Times have changed. As the Obama administration pursues a new moratorium on offshore drilling in reaction to the BP oil spill, a video circulating on YouTube shows it wasn't too long ago that a future ...

But Chu, who declined to comment for this story, is also more industry friendly than his rhetoric suggests. Last year he sealed a deal between the Berkeley Lab, two public universities, and oil ...

President Obama glowingly praised Energy Secretary Steven Chu today for, “actually deserving his Nobel prize” and curiously credited him with designing the final cap that eventually plugged the BP oil ...

The Washington Post’s Steve Mufson hit the road with Energy Secretary Steven Chu and came back with a nice Sunday piece on the Nobel prize-winning physicist. A few tidbits: * Chu had early doubts ...

Scrutiny meanwhile is increasing on the ties between BP and Energy Secretary Steven Chu. In 2007, BP awarded the bulk of a $500 million grant to the University of California, Berkeley laboratory where ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP :BP.LO:>Plc's moves to contain and capture more oil from a leaking undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico did not make the spill dramatically worse, Energy Secretary Steven Chu ...

Right-wing media are absurdly attacking Energy Secretary Steven Chu's past praise of BP for awarding UC Berkley an alternative energy grant which Chu said would help “save the world.” But the grant ...

WASHINGTON Energy Secretary Steven Chu may hold a Nobel Prize in physics, but he has no training in geology, seismology or oil well technology. Nevertheless, he has stepped in repeatedly to take ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc's moves to contain and capture more oil from a leaking undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico did not make the spill dramatically worse, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu ...