A federal clean energy program with GOP fans
That will be a constant threat, especially in an era of fiscal tightening, for the relatively young program, said Eli Lehrer, president of the conservative R Street Institute.
“Age certainly affects it, because when you’ve been around a while, you’ve built a constituency,” Lehrer told the Washington Examiner. “So zero-funding [the National Science Foundation], the national labs or DARPA is unthinkable. But ARPA-E gets talked about all the time.”
