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U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who helped lead the government's response to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, will announce he is stepping down from his post, an Obama administration official said on Wednesday.The former U.S. senator from Colorado came to office pledging to clean up the "mess" at the Interior Department, but it was the massive 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that ultimately spurred the dramatic overhaul of the nation's offshore drilling regulator.Salazar's departure comes as President Barack Obama's cabinet undergoes the typical make-over for his second term. Other energy officials, including Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson, have already announced they would not be staying on. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is also widely tipped to leave.The Denver Post, which first reported Salazar's move, said President Barack Obama had wanted him to remain at the department, which has a key role in regulating industries such as energy and m...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several Asian countries inaddition to China could soon challenge the United States in therace to build a renewable energy industry if Washingt...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several Asian countries inaddition to China could soon challenge the United States in therace to build a renewable energy industry if Washingt...
(Corrects paragraph 2 to make clear bill requires 15 perecent renewable by 2021, not 2012)By Timothy GardnerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senator...
FBN's Peter Barnes on efforts in the Senate to pass a watered-down version of cap and trade.
Patrick Creighton DC Institute for Energy Research says cap and trade will kill American jobs while Lester Lave, founder of Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center. aruges it's necessary--who do you agree with?
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December 3, 2008 11:43 AM UTC by Elizabeth MacDonaldThe Congressmen Who Own Stakes in the AutomakersThere's a lot at stake in a potential $34 bn bailout of the autom...
The need to expand renewable energy.
Wall Street critic and Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren will join the Senate Banking Committee next year where she is likely to be a loud voice in favor of tight finan...
By Timothy Gardner and Deborah CharlesWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senators introduced a bill on Tuesday that would repeal tax breaks enjoyed by the five bigges...
By Timothy Gardner and Deborah CharlesWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senators introduced a bill on Tuesday that would repeal tax breaks enjoyed by the five b...
Democratic strategist Mary Anne Marsh on resistance to so-called 'public option'
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu offered a cautious defense of nuclear power Tuesday in the face of a potential disaster in Japan and reassured Americans that U.S. d...
The devastating earthquake and tsunami that have raised fears of a nuclear disaster in Japan are already posing a setback to the global momentum in support of nuclea...
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Democrats have assigned West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin , known for a campaign commercial in which he shot a bullet through a cap-and-trade b...
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