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Rethinking US Energy Policy

Sep 26 2012

Rethinking US Energy Policy

By Nayna Sasidharan

Can we become energy independent? Shell Oil Company President Marvin Odum says maybe.

But he's "not sure if that's where we want to go." Where should US energy policy be heading? Watch this clip from a discussion with the Washington Post's Joel Achenbach.

 

And watch more from this session Earth 2050: What is the Stress Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water?

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