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Rick Perry, a Very Different Kind of Energy Secretary
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603129/rick-perry-a-very-different-kind-of-energy-secretary/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Rick Perry, a Very Different Kind of Energy Secretary[/font]
[font size=4]He’s a climate denier who has called for the end of the Department of Energy—but he also helped Texas become a renewable-energy powerhouse.[/font]
by Jamie Condliffe | December 13, 2016
[font size=3]Donald Trump wants Rick Perry to become his secretary of energy. So what qualifies the ex-governor of Texas for a job that’s recently been filled by prominent academics?
For Perry to head up the Department of Energy would be ironic given that he famously forgot its name during a debate in 2011 when he was asked about his calls to scrap the agency entirely. The department has a wide-ranging remit, tasked with maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, dealing with nuclear waste cleanup, and handling a wide range of energy research programs.
No surprise, then, that the position has most recently been held by intellectual heavyweights—the Stanford University physicist and Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu from 2009 to 2013, and, most recently, the former MIT nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz. Before that, under George W. Bush’s presidency, the position was held by Samuel Bodman, who had a PhD in chemical engineering from MIT.
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Bloomberg reports that Jay Martin Cohen, who studied marine engineering at MIT and served as a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, is slated to be Perry’s undersecretary for nuclear security. So that’s that covered. But Perry’s stance on the environment and energy research is unclear. While he doesn’t have a history of working in the oil industry, unlike many Texan governors of the past, his policies have certainly supported the extraction of fossil fuels.
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[font size=4]He’s a climate denier who has called for the end of the Department of Energy—but he also helped Texas become a renewable-energy powerhouse.[/font]
by Jamie Condliffe | December 13, 2016
[font size=3]Donald Trump wants Rick Perry to become his secretary of energy. So what qualifies the ex-governor of Texas for a job that’s recently been filled by prominent academics?
For Perry to head up the Department of Energy would be ironic given that he famously forgot its name during a debate in 2011 when he was asked about his calls to scrap the agency entirely. The department has a wide-ranging remit, tasked with maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, dealing with nuclear waste cleanup, and handling a wide range of energy research programs.
No surprise, then, that the position has most recently been held by intellectual heavyweights—the Stanford University physicist and Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu from 2009 to 2013, and, most recently, the former MIT nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz. Before that, under George W. Bush’s presidency, the position was held by Samuel Bodman, who had a PhD in chemical engineering from MIT.
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Bloomberg reports that Jay Martin Cohen, who studied marine engineering at MIT and served as a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, is slated to be Perry’s undersecretary for nuclear security. So that’s that covered. But Perry’s stance on the environment and energy research is unclear. While he doesn’t have a history of working in the oil industry, unlike many Texan governors of the past, his policies have certainly supported the extraction of fossil fuels.
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