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Politics at play as Obama talks energy at MIT
President Barack Obama is doing more than promoting clean energy with a tour of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He's pumping some energy of his own into the campaigns of New England allies facing tough re-election bids. The president's politicking on Friday begins in Cambridge, Mass.,
Green politics can be combined with growth
Environmental and climate friendly politics can be combined with economic growth. This is the message the Swedish Presidency want Europe’s Ministers of Environment and Energy to bring home from the upcoming EU meeting in Åre and further to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen later this ye
Corzine, Christie spar over green jobs in NJ
With an idle solar panel factory as a backdrop, New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie accused Gov. Jon S. Corzine of not doing enough to help clean energy businesses thrive. Meanwhile, Corzine was in a nearby town lauding the expansion of another such company. The sparri
Politics To Test Energy Goals
WASHINGTON -- Steven Chu, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to lead the Energy Department, got a taste last week of what life in Washington would be like. Members of the Illinois congressional delegation met with the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Jan. 7 and pressured him to support renewed fede
Obama focuses on alternative energy, environment
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Insisting on the need to develop new forms of energy, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose as his energy secretary a Nobel physics laureate who is a major promoter of alternative fuels. Obama named Steven Chu, the winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics wh
Obama, Gore talk green jobs, global warming
President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday praised former Vice President Al Gore’s ideas on the environment as one part of helping the nation’s struggling economy recovery. Obama, Gore and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met privately at Obama’s transition headquarters for almost two hours. Oba
