DOE: Sell Out

Clay Sell.

Another Bush administration defection: Deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell will resign at the end of February, the DOE said Monday.

Sell, a former White House staffer and architect of the presidentÂ’s energy policies, flew the administrationÂ’s colors at the DOE. (As in this speech late last year.) He was pro-nuclear and pro-clean-coal. He was a skeptic of peak oil, an opponent of cap-and-trade policies to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, and stressed the need for developing countries to cut their soaring emissions alongside the U.S.

Does his departure herald any change in U.S. energy policy? Or are all bets off until after the election?