What’s been designed here is a project that ensures a fossil fuel agenda, both in the literal and figurative sense.
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Department of Energy and Related Commissions
reorientation of DOE primarily from defense applications in the NNSA and basic and early applied science across SC and the applied offices to a massive federal research, development, demonstration, and commercialization body. Distraction from SC’s basic science mission should be prevented.
Increase the level of accountability. The National Laboratories need to be more directly accountable to the Secretary of Energy and Congress for their work and management.
New Policies
Commit to U.S. science dominance. The United States is losing its dominance in scientific discoveries and technological development. China and other adversaries have been stealing American science and technology for years and are now on the verge of dominating science—a development that is fraught with negative strategic and economic implications for the United States. The next Administration must commit itself to ensuring that the U.S. continues to dominate scientific discovery and technological advancement.
Refocus on mission and eliminate duplication and waste. The Administration should work with Congress to rationalize the National Lab network to meet specific national objectives (such as the NNSA laboratories’ role in national defense) and conduct basic research that the private sector would not otherwise conduct. Activities that duplicate those of other government agencies or the private sector should be eliminated.
Properly manage the National Labs’ contributions to the private sector. SC should improve private-sector access to the National Labs, through programs like the GAIN voucher program and consistent with national security considerations, while ensuring that the economic benefits of taxpayer-funded technologies flow back to taxpayers through patentreview sharing or a revolving fund.
Budget
The Office of Science was appropriated slightly more than $7 billion in FY 2021,
and DOE requested slightly less than $7.8 billion for FY 2023.**
OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (EM)
Mission/Overview
The Office of Environmental Management’s mission is to “complete the
safe cleanup of [the] environmental legacy resulting from decades of nuclear