Congress adopts $3.5T budget resolution that funds various clean-energy programs

摘要

Both chambers of Congress adopted a $3.5-trillion budgetnblueprint for fiscal 2010 last week that would establish a “reservenfund” for various clean-energy programs if lawmakers pass a capand-ntrade bill designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions fromnelectric utilities, oil refineries and other swaths of the US economy.nThe resolution, which does not require the president’s signature,nwill guide the appropriations process for the fiscal yearnthat begins October 1.