Another Fed-Backed Solar Company Goes Bankrupt
Adding to the growing list of failed "green" energy companies, another solar firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday in hopes of...
Environment
UN May Get Global Carbon Tax on Air Travel to Avert “Trade War”
The United Nations may be able to seize an opportunity — presented by mass resistance against the “carbon tax” on air travel imposed...
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UN Bosses Secretly Plot Global Govt Through “Green Economy” for Rio+20
United Nations boss Ban Ki-moon and his top deputies gathered in secret last year to chart the future course of humanity through “sustainable...
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U.S. Regulators Approve First Nuclear Power Plant Since 1978
U.S. regulators on Thursday authorized plans to construct the nation’s first nuclear power plant in three decades, despite concerns stemming from Japan’s 2011...
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China Rejects “Illegal” EU Carbon Tax on Airlines
The Chinese government announced on Monday that it would prohibit its airlines from paying a controversial “carbon tax” on flights to and from...
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Ambitious UN Sustainability Conference in Rio to Avoid Climate Talk
This June's United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UN CSD) in Rio de Janeiro will largely sidestep discussions of climate-change theories as leaders...
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Another Taxpayer-Funded Green-Tech Company Files Bankruptcy
Ener1 Inc., which owns an electric car battery-maker that reaped a $118-million grant from the Obama administration, filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday. The...
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Warren Buffett to Benefit From Obama’s Keystone XL Decision
As environmental groups hail President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, billionaire and prominent Democratic donor Warren Buffett (left) is set to...
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House Republicans Question Safety of Chevy Volt Batteries
House Republicans unleashed a barrage of criticism Wednesday during a House hearing on Chevrolet’s Volt electric car, after the head of the federal...
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Another Taxpayer-funded Solar Company Lays Off 40 Employees
Another taxpayer-funded solar-panel company, Willard & Kelsey Solar Group LLC, is undergoing operational issues, as it recently laid off about 40 people indefinitely...
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Kerry Kennedy May Make $40M in Chevron’s Ecuador Oil-Drilling Dispute
Human rights activist Kerry Kennedy, ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, stands to rake...
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Energy Department Invested $6.5B in Risky “Green” Ventures
The Obama administration’s track record with taxpayer-funded, green-tech subsidies is severely flawed, and according to new documents obtained by CBS News, its failures...
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Fed-backed Ethanol Plant Sold; Taxpayers Lose Again
A failed southeast Georgia ethanol factory was sold Tuesday for pennies on the dollar after squandering tens of millions in federal and state tax...
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UN Climate Summit Fails on Binding Treaty, But Danger Remains
Government climate dignitaries and the Associated Press hailed the “landmark” deal reached Sunday at the United Nations' global-warming summit in Durban, South Africa....
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Doomed UN Climate Summit in Durban Ridiculed as “Science” Crumbles
No members of Congress or President Obama’s cabinet bothered to show up at this year’s United Nations climate summit in Durban, South Africa....
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