Energy Department Cites Gains Under Bush As Obama Vows Changes
Bloomberg:
The U.S. Energy Department has published a book celebrating its national laboratories as “the single greatest scientific enterprise in the world,” a conclusion challenged by clean-energy advocates.
The 149-page, hard-cover glossy book is being released today, two weeks before the end of the Bush administration. “A Decade of Discovery,” cites scientific gains at the department’s 17 national labs since 1998 in national security, energy and life and physical sciences. Critics have said the labs focused on the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpiles to the detriment of energy advances.
President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Steven Chu, director of the department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel Prize winner, as his energy secretary. While Chu, 60, is an advocate of the renewable and clean-energy technologies Obama has pledged to pursue, Representative Edward Markey said he will have to overcome flawed policies pursued under President George W. Bush.
“A book touting a decade of the Bush administration’s advances in creating a safer, cleaner energy future will be a short story,” said Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, in an e- mailed statement. “The Bush administration’s constant pursuit of fossil-fuel white whales, like coal-to-liquids or oil shale, has distracted our best scientists from more promising technologies.”
The department plans to distribute 15,000 copies of the book for free to labs, public libraries, the media, public officials, colleges and universities, trade associations, and industry. The Energy Department didn’t disclose the cost of producing the coffee-table book.
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