Solyndra
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The Washington Post's boneheaded conventional wisdom on Solyndra
The Washington Post is spouting the Very Serious Conventional Wisdom: government is a "crappy" venture capitalist that shouldn't be picking winners.
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Solyndra and the self-referential Beltway media cycle
Solyndra is being called a scandal even though there hasn't been any official wrongdoing established or charged. Blame cable news and the political press.
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Fake scalp, fake scandal: DOE official didn't resign ‘over Solyndra’
Politico blasted out this headline: "Silver resigns over Solyndra loan." Scandal! An administration in crisis! Dems in disarray! But it was fiction.
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Critical List: DOE’s loan guarantee head out; some beluga whales are toxic
Jonathan Silver, DOE's loan guarantee czar, is
the first government employee to lose his job over Solyndra.leaving the government because the loan guarantee program doesn't have any money left, anyway.Solyndra's also screwing the rest of the cleantech industry.
The BP spill is still affecting Louisiana, where the oyster season could be delayed and shrimp harvests dropped 99 percent.
A judge ruled that the EPA was a little too excited about regulating West Virginia coal mines and should have gone through more formal rulemaking on guidelines to dump coal waste into streams. Another part of their work, on water quality, is still at issue, which means coal companies could lose in the long run.
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Obama rips GOP defeatism: ‘I’m not going to surrender to other countries’
Republicans are using Solyndra as an excuse to dismiss clean energy manufacturing in the U.S. Obama doesn't give up so easily.
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Critical List: Enviro groups sue over Keystone XL; Energy Dept. considered second Solyndra loan
The Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Inc., and Western Nebraska Resources Council sued the U.S. for starting work preemptively on the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Department of Energy thought (but not that hard! Really!) about giving Solyndra an additional $469 million loan.
The mystery of why the FBI kept British environmentalist John Stewart from entering the country: Explained. Apparently the bureau was concerned he would super-glue himself to Sarah Palin.
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Mr. Morriss gets acquainted with Irish Confetti
Merriam-Webster: Irish Confetti – “A rock or brick used as a missile.” We recently wrote about professional clean energy critic Andrew Morriss being schooled by Center for American Progress’s Kate Gordon before a friendly crowd at the fossil industry-funded CATO Institute. Back in April, Mr. Morriss couldn’t answer Ms. Gordon’s inconvenient points about the huge government welfare checks […]
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Solyndra witch hunt halts world's largest residential solar project
The push to make government clean energy investments look bad after the Solyndra bankruptcy is hindering major job-creating solar projects development
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In Solyndra's wake, polling finds support for clean energy remains strong
Tea Party conservatives have tried to use the Solyndra faux-scandal to tarnish the image of clean energy, but new polling finds that it isn't working.