“Department of Energy” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top officials at the White House circulated a plan calling for the ouster of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and other top Energy Department officials as the administration braced for a political storm brewing over the failing solar energy company Solyndra. (more)

When solar company Solyndra was spiraling into bankruptcy, the Department of Energy paid a firm with heavy Democratic connections to analyze a potential bail out of the company — all while Solyndra execs continued to receive hefty bonuses for their work. (more)

The solar panel market will outgrow and “dwarf” the beer market, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu predicted Thursday. (more)

While taxpayers were left playing fiddle on the Solyndra Titanic, the bankrupt solar company’s CEO made off with a severance package worth nearly a half-million dollars. (more)

Solyndra is being investigated by the FBI, but that may just be the tip of the shovel-ready iceberg. (more)

The Obama administration has ordered an independent review of Department of Energy loan guarantees in the wake of a congressional investigation into the Solyndra scandal, NBC News reports. (more)

President Barack Obama’s Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, has agreed to testify about the failed solar energy company Solyndra before congressional investigators on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The hearing, according to committee staff, will be on November 17. (more)

With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work. (more)

Congressional investigators want to obtain transcribed interviews with Department of Energy officials involved with the Solyndra scandal, including the author of the legal memo justifying the restructuring of the solar company’s loan, but the DOE has refused to submit, saying House Republicans don’t have that authority. (more)

Former Obama administration Department of Energy loan programs adviser Steve Spinner jumped up a bracket in fundraising for the president’s re-election campaign. (more)

Shortly before now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra received a half-billion dollar loan from the federal government, it also received a sweetheart deal from the IRS: a guarantee of a 30-percent tax credit to customers who installed the company’s solar panels. (more)

As failed solar panel manufacturer Solyndra rides through the investigative ringer in Congress, revelations of another politically-connected company that received what appears to be a less-than-virtuous $1.2 billion loan guarantee are surfacing. (more)

NORTHFIELD, N.H. — Former Utah Gov. John Huntsman told reporters Monday afternoon that he favors permanently ending the Department of Energy loan guarantee program under which the now-bankrupt Solyndra obtained $535 million in taxpayer funds. (more)

Jonathan Silver, administrator of the U.S. Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program, is resigning from his post, Fox News reports. (more)

A Daily Caller investigation has found that in addition to the failed company Solyndra, at least four other solar panel manufacturing companies receiving in excess of $500 million in loan guarantees from the Obama administration employ executives or board members who have donated large sums of money to Democratic campaigns. (more)

When it comes to going green, sometimes the government sends mixed messages. (more)

An email from February 2011 shows that the now-bankrupt solar energy company Solyndra denied receiving money from the federal government. Solyndra spokesperson David Miler reacted viscerally to an early Daily Caller report about a growing congressional investigation into $535 million in federal loan guarantees, which have recently become the subject of scandal and intense scrutiny. (more)

The Obama administration continues to move forward with its “green” agenda, despite new concerns on the heels of a high-profile bankruptcy in the solar-energy sector. More recently, approximately 500 Texans lost their jobs Monday because of Environmental Protection Agency regulations on the energy industry. (more)

As the Solyndra saga continues to unfold, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is being sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request Tuesday from two organizations trying to uncover which political appointees had contact with the now-bankrupt solar panel manufacturer. (more)

Despite Solyndra’s abrupt closing and bankruptcy announcement last month, the Department of Energy (DOE) is undeterred. Just this month, the agency made two more loan guarantees worth millions of dollars to alternative energy firms. (more)