{"id":315517,"date":"2017-07-02T14:12:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-takes-aim-at-energy-rd-funds\/"},"modified":"2017-07-02T14:12:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T13:12:46","slug":"trump-takes-aim-at-energy-rd-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-takes-aim-at-energy-rd-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Takes Aim at Energy R&amp;D Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> While boasting of his plans for \u201cAmerican energy dominance,\u201d President Trump is slashing key research projects and ceding much of the renewable energy market to China, notes Jonathan Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>By Jonathan Marshall<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn\u2019t get the memo, the White House dubbed this \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/29\/opinion\/energy-week-rick-perry-trump.html\">Energy Week<\/a>.\u201d Though devoid of substance, President Trump took the opportunity to tout his administration\u2019s commitment not just to energy security \u2014 how pass\u00e9 \u2014 but to \u201ca golden age of American energy dominance.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23946\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS-300x214.jpeg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23946\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS-300x214.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS-768x547.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS-1028x732.jpeg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS-160x114.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23946\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS-300x214.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS-300x214.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS-768x547.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS-1028x732.jpeg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/qtq80-lxpgdS-160x114.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wind-powered turbine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Apparently the White House budget office didn\u2019t get the memo, either, because it still wants crippling cuts to very Department of Energy programs that help Americans get more bang for their energy bucks and fund breakthrough technology research to sustain U.S. energy leadership for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration proposes about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2017\/03\/30\/arpa-e-on-the-chopping-block\/\">$3 billion in cuts to basic and applied research on energy<\/a>. It would slash over half the funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and wipe out altogether the much-acclaimed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Those priorities are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060056660\">reflected<\/a> in legislation now being crafted by the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p>EERE works with industry and federal laboratories to promote cutting-edge, marketable technology related to energy efficiency; solar, wind, bioenergy and geothermal energy production; and advanced manufacturing programs.<\/p>\n<p>To date, <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.gov\/eere\/about-office-energy-efficiency-and-renewable-energy\">according to the office\u2019s website<\/a>, now under the supervision of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/energy.gov\/eere\/analysis\/downloads\/aggregate-return-investment-rd-investments-us-doe-office-energy-efficiency\">third-party evaluations<\/a>\u00a0have assessed one-third of EERE\u2019s research and development portfolio and found that an EERE taxpayer investment of $12 billion has already yielded an estimated net economic benefit to the United States of more than $230 billion, with an overall annual return on investment of more than 20%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To promote visionary technologies that EERE and the private sector find too risky to fund, Congress authorized the creation of ARPA-E in 2007. It was modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is widely credited \u2014 among other breakthroughs&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/07\/01\/trump-takes-aim-at-energy-rd-funds\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: While boasting of his plans for \u201cAmerican energy dominance,\u201d President Trump is slashing key research projects and ceding much of the renewable energy market to China, notes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall In case you didn\u2019t get the memo, the White House dubbed this \u201cEnergy Week.\u201d Though devoid of substance, President Trump took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}