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Position: Secretary - Energy

The secretary is responsible for the following four energy policy areas:
1. To protect national security by applying advanced science and nuclear technology to the nation?s defense.
2.To protect national and economic security by promoting a diverse supply of reliable, affordable, and environmentally sound energy.
3.To protect national and economic security by providing world-class scientific research capacity and advancing scientific knowledge.
4. To protect the environment by providing a responsible resolution to the environmental legacy of the Cold War and by providing for the permanent disposal of the nation?s high-level radioactive waste.

Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation    

Ralph Cavanagh Rate this Nominee   Current Rating: click to rate
Nominee's Background:

Leader of the energy policy program at the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Nominating Speech:
Ralph has been implementing progressive energy policy for over two decades. He was a leader in overturning the WPPSS project in WA state and an advocate for demand-side management, conservation, energy efficiency, and alternative energy resources.

And Ralph knows how to play politics.

Nominated by: Jeffrey Sterling

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Progressive Criteria:
The Department of Energy will

Work for a massive reorientation of the country's energy systems to conservation and renewables;

Support research and development in energy conservation and renewables;

Work to move us away from an oil/carbon-based economy;

Recommit our country to nuclear non-proliferation: stop nuclear arms Research and Development. We should be international leaders in this important work;

Dismantle nuclear stockpiles, work with other countries and the UN in securing errant nuclear materials.

Comments so far:
In the News
  • NorthWestern Energy: Rate plan may lead to greener power
    HELENA NorthWestern Energy, the states largest electric andgas utility, makes more money when its customers gobble up morepower but the company and environmental forces are backing a newrate scheme that could change that dynamic.
  • Biomass power plants wary of EPA carbon accounting
    Oregon and other states with lots of trees have been counting on generating more electricity by burning forest thinnings and logging leftovers as a promising future source of green jobs and renewable energy as well as a way to pay for projects to prevent forest fires.
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