|
|
|||||||||||||
|
Scott Schackford Reason.com 11/11/2014 American taxpayers are on the hook for the Ivanpah solar project out in the California Mojave Desert close to the border of Arizona Nevada. The massive plant received $1.6 billion in loan guarantees from the Department of Energy to build it, out of a total cost of about $2.2 billion. The […] November 11th, 2014 | Tags: "green subsidies", crony capitalism, electricity, Google, Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, natural gas, NRG Energy | Category: Department of Energy, Energy, federal funding, Taxes | Comments are closed
Kelly Cohen The Washington Examiner 8/18/2014 President Obama has claimed since his first day in the Oval Office that his administration would be “the most transparent” in history. But the nonprofit watchdog group Cause of Action is challenging the Obama claim in a federal lawsuit against 12 federal agencies, including the Office of Management and […] August 20th, 2014 | Tags: Cause of Action, Department of Veterans Affairs, FOIA, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), transparency | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Department of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, IRS, State Department, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
Wynton Hall Breitbart.com Big Government 17 Apr 2014 On Wednesday, the U.S. Energy Department announced it will begin doling out $4 billion in taxpayer-funded loan aid to renewable energy companies. “We’re back in business,” Peter Davidson, executive director of the department’s loan programs office, told Reuters. “We really want to go back to … doing […] April 21st, 2014 | Tags: bankruptcy, campaign contributions, crony capitalism, fossil fuels, fraud, hypocrisy, Keystone XL pipeline project, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, renewable energy, Solyndra, Tom Steyer | Category: corruption, Department of Energy, Energy, Federal spending, Taxes | Comments are closed
Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller 1/3/2014 It’s a new year and you know what that means — new regulations. The Obama administration has wasted no time in writing them. The website Regulations.gov lists 141 regulations that have been posted by federal agencies in the last three days alone. Of these regulations, 119 are “rulemaking,” meaning […] January 3rd, 2014 | Tags: Carbon emissions, electricity prices | Category: Department of Energy, Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, federal regulations | Comments are closed
DOE suspends stimulus payments after company’s SEC filings Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon 8/12/2013 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has suspended stimulus payments to a major green energy company after the company said it is having trouble finding financing and may have to declare bankruptcy. ECOtality admitted that possibility in a filing with […] August 12th, 2013 | Tags: "green subsidies", bankruptcy, Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, ECOtality, Fair Labor Standards Act, green energy, insider trading | Category: corruption, Crime, Department of Energy, Department of Labor, federal funding, SEC | Comments are closed
DOE says no retaliation took place; Issa maintains employees fear for jobs Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon 7/25/2013 House investigators will hold a hearing next week regarding allegations that top Department of Energy (DOE) officials instructed agency employees not to speak with congressional investigators about an ongoing probe into agency hiring practices. The hearing […] July 25th, 2013 | Tags: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Daniel Poneman, Rep. Darrell Issa, whistleblower | Category: Congress, Department of Energy, Politics | Comments are closed
|
|
|||||||||||
