Changing of the Guard

Biofuels Digest
November 18, 2010 Jim Lane

Heading back home from the Cellulosic Biofuels Summit in Washington this week, I spotted former Clinton White House chief of Staff (and former Obama transition chief) John Podesta on the Washington metro.

When last John and I had last spoken, it had been during the dramatic week in 2008 when the global financial crisis had progressed into near-meltdown. Wall Street was running scared, the economy was out of gas, and Podesta’s Center for American Progress had just issued a new report pointing our a path to recovery through transformation of the American energy system.

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