end of February to help the department find a successor.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu Will Resign

NPR (blog) -
Energy Secretary Steven Chu will resign once his replacement has been confirmed. Politico, which broke the news this morning, reports that Chu made the announcement in a memo to colleagues. Politico adds: "'While I will always remain dedicated to the ...

No 'Solyndra' in Chu's Long Goodbye Letter

Wall Street Journal (blog) -
Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced his resignation Friday in a 3,800-word letter to Energy Department employees, but the single word that may be most associated with Mr. Chu's tenure is not to be found: Solyndra. That's the California solar-panel ...

Report: Louisiana businessman Bernhard in talks about top energy position

Alexandria Town Talk - ‎1 hour ago‎
Shaw Group Chairman Jim Bernhard, seen in August 2008, speaks during a news conference in Lake Charles, La., as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, left, listens. Bernhard, who sold the company recently for $3 billion, is reportedly being considerd as the next ...

Cabinet role for former Sen. Dorgan?

Dickinson Press -
GRAND FORKS — A former member of North Dakota's congressional delegation is reportedly being considered for a role in President Barack Obama's Cabinet. By: Christopher Bjorke , Forum News Service. Dorgan. image. Former Sen. Byron Dorgan shares ...

Nuclear Energy Institute responds to Chu's departure

Power Engineering Magazine -
The Nuclear Energy Institute President and CEO Marvin Fertel issued a statement Friday in response to the news that U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu confirmed he will leave the Obama cabinet in the coming weeks. Fertel praised Chu for his “strong belief ...

Statement from President Obama on Secretary Steven Chu

eNews Park Forest -
I want to thank Secretary Chu for his dedicated service on behalf of the American people. As a Nobel Prize winning scientist, Steve brought to the Energy Department a unique understanding of both the urgent challenge presented by climate change and the ...

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