Will Obama Appoint Fracking Proponent Ernest Moniz to Energy Secretary?

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http://www.alternet.org/fracking/will-obama-appoint-fracking-proponent-ernest-moniz-energy-secretary



President Obama got pats on the back from environmentalists for his pick of John Kerry for Secretary of State and the news of Sally Jewell's nomination for Interior Secretary was also warmly received. But if the rumors are true that the president will tap Ernest Moniz to lead the Department of Energy, then he's likely to see some opposition.

Ernest Moniz is a nuclear physicist and one of the president's energy advisers. Reuters reports that he was undersecretary at the DOE during the Clinton administration and he's the " director of MIT's Energy Initiative, a research group that gets funding from industry heavyweights including BP, Chevron, and Saudi Aramco for academic work on projects aimed at reducing climate-changing greenhouse gases."

It's Moniz's evangelizing for natural gas that may get him into trouble with some environmental groups. Reuters reports:

Moniz would bring scientific acumen to the job, but he also has worked closely with industry and promoted natural gas as a "bridge fuel" to lower carbon pollution while new innovative forms of energy are being developed.

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1. Don't Appoint a Fracking Proponent as Energy Secretary

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