Salazar Joins Other Democrats in Supporting Keystone
Add Ken Salazar to the list of environmentally concerned and Administration-connected Democrats who support building the Keystone XL pipeline. The former Secretary of the Interior… Read More
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Green Graveyard: An In-Depth Look at Government’s Bad Bets on 19 Now-Bankrupt Companies
As a follow up to the Green Graveyard overview, this post provides additional information concerning the funding for each of the now-bankrupt green energy companies…. Read More
House Committee Launches Document Probe Into DOE, Abound Solar
Bankrupt solar module manufacturer Abound Solar, recipient of a Department of Energy loan guarantee of $400 million, and the subject of an official investigation in… Read More
Government Offers $10 Million Prize to Make Solar More “Cost-Competitive”
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a new $10 million Department of Energy competition last week to reduce the price of installing solar panels. The… Read More
Finding the Answer in the Founding
There are certain existential questions that humans have wrestled with since the dawn of time: “What is the meaning of life?” “Which came first: the… Read More
Congressman May Subpoena DOE on Stimulus Funding for Ecotality
The Energy Department has yet to comply with a congressional request for information on a stimulus-backed company under investigation for insider trading and facing serious… Read More
Obama’s Ten Worst Energy Policies
In his time in office, President Obama has made some seriously bad proposals and decisions on energy policy, and Americans are paying the price, whether… Read More
Congressman Seeks Answers on Stimulus-Backed Company Ecotality
Congress is asking questions about a stimulus-backed electric vehicle company that received millions in taxpayer dollars even after the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama Mocks Critics As Gas Prices Go Up
As you drive America’s ribbon of highway, from California to the New York island, there’s one reality that can’t be escaped — gas prices keep… Read More
Obama’s Energy Secretary Gives Himself An “A” on Gas Prices
Gas prices have hit $3.87 per gallon, the highest ever recorded in March and 30 cents higher than a year ago, but Secretary of Energy… Read More
Chu Uses Power Marketing Administrations to Implement Green Agenda
When it comes to finding alternate pathways to force their green agenda onto Americans, President Obama and his Administration know how to dream up creative… Read More
President Responds to the Inaudible Cries for Higher Gasoline Prices
It appears the President studied economics with his textbook upside down. He proposes to raise taxes on oil companies in order to combat high gasoline… Read More
Markey’s Misguided View of Energy Exports
Last week, Representative Ed Markey (D–CA) sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu questioning whether exporting natural gas would benefit American businesses and… Read More
GM Recalling Volts, White House Headed to Detroit to Celebrate?
There’s more bad news in the continuing saga of the Chevy Volt. The Associated Press is reporting today that General Motors will recall 8,000 Volts… Read More
Citing Solyndra, House GOP Whip Says Steven Chu Should Be Replaced
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Friday said Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s lack of knowledge about the problems plaguing now-bankrupt Solyndra demonstrates poor management… Read More
Nine Companies Financed by Liberal VC Firm Get Taxpayer Backing
Scribe has reported extensively on the tendency of large government spending projects to reward the politically connected. It’s a virtual constant of federal interventions in… Read More
Morning Bell: The Solyndra Legacies
The Obama Administration has been knee-deep in scandal after green energy “model” Solyndra went bankrupt less than two years after receiving a $500 million loan… Read More
Congressmen Ask White House for Documents on Solyndra’s Federal Loan
One day after solar company Solyndra closed its doors, two U.S. congressman are asking the White House for all documents related to the federal government’s… Read More
Did the Wright Brothers Need the Government to Make Man Fly?
Forget entrepreneurs, captains of industry, inventors, and scientists. According to Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu, we have the U.S. government to thank for all the… Read More
General Motors CEO Wants Higher Gas Prices
If General Motors CEO Dan Akerson had anything to say about it, you would be paying a dollar more a gallon for gas. Yes, with… Read More
Energy Secretary Chu Embraces High Gas Prices, Again
This weekend, Energy Secretary Steven Chu appeared on Fox News Sunday and host Chris Wallace asked him about his desire in 2008 for Americans to… Read More
Egypt and Renewable Energy
Aiding and abetting the solar and wind energy industries in their continuing efforts to mislead the American people, Energy Secretary Steven Chu called for a… Read More
Reject All Energy Mandates: It’s Just Another Subsidy
With cap and trade out of the realm of possibilities, Members of Congress have turned their attention to mandating so-called clean energy. Some Members hoped… Read More
The Stimulus Solar Boondoggle
According to a press release, Energy Secretary Steven Chu says that the billions of dollars in federal stimulus money directed toward solar-power will cut solar… Read More
NRC Trips Obama’s Sprint to Close Yucca Mountain
In a welcome decision, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday announced that it will not act on the Department of Energy’s motion to withdraw its application… Read More
Morning Bell: Don’t Fall For Obama’s Energy Shell Game
Can the Obama administration’s desperate attempts to cover their true far left nature with centrist rhetoric and promises become any more transparent? Yesterday, the President… Read More
Energy Secretary Admits Nuclear Waste Commission Will Not Consider Yucca
Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development last Wednesday, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu acknowledged to the committee that he explicitly… Read More
NRC Commissioner Takes a Stand on Obama’s Yucca Decision
Dale Klein, Commissioner and former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) challenged the premise on which President Obama based his move to withdraw the… Read More
Concerns Over Nuclear Waste Importation Should Not Lead to Ban
Yesterday the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment unanimously approved legislation to ban the importation of foreign radioactive waste… Read More
Since Americans are Teenagers, They Won’t Understand Greenhouse Gases
The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act. The American public has to really understand in their… Read More
