WASHINGTON — The re-election campaign of President Barack Obama has a wide base of small-dollar donors and a small base of big-dollar bundlers. A total of 352 bundlers helped collect at least $55.5 million for the president’s re-election from April through September, according to an analysis of a new bundler list released by the Obama [...]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are turning up the pressure on Energy Secretary Steven Chu after a spokesman admitted he was responsible for the final decision to allow Solyndra to keep receiving taxpayer money after the struggling solar company had technically already defaulted on the $535 million federal loan guaranteed by the agency. The chairman of [...]
WASHINGTON — Clean energy advocates have long looked to solar power as a way to break the country’s dependence on foreign oil. However, the cost of obtaining the energy has so far outweighed the economic and environmental benefits. That may now be changing. During the first six months of 2011, the installed cost– combined hardware [...]
WASHINGTON — The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has accused Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) of “crony capitalism” in the case of Solyndra and beyond, alleging the California Democrat picked company winners and losers for political advantage. But in a letter to Rep. Issa on Monday, Waxman said he had absolutely no [...]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans set the stage early Friday for another fight over government funding, passing a stopgap bill that Senate Democrats say will not make it through the Senate. The bill, which funds the government until Nov. 18 and provides emergency disaster aid to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, passed in a 219 to [...]
Al Gore has his work cut out for him — and a recent Gallup Poll hints at why. For nearly 30 years, when asked by Gallup to prioritize, Americans put the environment ahead of the economy. The widest spread came in the early 1990s, when some 71 percent of respondents favored the environment, even at the risk [...]
WASHINGTON — Before the House Energy and Commerce Committee jumps on the Republican bandwagon accusing the White House of cronyism in backing a now-bankrupt solar firm Solyndra with stimulus dollars, it might consider the GOP origins of the deal. Solyndra, which got $535 million in federally-backed stimulus act loans and was heavily touted by the Obama administration, [...]
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