Super nerd Steven Chu gets the boot
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize winner who shepherded an effort to help spur a clean energy US economy, will step down after a tenure rocked by the failures of some costly government investments.
Chu’s departure, which was announced Friday and follows similar moves by the Environmental Protection Agency administrator and the interior secretary, will allow President Barack Obama craft a fresh team to address climate change.
Obama has said responding to the threat of climate change will be a priority during his second term, giving the issue a prominent place in his inaugural address last month.
After legislation setting up a program to cap greenhouse gas emissions failed to get through Congress, the administration pushed ahead with regulating carbon through the EPA. Lawmakers are still divided over climate change and analysts expect Obama will continue to use federal agencies to target emissions.
Chu’s successor will likely operate under a much more constrained budget, but could play a key role as the department develops energy efficiency standards, funds research into clean energy innovations and helps oversee the shale oil and gas boom.
Potential contenders for the energy post are said to include Christine Gregoire, former governor of Washington; Bill Ritter, former governor of Colorado; and Dan Reicher, a Google climate change executive who worked in the Energy Department during the Clinton administration.
Analysts have said Obama likely will pick a successor with business expertise or political clout to fend off congressional critics of the department’s spending on clean energy.
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have a look at this guy..yeah hes smart..but hes also screwed the US taxpayer out of millions in wasted green projects..and now hes runs away after being sacked..
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I think his leaving was as timed as Ray LaHood’s. I’m pretty sure we’ll see whatever it was that they set up for themselves and whatever it was their corporate/political sponsors wanted them to down the road. Aside from racking themselves up a pretty decent pension for their future, there’s nothing they did for the people or the country but to tack on another few billion wasted in pretend leadership.
wonder where he will end up as a consultant or lobbyist? IPCC or some climate fund?
Chu is a director of the William and Flora Hewitt Foundation that,among many other things, funds Climate Works Foundation. I would guess he will probably end up at a ‘think tank’, he did win one of their ridiculous Nobel awards – but this guy is definitely a globalist, his connections have ‘their’ hands all over him.
http://www.muckety.com/Steven-Chu/14999.muckety
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_Works_Foundation
Lisa Jackson is another one to watch out for, she stepped down from the EPA, maybe she’ll end up being the ‘one woman’ patsy who will be blamed for the crimes of the many, because there is something very dirty and suspicious about the emails and the secret names they were using in the EPA and who knows where else. I’m pretty sure it will come up down the road too. Especially since Issa is calling for answers, another dog and pony show to cover up their corruption. Mainstream kinda ignored this for the most part, I’m pretty sure it’s part of the ‘script’ to be revealed at a later date.
http://fcw.com/articles/2013/01/18/issa-epa-email.aspx
Chu has some interesting and big connections, Joyce Foundation in Chicago, Rand, Condi Rice, too many to list, and there is a connection to the William and Flora Hewitt Foundation and Hal Harvey who has a very interesting bio.
http://ineteconomics.org/people/hal-harvey
Harvey:
He is President of the Board of Directors of the New-Land Foundation, and Chairman of the Board of MB Financial Corporation, a $10 billion Chicago bank holding company. Earlier in his career, he designed and built solar homes.
10B is a lot.,solar homes yeah right..
Yep, when the banks started ‘failing’ one after another, in Chicago metro, MB Financial started buying them/assuming them like crazy. Never even heard of MB before they assumed Corus Bankshares another holding company in 2009, over $3 billion – yet their site claims they are a 100 year old institution serving the Chicago area.
http://www.bankencyclopedia.com/Manufacturers-Bank-16230-Chicago-Illinois.html
100 years of being hidden!
and the hands signs, of course… I bet google or facebook will hire him next
or pentagon
yeah the 666..a’ok