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Report: US green technology investments fell 54 percent since January

| Michael Bastasch
Solar Land Rush

Industry has seen a number of high-profile bankruptcies

Oregon to consider additional tax on gas-efficient vehicles

| Caroline May
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Opponents say the tax will discourage consumers from purchasing efficient vehicles

Obama re-election ad targets Koch brothers, touts 'green tech' jobs

| Neil Munro
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Obama re-election ad targets Koch brothers, touts ‘green tech’ jobs, claims credit for reduced foreign-oil dependence while Obama rejects new Canadian pipeline

Multiple clean-tech firms deemed unsustainable - The Boston Globe

| Josh Peterson
Solar Manufacturer Investigation

‘The failure of the Solyndra LLC is perhaps the best known example – but just one’

First electric motorcycle released by major factory - Gizmag

| Josh Peterson
France Le Mans 24 Hour Moto Racing

‘Battery technology being what it is at the moment, it’s not surprising that the dirt bike specialists at KTM were the first to feel they could put together a decent offering’

Financial turmoil grips two more 'green energy' companies receiving federal loan guarantees - TheDC

| Jim Davis
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Beacon Power, Nevada Geothermal Power in tough financial straits, polling shows the public is wearying of DOE loan program

Obama's green revolution losing gas - TheDC

| Neil Munro
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Volt drains power from economy, Obama’s 2012 campaign

Electric the 'future?' 115-year-old car begs to differ - TheDC

| Bedford
Roberts Electric Car

115-year-old electric car gets same 40 miles to the charge as Chevy Volt

Tulane scientists: Newspapers could power cars - Wired UK

| InternAdmin

New bacterium can turn cellulose into butanol

D.C. city government: Going green is too costly - TheDC

| Amanda Carey

Government officials renege on promise to reimburse residents who installed solar panels on their homes

Environmental community's SOTU wish list - TheDC

| Amanda Carey

Advocacy groups will be paying close attention to the president’s speech, pritmary concern is EPA fight

Obama accuses GOP of turning its back on clean energy - AP

| admin

In his weekly radio address, President Obama targets his predecessor’s ‘failed energy policies’

Big business goes green for greenbacks - TheDC

| Amanda Carey

Businesses push cap and trade for government cash; fail to recognize bill’s long term implications

Will the Volt recharge GM and US auto industry? - AP

| admin

The new car could help usher in a new generation of electric cars, but there’s more at stake here than a technological breakthrough: The fate of GM and its workers

Toyota faces skeptics as incentive luster fades - AP

| admin

Buyers were willing to overlook Toyota’s safety troubles the last few months thanks to zero-percent financing and other deals, but as the lure of incentives fades, Toyota has a tough job

The truth behind green jobs

| Sterling Burnett and James Franko

Research shows that every green job created through government mandates or subsidies, actually cost more jobs than it creates

The cost of Al Gore’s renewable energy plan

| Nicolas Loris

Gore likened his mission to Kennedy’s call to put a man on the moon in a decade, but it’s Gore who needs to come down to Earth

Nissan's electric car will cost less than $32K in US - AP

| interns

Nissan Motor Co. says its Leaf electric car will cost $32,780 when it goes on sale in the U.S. at the end of the year

What, exactly, is a ‘green’ job?

| Robert P. Murphy

With an ailing economy, nearly double-digit unemployment and a sense among Washington lawmakers that something, anything, must be done to “create” jobs, politicians of both political stripes have turned to “green” jobs as the panacea to cure all ills.