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United States Secretary of Energy
The United States Secretary of Energy is the head of the U.S. Department of Energy, a member of the U.S. President's Cabinet, and Fourteenth in the presidential line of succession. The position was formed on October 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President Jimmy Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Origins )〕 Originally the post focused on energy production and regulation. The emphasis soon shifted to developing technology for better, more efficient energy sources as well as energy education. After the end of the Cold War, the department's attention also turned toward radioactive waste disposal and maintenance of environmental quality. The current Secretary of Energy is Ernest Moniz.〔http://www.energy.gov/articles/dr-ernest-moniz-sworn-13th-secretary-energy〕
Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger was the first Secretary of Energy, who was a Republican nominated to the post by Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the only time a president has appointed someone of another party to the post. Schlesinger is also the only secretary to be dismissed from the post.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography of James Schlesinger Origins )〕 Hazel O'Leary, Bill Clinton's first Secretary of Energy, was first female and African-American holder.〔 〕 The first Hispanic to serve as Energy Secretary was Clinton's second, Federico Peña.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Federico F. Peña to be Sworn in as the Eighth Secretary of Energy )〕 Steven Chu became the first Asian American to hold the position on January 20, 2009, serving under the administration of Barack Obama. He is also the first and only Nobel Prize winner to be a Cabinet secretary and the longest-serving Secretary of Energy.
==Secretaries of Energy==
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