Obama Environmental Picks Seen Focusing On Oil Boom

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(Bloomberg) Four years ago, President Barack Obama said his energy and environmental advisers would work to develop a “new hybrid economy” based on wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources.

Lisa Jackson has announced her exit as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who faced congressional criticism over green-energy programs, could follow. Obama may end up assembling a second- term team for a different task: how to manage the boom in U.S. production of oil and natural gas.

“When the Obama team came in the first go around, there was great hope that the president would be transformative and really try to shift the energy policy much more heavily towards renewables,” Charles Ebinger, an energy policy expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said in an interview.

Instead, the growth of hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and gas in shale rock formations is offering a “unique opportunity to revitalize the American economy and reinvigorate American manufacturing,” Ebinger said. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-09/obama-environmental-picks-seen-focusing-on-oil-boom.html

[GeorgeGist]

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Unique, opportunity, revitalize, reinvigorate ...

[LisaLynne]

3. Let's play buzzword bingo!

In this case, the more you get, the more screwed you know you are.

[Champion Jack]

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