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White House orders independent review of Energy-loan program
October 28, 2011 White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said on Friday that the administration is ordering an independent analysis of the Energy Department program that gave a $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra, the bankrupt solar-energy company that is already facing an FBI probe. The move is one of the most ...
House Democrats focus on Solyndra legal memo
October 14, 2011 House Democrats Friday urged Republicans leading the congressional probe into Solyndra to release an Energy Department memo that they say shows the administration's legal rationale for restructuring the $535 million federal loan guarantee of the now-defunct solar manufacturer. A spokeswoman for House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Henry Waxman, D-Calif., ...
House GOP: Did DOE break the law on Solyndra?
October 8, 2011 House Republicans released new e-mails on Friday evening that they claim show the Treasury Department believed the Energy Department was violating the law when it restructured a $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra, the defunct solar manufacturer at the heart of an FBI investigation. An Energy Department spokesman said the ...
Energy official in charge of program that gave Solyndra a loan is leaving
October 6, 2011 The chief of President Obama's beleaguered clean-energy loan guarantee program is stepping down amid a federal probe surrounding the administration's $535-million loan guarantee to Solyndra, the bankrupt solar manufacturer. Energy Department spokesman Damien LaVera said Jonathan Silver, director of the department's loan guarantee program, is leaving the administration to join ...
Solyndra was banking on energy bill, emails show
October 6, 2011 Solyndra could still be in business had Congress passed a comprehensive energy bill last year, recently released emails indicate. A May 2010 email exchange between senior Energy Department advisers Matt Rogers and Rod O'Connor show Solyndra's executives were "counting on" Congress passing an energy bill that would have included major ...
Emails show bitter OMB, DOE divide over Solyndra
October 3, 2011 Emails released Monday show the White House was warned about Solyndra's potential problems even before President Obama visited the company's Fremont, Calif., headquarters and used it as a backdrop for his push for renewable energy investment and green jobs. "A number of us are concerned that the president is visiting ...
House votes to keep government open through Nov. 18
September 23, 2011 The House voted early Friday 219-203 to pass a continuing resolution that funds the government through Nov. 18, setting up a battle with the Democratic-controlled Senate. The vote replenishes a nearly-empty Federal Emergency Management Agency account and includes $100 million in savings from a program that guaranteed a loan to ...
Solyndra language paves way for bill to keep government running
September 22, 2011 House Republicans have found the path to passage for a short-term bill to fund the federal government: Add language intended to embarrass the Obama administration. Following a lengthy closed-door meeting, House Republicans emerged with a strategy to keep intact the continuing resolution the House defeated on Wednesday by adding a ...
Government races to close billions in renewable energy loan guarantees
September 16, 2011 The Obama administration is in a race against the clock to close by month's end more than a dozen renewable-energy loan guarantees totaling $9 billion. Of that, just over $3 billion would come from the federal government's coffers. It now has to do that amid an escalating political battle over ...
Solyndra: 'Bad bet or the tip of the iceberg?'
September 15, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
As Washington policymakers point fingers over the failure of a single federally backed solar company, the entire renewable-energy industry could end up being the big loser. A House investigations subcommittee on Wednesday held the first of what will be at least two congressional hearings on the $535 million federal loan ...
