California Governor Schwarzenegger’s Green Challenge
California Governor Says He’ll Stick To Environmental Plans, Despite Economic Crisis
President-elect Obama is 30 days from office. For a window on his future, turn west for a moment to a chief executive who is already up to his neck in the nation’s troubles.
This month, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger warned of financial Armageddon, as California faced a potential $40 billion deficit that threatened jobs, roads, schools and public safety. At the same time, he’s pushing some of the world’s toughest environmental laws to make California a leader on climate change.
As Obama’s Energy Chief, Steven Chu Likely to Shift Agency’s Focus to Renewables
December 16, 2008 by admin
Filed under Eco News, Technology
Steven Chu, American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. Currently Chu is a Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology of University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has been named Secretary of Energy-designate by President-elect Barack Obama.
When Steven Chu, named by Barack Obama to be his energy chief, arrived at California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2004 to take over as lab director, he had a plan for his new colleagues: focus their research on pressing energy issues, particularly climate change.
“Steve said, ‘Let’s apply some of our skills to problems of importance to society,’ ” says physicist James Siegrist, the lab’s associate director for general sciences. “He’s taken chemists, material scientists, environmental guys, and tech guys and really focused them, redirected them, on national energy problems.”
