Now Cuomo has reversed himself, proposing a medical marijuana
research program run under exacting
federal guidelines that would be the most restrictive in the country.
And it tweaks the rules governing existing activities, from the fledgling Advanced
Research Projects Agency - Energy at DOE to long -
running training
programs at NSF, with the goal of getting a bigger economic payoff from
federal investments.
A particularly powerful thread, the importance of the Pentagon as a driver of innovation and market for effective energy technology, emerged in an earlier discussion involving three of the top figures in the
federal government focused on advancing energy choices that will work for the long haul — Cathy Zoi, assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy, Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced
Research Projects Agency - Energy, and Jeffrey Marqusee, who runs environmental research and development programs for the Department of
Research Projects Agency - Energy, and Jeffrey Marqusee, who
runs environmental
research and development programs for the Department of
research and development
programs for the Department of Defense.
Then, Dave Hasemyer learned from scientist Michael MacCracken, who had long helped
run federal climate
research programs, that Exxon scientists had worked with the government on climate science as far back as the early 1980s.