2010 Budget:
House Panel Cuts DOE Education Program
Jeffrey Mervis
A House spending panel has rejected a comprehensive $115 million science education initiative from the Department of Energy (DOE) to train a new cadre of scientists pursuing basic and applied research on clean energy. President Barack Obama unveiled the effort, dubbed RE-ENERGYSE, in a 27 April speech to the National Academy of Sciences, and it is part of the department's 2010 budget request now before Congress. But legislators feel that the idea is still half-baked.