Department of Energy

2010 Was the Year the Internet Got Scary. Get Used to It.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 30, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

The year just ending started with an attack on Google by China and ended with the WikiLeaks affair. In the meantime, the Stuxnet worm showed the way toward a world where skilled hackers can cause serious real-world damage. Scared yet?

The Summer to Go on a Power Diet

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on June 15, 2010 at 3:40 pm PT

Katie runs down ways to keep your energy bills down this summer.

Voices

Energy Bill in Limbo? Steven Chu Turns to Facebook.

Keith Johnson, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 21, 2009 at 11:42 am PT

The Obama administration really, really doesn’t want the fight over health care to steal attention from energy and climate legislation. Energy Secretary Steven Chu just launched a Facebook page to keep climate change front and center.

Mr. Twitter Goes to Washington, Again

Peter Kafka in Media on May 12, 2009 at 11:47 am PT

The White House is already Twittering (of course). But now it’s getting tips from a pro–Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, who’s evangelizing official Washington at this very moment.