Solyndra
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Solyndra, schmolyndra: The Obama administration’s hit rate is better than the private market’s
Making loans is a tricky business — sometimes you bet on the wrong horse. For example, there's the Obama administration, which doled out 1.4 percent of its Recovery Act cleantech investments to failed solar company Solyndra, in a move that everyone and their uncle is now calling a giant embarrassment. And then there's private venture […]
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Solyndra and Keystone XL: A case study of skewed coverage at Politico
Politico has hyped Solyndra as a "scandal" while giving comparably little coverage to the culture of cronyism surrounding Keystone XL approval.
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Critical List: Climate change is happening (no, really!); the gas industry has some weird ideas
A Berkeley scientist who was once critical of climate science did an independent study that confirmed that climate change is happening and that common claims from skeptics are totally spurious. Skeptics are still skeptical.
Three-quarters of Americans think that the government should push harder on developing clean energy.
Shocker: The government also invested in electric cars and some of them were not perfect, i.e., THIS IS THE NEXT SOLYNDRA.
Natural gas companies don't understand why the EPA would want to make rules about fracking wastewater disposal: "We'll do it in a responsible way! Well, at least, we do now, after the New York Times revealed that we've just been dumping it into a river! But we'll do better! Honest!"
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Politico doesn’t quite get it: The real problem with Solyndra media coverage
Media coverage of the Solyndra bankruptcy has been driven by conservatives, but the bigger problem is that it has completely lost touch with the real world.
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Is the company behind GMO salmon the next Solyndra?
With the FDA only weeks away from announcing official approval of GMO salmon, parent company AquaBounty is struggling to stay afloat.
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MSM on Solyndra: It's not a scandal
Even as the Solyndra affair is being cast as a scandal, lots of writers and newspapers are saying the same thing: No wrongdoing has been uncovered.
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Move over, Solyndra: There’s a new fake solar scandal
A misinformed editor claims SunPower is getting a $1.2 billion loan guarantee, equating it to Solyndra. Note to real reporters: SunPower isn’t even getting the loan guarantee -- it is simply building a 250-MW solar PV project for the global energy company NRG.
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House hearing marks new low in Solyndra witch hunt
Republicans are taking their Solyndra scandalmongering to the next level at today's hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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GOP tries to explain away loan-guarantee hypocrisy, fails
In hyping the Solyndra faux scandal, Republicans have gone after the loan-guarantee program with guns blazing. They just can't support big government picking winners! Except, uh, turns out they can.