Advocates of wind energy are actively lobbying Congress for a multiyear extension of the 2.2 cent-per-kilowatt-hour production tax credit.
Read moreLobbyists for the wind-energy sector are actively lobbying for a multi-year extension of the production tax credit, the 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour subsidy given to producers of wind-generated electricity.
Read moreThe U.S. is on the verge of an industrial renaissance if—and it’s a big if—policy makers don’t foul it up by restricting the ability of drillers to use the technology that’s making a renaissance possible: hydraulic fracturing.
Read moreMark Twain once said that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
Read moreBefore Facebook’s recent initial public offering, the media obsessed over superlatives. It was the largest-ever IPO for a U.S. technology company.
Read moreAre the coal states red or blue? Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign is working hard to convince voters in key swing states that also produce coal–Ohio, Pennyslvania, and Virginia–that the Obama administration is anti-coal.
Read more“Clean energy” is the political darling of the moment. President Obama has made promotion of clean energy one of the centerpieces of his administration and his reelection effort.
Read moreIf legislators need any more evidence that American energy policy is broken, they need only look at how some of the world’s biggest corporations used “green” energy projects to snatch billions of dollars under section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (also known as the federal stimulus bill).
Read moreRising gasoline prices are hurting President Obama’s re-election campaign, and like most politicians grappling with a complicated, unpopular issue the president has opted to torture some numbers in his quest for a snappy talking point.
Read moreGet ready for the next Solyndra. Sure, you’ve heard those words before. Over the past few months, several companies that had federal backing — Beacon Power, Range Fuels, and Ener1 — all failed.
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