Another one bites the dust

DOE-backed Amonix Solar shuts down
AP

Another renewable energy company backed by millions of dollars in federal grants has shuttered its doors, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

Green Energy Gulag

Federal inmates build solar panels for company with ties to Obama administration
AP

The Obama administration is using prison labor to advance its green energy agenda, enriching foreign companies and some of the president’s largest campaign donors in the process.

Abound to Fail

New documents reveal Obama's bad investment in failing solar company
Obama checks out solar panels / AP

Newly discovered documents reveal that Abound Solar, a company heavily invested in by a major Obama supporter and which was touted by the Obama administration as a “green energy success story,” experienced troubling failures before receiving a massive federal loan guarantee from the Department of Energy.

Interior Motives

Fast-tracked solar projects receive little scrutiny over environmental damages
Interior Sec. Ken Salazar / AP Images

The Department of Interior’s fast-tracked approval of several major solar projects in California and Nevada has raised questions over negative environmental impacts and the agency’s adherence to environmental regulations. On March 11, 2009, the Department of Interior [DOI] issued a secretarial order to fast track the siting of renewable energy projects on public lands managed by the agency. The move was part of the administration’s larger green energy initiative, which has pumped billions of dollars in stimulus money into renewable energy.