The federal energy loan program that has created headaches for President Barack Obama has a Mitt Romney connection.... Read more»
A new study said that pollution causes thunderclouds to spread and trap more heat from high in the atmosphere, and that heat drives temperatures up in the climate worsening global warming.... Read more»
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. There was no damage, but security experts worry it may only be a matter of time.... Read more»
While the federal government has been eager to prosecute officials for leaks of classified information, the government itself has lost track of hundreds of boxes filled with classified documents at its main records storage site, the Washington National Records Center.... Read more»
The Department of Energy was aware of the risks in backing Solyndra Inc., a start-up company that pocketed a half-billion dollar DOE loan, a former FBI agent who examined the company’s books found.... Read more»
Just two days after President Obama referenced Ener1, an electric battery maker that received a $118 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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At least five of the City of Tucson’s closed landfills will be studied by the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency to determine the feasibility of developing solar energy projects at such sites.... Read more»
Rick Perry is no superdebater, and he knows it. But that’s not a bug… it’s a feature.... Read more»
The Department of the Interior has dropped one of three proposed “solar energy zones” in Arizona because of environmental concerns about the site, the department said Thursday.... Read more»
As it scrambled to save the flagship company of the Obama administration’s green energy program, the Energy Department ignored repeated warnings from top Treasury Department officials that it was not following guidelines in refinancing Solyndra’s half-billion dollar federal loan, a Congressional hearing Friday revealed.... Read more»
The CEO of Solyndra, a California-based solar energy company that received a controversial $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration, has resigned.... Read more»
New White House emails show a top donor to Barack Obama was in direct contact with one of the president’s closest advisers about the federal energy loan program.... Read more»
A Phoenix residential solar-energy project could be replicated around the country, said Valley business and government representatives in a meeting Wednesday with Energy Secretary Steven Chu.... Read more»
So what’s the situation with Solyndra, who’s the focus of the investigations, and how big a deal is this storyline? ProPublica sorts through what it does — and doesn’t — mean.... Read more»
Newly uncovered emails show the White House closely monitored and tried to rush Energy Department deliberations over whether to make a $535 million taxpayer-backed loan to Solyndra, a politically connected solar energy firm that went bankrupt and now is the focus of a criminal investigation.... Read more»
A politically connected solar company that pocketed a half billion dollar government loan, only to shutter its doors, fire workers and file for bankruptcy, secured an interest rate lower than other green energy projects, iWatch News and ABC News found — one in a string of benefits the Obama administration doled out in bankrolling the project.... Read more»
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