Many of those Argonne employees are in the business of breakthroughs in clean energy — vital research for a world that has been pummeling its environment with fossil fuel pollution. Clean energy's not a Trump priority, though. The president has put his chips behind oil and coal. Under Trump's spending outline, the Department of Energy would face a 70 percent cutback in funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy research, according to an analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.