Sputnik

Federal Government Urges Boost to Energy R&D

Labeling the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries as a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu told an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Monday that America needs to mobilize its innovation machine “so that we can compete in the global race for the jobs of the future.”

December 1, 2010