Samuel W. Bodman

January 30, 2008 -- [Washington, D.C.] – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Barack Obama (D-IL) along with Representatives Tim Johnson (R-IL), Jerry Costello (D-IL), Ray LaHood (R-IL), Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Peter Roskam (R-IL), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Danny Davis (D-IL) today sent the following letter to the President calling on him to move forward with the FutureGen program despite objections raised in yesterday’s meeting by Secretary of Energy, Samuel Bodman.    » read more »

January 29, 2008 -- [Washington, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today issued the following statement in reaction to reports that the Secretary of Energy plans to pursue alternatives to FutureGen:

“After our meeting today it is clear that Secretary of Energy Sam Bodman has misled the people of Illinois, creating false hope in a FutureGen project which has no intention of funding or supporting."    » read more »

January 29, 2008 -- CHICAGO – “The U.S. Secretary of Energy’s proposal to dismantle FutureGen is an example of politics at its worst. Secretary Samuel Bodman is not only jeopardizing the benefits FutureGen promises to deliver, but he deceived the people of East Central Illinois who spent time and resources competing for the project. We’re not giving up the fight to make FutureGen a reality in Illinois.    » read more »

Remarks as Prepared for DOE Secretary Bodman

November 6, 2007 -- "Thank you. And let me say how much it means to have my old friend Vinodh here to introduce me. You are a true pioneer in this industry.

I also want to thank Mitch for asking me to be here. It's good to see Tom Dorr from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, our partner in so much of the federal government's biomass research and development and deployment efforts.    » read more »

August 8, 2007 -- NEW ORLEANS, LA – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today launched the Transformational Energy Action Management (TEAM) Initiative, a Department-wide effort aimed at reducing energy intensity across the nationwide DOE complex by 30 percent. The TEAM Initiative aims to meet or exceed the aggressive goals for increasing energy efficiency throughout the federal government already laid out by President Bush.    » read more »

June 26, 2007 -- BERKELEY, CA — Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman has announced that a partnership of three national laboratories and three research universities in the San Francisco Bay Area has been chosen to host one of three bioenergy research centers, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through its Biological and Environmental Research Genomics:GTL research program in the Office of Science. This new center will be known as the DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and is expected to receive $125 million in DOE funding over five years.    » read more »