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Nuclear power courts new friends as it pushes for subsidies in the Senate’s sweeping climate bill.

I was more than a little incredulous when I read that Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) claimed via Twitter to have stumped Energy Secretary Steven Chu with a simple science question. After all, Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, while Barton doesn’t exactly have the firmest grasp of science. And, having witnessed the exchange firsthand at [...]

That didn’t take long.
As a Nobel Prize winning scientist, Steven Chu has been a fierce and consistent critic of coal. He’s on the record last year saying that “coal is my worst nightmare,” and he harbors doubts that clean coal technologies will ever work to filter the pollutants that poison the air and warm the [...]

President Obama has promised a multi-pronged approach to a greener future, but with legislation to reduce carbon emissions now on hold, energy efficiency measures have become the focus of the administration’s environmental efforts.
Following yesterday’s revelation that cap-and-trade legislation would not be included in the fiscal year 2010 budget, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Vice President [...]

This morning, Vice President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu rolled out an $8 billion weatherization program, which they hope will create 87,000 jobs, save energy and help low-income Americans pay their utility bills.
The plan has two components: the $5 billion Weatherization Assistance Program and the $3 billion State Energy Program. The former will [...]