Gibbs demurs on replacement for White House climate adviser

Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday laid out his energy agenda.

It includes a call for bipartisan cooperation on a plan to derive 80 percent of U.S. electric power from “clean” sources — renewables, natural gas, nuclear power and coal plants that trap carbon (which is not yet a commercial technology) — by 2035.

“I think it’s important to understand that the President rolled out an extremely robust energy agenda last night — cutting oil subsidies or subsidies to oil companies to invest in clean energy and research and development, and an energy standard that doubles the amount of our electricity produced by renewable energy or clean energy by 2035,” Gibbs said.