Obama’s
second
term
will
begin
on
20
January
after
he
passed
the
270
votes
needed
to
win
in
the
US
Electoral
College
in
the
early
hours
of
the
morning,
eastern
time.
The
Democrats
retained
control
of
the
US
Senate,
as
did
the
Republicans
of
the
House
of
Representatives.
A
divided
Congress
and
absence
of
a
strong
electoral
mandate
raises
immediate
questions
over
how
Obama
will
try
to
advance
his
clean-energy
agenda.
It
is
unclear
if
Energy
Secretary
Steven
Chu
and
Interior
Secretary
Ken
Salazar,
the
main
architects
of
the
unprecedented
expansion
of
federal…
