Energy Sec. Chu: Budget Cuts Could take US out of Alt. Energy Race
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Channel: FORA.tv · 2011 · News & Politics
Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast At a Monitor Breakfast on April 1, Energy Secretary Steven Chu stated that budget cuts to alternative energy research would take the United States "out of the race." Chu also discussed proposed cuts to low-income energy assistance programs. ----- Steven Chu with reporters at the Christian Science Monitor Breakfast. As United States Secretary of Energy, Dr. Chu is charged with helping implement President Obama's ambitious agenda to invest in clean energy, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, address the global climate crisis, and create millions of new jobs. Dr. Chu is a distinguished scientist and co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1997). He has devoted his recent scientific career to the search for new solutions to our energy challenges and stopping global climate change - a mission he continues with even greater urgency as Secretary of Energy. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Chu was the Director of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where he led the lab in pursuit of alternative and renewable energy technologies. He also taught at the University of California as a Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology. Previously, he held positions at Stanford University and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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