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Foreign Firms Dominate Wind Energy in U.S., Land Stimulus Dollars
By Investigative Reporting Workshop - Politics DailyOn Tuesday, former President George W. Bush was the star speaker for WINDPOWER 2010 in Dallas, a conference and exhibition hosted by the American Wind Energy Association. AWEA is one of the many rich, professional associations in Washington, D.C., that collects dues from member companies and amalgamates their interests into legislative agendas. It is, in short, a lobbying group. AWEA also claims credit for being "the voice of wind energy in the U.S." by representing "more than 2,500 member companies" and offering a possible solution to the government's dream agenda for energy and ...
Energy Crisis: Just Give It to the Greens
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Pew Study Salutes Pentagon for Eco-Friendly Thinking
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(April 20) -- An organization that buys jet fuel by the billions of gallons and gets around in gas-guzzling tanks seems an unlikely leader in the effort to go green. But according to a report released today by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate, the U.S. military is making great strides in curbing its appetite for fossil fuels. "This whole [Defense Department] is mobilized and thinking green," said John Warner, the former Navy secretary and Virginia senator, who worked with the Pew Project on its study. For instance, he said, troops in Afghanistan are using ...
Energy Battle Heats Up as Dems, Administration Begin Global Warming Push
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama went to Iowa yesterday for Earth day to tout his plan to remake the nation's energy policy by funding so-called "green energy" alternatives. The president visited the town of Newton, Iowa, home to a factory in a former Maytag plant that produces structural components for windmills. Key to Obama's energy and economic policy is an increase in jobs manufactuing and producing alternative sources of energy.The trip comes as Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill get set to do battle over the Administration's proposed "cap and trade" system for factory emissions. The ...
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