Before taking the oath of office today, President Barack Obama retraced Abraham Lincoln’s steps by making the journey from Illinois to Washington, D.C. In the spirit of Lincoln and powered by soybean checkoff-funded biodiesel, the “Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made in America Tour” mobile museum made this historical 800-mile journey as well. The mobile museum has been [...]
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 federal aid for a project in Mattoon, Ill., to [...]
Two more leaked cabinet choices from the incoming Obama Administration. Both will have influence on energy, land use and green tech subsidies. Interior Secretary nominee: Sen. Ken Salazar (Colorado-D). Here’s what his official website says about his enviornmental credo: “He has made sure that the federal government keeps its promise to protect our land and [...]
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 who was an early advocate [...]
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. Obama said they discussed so-called green jobs as a way to boost employment [...]
