President Obama: “You can see the results of last year’s investment in clean energy – in the North Carolina company that will create 1200 jobs nationwide helping to make advanced batteries; or in the California business that will put 1,000 people to work making solar panels.”
While the government spends millions of dollars to create green jobs, they are promoting job-killing… Read more »
Last night during the State of the Union address, President Obama once again stressed the need for comprehensive energy legislation. Unfortunately, we’ve heard that line before…Despite all their talk, the Obama Administration has repeatedly taken steps to block American energy production and job creation.
Republicans on the House Natural Resources released a new web video today… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement tonight following President Obama’s State of the Union address:
“For the past year, we have heard the President and his Administration talk about the need to create jobs, grow the economy and pursue comprehensive energy legislation. However, their actions tell an entirely different… Read more »
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Exactly one year ago today, the newly confirmed Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar delivered his first speech to Department employees, outlining his vision for the future of the agency.
Unfortunately, Secretary Salazar’s rhetoric stands in stark contrast to… Read more »
On Friday, Sean Higgins with Investor's Business Weekly blogged about President Obama’s recent announcement on a new Green Jobs initiative. The new program will award $2.3 billion in tax credits to create just 17,000 green energy jobs.
“Well, get out your calculator. $2.3 billion for 17,000 jobs equals $135,294 per job. (And that’s not including the eventual interest on this deficit… Read more »
Our view on alternative power: Cape Wind battles reflect lack of energy seriousness
Approve project. NIMBY politics only feeds fossil fuel dependence.
USA Today Editorial
January 11, 2010
The steady winds that blow along the nation's coastlines are an untapped energy resource that could reduce the need for coal, oil and natural gas. In fact, one group proposed placing enough windmills… Read more »
In response to the Department of Labor’s report that 85,000 jobs were lost in December and the national employment rate remains at 10-percent, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today in advance of the President’s announcement of government funding to help create green jobs:
“President Obama is responding to today’s… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement today that the Department of Interior will implement numerous new hurdles to the leasing and development of new oil and gas on federal lands:
“Evidently creating new energy jobs was not one of President Obama’s New Year’s resolutions. If it… Read more »
Secretary Salazar frequently claims that he supports of all-of-the-above energy development and has even stated that promotion of renewable energy on public lands is one of his top priorities.
Yet just yesterday, his National Park Service sided with the anti-energy crowd and struck a blow to the Cape Wind project, the first planned offshore wind farm in the US, by declaring that the… Read more »
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Background:
The Obama Administration’s Treasury Department estimates that the cap-and-trade national energy tax will result in an average $1,761 in increased costs for American families.
In Copenhagen yesterday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that the U.S. “is prepared to join other rich countries in raising $100 billion in… Read more »
