Honorable Steven Chu
Secretary of Energy
Secretary Chu was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 21, 2009. Prior to that, he was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California_Berkeley. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997. The following is excerpted from an October 28, 2009, statement before a hearing on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act held by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. When I appeared before you in July, I focused on the energy challenge and the grave threat from climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found in…
