The Associated Press contributed to this report. Kucinich agrees to switch vote as Obama meets with those on fence WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders saw momentum gather behind their sweeping health-care leg Full Article at Akron Beacon Journal

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu pointed to Solazyme, an advanced biofuel startup in South San Francisco, and Silver Spring Networks, a smart-grid company in Redwood City, to illustrate how last year's stimulus package has generated jobs and helped the... Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

Photo via Bellona It's About Time. Steven Chu has an op-ed from the World Economic Forum report reposted in the Huffington Post today, and it's full of both good points and good news. The ol' one-two goodness combo, as I like to say (full disclosure:... Full Article at Treehugger

Mar. 17, 2010 - The Department of Energy (DOE) should fulfill President Barack Obama's promise of government transparency and disclose information about a controversial $51 billion loan guarantee program, Public Citizen and partner organizations said... Full Article at YubaNet

For the next few decades, energy efficiency is one of the lowest cost options for reducing US carbon emissions. Many studies have concluded that energy efficiency can save both energy and money. For example, a recent McKinsey report calculated the... Full Article at Huffington Post

Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu has always had wide-ranging research interests. Before President Obama tapped him to be his energy secretary, Chu was the director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. With funding from the... Full Article at National Geographic

While every country’s transmission needs are different, this is a clear sign of China’s commitment to developing renewable energy. In an attempt to generate support for implementing a cap on carbon dioxide, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and others paint... Full Article at Canada Free Press

Okay, so it's not exactly a new metaphor. But it is a good one, and one with enough parallels to make anyone queasy. Which is why Obama's Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate Steven Chu, is fond of employing it. He likened the ongoing efforts to confuse... Full Article at Treehugger

My busy eating, drinking & breathing schedule prevented me from going down to Houston for CERAWeek this year. It's funny how that works—something seems to come up every year. So I'll have to use news reports to get a feel for how this year's exciting oi Full Article at Energy Bulletin