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DOE Reset: Focus the Department of Energy on Core Missions and Decrease Distractions

DOE Reset: Focus the Department of Energy on Core Missions and Decrease Distractions

Full Title: DOE Reset: Focus the Department of Energy on Core Missions and Decrease Distractions
Author(s): Katie Tubb, Nicolas D. Loris, Jack Spencer
Publisher(s): The Heritage Foundation
Publication Date: March 1, 2017
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Secretary Perry should focus the DOE on maintaining America’s nuclear weapons deterrent and managing the cleanup of the nation’s nuclear weapons complex; limiting science spending to government needs and basic research while encouraging more flexibility and responsibility at America’s national laboratories; and eliminating the department’s intervention in energy markets. The DOE has been engaged in a number of roles and responsibilities that, while perhaps having merit of their own, are not appropriate to the federal government and distract from more important government responsibilities

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