White House seeks 72% cut to clean energy research, underscoring administration's preference...
Source: The Washington Post
White House seeks 72 percent cut to clean energy research, underscoring administrations preference for fossil fuels
By Chris Mooney and Steven Mufson January 31 at 3:49 PM Email the author
The Trump administration is poised to ask Congress for deep budget cuts in the Energy Departments renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, slashing them by 72 percent overall in fiscal 2019, according to draft budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Many of the sharp cuts would likely be restored by Congress, but President Trumps budget due out in February will mark a starting point for negotiations and offer a statement of intent and policy priorities.
The document underscores the administrations continued focus on the exploitation of fossil fuel resources or as Trump put it in his State of the Union address, beautiful clean coal over newer renewable technologies seen as a central solution to the problem of climate change.
The Energy Department had asked the White House for more modest spending reductions for the renewable and efficiency programs, but people familiar with the process, who asked for anonymity to share unfinished budget information, said that the Office of Management and Budget insisted on the deeper cuts.
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(15,805 posts)The rest of the world moves on, and here we are, the whole damn country, stuck with our outdated 18th century fuel, Why, because the fossil fuel industry was able to bribe enough Republican politicians to tip the balance to serve the demands of the rich and greedy.