September 21, 2011
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: GOP Green Projects, Retrofit Tax Incentives, Kansas Sues
Some high-profile Republicans who have attacked President Obama over his failed efforts to stimulate clean energy jobs with federal support have nonetheless written the Energy Department to request federal funding for green projects, The New York Times reported. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (pictured left) made personal appeals for $235 million in federal loans for an electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Franklin, Ky., while critics of the program like Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich), Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), and Lamar Smith (R-TX) have also lobbied for hundreds of millions of dollars….
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