Trump proposes to reduce Department of Energy’s annual budget by 9.4%

The Trump administration in its 2026 budget blueprint is proposing to dismantle many of the federal government’s biggest programs to study, prepare for and mitigate global warming, Report informs via The New York Times.

The proposal would also reduce the Department of Energy’s annual budget by 9.4 percent, or $4.7 billion, mainly by cutting programs related to renewable energy and climate change.

Even more significantly, the proposal aims to cancel roughly $15 billion in clean-energy funding that the Energy Department received under the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill to spur new technologies that could help reduce planet-warming greenhouse gases. The cuts would mean pulling back on funds intended to encourage battery manufacturing, to develop technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air and to expand electric-vehicle charging.