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Senate Confirms Moniz as DOE Secretary

Besides Moniz’s overwhelming bipartisan Senate vote, he won praise across the energy industry. Dave McCurdy, American Gas Association president and CEO, said Moniz “brings a lot to the table, including his background in science, management experience and a familiarity with policy.”

Rhone Resch, Solar Energy Industries Association president and CEO, said Moniz “is uniquely qualified to tackle the many policy challenges facing our nation and the world.”

Chu, co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, led DOE from the start of the Obama administration, in January 2009, until April 22. He is now at Stanford University as professor of physics and molecular and cellular physiology.

Story updated May 21 to include Moniz's swearing-in as DOE secretary.

As ENR's former Washington Bureau Chief, Tom Ichniowski wrote about the federal government since the George H.W. Bush administration, and covered at least five major highway bills. A recognized expert on government policy on infrastructure and regulation, Tom is also a Baltimore native and Orioles fan who grew up rooting for Brooks and Frank Robinson. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia’s graduate school of journalism, where he once used “unrelentless” in a headline.

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