President Obama will send his budget request for fiscal 2013 to Congress today. It is expected to fund the clean energy programs he mentioned in his State of the Union speech. But Congress, which actually appropriates the money, will have the last word. Republicans want to cut many environmental and clean-energy programs drastically. After agency-specific budget briefings today, some agency heads will explain the budget requests to Congressional committees later in the week. The fate of many local clean-energy and environmental projects hangs in the balance during the coming election-year spending debate.

You can find listings of news events related to the 2013 budget on the SEJ website. [2]