Another Study Confirms: Head Start Doesn’t Work
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just released its latest batch of Head Start data, revealing, once again, that its students are receiving far less than a “head start.” The study,...
View ArticleDOE Nuclear Waste Plan Ignores Basic Flaw of Current Policy
The Department of Energy (DOE) released its long-awaited “Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-level Radioactive Waste” Friday afternoon. Regrettably, the DOE missed a...
View ArticleDOE Grant Recipient Fleeces Taxpayers to Benefit Green Investors
Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images Solar Mosaic, a solar microfinancing outfit that received a $2 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant last summer and exploits a 30 percent federal tax credit,...
View ArticleBankrupt Abound Solar to Bury Unused Solar Panels in Cement
Newscom Colorado-based Abound Solar has been ordered to remove and bury in cement thousands of leftover solar panels “deemed unsellable” by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment...
View ArticleDepartment of Energy: No Room for Sequestration Cuts?
Rainer Jensen/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom President Obama is touring the country and campaigning against the spending cuts under sequestration, such as cuts to energy research. The Department of...
View ArticleBankruptcy Filings Allege Abound Solar Aware of Defective Panels
Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images Recent filings by a customer of bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Abound Solar allege the company knew its panels were defective before the company collapsed last year,...
View ArticleProfitable or Not, Loan Guarantee Program Is a Failure
Newscom Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) is receiving criticism for including two solar-generation projects in his budget plan as “failed” projects despite the fact that Mesquite Solar 1’s project in...
View ArticleDOE Sitting on Taxpayer Dollars Due to Negative Publicity
Despite billions of dollars in unused loan authority remaining under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office, negative publicity surrounding the loan guarantee programs (which offer...
View ArticleObama Administration Plans to Spend $150 Million for Green Energy Projects...
Rainer Jensen/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom Just what America needs: More taxpayer-funded green energy projects. The Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service released plans to...
View Article$1.2 Billion in Cash Goes to Energy Projects, Despite Sequestration
Rainer Jensen/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom Despite a fiscal cliff and sequestration worries, more than $1.2 billion in cash payments for energy projects (in lieu of tax credits) have been issued by the...
View ArticleEnergy Secretary Nominee Faces Tough Natural Gas Decision
Rick Friedman/Polaris/Newscom If confirmed as the next Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, Dr. Ernest Moniz will take over an agency that has increasingly injected itself into making investment...
View ArticleThe High Cost of Offshore Wind: Is Cape Wind the Next Solyndra?
Jerry & Marcy Monkman / DanitaDelimont.com “Danita Delimont Photography”/Newscom Opponents have called it “another Solyndra waiting to happen.” An estimated $2.6 billion offshore wind project near...
View ArticleCongress Wants to Tell Americans How to Be More Efficient? Really?
Newscom In the interest of trying to make better choices for consumers, Congress has been determined to legislate efficiency mandates for American homes and businesses since the late 1970s. The latest...
View ArticleGreen Energy Companies Fisker and SoloPower Struggle Despite...
One foot on a banana peel, the other in the grave. That’s where Fisker Automotive and SoloPower find themselves, struggling for survival despite generous government handouts in the form of loan...
View ArticleKeystone XL and Natural Gas Provide Energy Trade Opportunities
Jim West/ZUMA Press/Newscom In June 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “If we continue to let our trade policy be dictated by special interests, then American workers will continue to be...
View ArticleCarbon (And Practically Everything Else) Just Got More Expensive
Newscom The Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a rule at the end of May that mandates the amount of energy microwaves can use on standby mode starting in 2016. The DOE tries to legitimize the rule by...
View ArticleNatural Gas Exports: Remove Government Barriers
Natural Gas Pipeline (Newscom) A June 18 House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing will focus on the future of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Currently, the U.S. can freely export LNG to...
View ArticleThe White House’s Dangerous New Nuclear Weapons Strategy
Last week, President Barack Obama announced his next initiative on nuclear weapons reductions, calling on Russia and the U.S. to reduce actively deployed nuclear warheads by one-third from 1,550 to...
View ArticleEliminate Advanced Manufacturing and Alternative Fuel Programs
There are sound market ideas that address issues of high energy prices. Throwing money at corporations is not one of them. The House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations released its report...
View ArticleEnergy Budget Cuts Are Attack on Subsidies, Not Science
House Members who are proposing cuts to the Department of Energy (DOE) budget are facing bogus criticism that the cuts are an attack on science. The reality is that the cuts are attacks on subsidies...
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