President Obama’s 2013 budget would rack up more wasteful spending on his favorite energy gambits.  With 5% increases in non-military R&D, a trajectory to double the budgets of science agencies, billions in job training, and handouts for private companies to update their facilities, this budget doesn’t do anything to trim the deficit or define an appropriate energy policy.  Worst of all, Obama is hiding new renewable energy bets at the Pentagon, charging our Defense Department with major investments in “low-emissions economic development” while cutting their budget by $5.1 bil

Just as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is beginning to approve new nuclear reactor designs and sites, potentially heralding a new renaissance of nuclear power, the president’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (Commission) reports that our failure to properly manage nuclear waste is, “damaging to prospects for maintaining a potentially important energy supply option for the future.” At two hearings this week, the House and Senate analyzed the recommendations of the Commission, chaired by former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft,