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Markey: If you are shining the light on lending to Solyndra, can you spare a few rays to look at nuke loan guarantees too?
by dkoplow on Sep 26, 2011
Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) sent an interesting letter to Fred Upton (R-MI) late last week. The correspondence outlined
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Tags: Areva, Ed Markey, Ford, Fred Upton, loan guarantees, nuclear subsidies, Solyndra, title 17, Vogtle
Missing the point of the Solyndra bankruptcy
by dkoplow on Sep 14, 2011
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?
by dkoplow on Jul 13, 2011
Ben Gemen over at The Hill describes as "hardball" the effort
...DOE remains mum on multi-billion dollar loan guarantee risks; litigation has begun
by dkoplow on Aug 11, 2010
It is hard to imagine the executives of a public company extending an $8.3 billion line of credit to a risky new venture, and then be unwilling to provide any detail to shareholders on how they eva
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