Abstract

One day before President George W. Bush visited the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo., to promote his energy plan, the Energy Department found $5 million to immediately restore 32 jobs that were cut earlier this month due to budget shortfalls. programs at NREL are critically important to realizing the President's vision to diversify and strengthen our nation's energy mix, Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said in a Feb. 20 statement. action we are taking today will allow the dedicated employees at NREL to continue their work that will bring us great innovation in renewable energy technologies. In his State of the Union address last month, Bush proposed spending millions more dollars on renewable energy research. However, congressional Democrats and environmental activists questioned the Administration's commitment when jobs were being eliminated at the government's renewable energy lab. The President toured the lab on Feb. 21 and ...

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