By George Lobsenz The Energy Department Monday proposed a 6.8 percent budget hike to $28.4 billion in fiscal year 2011, with much of the largesse going to the department's nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs and some of Energy Secretary Steven Chu's favored cutting-edge research programs. Despite President Obama's new vow of austerity in discretionary non-defense domestic spending, the department's budget blueprint would deliver a 2.8 percent increase to energy research and development (R&D) programs outside the National Nuclear Security Administration…
DoE Avoids Austerity, Proposes 6.8 Percent Budget Bump In 2011
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