Energy Secretary Steven Chu has explained why China's bid for clean energy leadership should be our "Sputnik Moment." The Center for American Progress and Climate Progress have proposed a variety of common sense strategies for responding to China's innovation and competitiveness policies. But the conservative movement is hell-bent on forever ceding leadership in the most important job-creating industries of the next several decades, as Kate Gordon, CAP's VP for Energy Policy explains in this cross-post.
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The Republican Study Committee’s recommendations undermine each of these areas of critical investment. The recommendations go after the Applied Research program at the Department of Energy, cutting $1.27 billion from this core set of activities designed to identify which new innovations in America’s labs and universities is primed for actual commercialization and market-readiness. This is the kind of research that turns theories into profitable ideas, and it is where most innovative American companies are born.
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