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Outgoing Trump Officials Warn of ‘Significant Uncertainty’ in Mexico Energy Sector
Members of the outgoing administration of President Trump have sent a letter to Mexican counterparts, including Energy Minister Rocío Nahle, admonishing regulatory changes they said are damaging Mexico’s investment climate.
The letter, signed last week by U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross indicated that recent government directives to regulators that favor state-owned companies create “significant uncertainty” in Mexico’s energy sector.
“In addition to harming several U.S.-backed private sector projects across the energy sector, these measures could adversely affect hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. government public energy investments in Mexico made through the U.S. International Development Finance Corp., the Export-Import Bank of the United States and U.S. and Mexican public investments via the North Am
YI CUI, professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford and of photon science at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will receive the DOE’s Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which honors mid-career scientists and engineers in eight research fields.
Yi Cui
Cui is also a senior fellow and the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Award recipients will receive a medal and a $20,000 honorarium, and will be honored at a virtual ceremony broadcast from Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19.
“These researchers have made significant advances and contributions across a broad range of disciplines critical to Energy Department missions,” said Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette in announcing the award. “We congratulate them on their many accomplishments and look forward to their achievements in the coming years.”
The Energy 202: Trump administration jams in environmental rollbacks in final days Dino Grandoni
with Alexandra Ellerbeck Even as they re packing their bags, President Trump s team is jamming in more rollbacks to energy and environmental restrictions.
As Juliet Eilperin and I report, the slew of new rules several of which will help the fossil fuel, logging and mining industries that have benefited from past Trump administration action sets up a clash with the incoming president. President-elect Joe Biden and his aides may spend months unwinding these policies as they gear up to cut greenhouse gas emissions unless congressional Democrats or federal judges step in to overturn them more quickly. Biden becomes president Wednesday.