U.S. Funding for Energy Research Defended: The...
U.S. Funding for Energy Research Defended: The Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development, appointed last fall before the most recent round of proposals for dismantling the Energy Department, recommended streamlining but maintaining federal funding for energy research and development. The task force, chaired by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and energy expert Daniel Yergin, found that U.S. research funding has dropped 75% since 1978 and that the Japanese government now spends more than twice as much on such programs as the United States does.
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