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Solyndra Executives Invoke Fifth Amendment, Leave Loan Guarantee Questions Unanswered

Solyndra executives invoked their Fifth Amendment rights during a House hearing Sept. 23, declining to provide lawmakers with answers about why the solar panel manufacturer went bankrupt after receiving a $535 million loan guarantee…

Energy Department Cancels Guarantees for Two Solar Projects in Wake of Solyndra

The Energy Department has canceled loan guarantees for two solar energy projects, in an action that one of the companies attributed to increased scrutiny by the department in the wake of the Solyndra bankruptcy…

OMB Clears Confidential Information Rule for Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

—The White House Office of Management and Budget Sept. 15 cleared a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency that will guide electronics manufacturing and seven other broad industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions on whether their data will be considered confidential and thus not released to the public.

Obama’s Retreat on Ozone Standards Could Leave Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rules Vulnerable

Environmental and industry groups are questioning whether costly plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions may be vulnerable after the Obama administration announced Sept. 2 it is dropping a rulemaking to set more stringent air quality standards for ozone…

BNA INSIGHTS: New Jersey’s Solar Renewable Portfolio Standards—A Model for Success

Despite being one of the smallest states in the nation, New Jersey is second only to California in installed solar electric generating capacity. No other solar market is growing faster…

BNA INSIGHTS: The Fundamentals of Green Leasing in a Market That Increasingly Values Efficiency

As commercial real estate markets recover from the ongoing recession, green building construction, retrofits, and renovations likely will be a major factor over the next decade, at least in certain asset classes…

EPA Revises Allowances for HCFCs Based on 2010 Appeals Court Decision

The Environmental Protection Agency on Aug. 5 revised consumption and production allowances for hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) in 2011, issuing an interim final rule that sets company-by-company baselines for HCFC-22 and HCFC-142b…

House Republicans Seek to Deny EPA Use of Appropriated Funds for Climate Programs

The House July 27 approved a measure that would halve funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas reporting registry in fiscal year 2012 and another that would transfer $50 million from EPA’s Climate Change Program to the Great Lakes Restoration initiative, two of a series of amendments being offered to a bill (H.R. 2584) to fund EPA and related agencies…

California Air Agency Proposes Rules to Tighten Vehicle Emissions Standards

New passenger cars sold in California in 2025 would emit 75 percent less smog-forming pollution than today’s vehicles, under a proposal outlined by the California Air Resources Board at a July 19 workshop…

FERC Declines to Act on Smart Grid Rule, Cites Lack of Consensus

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decided not to conduct a rulemaking on the first group of proposed technical standards for the smart grid, citing a lack of consensus among electric utilities, telecommunications companies, and equipment manufacturers…

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