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State funding of DKRW coal-to-liquids plant: financially risky, contrary to purpose of Mineral Trust Fund
Houston-based DKRW Advanced Fuels has a dream: they want to turn a chunk of Wyoming's vast coal reserves into 10,600 barrels of gasoline per day. They want to capture most of the carbon
...DOE Loan Guarantees: Jonathan Silver Falls on Sword, Joins Third Way, Likely to Continue Washington Way
As fallout from the Solyndra bankruptcy continued to build, Jonathan Silver, Executive Director at DOE's Office of Loan Programs http://www.politico.com/n
...As the Guarantees Turn: October Wrap-Up
1) Don't Prop up USEC. Henry Sokolski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and Autumn Hanna at Taxpayers for Common Sense weigh in at the National Review
...Energy loan guarantees are not a "normal" federal lending program
Defenders of Title 17 energy loan guarantee programs periodically point to the many other areas of the economy in which the government makes direct loans or guarantees. They use the other pro
...Markey: If you are shining the light on lending to Solyndra, can you spare a few rays to look at nuke loan guarantees too?
Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) sent an interesting letter to Fred Upton (R-MI) late last week. The correspondence outlined
...2007 Comments from Six Major US Banks on DOE's Title 17 Energy Loan Guarantee Program
"The six financial institutions below (Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, ...
Missing the point of the Solyndra bankruptcy
Those of us who have been railing on the government's increasing push to make massive loan guarantees available to individual energy firms are not surprised to see the first major bankruptcy.
...Shining some sunlight on solar loan guarantees: lessons for nuclear?
Ben Gemen over at The Hill describes as "hardball" the effort
...Audit Report: The Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program for Clean Energy Technologies
The goal of the Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program (Program), as defined in the Energy ...
Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable Without Subsidies
Conspicuously absent from industry press releases and briefing memos touting nuclear power’s potential as a solution to global warming is any mention of the industry’s long and expensive history of
