Steven E. Winberg is an American businessman and government official who served as the

Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy The Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management is the head of the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management within the United States Department of Energy. The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management is responsi ...

from November 2017 to January 2021.

Career

Winberg previously served as vice president for

research and development Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existi ...

Consol Energy Consol Energy Inc. is an American energy company with interests in coal headquartered in the suburb of Cecil Township, in the Southpointe complex, just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2017, Consol formed two separate entities: CNX Resour ...

and as a senior program manager with the

Battelle Memorial Institute Battelle Memorial Institute (more widely known as simply Battelle) is a private nonprofit applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Battelle is a charitable trust organized as a nonprofit corporation u ...

. Winberg was the board chair for the

FutureGen FutureGen was a project to demonstrate capture and sequestration of waste carbon dioxide from a coal-fired electrical generating station. The project (renamed FutureGen 2.0) was retrofitting a shuttered coal-fired power plant in Meredosia, Illin ...

Industrial Alliance, a coalition of power producers, coal producers, and equipment manufacturers which was established to pursue a public/private partnership to build the world's first near-zero emissions coal-fueled power plant. Winberg holds two patents related to

NOx In atmospheric chemistry, is shorthand for nitric oxide () and nitrogen dioxide (), the nitrogen oxides that are most relevant for air pollution. These gases contribute to the formation of smog and acid rain, as well as affecting tropo ...

emissions reduction using coal and natural gas.

Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy

Although having had to admit that coal was no longer considered viable for the production of electricity Steven Winberg, in 2020, pointed out the actual carbon value of coal including metals, which can be extracted from coal ash, and their value for the production of electronic equipment. He presented a range of products at the annual

American Legislative Exchange Council The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives who draft and share model legislation for distribution among state governments in the United State ...

meeting and later at the

Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources The United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources is a standing committee of the United States Senate. It has jurisdiction over matters related to energy and mineral resources, including nuclear development; irrigation and recla ...

where he demonstrated the use of coal in coal-based carbon foam, decking material and roofing tiles and the prospect, in the foreseeable future, to build a fire-proof house with coal. In October 2020, Winberg signed a "memorandum of cooperation in the field of carbon capture, utilization and storage and carbon recycling" with

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

as another step to combat

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

Personal life

Steven Winberg is married to Anne and has two daughters.

Publications

Clean Coal Is Crucial for American Jobs, Energy Security, and National Supply Chains

References

Living people Trump administration personnel People from Rome, New York State University of New York Maritime College alumni University of Pittsburgh alumni Year of birth missing (living people) United States Department of Energy officials {{US-gov-bio-stub