TSC Issues: 10 Questions For Candidates
See letters to presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.  

(L) Steve Chu, Uma Chowdhry, David Bell and Susan Hockfield

Fueling America’s Future:  The Science Coalition and the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation held a press conference Sept. 17 on the need for energy basic research and calling on the next President and Congress to create, implement and fund a research initiative to lead America toward energy independence.  Speakers included MIT's Susan Hockfield, DuPont's, Uma Chowdhry, Intersil's David Bell and Berkeley Lab's Steven Chu.

TSC, the Energy Science Coalition and 70 other groups call on the next President to “…work with Congress to develop, fund and implement a comprehensive, multi-agency, basic research strategy to address our nation’s current energy crisis and future energy security.”

Read MIT President Susan Hockfield's op-ed in the Washington Post on the need for increased basic energy research funding.

Read the Lexington Herald Leader op-ed by University of Kentucky President, Lee Todd, Jr. calling on presidential candidates to focus on basic research as a means to solve critical issues facing the nation.