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March 14, 2013

The Dirty Politics of Clean Energy

Ellen Wald, Washington Times


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The problem wasn’t that the Bush administration wasn’t committed to clean energy, but rather that under the Obama administration, clean energy became a political cesspool to shore up companies with failing technologies under the aegis of “job growth” and “investment in our future.”

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TAGGED: George W. Bush, President Obama, Solyndra, Ernest Moniz

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