Sentences with phrase «energy secretary»

The admission comes a decade after the former energy secretary allegedly passed speeding points on to his wife.

As energy secretary, he could see how the low carbon industry needed government support to develop.

The sum is three times the # 25,000 that the former energy secretary argued was a reasonable figure.

So has the former energy secretary, got qualities to inspire and communicate that his brother lacks?

Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry said he would rather renegotiate the 2015 Paris Climate Accord instead of leaving it entirely.

He's worked closely with U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, who provided a video introduction to Dr. Birol at the Carnot award ceremony.

Physicist and former U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu gave the toy perhaps its most notable shoutout in 1997 when he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Polls suggest that shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband had closed the gap on brother David as the race came to the wire.

Yesterday Lib Dem energy secretary Chris Huhne's speech at the LSE in London was blighted by a huge student protest outside.

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry addresses employees at Energy Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Friday, March 3, 2017.

The shadow energy secretary said New Labour had become «ideologically beached» because it was haunted by old ghosts from the past, when the party was viewed as tax - raising and anti-American.

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz this week announced $ 30 million of support for 12 more unique, hybrid solar projects through the ARPA - E program.

Steven Chu, US energy secretary said the private and public sectors have to play a big role in promoting clean and efficient energy.

The congressional actions are a stinging setback for Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who championed the new research centers.

The U.S. remains committed to prudent investment in early stage R&D that underlies technology breakthroughs,» the U.S. delegation led by Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in statement.

Her appointment as energy secretary in 2015 was greeted with optimism by green groups, as she is committed to tackling climate change, unlike many of her colleagues on the right of the party.

The party's deputy leader, Simon Hughes was also among those who lost out, along with Energy Secretary Ed Davey.

While senior Tories loitered gingerly around the edges, Lib Dem energy secretary Ed Davey pulled on his trunks and dived straight into the cool dark waters below.

The Yes campaign is being set up by PR boss Roland Rudd, brother of energy secretary Amber Rudd and good pal of Lord Mandelson.

He apparently has the backing of Shadow Energy Secretary Lisa Nandy as well as other left - wing figures such as political commentator Owen Jones and the chair of thinktank Compass, Neal Lawson.

Liberal Democrat energy secretary Chris Huhne and Tory chairman Baroness Warsi had a public spat recently after Baroness Warsi said AV would benefit fascists, while Mr Huhne accused her of «Goebbels - like» propaganda.

«Our dependency on oil is dangerous and short - sighted,» US energy secretary Stephen Chu wrote in Newsweek in April.

Shadow energy secretary Greg Clark last week said he supported Miliband's energy plans, but criticised the government for delays on energy policy that had led to a «last minute scramble.»

In March 2012, American Energy Alliance launched a $ 3.6 million ad campaign in eight states, tying Obama's decision on the Keystone XL pipeline to higher gas prices, and recycling a 2008 quote from Energy Secretary Steven Chu about the benefits of European - level gas prices.

In fact, the new energy secretary Steven Chu said during in his Senate confirmation hearing that he did not view used fuel management as an issue that should hamper the growth of nuclear power.

Though the administration said the focus on aid was strong, when two Cabinet secretaries spoke at a conference on another subject — including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose agency is helping restore the island's power — neither made any mention of Puerto Rico or Hurricane Maria.

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

(I recently co-authored a report with former Democratic Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman on smart ways to cost - effectively boost renewable energy, and have also worked on joint projects promoting sustained support for energy research and development with current Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz when he was at MIT).

And those negotiations have to be led by a secretary of State, contended Richardson, who formerly served as ambassador to the United Nations and as Energy Secretary under former President Bill Clinton.

Director Thom Mason (left) with Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz during a June visit to the Tennessee lab.

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has announced an initiative designed to make solar technology cost effective by 2015.

UK Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is chairing a summit meeting with the country's smaller energy companies in a bid to reduce the dominance by the «Big Six» energy firms and tackling rising household bills.

The issue caught public attention yesterday after energy secretary Chris Huhne refused to abandon his opposition to a policy he had once called «Kafkaesque».

Lisa Nandy, who stepped down as shadow energy secretary on Tuesday, said bullying, intimidation, harassment and death threats had been «unleashed against MPs from the right to the left of the party».

Labour, spearheaded by shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint, will no doubt play on unfavourable views expressed by MEPs of the EU Parliaments Committee, concerning the government's decision to plump for shale gas over greener alternatives.

(See the accompanying piece by U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham.)

U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman is interested in Japan's Monju experimental fast reactor.

Among those who have championed gas is Ernest Moniz, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was appointed as Barack Obama's next energy secretary in 2013; Moniz has called gas «a bridge to a low - carbon future».

Clean energy advocates have also been keeping a close eye on PJM's policy work on reliability, which was sparked by a FERC order that emerged from the same January vote that rejected Energy Secretary Rick Perry's request to classify coal and nuclear power plants as vital to grid reliability.

NEWS: UK energy secretary warns that right - wing parties could destabilise the climate for investment in energy, including renewables

Lib Dem Energy Secretary Mr Huhne would be forced to quit if the Crown Prosecution Service decides to put him on trial.

Sure, it was just last week when Energy Secretary Steven Chu told reporters that the U.S. was falling behind China and others in alternative energy investment.

Constellation released its Oct. 8 letter to Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman yesterday, protesting a «shockingly high» figure for the credit subsidy of 11.6 percent of the guaranteed loan amount, or about $ 880 million, set at one point this summer.

He served as the spokesman for the Labor Department's Mine Safety and Health Administration under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and joined the Energy Department during the Clinton Administration, where he says he was affectionately known as Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's «coal hack.»

Tyler Hamilton reviewed and interviewed Joseph Romm, assistant energy secretary in the Clinton admin, about his new book Hell and High Water.

Well I got my wish about Rick Perry becoming Energy Secretary.

Steve Kalland, director of the N.C. Solar Center at N.C. State University, was among a small group from several states who met with Energy Secretary Steve Chu last week.

And he provided a bit of levity during the hearing for former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas last month when Trump's nominee for energy secretary made an accidental euphemism while discussing his private meeting with Franken.