Energy Secretary Chu stresses need to combat climate change

Ethanol Producer Magazine | July 2009
By Erin Voegele
Report posted July 2, 2009, at 8:44 a.m. CST

U.S. DOE Secretary of Energy Steven Chu traveled to North Dakota July 1 to announce a local power plant has been selected to receive up to $100 million in Stimulus Package funding to incorporate advanced carbon capture and sequestration technologies.

At the press event, which took place at Bismarck State College’s National Energy Center for Excellence, Chu used the opportunity to provide attendees with an update on climate change and the DOE’s programs that are designed to combat it.

“We have an extraordinary energy challenge before us,” Chu said. “It affects many things.” He said he believes the nation’s economic prosperity is going to be intimately tied to the development of sustainable energy sources and how efficiently we use the energy we produce.

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