And Recharge News gets into the nitty gritty of the proposed budget for the Department of Energy, which would get an overall increase of 3.2 percent, with some more significant boosts for clean energy research spending.
Others note that Mr Bush's speech also repeated his support for un-green measures such as his Clear Skies Initiative, a bill to regulate emissions from power plants that excludes carbon dioxide (the principal greenhouse gas responsible for global warming), and his energy bill, which strongly boosts coal and nuclear power and proposes opening up protected areas of Alaska to oil-drilling.