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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lack of willing investors.This status quo is unacceptable. Nuclear energy is far and away one of the most powerful weapons in our arsenal for cutting emissions. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, constructing 180 new reactors would cut emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Even Energy Secretary Steven Chu has also expressed support, even if somewhat lukewarm, for the nuclear approach, endorsing in September additional loan-guarantee authority for nuclear power and saying that, “If you really want to restart the American nuclear energy industry in a serious way...we [need to] send signals to the industry...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Nuclear Option | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...Valley's most successful venture-capital firms, whose partners include former Vice President Al Gore. "This investment will create thousands of new American jobs and is another critical step in making sure we are positioned to compete for the clean-energy jobs of the future," said DOE Secretary Steven Chu when he announced the loan to Fisker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Bets a Billion on New High-Tech Automakers | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...Call Him Mr. Green Thanks for your encouraging article on Energy Secretary Steven Chu [Aug. 24]. Knowing that a man of his learning and talent is leading the Department of Energy gives me hope for the future. When major scientists like Chu tell us we are facing a global crisis - one that could be deadly to all life on earth - because of the damage we are doing to the environment, it is time to listen and act. Doug Bridges, Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...green evangelist, Chu has chosen global warming as his theme to inspire America to move forward on his true quest - for the achievement of clean, abundant and cheap energy produced in and for America. This kind of energy will free us from our dependence on foreign oil and encourage venture capital to create new technologies that will in turn generate jobs. Climate change addressed in this way will not require sacrifices by Americans but will open a new chapter of American prosperity. W. Philip Schirm, Los Gatos, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...increasingly adding to - must be resolved by incentivizing cuts on future emissions. They demand more flexibility from India; the U.S. did not sign the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 because it would not accept any binding cuts unless developing countries accepted cuts too. (Watch an interview with Energy Secretary Steven Chu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind India's Intransigence on Climate-Change Talks | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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