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Steven Chu, a scientist, Nobel Laureate in Physics, and Secretary of the United States Department of Energy, commented: 'When it comes to the clean energy race, America faces a simple choice: compete or accept defeat'. The United States and China have...
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Please try again later. Monday February 20, 2012, 6:05 am From Bloomberg.com on Oct. 5,2010: " President Barack Obama will have solar panels put back on the roof of the White House to demonstrate that renewable-energy technology is practical for U.S....
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17 (Bloomberg) -- House Republicans asked U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu about a $1.4 billion partial loan guarantee to a solar-energy company that was to buy panels from failing Solyndra LLC, which went out of business three months later. The House...
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Prologis's co-chief executive officers have contributed to Republicans, including presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and Democrats. House Republicans asked U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu about a $1.4 billion partial loan guarantee to a solar-energy...
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Ryan Tracy And Cassandra Sweet WASHINGTON—Energy Secretary Steven Chu intervened last year to push forward a government loan guarantee for a $1.4 billion project backed by Bank of America Corp. to put solar panels on rooftops, according to excerpts of...
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The Energy Department denied the claims. The White House has said House Republicans are distorting the facts in the interest of politics. The House Energy and Commerce Committee asked Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide internal documents about the...
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The Post attests that The Energy Department offered $737 million in aid to Good Energies, where Assistant Secretary David Sandalow was previously employed. Steve Westly, currently a board member on Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s advisory board, was also...
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu may have intervened to award a $1.4 billion loan guarantee to a solar-energy project in order to rescue its primary supplier, Solyndra LLC, from bankruptcy, House Republicans said. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images U.S....
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Fred Upton and Cliff Stearns — chairs of the Energy Committee and Oversight Subcommittee respectively — sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu "seeking documents and information about a $535 million loan guarantee ... awarded to Solyndra, Inc." ...
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Fred Upton and Cliff Stearns — chairs of the Energy Committee and Oversight Subcommittee respectively — sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu “seeking documents and information about a $535 million loan guarantee … awarded to Solyndra, Inc.” ...
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But because of tightening budgets, the department needs the nuclear physics community to tell them whether it's still a top priority for the future given competing demands, Chu said at a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. ...
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In January 2011, after lengthy talks with Energy Department officials, General Motors Co. withdrew its request for up to $14.4 billion in retooling loans. The retooling fund has given loans to Ford Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. Energy Secretary Steven...
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Chrysler had considered the loans — intended to assist in the development of more fuel-efficient vehicles — to be an integral part of its operating budget. Mr. Marchionne had personally met with the energy secretary, Steven Chu, in January to lobby for...
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DC - NOVEMBER 17: Energy Secretary Steven Chu is sworn in while testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing about the government support for the failed solar panel company Solyndra on...
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CEO Sergio Marchionne shows Energy Secretary Steven Chu, left, around the Detroit auto show in January. Chrysler has decided to pull out of its bid for a $3.5 billion loan from the Department of Energy, one which would have helped the automaker...
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The license is the first new reactor permit from federal regulators in three decades. Visiting Plant Vogtle Wednesday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the expansion in Georgia will influence other American utilities weighing new investments in nuclear...
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu was visiting the site and said the new construction could help encourage other utilities to also begin building more nuclear energy facilities. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko said he thinks the...
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Hanford Nuclear Reservation's waste treatment plant has been scheduled to begin operations in 2019. But U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Thursday that the southeast Washington facility might not start on time. The comments came in response to...
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In January, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, on the floor of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, said the discussions over the fate of this loan were continuing. Mr. Chu said he had met with Mr. Marchionne earlier that month to...
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Steven Chu (Chinese:朱棣文, born 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American experimental physicist. He is well-known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. His current research is concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. He is... Full Article
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, center, tours the Vogtle nuclear power plant as the cooling towers for units 1 and 2 are seen in the background at left and the new reactor vessel bottom head for unit 3�stands under construction at right Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in...
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, center, listens as he is given a tour of the Vogtle nuclear power by executives with Southern Company and The Shaw Group Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Waynesboro, Ga.
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, right, tours the Unit 3 nuclear island with Southern Company President and CEO Thomas Fanning during a visit of the Vogtle nuclear power plant Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Waynesboro, Ga. Chu's visit to east Georgia comes a week after the...
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, center, tours the Vogtle nuclear power plant with Southern Company President and CEO Thomas Fanning, left, and The Shaw Group Chairman, President and CEO J.M. Bernhard Jr. , during a visit Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Waynesboro, Ga. Chu's...
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Secretary Steven Chu speaks during a visit to the Vogtle nuclear power plant Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Waynesboro, Ga. Chu's visit to east Georgia comes a week after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a license for the Southern Co. to build a third...
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A worker walks along the bottom of the Unit 3 nuclear island where the new reactor will sit before a visit by U.S. Secretary of Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the Vogtle nuclear power plant Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Waynesboro, Ga. Chu said Wednesday the Plant Vogtle expansion in...
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The Unit 3 nuclear island, where a new nuclear reactor will sit, is seen before a visit by U.S. Secretary of Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the Vogtle nuclear power plant Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Waynesboro, Ga. Chu said Wednesday the Plant Vogtle expansion in Georgia will influence...
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Cooling towers for units 1 and 2 are seen through a car window during a tour before a visit by U.S. Secretary of Energy Secretary Steven Chu to the Vogtle nuclear power plant Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Waynesboro, Ga. Chu's visit to east Georgia comes a week after the Nuclear...
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu speaks about the link between technical innovation and job creation after touring the National Solar Thermal Test Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. , on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu, left, examines one of the coatings used at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. , on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Chu said innovations like those being made at Sandia will help private companies that are...
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu tours the National Solar Thermal Test Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. , on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.
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Cooling towers for units 1 and 2 are seen at left as the new reactor vessel bottom head for unit 3�stands under construction at right at the Vogtle nuclear power plant Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Waynesboro, Ga. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the construction of America's first new...
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US Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu speaks with GM's vice president for Sustainability and Global Regulatory Affairs, Mike Robinson, as he tours the North American International Auto Show in Detroit Michigan, January 10, 2012.
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu talks to the media during the second press preview day at the 2012 North American International Auto Show January 10, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan.
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu (R) sits in a Dodge Dart with Joe Veltri (L) of Chrysler during the second press preview day at the 2012 North American International Auto Show January 10, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan.
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu (2nd R) and US Commerce Secretary John Bryson (R) get a tour from Sergio Marchionne (C, in sweater), CEO of Fiat and Chrysler, during the second press preview day at the 2012 North American International Auto Show January 10, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan.
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu (R) is greeted by Sergio Marchionne (L), CEO of Fiat and Chrysler, during the second press preview day at the 2012 North American International Auto Show January 10, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan.
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United States Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu, left, talks with Mary Stanek, General Motors director of environment and energy at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012.
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U.S. Energy Secretary and the 1997 Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics Dr. Steven Chu, right, speaks with Catherine Averill Sims at the start of the 2011 Nobel Prize Banquet at the Town Hall in Stockholm, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011.
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton take part in a U.S. and European Union meeting on energy, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011, at the State Department in Washington.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu talks about solar energy after touring the General Electric Prime Star solar manufacturing plant in Arvada, Colo. , on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Chu says the global market for solar energy remains huge and it's important that the United States stay in the...
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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 17: Energy Secretary Steven Chu takes his seat before testifying to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing about the government support for the failed solar panel company Solyndra on Capitol Hill November...
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu listens to a speaker during the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra November 17, 2011 at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Solyndra received a $528 million federal loan...
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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu testifies during the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on 'The Solyndra Failure: Views from Energy Secretary Chu' on Capitol Hill in Washington November 17, 2011.
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, center, tours the Vogtle nuclear power plant as the cooling towers for units 1 and 2 are seen in the background at left and the new reactor vessel bottom head for unit 3�stands under construction at right Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in...
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