A House GOP report capping a probe of the Obama administration’s backing for Solyndra calls the solar firm’s collapse a “cautionary tale” of political pressures and misguided policy leading to the loss of about a half-billion taxpayer dollars. House Energy and... Read More
Democrats are fighting a Republican report on the GOP investigation of solar firm Solyndra with plans to release their own report and call attention to how much the investigation cost taxpayers. On Thursday House Republicans made public their report from 18 months of... Read More
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) introduced legislation Thursday that would tax carbon emissions, sparking criticism from the GOP. The price on carbon would ramp up over time to incentivize greenhouse gas emission reductions, McDermott said in a statement. He said the bill would... Read More
A pair of ethanol industry trade groups on Thursday accused lawmakers and livestock groups of spreading misinformation to kill a rule that promotes corn ethanol production. Some lawmakers critical of ethanol have called for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) renewable... Read More
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) wants to get very far away from Capitol Hill to talk strategy with fellow Energy and Natural Resources Committee member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Murkowski is hoping to host Wyden in Alaska at some point in August, she said. She will probably chair the... Read More
Safe, tightly-regulated, job-creating Marcellus Shale development is supported by a clear majority of western Pennsylvania communities where natural gas production actually occurs. That was among the key findings in the recently released Pittsburgh Regional Quality of Life... Read More
A GOP report shows that White House budget analysts had concerns about the financial risks of the Energy Department’s early 2011 restructuring of the federal loan for Solyndra, the solar panel company that collapsed last August, according to a news account. The Washington Post... Read More
A bipartisan Senate duo says uprisings in Libya and other nations underscore why U.S. regulators must end delays and issue tough rules that force oil companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), in a Huffington... Read More
Senate legislation to extend various tax breaks now includes a one-year renewal of tax credits for wind energy projects that were omitted from an earlier version of the plan. The Senate maneuvering is occurring in the shadow of a presidential race in which Mitt Romney’s... Read More
