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Managing Oil Market Disruption in a Confrontation with Iran
www.cfr.org-February 01, 2012
Confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program has prompted worries that escalation could lead to massive oil market disruptions. In this Energy Brief, Robert McNally outlines several scenarios wherein rising tensions could affect the price of oil and identifies and assesses options for policymakers to respond in each case.
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Obama’s Keystone pipeline rejection is hard to accept
www.washingtonpost.com-January 19, 2012
ON TUESDAY, President Obama’s Jobs Council reminded the nation that it is still hooked on fossil fuels, and will be for a long time. “Continuing to deliver inexpensive and reliable energy,” the council reported, “is going to require the United States to optimize all of its natural resources and construct pathways (pipelines, transmission and distribution) to deliver electricity and fuel.”
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Solyndra: Politics infused Obama energy programs
www.washingtonpost.com-December 26, 2011
Linda Sterio remembers the excitement when President Obama arrived at Solyndra last year and described how his administration’s financial support for the plant was helping create hundreds of jobs. The company’s prospects appeared unlimited as Solyndra executives described the backlog of orders for its solar panels.
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A Gold Rush of Subsidies in Clean Energy Search
www.nytimes.com-November 12, 2011
Halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, on a former cattle ranch and gypsum mine, NRG Energy is building an engineering marvel: a compound of nearly a million solar panels that will produce enough electricity to power about 100,000 homes.
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Keystone pipeline route in Nebraska to be reassessed
www.washingtonpost.com-November 11, 2011
The Obama administration will delay action on a controversial cross-country oil pipeline in order to assess a shift in its route, officials announced Thursday, effectively putting off a politically vexing decision until after next year’s election.
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Energy Department couldn’t manage stimulus money, watchdog says
www.washingtonpost.com-November 02, 2011
The federal watchdog who first raised concerns over the federal loan program used for the now-defunct solar company Solyndra is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill Wednesday--his first appearance since the story broke.
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White House orders review of Energy Department loans amid Solyndra fallout
www.washingtonpost.com-October 29, 2011
The White House has authorized an independent review of all loan guarantees made by the Energy Department to foster green technology amid fallout from the bankruptcy this year of Solyndra, the California company that received a $535 million loan through the program.
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New Energy Jobs Won't Solve the U.S. Unemployment Problem
www.foreignaffairs.com-October 18, 2011
Republicans and Democrats alike have touted the energy sector as the key to solving the United States' employment problems. They are both wrong.
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Obama allies’ interests collide over Keystone pipeline
www.washingtonpost.com-October 17, 2011
In May, environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben — pondering a simmering energy issue — asked a NASA scientist to calculate what it would mean for the Earth’s climate if Canada extracted all of the petroleum in its rich Alberta oil sands region.
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E-Mails Suggest White House Weighed a 2nd Solyndra Loan Worth Almost Half a Billion Dollars
www.nytimes.com-October 06, 2011
Early last year, the Obama administration was so optimistic about the business prospects of Solyndra, the solar equipment manufacturer that declared bankruptcy last month after receiving a $528 million government loan, that officials entertained the possibility of giving the California company a second loan of almost half a billion dollars, according to internal e-mails.
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Donor, officials warned Obama not to visit Solyndra after financial warnings
www.washingtonpost.com-October 03, 2011
A Silicon Valley investor and senior administration officials warned the White House to reconsider having President Obama visit a solar start-up company because of its mounting financial problems, saying he might be embarrassed later.
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Solar projects get funding as deadline approaches
www.washingtonpost.com-October 01, 2011
The Energy Department defied Republican critics Friday by announcing that it had committed an additional $4.7 billion in loan guarantees toward four big-dollar clean technology projects just hours before the program’s funding expired.
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Chu takes responsibility for a loan deal that put more taxpayer money at risk in Solyndra
www.washingtonpost.com-September 30, 2011
Energy Secretary Steven Chu acknowledged Thursday making the final decision to allow a struggling solar company to continue receiving taxpayer money after it had technically defaulted on a $535 million federal loan guaranteed by his agency.
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China—Leader or Laggard on the Path to a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy Future?
www.csis.org-September 26, 2011
There has been a great deal of talk about whether and how China will manage its need to provide enough energy to ensure continued economic growth while avoiding the local and global environmental impacts of its energy production and use. To listen to the political discourse, China is either a global leader on clean energy technologies and transformation or the largest source of emissions with serious, systemic local environmental degradation. How can it at once be a low-carbon leader and a laggard?
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Solyndra's collapse is a tale of too much dazzle
www.latimes.com-September 25, 2011
Investors were convinced that the solar company was the harbinger of an alternative-energy boom. But the market changed too swiftly.
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