(task) Daniel Poneman Reflects on the U.S. Energy Environment as He Leaves Office

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On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:00 AM, St. Clair Wright <StClair.Wright@wilsoncenter.org> wrote:

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> Daniel Poneman Reflects on the U.S. Energy Environment as He Leaves Office
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> Daniel Poneman has served as Deputy Secretary of Energy since 2009. As he prepares to leave office (October 2, 2014), he visited the Wilson Center to provide context on U.S. energy needs and the policies designed to meet them.
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> Poneman discussed the differences in the world of energy between his entry in 2009 and his departure in 2014 as Deputy Secretary, during a time of revolutionary change in the world’s energy environment. He reflected on lessons learned from the U.S. government such as: The Fukushima nuclear disaster, non-proliferation diplomacy and advancing U.S. energy policy on the global stage.
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> "We now see perhaps even greater dangers in the sense that nuclear technology is even more present, even easier to access, closer within reach, and the world is afflicted with terrorists that have no regard for their own survival and have every intention to wreak havoc if they can.
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> We see the increasing effects of climate change, not just in the retreat of glaciers at the tops of mountains, not at the ends of the earth but right at home…. Let’s work together on this, because the stakes could not be higher and it’s that knowledge that makes me confident that if we continue to put our shoulders to the wheel, that if we continue to think strategically of the national and indeed the international interests, and to pursue solutions with that same tenacity as those who went before, then we can pass to our children a world that is as peaceful, as prosperous, and as abundant as the one that we inherited."
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