Congress Asked to Increase Renewable Energy Funding
Environment News Service, September, 2005
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> Thirty-one business, consumer, environmental, and energy policy organizations called today for higher funding levels in Fiscal Year 2006 for the U.S. Department of Energy's renewable energy and energy efficiency programs.
In a letter delivered today to Congressional appropriators in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, the groups noted that the appropriations bills approved earlier by the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives provided funding overall that is essentially just level with Fiscal Year 2005 for most core sustainable energy programs but also include cuts in funding for the advanced hydropower turbine and wind energy programs.
The groups wrote, "The aftershocks of Hurricane Katrina are now breaking...
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