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February 12, 2013

Steven Chu Gets the Onion Treatment

Derek Sands, Platts


The Onion

Outgoing US Energy Secretary Steven Chu may be one of the most successful energy chiefs to head the agency. No, I’m not talking about his Nobel Prize for physics, which I’ve heard is harder to get than some of the other ones. Neither am I talking about how he managed to survive a congressional firestorm over the failed federal-loan recipient Solyndra. Nor his distinction as the longest-serving energy secretary in US history. . .

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