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'Green' biomass isn't always so clean

By Ronnie Greene

Toxic plumes spew from an unlikely source: renewable energy plants

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National biomass debate intensifies with new limits in Massachusetts

By Ronnie Greene

'Clean energy' expansion could strain U.S. power grid

By Chris Hamby

IMPACT: Green groups challenge EPA's air pollution exemption for biomass power plants

By Ronnie Greene

The ‘clean coal’ lobbying blitz

By Marianne Lavelle

National biomass debate intensifies with new limits in Massachusetts

By Ronnie Greene

U.S. biomass debate intensifies with new limits in Massachusetts

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'Green' biomass isn't always so clean

By Ronnie Greene

'Clean energy' expansion could strain U.S. power grid

By Chris Hamby

Congress ponders corn ethanol tax credit as production of plant waste ethanol lags

By Jim Morris

IMPACT: Green groups challenge EPA's air pollution exemption for biomass power plants

By Ronnie Greene

'Clean energy' expansion could strain U.S. power grid

By Chris Hamby

As President Barack Obama proposes to generate more electricity from "clean energy" sources, a new government report highlights the effects

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Energy projects lag in stimulus spending

By Gary Cohn

'Green' biomass isn't always so clean

By Ronnie Greene

National biomass debate intensifies with new limits in Massachusetts

By Ronnie Greene

No robust, sustained alternative energy policy

By The Center for Public Integrity

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Bundlers on the inside

By Ronnie Greene, Matthew Mosk and Ronnie Greene

Top Obama fundraisers at Energy Department included an overseer of stimulus billions.

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Skipping safeguards, officials rushed benefit to a politically-connected energy company

By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

White House had role in federal benefit for failed solar company, House investigators say

By Matthew Mosk and Ronnie Greene

Federal agents search headquarters of failed solar firm Solyndra

By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

Energy projects lag in stimulus spending

By Gary Cohn

Energy projects lag in stimulus spending

By Gary Cohn

Energy projects not quite the cornerstone of Obama's stimulus as promised

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Stimulus recipient, polluter gives Dems $10 million credit line

By Kristen Lombardi

Bundlers on the inside

By Ronnie Greene, Matthew Mosk and Ronnie Greene

'Clean energy' expansion could strain U.S. power grid

By Chris Hamby

Few stimulus-financed energy projects were ‘shovel ready’

By Alexandra Duszak

Audit cites risk in DOE loan program

By Ronnie Greene

A new audit of the Department of Energy’s $34 billion loan guarantee program said the agency doesn’t always follow its own rules

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DOE needs better risk management

By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

Bundlers on the inside

By Ronnie Greene, Matthew Mosk and Ronnie Greene

Missed warning signs: A Solyndra timeline

By Ronnie Greene

IMPACT: White House budget office turning over records on loan to politically connected firm

By Ronnie Greene

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Energy Department auto loan program sputters

By Ronnie Greene

A $25 billion Department of Energy loan program has not closed a loan in two years amid the specter of Solyndra.

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Emails show Energy Dept. sought to hide Solyndra layoffs until after 2010 elections

By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

DOE needs better risk management

By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

Missed warning signs: A Solyndra timeline

By Ronnie Greene

Audit cites risk in DOE loan program

By Ronnie Greene

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