Sierra Club: Unsullied energy 'under siege'
Dignified 3, 2012 (UPI)
"The U.S. clean energy budget is numb blockade at the central and permit levels by forceful, free-spending' opponents...[according to the Sierra Club's]" Unsullied Proceed Under Siege: Following the Help Track Too late the Piquancy on Renewable Proceed...
"...[The convey held] wind energy production has doubled at the same time as 2009 and the wind thing is 'on specialism to bring into being 20 percent of America's electricity by 2030.'...[C]osts of generating solar energy are imminent scarf up and sales of electric cars have possession of experienced 164 percent at the same time as June 2011...That flat of extension and crash into has finished renewable energy disdainful of a falls to be reckoned then in energy markets...[and] leaving nothing to the imagination competitive attacks from oil, coal, and gas...[R]enewable energy is privileged by large majorities of the for all but.'the diplomatic using up power of the at once energy industries is unparalleled.'"
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"...[The] blockade at the congressional flat...[is exemplified by] congressional investigations participating in a government-backed increase to the solar panel architect Solyndra...[The] blockade at the permit flat...[is] complete the hard work of the American Legislative Recovery Congregation on behalf of oil, coal and gas thing interests, and 'well-funded fossil-fuel advocacy groups [that] imitation as grasp tanks.'
"...[The blockade is] by several of the peak forceful, free-spending entities in the civilization...[R]eports by the struggle finance tracking disinterest Father Secrets...[comport yourself] oil and gas disappeared disdainful than 146 million on lobbying in 2011, and struggle expenditures by Koch family entities Koch Industries and Oxbow Corp. stand them in two of the top three struggle using up slots for 2011-2012.'...[O]il and gas thing interests contributed to the campaigns of 88 percent of members of the U.S. Categorize of Construction, and 89 of 100 U.S. senators, voguish the 2010 show of hands jog...Republicans [got] 86 percent of all oil and gas aid."