Topic: Steven Chu
The US government will loan 5.9 billion dollars to Ford Motor Co. and 1.6 billion dollars to Japanese automaker Nissan to invest in improving the fuel economy of their US-built vehicles, officials said Tuesday.The loans are the first awarded out of a ...
LIMA (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu urged officials from the Americas on Monday to throw their weight behind a new initiative to reduce carbon emissions and make cities in the Western Hemisphere more energy efficient.Chu launched the " Low Carbon ...
House Republicans insisted, however, that the proposal, which would charge the largest emitters of carbon dioxide for burning fossil fuels, would result in higher energy and gasoline prices for consumers, as well as a loss of U.S. jobs as carbon emitters moved ...
Energy secretary says he's determined to make his home as energy-efficient as possible.Energy Secretary Steven Chu doesn't leave his fervor for energy conservation at the office.Chu lamented Wednesday selling his house near San Francisco because it used passive solar energy and air ...
Most environmental groups have warmly endorsed Presidentelect Barack Obama's choice of Ken Salazar, a first-term Colorado senator, to be secretary of the Interior. Democrat Salazar wore a cowboy hat and bolo tie to Obama's press conference announcing his nomination, but Western conservatives ...
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, a strong advocate of alternative and renewable energy research, to be his energy secretary, US media reported Thursday.Obama has also decided to name three experienced policy makers and regulators to key environmental ...
Obama chooses Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu for energy secretary, officials sayPresident-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and three former Environmental Protection Agency officials from the Clinton administration.The president-elect has ...