White House Budget Slashes Clean Energy

A Look at the Administration’s Budget Request for Sustainable Energy Programs in FY2006
by Ken Bossong

In his most recent State of the Union address, President Bush stated that the United States needed “reliable supplies of affordable, environmentally responsible energy,” and urged Congress to “pass legislation that makes America more secure and less dependent on foreign energy.” However, there is a marked disconnect between the President’s words and the funding priorities he laid out in the Fiscal Year 2006 (FY06) budget request he recently submitted to the U.S. Congress.

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