[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS : ENERGY : ENVIRONMENT: Clean Energy Under Seige (PDF)
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY :
POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS :
ENERGY :
ENVIRONMENT:
Clean Energy Under Seige (PDF)
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Clean Energy Under Seige (PDF)
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Table of Contents
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
SIEGE IN THE CONGRESS
Solyndra and the Golden Opportunity
Subsidy Sleight of Hand: The Pompeo Bill
Hanging the Wind Industry Out to Dry
Efficiency Is Not Spared
Mike Pompeo Revisited
SIEGE IN THE STATES
Smart Alec
The Think Tanks
John Droz: Anti-Wind Crusader
Not in MyOr Anyone Elses Backyard
THE MOTHERS MILK OF POLITICS
The Cost of Dirtying Clean Energy
Feeding the Misinformation Machine
Oil Money in Nantucket Sound
CONCLUSION
Endnotes
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CONCLUSION
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It is a testament to the success and rapid growth of
clean-energy resources that they are now regarded
as enough of a threat to draw fire from some of the
largest, most powerful corporations on the planet .
But with this rising status, there comes a heightened
degree of difficulty that the renewable and efficiency
companiesas well as advocates for their products
as an environmental solutionmust both recognize
and contend with . The Koch brothers, Exxon Mobil,
Peabody Energy, and others are playing for keeps . They
have unlimited resources and we have documented
that they are committing them to undermining clean
energy . We clearly face a dog-eat-dog environment and
must respond with as much vigor and aggressiveness
as those who would see wind, solar, geothermal, and
other technologies fade into the sunseta product of
a brief period in American economic history when the
competitive environment was a friendly place for clean
energy .
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Now is a critical time . Although more than a decade
late, EPA is enforcing the Clean Air Act Amendments
of 1990 . Finally challenged to pay its freight in health
and environmental costs, much of the coal industrys
aging infrastructure is unable to both clean up and field
a competitive product . The slew of retiring coal plants
creates market space in the electric sector that could be
filled by both efficiency and renewable energy solutions .
It is an open question whether clean energy or only
slightly-less-bad fossil fuels step into that void .
Advocates and the industries need to step up and
answer the questions raised by conservative anti-cleanenergy advocates,
and we must call out their untenable
assumptions about the true nature of energy markets .
They shouldnt be able to hide behind libertarian fantasy
when their true intent is winning competitive advantage
and making more money .
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Clean energy is truly under siege, but it retains its
inherent advantage as the best set of solutions to help
us face a warming world and its attendant challenges .
The Merchants of Doubt strategy loston tobacco,
on acid rain, on ozone depletionand it will ultimately
lose on climate disruption . We must drive forward with
innovation and answers that give Americans what they
have always wanted: energy that enables us to live
modern lives, but which does not carry the destructive
costs with which coal and oil use have saddled our
planet . The Koch brothers appear to have no intention of
delivering that
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
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