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October 23, 2009 6:07 PM
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Roundup 10/23: The Future's So Bright Edition
President Barack Obama didn't launch any new initiatives in his visit today to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he highlighted clean energy technology and the need for climate...
It's On! "God Particle" Race Intensifies as Obama Tries to Keep Particle Smasher in Hunt
Watch out, Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the U.S. is not quitting the race to find the famed Higgs boson just yet. If all goes as planned, physicists at the last dedicated...
Texas = Energy Efficient?
Results are out today from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's yearly report card of states' energy-efficiency policies. No surprise: California leads the way, same as last year....
October 8, 2009 2:41 PM
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Congress Goes Easy on Two Science Agency Nominees
The nominees to head the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the Department of Energy breezed through their joint Senate confirmation hearing...
Congress Dubs Energy Hubs Mostly Duds
The U.S. Congress is giving Energy Secretary Steven Chu enough money to launch three of his beloved Bell Labs—fewer than half of his request. In his proposed budget for...
September 23, 2009 5:12 PM
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Meet Obama's Head Energy Research Gambler
Last week, the White House nominated Arun Majumdar to lead ARPA-E, the risk-taking blue-sky energy research shop at the Department of Energy. Majumdar is a professor at the University...
September 22, 2009 6:58 PM
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Three Answers and Three Questions on China and Climate
The biggest news coming out of the one-day U.N. General Assembly summit on climate change was President Hu Jintao's announcement that China will seek to cut its greenhouse gas emissions...
September 22, 2009 4:08 PM
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Power Company Alleges Business Lobby Trying to "Distort" Climate Findings
Pacific Gas and Electric Chair Peter Darbee has written the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to say that his company will leave the powerful business lobby. "In particular, he took...
September 17, 2009 2:30 PM
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Panel Calls for $20 Billion "New Biology" Initiative
A group of senior scientists today called for an ambitious new U.S. biology research initiative that would tackle broad challenges involving food, energy, the environment, and health. The proposal...
July 28, 2009 5:48 PM
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America Needs Large-Scale Energy Experiments, Academy Says
If the most important concerns for property are location, location, location, the top issues for energy are scale, scale, scale. The United States has a vast demand for energy—85% of...
July 16, 2009 5:44 PM
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Nobelists Plead for More Money for Clean Energy Research
Thirty-four U.S. Nobel Laureates today called on President Barack Obama to push for a steady funding mechanism in upcoming climate legislation to support clean energy research. Many billions of dollars...
Hill Blocks DOE Plan to Create "Bell Lab-lets"
Late last week, Congress summarily slapped down the Department of Energy's biggest new research initiative: A plan for eight new research "hubs" aimed at solving the nation's energy problems. DOE...
Congress Backs DOE Science Budget, But Not New Ideas
Congressional spending panels are taking nicks and cuts out of the 2010 budget request for the Department of Energy (DOE). So far, the department's bread and butter, lab-based research programs...
House Panel Cuts DOE Education Program
A House of Representatives spending panel today rejected a comprehensive, $115 million education initiative that energy secretary Steven Chu has touted as essential for training a new cadre of scientists...
June 18, 2009 12:35 PM
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ITER Chooses a Cautious, Slower, Approach To Fusion
Governments responsible for the ITER fusion project approved a conservative approach to its construction today in which just a bare-bones reactor will first fire up in 2018. Meeting on 17–18...
June 12, 2009 12:22 PM
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Carbon-Capture Coal Plant Is Back, But Still Bleeding Red Ink
The Department of Energy announced this morning that it is willing to spend $1 billion on a cutting‑edge power plant in Illinois called FutureGen if the plant's industrial partners pay...
June 11, 2009 11:07 AM
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Los Alamos Scientist Picked for Nuclear Energy Post
The White House announced this week that it will nominate Warren (Pete) Miller, a long-time researcher and administrator at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary...
DOE Budget to Put More Scientists to Work to Find Energy "Solutions"
As with other agencies, the Department of Energy's budget request for science is modest, not astonishing. DOE is proposing modest increases in funding for science and energy R&D, compared with...
May 5, 2009 4:45 PM
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Biofuels Get Big Spending Boost
The Obama Administration opened up the throttle on biofuel research today, announcing plans to pour $786 million into new ways to convert corn, wood, grass, and municipal waste into fuel...
May 5, 2009 2:03 PM
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Chu Pegs ILC Cost at $25 Billion
The International Linear Collider (ILC), a proposed 40-kilometer-long particle smasher, would cost a lot. But how much? U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and the leader of the project don’t...
Chu Wants DOE to Pick Up the Pace
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Speaking today before a friendly audience of science policy wonks, Energy Secretary Steven Chu railed against the conservative culture of the agency he runs and described his struggles to...
April 17, 2009 4:51 PM
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Physical Science Czar Named
President Barack Obama just named former American Physical Society president and Princeton physicist William Brinkman to head the Office of Science at the the Department of Energy. He'll join power...
Fusion Alum Holdren Still Rooting for Alma Mater
The United States is spending $124 million for the ITER fusion reactor in Cadarache, France, and roughly $279 million on domestic research programs this year. Physicist John Holdren, who began...
April 15, 2009 11:20 AM
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Obama Energy Team Gets D.C. Insider
The White House has announced that it will nominate Daniel Poneman, a lawyer and former National Security Council official, as Deputy Secretary of Energy. Poneman is the only nonscientist among...
April 7, 2009 3:46 PM
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Who Owns Energy Efficiency?
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu often talks about the need for international cooperation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "It's like all countries becoming allies against this common foe, which is...
March 31, 2009 1:04 PM
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Laser Fusion Facility Completed—Science Still to Come
Construction of the world’s largest and most energetic laser officially finished today, after more than a decade of hang-ups and controversy and 7 years later than initially planned. The...
March 27, 2009 5:20 PM
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Climate Policy Roundup
Energy efficiency and renewable energy chief is named at the Department of Energy: It's Cathy Zoi, former CEO of Al Gore's climate nonprofit, Clinton Administration environmental official, and cleantech...
March 25, 2009 10:11 AM
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Why Won't Obama Turn Down His Lights for Earth Hour?
The Obama Administration is apparently taking a pass on a major opportunity to lead Americans to confront climate change. On Saturday night at 8:30 p.m., wherever they are, millions...
Singh Makes Science Election Issue in Reelection Bid
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the ruling Congress Party today made science an important element in his party’s election manifesto for the upcoming polls for the Indian Parliament that...
DOE Allocates $1.2 Billion in Stimulus Funding to Labs and Universities
It's time to call in the bulldozers at many of the Department of Energy's national laboratories. Officials at the 10 laboratories have been waiting, wish lists in hand, to hear...
March 23, 2009 12:52 PM
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Meet Steve Koonin, Chu's Science Man at DOE
Another brainy Steve has joined the Obama Administration's science effort. Steven Koonin, a former provost of the California Institute of Technology who has been BP's chief scientist for the...
March 20, 2009 4:26 PM
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Chu Lights a Fire Under DOE
The thing that seemed to shock Steven Chu most when he took over as secretary of energy—he talked about it constantly during his first month in office—was how long it...
March 19, 2009 3:27 PM
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Bomb Labs Should Not Be Run By Military, Say Lawmakers
Congressional defenders of the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories are trying to stamp out any talk of turning control of the labs over to the Pentagon. In a letter released yesterday,...
March 17, 2009 4:27 PM
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ARPA-E: DOE Rope-a-Dope Ties Up Chu's Efforts on Energy Research
Energy Secretary Steven Chu wants to open the doors as soon as possible on a new agency within the Department of Energy (DOE) that's designed to identify and fund what...
DARPA to Explore Geoengineering
An official advisory group to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is convening an unclassified meeting next week to discuss geoengineering, ScienceInsider has learned. DARPA is the latest in a...
March 12, 2009 4:51 PM
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Johns Hopkins Provost Picked for DOE Post
Scientists appear to be taking over the U.S. Department of Energy. The White House announced today that it was nominating Kristina Johnson, currently provost of Johns Hopkins University, to...
March 12, 2009 11:49 AM
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Quick Hits From Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN—Overheard here as the climate conference wraps up: Yale University announces that Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will lead the school's new Climate and...
March 12, 2009 3:53 AM
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Did a Berkeley, California, Bureaucrat Revolutionize the World Energy System?
COPENHAGEN—People often don't make their homes energy-efficient, because the upfront investment requires a long time to pay off. Now, a Berkeley, California, maven has helped make greening homes much...
March 12, 2009 3:44 AM
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Carbon Tax Proponents in Copenhagen and Washington Steadfast, Lonely
COPENHAGEN—The economic outlook may be daunting, and everyone in Copenhagen agrees on the need to cut CO2 emissions, but just how to stimulate investment in low-carbon technologies is a...
March 12, 2009 2:36 AM
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Economic Crisis Threatens Carbon Gains
COPENHAGEN—The climate conference here has shifted focus from the underlying—and increasingly upsetting—climate science picture to efforts to solve the problem by cutting world emissions of greenhouse gases. Yesterday in a...
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