Did the folks at WaPo see Greenwire’s lead story today?
APPROPRIATIONS: Congress’ approach to energy research: There’s no place like home.
Congress gave a lukewarm reception to Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s plan to create eight “innovation hubs” focused on developing breakthrough technologies. Lawmakers responded far more warmly to requests to fund energy research in their own backyards. Members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees who wrote legislation financing the Department of Energy and water projects tucked into those bills at least $75.2 million in earmarks for research at schools back home.