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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Flush! Department of Energy flushes $15 million down the hydrogen toilet	Joseph Romm	17 Aug 2008	Gristmill
There are only three sure things in life -- death, taxes, and you won't be buying a hydrogen fuel cell car. Sadly, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has not gotten any of the memos (see 'Some clarity on the Clarity' and 'This just in: Hydrogen fuel cell cars are still dead'). As GreenCarCongress reports: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 10 cost-shared hydrogen storage research and development p ...
Topics: renewable energy, politics, Department of Energy, hydrogen (all these topics)

Cuts Like a Knife, but It Feels So Wrong Details of environmental cuts in Bush's budget emerge		09 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Cuts Like a Knife, but It Feels So Wrong Details of environmental cuts in Bush's budget emerge Now that the nation's water is all cleaned up, the Bush administration has proposed sharply cutting a federal assistance program designed to help modernize aging sewer systems and prevent toxic runoff into streams and rivers -- from $1.35 billion in 2004 to $730 million. And now that th ...
Topics: Department of Energy, oceans, politics, renewable energy, water pollution (all these topics)

Solar, Without Flair		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Solar, Without Flair President Bush's proposed budget for the government's 2004 fiscal year doesn't contain much good news for renewable energy advocates: Total research funding for the Energy Department's energy efficiency and renewable energy programs would increase just 0.1 percent. Last summer, though, the feds apparently had enough money to purchase a solar-energy system to heat the pres ...
Topics: Department of Energy, green living, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Right in the Solar Plexus		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Right in the Solar Plexus From the believe-it-or-not department: To cover the costs of printing its 170-page energy plan last May, the Bush administration tapped into the Department of Energy's solar and renewable energy and energy conservation budgets. Documents released under court order by the DOE on Monday night indicate that $135,615 of the renewables and conservation budget was spent to print 10,000 c ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Interior's Ulterior Motive Behind the scenes at the Bush administration's renewable energy summit	Amanda Scott	07 Dec 2001	Main Dish
Ever since the White House declared energy independence a matter of national security, some unlikely evangelists in the Bush administration have been belting out the clean energy gospel. Case in point: Last week, Gale Norton presided over the first national renewable energy summit in history, co-hosted by the Departments of Interior and Energy. Gale Norton. With its cathe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, energy, green living, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

A Real Windfall		28 Apr 2000	Daily Grist
A Real Windfall All federal agencies in the Denver area will be powered in part by wind under the U.S. government's largest contract to buy green energy, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced yesterday. The agencies will buy 10 megawatts of power annually from wind farms operated by Colorado utilities -- enough energy to run 3,500 households for a year. Public Se ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Energy, energy, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

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