01 Oct '12, 10am

Republican Heroes of Renewable Energy

Republican Heroes of Renewable Energy

Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. Photo by Gage Skidmore, used with permission. The loan default of Fremont-based solar company Solyndra , Inc. has been beaten like a dead horse by Republican Congressional leadership this fall in the runup to the 2012 presidential elections. The “No More Solyndras” Act , passed by the House earlier this month and then ignored in the Senate, would have halted applications to the Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Programs and instituted more accountability measures. These programs aren’t exactly radical environmentalist experiments, funding as they do two nuclear reactors with faulty designs and $8 billion worth of fossil-fuel projects . However, as much Solyndra-bashing as there has been by Washington Republicans, their counterparts at the state and local level have been champs. A recent study by VC firm DBL Investors find that R...

Full article: http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/10/republican-support-fo...

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