House appropriators proposed to increase funding for clean energy development and power grid resilience, nuclear energy and radioactive waste cleanup, and water infrastructure projects amid an historic drought under a draft spending bill released Monday.
Energy and water programs would receive about $56.3 billion—an increase of 6.4%, or $3.4 billion, compared with the fiscal 2022 enacted levels for those programs.
The Energy Department would receive $48.2 billion, the funding level requested by President Joe Biden that’s $3.3 billion more than the fiscal 2022 levels.
The Army Corps of Engineers would receive about $8.9 billion for fiscal 2023, nearly $2.3 billion ...