Surprise! Another DOE Solar 'Bet' Produces Green Job Losses
Yet another solar company that received loan guarantees from the Department of Energy has dismissed factory workers, lopping off 70 percent of its U.S. employees. Loveland, Colo.-based Abound Solar...
View ArticleTaxpayer-Funded Abound Solar Had Previous Shutdown; Lobbyist Promoted Failed...
A Department of Energy-funded solar company that laid off 280 workers last week quietly imposed a mandatory, temporary cessation of its operations during the holidays, and warned employees to “not let...
View ArticleTaxpayers Reward Executives for Failure as Green Jobs are Slashed
First Solar, the beneficiary of at least $3 billion in Department of Energy loan guarantees, paid its former CEO $32 million over two years as he stewarded its stock price from $143 to below $100....
View ArticleMore Federal Officials Don't Like Natural Gas— This Time in Gas Rich Zone
As Americans grow increasingly skeptical about global warming, and the availability of shale oil and natural gas is greater than ever in the U.S., a federal official based in Colorado says the climate...
View ArticleYet Another DOE Green Failure as Abound Solar Goes Bankrupt
The next time a green energy company announces it is intentionally slowing down for a transition phase, or that a technology breakthrough is just around the corner, or that all that’s needed for future...
View ArticleGE Solar Delay Shows Timing Will Never Be Good
We’ve heard this story before.Much like taxpayer-backed Abound Solar– which just revealed it would declare bankruptcy– General Electric announced last week it would suspend construction of a solar...
View ArticleDOE's Derelict Judgment Makes Abound Solar a Tax Scofflaw
Bankrupt manufacturer Abound Solar, which is liquidating despite having received $70.9 million in taxpayer-backed loans from the Department of Energy, may leave government services in its former Weld...
View ArticleDOE Hiding Truth About Bankrupt Abound Solar's Defective Panels
As the now-bankrupt stimulus loan recipient Abound Solar filed for Chapter 7 (liquidation) bankruptcy in early July thanks largely to its defective modules, the Department of Energy still praised the...
View ArticleEmails Show White House Exerted Pressure for DOE Loan to Abound Solar
The claim that the many beneficiaries (like Solyndra and Fisker Automotive) of President Obama’s green energy stimulus program received their millions of taxpayer dollars based on measurable metrics...
View Article2012: The Year of Taxpayer ‘Green’ Waste
The past year was a dismal one for the passé idea that government would use taxpayer dollars responsibly, and that was nowhere more evident than with President Obama’s initiatives to promote “clean”...
View ArticleAbound Solar's Toxic Waste Highlights Enviro Hypocrisy on Pollution
And the environmental pressure groups wanted you to believe solar energy was “clean” and “green.”If that’s true, then why do we keep hearing the words “toxic” and “hazardous” connected with the...
View ArticleColorado Local Govts Struggle in Wake of DOE's Abound Solar Bankruptcy
So here’s the legacy left in Weld County, Colorado by bankrupt Abound Solar, the crony capitalist-influenced Department of Energy, and Democrat donor/investor/billionaire-ette Pat Stryker: A...
View ArticleStimulus Program Delivered Free Trees to Rich People...and a Reporter
NLPC has reported regularly on several of the large-ticket boondoggles that have received taxpayer support via President Obama’s “green” stimulus initiatives, but for every Fisker, Nissan Leaf or...
View ArticleTaxpayer-Funded Solar Company Leaves Environmental, Financial Mess
It may be the height of irony that a company that was supposed to soar to the top of the new clean energy economy, with the help of U.S. taxpayers to undergird President Obama’s stimulus visions, has...
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