Steven Chu Impresses Energy Committee
by: Jim Tankersley
The Los Angeles Times

Senators praise the energy secretary nominee’s credentials.
At hearing, Chu signals support for an energy package that
includes nuclear power and “clean coal” technology and
focuses on global warming.

Washington – Senators celebrated Steven Chu today as a
scientist, administrator and Nobel Prize winner. But in
the hearing on his nomination as President-elect Barack
Obama’s Energy secretary, Chu was cast in a new role:
politician.

Under gentle questioning from the Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee, the physicist and director of the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory signaled his support
for a variety of energy alternatives — including coal —
to America’s dependence on imported oil.

Chu told Republicans that he would help fast-track a
resurgence of domestic nuclear power and accept oil and
gas drilling as part of a broad energy package. He told
Democrats that he would champion solar plants and a “smart
grid” that could help bring more wind power to market.

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He told coal-state senators that he supports increased
research for so-called “clean coal” technology to capture
and store carbon dioxide emissions, but that he wouldn’t
wait for that process to be perfected before he supported
new coal power plants. He softened a much-publicized 2008
comment that coal is “my worst nightmare,” saying that “if
the world continues to use coal in the way we’re using it
today… that’s a pretty bad dream.”

“We need all of the solutions,” Chu said midway through a
more than two-hour hearing. “We need to make them as clean
as possible, as quickly as possible. All I can say is, we
really need to do all these things.”

But Chu made clear that he favors some things above others.
He focused heavily on global warming and the need to combat
it through efficiency measures and renewable energy
research.

His questioners focused largely on regional energy
production concerns, and Chu worked hard to allay them.
He did not oppose calls for increased oil drilling as part
of an energy package, but noted that the United States
contains only an estimated 3% of the world’s known oil
and gas reserves.

In multiple answers, he sketched a plan for accelerated
nuclear energy development, including improving a depart-
ment loan program for new reactors and developing a long-
range plan for dealing with nuclear waste.

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His most extended questioning on climate change came from
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who asked whether Chu preferred
setting government caps on emissions or levying a carbon
tax to curb them. Chu deferred to Obama’s stance in favor
of caps.

“Is that the best decision,” Corker asked, “or the
politically best decision?”

To which Chu replied, drawing laughter: “You’re far more
experienced at answering that question than I am.”

Committee members praised Chu’s credentials and his
answers, and they predicted quick and easy confirmation
of his appointment. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who
chairs the energy committee, said the committee could
approve Chu by week’s end.

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The committee’s top Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of
Alaska, told Chu: “It’s probably fair to say that you
are uniquely poised in your ability to bring with you
your background that relates the science and the
technology” of the Energy Department.

Chu’s home-state senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne
Feinstein of California, were equally effusive: “Simply
stating, in my opinion,” Feinstein said, “there is no
one brighter or more equipped than this man to become
secretary of energy.”

After the hearing, even environmental groups that oppose
coal and nuclear plants praised Chu’s commitment to
renewable fuels and efficiency.

“What I am most heartened by is that we have someone head-
ing the Department of Energy now who not only believes
that we must fight global warming, but that the top ways
of fighting global warming are energy efficiency and renew-
able energy,” said Anna Aurilio, who directs the Washington
office for Environment America. “This is a huge change in
direction from where the previous administration has been.”