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$135,294 per job? It's time for real solutions.

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Tags: Energy and Mineral Resources, Energy, [Issue page no longer in use]

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…

In Case You Missed It - USA Today: Our view on alternative power: Cape Wind battles reflect lack of energy seriousness

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Tags: Energy and Mineral Resources, Energy, Job Creation

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…

Hastings: President Pushes Just Green Jobs, but Americans Need ALL Energy Jobs

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Tags: Energy and Mineral Resources, Energy, [Issue page no longer in use], Job Creation

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…

Hastings Statement on Administration’s Decision to Force New Rules to Delay Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing

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Tags: Energy and Mineral Resources, Energy, Job Creation

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…

Will Secretary Salazar prove his support for all-of-the-above energy and rescue the Cape Wind project?

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Tags: Energy and Mineral Resources, Energy

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…