Steven Chu is U.S. Secretary of Energy, Todd Park is U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and Nancy Sutley is Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality.

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This past Wednesday, the Energy Department livestreamed a conversation between Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Senator Mark Udall (D-CO), two leaders and champions of renewable energy innovation.

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Inslee said that he got the latest information about the site during a meeting in Washington with U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

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Chu said it is only a matter of time before the U.S. regulates carbon dioxide emissions.

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Today, Chu was sentenced to two (2) years of probation by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff.

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In the past two years, Chu has orchestrated the most significant public investment in energy innovation in U.S. history.

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It's also interesting what Chu didn't talk about: increasing oil and gas production from U.S. fields.

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The U.S. loss would be China's gain, thanks in no small part to Chu's foresight.

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The current U.S. Secretary of Energy and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, Steven Chu, is a vocal advocate of nuclear energy.

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