1. This piece by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu originally ran in the July 22 edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

2. U.S. acting Deputy Secretary of Energy Jeffrey Kupfer said oil prices are clearly too high.

3. Clay Sell, under secretary of energy, said at the same briefing that the Bush administration has requested $250 million from Congress for the initiative for the fiscal year that begins October 1.

4. Shortly after the Obama administration took office, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu warned the public that climate change could wipe out farming in California by the end of the century.

5. Karen Harbert, assistant secretary of energy, said that in the near future,( ) the APP can complement other international efforts aimed at making growth and development less energy and carbon intensive.

6. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke delivered similar messages during subsequent visits.

7. For me, the appointment of Dr. Chu as Secretary of Energy was profound proof of the President's commitment to fundamentally transforming America's energy policy.

8. First, the US Commerce Secretary and Secretary of Energy are visiting China and discussing clean energy. Will their visit affect China's position on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions?

9. On December 21, I named Hazel OLeary, an African-American utility executive from Northern States Power Company in Minnesota, to be secretary of energy, and Dick Riley, to be secretary of education.

10. The power grid has basically been the same for the better part of a century, says Ian Bowles, Massachusetts' secretary of energy and environmental affairs. That is, until the smart grid.

11. The fact that Obama made such a spot-on choice for Secretary of Energy gives me the kind of hope I haven't had in, well, at least eight years — because I think Chu has the right ideas.

12. Chu is a man who knows a lot, Nobel laureate in physics, our nation's 12th secretary of energy.

13. The Asian Americans currently serving in Obama's Cabinet are Eric Shinseki, secretary of veteran affairs, and Steven Chu, secretary of energy.

14. Reinventing the battery is the only way available today to both reduce consumption of oil and bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told conference attendees.

15. Gov. Bill Richardson - Governor of New Mexico, served in Bill Clinton's administration as the Secretary of Energy.

16. "If they invest in 21st-century technologies and we invest in 20th-century technologies, they'll win, " says David Sandalow, the assistant secretary of energy for policy.

17. Along with Locke, Steven Chu (Zhu Diwen), the 1997 Nobel Prize-winning physicist was named secretary of energy.

18. Obama's choice of Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate physicist, as secretary of energy only heightened the allure.

19. The next day Carter named Schlesinger as the first Secretary of Energy.

20. But according to Dr Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning US Secretary of Energy, Stuart might have been on to something.

21. Only one cabinet member has a hard science degree, a doctorate in physics, secretary of energy Steven Chu, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997.