The Trump team has proposed to abolish the Clean Energy Office, cut off billions

According to documents viewed by the US Energy Department Bloomberg, carbon capture, direct air capture, are proposing to shut down the office of its clean energy displays for programs about solar and hydrogen and cut the awards by $ 9 billion.

Under the scheme, which is not final, employees of $ 27 billion agency will be reduced to 35 employees, and projects of about $ 10 billion in projects including $ 3 billion for the so -called hydrogen hub will be “kept as” and transferred to other parts of the Department of Energy.

The office appointed about 250 people before President Donald Trump, a climate change, returned to the office.

A decision on the fate of the agency, which was made in 2021 in the bipartished infrastructure law, may arrive soon next week, which was reported earlier on the next week.

Earlier: Amazon, Exon Hydrogen Hubs get a piece of $ 7 billion US funds.

The Department of Energy did not immediately respond to the request of the comment on Friday evening.

Money for the hydrogen hub, in which gas can be produced and used both, is aimed at highlighting its capacity as carbon-free fuel to run factories and power plants. Direct air capture includes technology that sucks planetary-wise carbon dioxide out of the air.

F funding for potential elimination is billions of dollars for the hub in California, Pacific Northwest for Hub in California, Texas, Apalachia and Minnesota, North and South Dakota for Hub, according to documents, the scheme is also keeping $ 3.5 billion and industrial performance programs for upgraded nuclear reactor projects, $ 1.9 Billion in the projects. Recommends.

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Slated carbon capture projects, battery storage projects, and a direct air capture project for termination, was done by a subsidiary of Oxidantal Petroleum Corp, who was selected for a $ 1.2 billion award by Biden Administration in 2023.

The scheme comes as the Department of Energy, with a comprehensive mission to oversee the emergency reserves of the country to protect the power grid from cyber threats, recognizing 8,500 jobs as “non-respective” as it prepares to bite employees in response to a mandate of the government of Elon Musk’s government.

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