By Idoya Noain, New York
During his campaign, Barack Obama promised to invest €110m in renewable energy over the next decade. He also pledged the creation of 2.5m jobs by 2011, many of them due to the development of environmental-friendly policies. He anticipated green measures such as ensuring that at least 10% of the country's energy consumption to stem from renewable sources. Yesterday, at a press conference in Chicago, as the US President Elect unveiled his team in charge of the environment and natural resources, he took the opportunity to publicly renew his green credentials.
Both during the campaign and now, his pledge was seen as one of the most radical breaks with George Bush's administration. And it gained momentum yesterday with the appointment of Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy, one of the leaders in the research into renewable sources, next generation biofuels and technological solutions to global warming".
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During his campaign, Barack Obama promised to invest €110m in renewable energy over the next decade. He also pledged the creation of 2.5m jobs by 2011, many of them due to the development of environmental-friendly policies. He anticipated green measures such as ensuring that at least 10% of the country's energy consumption to stem from renewable sources. Yesterday, at a press conference in Chicago, as the US President Elect unveiled his team in charge of the environment and natural resources, he took the opportunity to publicly renew his green credentials.
Both during the campaign and now, his pledge was seen as one of the most radical breaks with George Bush's administration. And it gained momentum yesterday with the appointment of Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy, one of the leaders in the research into renewable sources, next generation biofuels and technological solutions to global warming".
(Read the full article here)
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