Shitstain's DOE Gleefuly Cancels 226 Alt-Energy Programs W. $7.6 Billion In Funding - Including "Carbon Capture" And H

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The Energy Department on Wednesday canceled $7.56 billion in funding for 223 projects aimed at research and deployment of clean energy and other climate-friendly technology mainly in Democratic-led states.

The cuts are the latest in President Donald Trump’s efforts to undercut renewable energy and other efforts to reduce the emissions driving climate change. The administration has already sought to claw back funding allotted under President Joe Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. That includes $20 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which supported investments in green technology like heat pumps and electric vehicles, and $7 billion in the Solar for All program to help low- and middle-income families install rooftop solar.

The latest cuts include a $1.2 billion award for ARCHES H2, a public-private partnership aimed at kick-starting the hydrogen industry in California, according to a list of affected projects reviewed by The Washington Post. Another project would have spent more than $400 million in federal money to add 28 gigawatts of new energy generation to the power grid in Minnesota, mostly from wind and solar. Another had received at least $15 million aimed at installing battery storage and electricity grid upgrades serving Indigenous communities in New Mexico. Some of the awards had been funded through the IRA and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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The Energy Department also canceled awards from its Office of Fossil Energy, which “advances technologies related to affordable, reliable, and secure use of fossil fuels.” That includes research on carbon capture and other technologies to coal, oil, natural gas and critical minerals. For example, the department nixed a grant to General Electric to test gas turbine technology. A grant to GE Vernova sought to pull carbon dioxide directly out of the atmosphere in Houston. Several of the projects were aimed at preventing natural gas leaks.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/10/02/clean-energy-grants-canceled/

https://wapo.st/46Xk8KS

[AloeVera]

1. Devastating and unforgivable. N/T

[kerouac2]

2. Literally trying to destroy the world.

And the damage may be irreparable, at least while humans are still here.