Solyndra
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One small step to help keep Solyndra from becoming the next Climategate
David Roberts is right that the anti-renewable right is likely to turn Solyndra into the next “Climategate”, an exaggeration of a minor or non-existent scandal into a major attack. One contribution to blunting this would be if “Climate Hawks” would agree on a single talking out of the many true things that could be said. […]
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Solyndra was collateral damage in a trade war with China
Solar-panel installations are booming in the U.S. even as domestic solar companies are struggling, thanks to China's policy of shoveling money into its solar industry.
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Critical List: Protesting a Chinese solar plant’s pollution; Solyndra will never go away
Solar power isn’t all rainbows and puppies. In China, protesters have spent the past few days outside a solar panel plant, which they say polluted a nearby river.
A U.S. wind turbine company is suing a Chinese company for paying an employee of American Superconducter more than $1 million to steal wind turbine technology.
China's also put $15 billion into Alberta's tar sands in the past year and a half.
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Solyndra ‘scandal’ vs. the Defense Department's biggest boondoggles
Philip Bump of Green for All responded to our request to create an infographic comparing the cost of the Solyndra "scandal" to the Defense Department's greatest boondoggles. We think it speaks for itself.
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Reports of the death of solar power are highly exaggerated
Saying Solyndra means the end of solar power in the U.S. is like saying there is no future for the web because Netscape went out of business.
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Solyndra is the next 'Climategate'
Conservatives are trying to use the bankruptcy of solar firm Solyndra to tar the whole renewables industry and all efforts by government to support it.
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Fossil-fueled Republicans grandstand against Solyndra, solar energy
At a hearing in Congress today, GOP representatives used Solyndra's collapse to declare that government investment in clean energy is a bad idea.