Abengoa and Abound Solar get $2Billion Solar Stimulus Money
U.S. President Obama Unveils $2.3B Tax Credit to Boost Jobs in Clean Energy
EPA Names Top 20 Green-Powered Schools
President Obama Proposes Home Energy Retrofit Program for Job Creation
SunPower Solar Installations to Create 1000 New Jobs
DOE Announces More Than $200M For Solar, Wind & Water Energy Technologies
Clean Coal Project Gets $1 Billion Government Grant
Obama seeks to end Oil & Gas Subsidies while increasing Renewable Energy funding
Renewable Energy Investments Outperforming Estimates. Now Companies Want More
$8 Billion to Propel the U.S. to a Greener, Smart Technology Future
Cleantech Investment through Microloans for Developing Countries
Renewable Energy Tax Grant Program gets One Year Extension
Solar Renewable Energy Credit allows New Jersey Homeowners to Earn Big Money for Solar Pow
Higher Energy Efficiency Standards for Refrigerators Proposed by DOE
China Announces Focus on Renewable Energy and Nuclear Power
Alternative 'Energy Only' Bill Gets Failing Score
We’ve known for a while that Republicans and clean energy go together like crude oil and water. But that doesn’t stop us from doing a double take when we run across news items that point out that a new Congressional Budget Office estimate has Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) “Energy Only” bill costing the American taxpayer nearly $14 billion a year, while the ‘Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act’ (CEJAPA) which she opposes would save the average American about $21 billion annually.
It’s also a little odd that a self described ‘small government’ Republican like Murkowski would so vehemently oppose the CEJAPA, while bringing us legislation that will actually create another agency, the Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA). The CEDA’s sole purpose would be to disperse $16 billion of its budget to different alternative energy operations, as the agency’s director sees fit.
While that dollar amount may seem large compared to our pocket books, it’s a pittance compared to what the Department of Energy (DOE) is already spending on renewable energy initiatives. Unfortunately, Republicans like Murkowski are upset with the DOE because they don’t feel it’s spending enough on fossil fuels, and nuclear power.
This seems to be a tale of two different renewable energy initiatives, one with the backing of the Obama administration and an already proven track record of moving towards green energy, and the other with Murkowski and her allies attempting to do the same old thing, but expecting brand new plaudits, and brand new, and completely illogical results. Or at the very least, an appearance of expecting new and different results.
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Recommended for Further Reading:
- Abengoa and Abound Solar get $2Billion Solar Stimulus Money
- U.S. President Obama Unveils $2.3B Tax Credit to Boost Jobs in Clean Energy
- EPA Names Top 20 Green-Powered Schools
- President Obama Proposes Home Energy Retrofit Program for Job Creation
- SunPower Solar Installations to Create 1000 New Jobs
- DOE Announces More Than $200M For Solar, Wind & Water Energy Technologies
- Clean Coal Project Gets $1 Billion Government Grant
- Obama seeks to end Oil & Gas Subsidies while increasing Renewable Energy funding
- Renewable Energy Investments Outperforming Estimates. Now Companies Want More
- $8 Billion to Propel the U.S. to a Greener, Smart Technology Future
- Cleantech Investment through Microloans for Developing Countries
- Renewable Energy Tax Grant Program gets One Year Extension
- Solar Renewable Energy Credit allows New Jersey Homeowners to Earn Big Money for Solar Pow
- Higher Energy Efficiency Standards for Refrigerators Proposed by DOE
- China Announces Focus on Renewable Energy and Nuclear Power
I don't like how bias this article is. Obviously all republicans think their own way, even if someone has to make decisions for us about things like that. And we're not trying to kill the planet either, we want to use our resources. Try not to have such a closed mind.
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