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Obama FY 2012 budget proposes big boost for EVs and EV technology, cuts for hydrogen

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In support of President Obama’s goal of having 1 million advanced technology vehicles on US roads by 2015, the President’s Budget submitted today proposes a new effort to support electric vehicle manufacturing and adoption in the United States through new consumer. Organizational-level DOE budget requests for FY 2012.

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Obama Switches Schedule, Will Attend Final Copenhagen Negotiations

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Obama, who was one of the last heads of state from a major emitter country to confirm attendance in Copenhagen, had originally planned to attend an early session, leaving final negotiations to Cabinet officials as well as negotiators from the State Department.

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Obama 2012 Budget Proposes Higher Tax Credit For Plug-In Cars

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Two days ago, President Barack Obama released his proposed U.S. government budget for the fiscal year starting in October. And in it, he followed through on a promise from his State of the Union address last month, by proposing to cut up to $4 billion in subsidies to the oil and gas industry.

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Obama Administration releases National Bioeconomy Blueprint; health, food, energy and environment

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There is also a set of emerging trends in recent research that foreshadow major advances in the areas of health, biological-based energy production, agriculture, biomanufacturing, and environmental clean-up.On

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Obama Administration Opens Up Oil and Gas Development and Exploration in Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Arctic

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The Obama Administration will expand oil and gas development and exploration on the US Outer Continental Shelf, while protecting fisheries, tourism, and places off US coasts that it says are not appropriate for development. No further lease sales in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas will be held under the 2007-2012 program.

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House rejects amendments to increase FY 2012 ARPA-E funding and to cut DOE funding; Pu-238 amendment also shot down

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John Garamendi (D-CA) to increase FY 2012 funding for ARPA-E to $550 million. The vote of 145 “yes” votes to 276 “no” votes occurred during floor consideration of the FY 2012 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill. The Obama Administration requested $550.0 The current ARPA-E budget is $179.6 million, a reduction of 44.3%

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Obama Administration to delay Keystone XL Pipeline decision to sometime in 2013

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The Obama Administration will delay a decision on approving the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada until sometime in 2013—i.e., after the US elections in November 2012.

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