WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy would receive an 8 percent boost in funding over 2012 levels in the Obama administration's 2014 budget proposal.
The $28.4 billion for 2014 would "position the United States to compete as a world leader in clean energy and advance manufacturing, enhance our energy security, respond to the threat of climate change, and modernize the nuclear weapons stockpile and infrastructure," the White House said in its proposed budget released Wednesday.