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What’s going on with climate science?

January 18, 2012 – 12:49 PM

 By Michael S. Lubell Despite aggressive requests from the Obama Administration and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the House in the most recent appropriations debate made significant efforts to reduce funding for climate-related science. The Senate prevailed in the subsequent negotiations, and nearly all Office of Science programs received modest funding increases. Read more:

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DOE to hold workshop on long-term plans

July 6, 2011 – 10:58 AM

The Department of Energy (DOE) will hold a Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR) Capstone workshop on July 13 in Washington, D.C. to improve the agency’s long-term planning and increase its effectiveness. Steve Koonin, undersecretary for science at DOE, said the review will: Lay out the nation’s energy challenges in context; Outline the principles for optimizing DOE’s […]

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House Energy & Water Development Subcommittee Approves FY12 Spending Bill

June 8, 2011 – 10:46 AM

The House Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee recently approved its FY 2012 spending bill, which includes funding for research at the Department of Energy (DOE). The bill provides $4.8 billion for the Office of Science, $43 million less than FY 2011 funding. While this is a reduction from FY 2011, it could be viewed […]

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U.S. new ‘Sputnik Moment’: China’s energy success

November 30, 2010 – 4:04 PM

The success of China and other countries in developing clean energy initiatives represents a “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, said U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu in a speech at the National Press Club on Nov. 29. Among the evidence of the Chinese innovation challenge: • The nation will achieve 18 percent (and may reach […]

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Stop the Gulf oil spill with heavy, streamlined objects

July 1, 2010 – 2:43 PM

By Louis A. Bloomfield, Ph.D. Professor Physics, University of Virginia The ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is primarily a physics problem and, as such, should be susceptible to a physics solution.  But two of the simplest physics solutions — sealing the top of the well with the blowout preventer’s hydraulic valves and […]

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