This week in USA in brief: Department of Energy nominee facing green resistance; Minority scientists suffer greater joblessness; Broadened training scheme for research careers; Compensation for egg donation could be legalised.
Department of Energy nominee facing green resistance
Environmentalists have expressed concerns over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Ernest Moniz, physicist at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, as secretary of, the Department of Energy. Bill Snape, senior counsel of the Center for Biological Diversity, fears that Moniz may push “harmful fracking” instead of renewable energy sources. Senate Democrat Ron Wyden indicated that he has a tense past with Moniz, saying they had “spirited discussions” over the clean-up of a polluted nuclear site in Washington state.
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