Rename and refocus the Energy Department
What the document says“The Department of Energy should be renamed and refocused as the Department of Energy Security and Advanced Science (DESAS).”
The chapter proposes refocusing the department on five existing core missions, and separately that government should not pick winners and losers among energy resources or commercial technologies, which it says can crowd out innovation, devolve into cronyism and raise prices.
What the document actually says“The Department of Energy should be renamed and refocused as the Department of Energy Security and Advanced Science (DESAS).”
The Energy Department should get a new name. It should also get a narrower job.
This department handles energy and science. The book says it does too much else. It wants a new name and a smaller job.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's rule of June 6, 2025 renames the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America throughout its regulations, under Executive Order 14172. It is a renaming, which is why it surfaced, but of a body of water. Nothing indexed renames the Department of Energy or refocuses it on the five missions the chapter lists, and renaming a department would take an act of Congress. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.