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Improving women's lives through energy: What Rick Perry got right and wrong

  • Written by Michael E. Webber, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Deputy Director of the Energy Institute, University of Texas at Austin
imageRefugee women from Darfur, Sudan return to their camp in eastern Chad with wood for their households in 2011.European Commission DG ECHO, CC BY-SA

On Nov. 2, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry clumsily stated that fossil fuels could help prevent sexual assaults on vulnerable women in Africa. “When the lights are on, when you have light, it...

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