Thomas Hall
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

“In a spending package known as the “minibus,” the House voted to set the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) budget at $1.1 billion, a 45 percent cut from the office’s fiscal 2017 budget of more than $2 billion. The Trump administration requested an even bigger cut for the Department of Energy office that would have lowered its budget to to $636 million, or 70 percent, below the 2017 budget.”

Though there are far more jobs being creating in the alternative energy fields, the pro-rich, anti-poor, anti-worker, anti-consumer, anti-environment, anti-science continue to sell out America and the world to their fossil-fuel benefactors. Most of the “regulations” that have been reversed have been environmental pollution and consumer health and financial protections for America and the working class.

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