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Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's this kind of experience that for Vice President Biden, helps him form a very pragmatic approach,\" said Aldy, who served in the Obama administration as special assistant to the president for energy and environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a presidential primary marked by competition over ambitious progressive agendas, there's a political risk in asking voters to turn their attention back a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden's leading opponents in California are running on their climate plans, not records. Bernie Sanders' (the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798764/bernie-sanders-pulls-away-from-pack-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current leader\u003c/a> in state primary polling) is calling for a \"Green New Deal\" with nearly 10 times the spending Biden's plan envisions, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm concerned about whether or not climate change will be at the top of the agenda for a Biden administration,\" said Leah Stokes, assistant professor of political science at UC Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike Biden, candidates including Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg are calling for a nationwide ban on new hydraulic fracking — a method of extracting oil by using water and chemicals to crack open geological formations. That position is likely to win over environmental activists in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom recently placed a moratorium on new fracking permits, in part over concerns about methane leakage from the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To win over California climate voters, Biden will have to persuade them to take a second look at Obama-era investments that largely flew under the radar, re-examine some high-profile failures and embrace lessons from the Recovery Act as a stepping stone to future climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11800190\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden look at solar panels as they tour the solar array at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado, February 17, 2009.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden look at solar panels as they tour the solar array at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado, on Feb. 17, 2009. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter Focus on Climate Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Biden ran for president, in 2008, climate change barely registered as a priority for California primary voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_1207MBS.pdf\">December 2007 survey\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California, just 3% of primary voters picked \"environment\" as the issue they wanted to hear about most from presidential candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve years later, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1932445/un-report-issues-life-or-death-warning-for-planetary-survival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dire warnings\u003c/a> about the impending damage that could come with a warmer planet, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1944993/study-climate-change-a-leading-driver-of-californias-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more intense wildfires\u003c/a> wreaking havoc at both ends of the state, voter priorities among Democrats in California have drastically shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, primary voters name climate change as their highest priority for the next president, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/12/09/warren-biden-slip-in-california-primary-race-says-new-berkeley-igs-poll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December poll\u003c/a> from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The perception of what is needed, that’s changed drastically, thank God,\" Biden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden is betting that the Recovery Act, remembered by most as a Keynesian response to revive the economy during the Great Recession, will gain new bona fides as a major climate initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A 'Major Down Payment'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, California became home to the world's bestselling electric car and largest solar-thermal power plant. Cities replaced millions of street lights with energy-efficient LED bulbs and state leaders recently celebrated California's one-millionth solar roof installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those gains were made, in part, because of the funds that flowed from the Recovery Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billions of dollars in loan guarantees helped develop the Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave Desert and the Tesla Motors factory in Fremont, while grants and tax breaks provided incentives for cities and homeowners to make energy efficiency upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11533488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11533488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-960x618.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-375x241.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisenmiller, who served as a California's energy commissioner from 2010 to 2019, said the stimulus package provided a \"major down payment on our energy infrastructure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We did a surprisingly large number of projects, about nine major solar projects,\" he added. \"No one had ever really tried to do that level of permitting. And many of these projects combined state and federal land in some fashion. So it really laid the groundwork for a lot of the future we’re in now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160225_cea_final_clean_energy_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credited Recovery Act\u003c/a> investments with saving enough energy to power 10,000 homes by 2050 and a 2011 study from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/resources/rebuilding-green-the-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act-and-the-green-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlueGreen Alliance\u003c/a> credited the Recovery Act's clean energy initiatives with \"creating or saving nearly a million jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the past, people would say, 'Oh, if you're supporting solar panels, that might be costing us jobs in other parts of the economy,'\" said Harvard professor Joseph Aldy. \"Well now we realize that if we're investing in the installation of solar panels, and in their manufacturing, we're actually creating some jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes people think twice about what a clean energy transition might look like from a labor standpoint, not just from a reducing carbon dioxide emissions standpoint,\" Aldy added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Notable Failures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like so much of the Obama administration's stimulus package, many clean energy investments largely flew under the radar, like the tax breaks folded into corporate and personal returns, and grants dropped into city coffers for future spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projects in California that did receive attention were not the shining examples the administration had hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most notable failure was Solyndra, the solar panel manufacturer which received the first loan guarantee from the Recovery Act: $535 million to build their manufacturing facility in the Bay Area city of Fremont and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYiJ-_K9NCo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit from President Obama\u003c/a> to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/38746/fremonts-solyndra-solar-tech-firm-suspending-operations-filing-bankruptcy\">company went bankrupt\u003c/a>, laying off 1,100 workers. Solyndra's flop \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/08/f26/11-0078-I.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drew scrutiny\u003c/a> of the company's loan application and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/solyndra-energy-department-failed-to-sound-alarm-as-solar-company-sank/2011/11/04/gIQAGQgfBN_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unleashed criticism\u003c/a> that the Energy Department propped up the manufacturer because of its investors' ties to the president. The next year, Republicans spent millions on ads attacking Obama over the loan guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We learned that the appetite for risk in the political environment in Washington, D.C. is relatively low,\" Aldy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Solyndra, the massive Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert has been targeted as a symbol of the stimulus packages' largess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10826397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GettyImages-476570455-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"Heliostats - in essence, rotating mirrors - at the Ivanpah solar power plant, in California's Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas. \" width=\"800\" height=\"539\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heliostats - in essence, rotating mirrors - at the Ivanpah solar power plant, in California's Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas. \u003ccite>(Ethan Miller/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most New Deal-esque project to land in California through the Recovery Act, Ivanpah was the largest solar thermal power plant in the world at the time of its completion in 2014: Hundreds of thousands of sunlight-reflecting mirrors spread across 5 square miles of federal land. Oakland-based BrightSource Energy received more than $1.37 billion in loan guarantees through the Recovery Act to construct the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early reports on Ivanpah were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/3812/the-ivanpah-solar-facilitys-pollution-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less than stellar\u003c/a>: criticism that it harmed local wildlife, energy production that fell short of targets and an over-reliance on natural gas to operate the system at night and on cloudy days, which rendered the facility a carbon polluter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the cost efficiency of Ivanpah is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-15/green-flops-why-some-promising-cleantech-ideas-didn-t-work-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still maligned\u003c/a>, clean energy production from the facility has \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57074?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57074-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57074-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">edged up\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57073?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57073-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57073-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57075?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57075-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57075-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">years\u003c/a>, and experts have hailed it as a trailblazer for future large-scale solar power production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Barbara professor Leah Stokes argued that the loan guarantee program that funded Ivanpah and Solyndra deserves a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government made money on that program while also supporting lots of companies creating new technologies,\" Stokes said. \"And a project like Ivanpah, which is riskier because it's new and innovative, is exactly the kind of thing that the federal government should be supporting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I actually think that those were really smart investments that the federal government made,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Future Investments Must Go Further, Experts Say \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even proponents of the Recovery Act's clean energy impacts acknowledge that Biden, or any other Democratic contender, will have to drastically up the ante in future climate-focused investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because while the stimulus invested heavily in renewable energy, it wasn't explicitly designed to fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal dollars were prioritized for shovel-ready projects as part of the stimulus' chief goal of getting Americans back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a mechanism to limit greenhouse gases, like California's cap-and-trade system, never came to fruition: Obama and Biden failed to rally enough support in the U.S Senate for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112795024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carbon pricing measure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade later, it's hard to evaluate the impact the Recovery Act had on the decarbonization of the economy. Studies \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114008855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have found\u003c/a> that emissions dropped more than expected in the years after the stimulus, but largely attribute that to a slowed economy and a nationwide shift from coal to natural gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let's face it, in 2010, it was economic recovery we were focused on. Now, we have to focus on climate change,\" said Weisenmiller, the former California energy commissioner. \"We need more on the level of a World War II-type of effort to really move the needle on climate — American Recovery and Reinvestment Act times ten or something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Election 2020\" tag=\"election2020\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden's leading opponents in California have made climate proposals that more closely mirror that wartime scope, led by Sanders' promise of a $16.3 trillion investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has pledged $1.7 trillion in spending and wants Congress to pass emissions limits that would drive further private-sector capital toward clean energy. And he says his foreign policy experience makes him well-equipped to bring other nations along in a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Recovery Act was signed, the concept of climate justice was in its nascent stages. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114008855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 study from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics\u003c/a> at Lund University found that \"there is no data that can be used to determine which demographic groups gained most as a result of the Renewable Energy stimulus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the climate plans of the leading Democrats in 2020 all come with a nod to climate justice and promise that economic mobilization in the face of a climate crisis will also address racial and socioeconomic disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one thing to say, 'How do we get photovoltaics commercialized?' \" Weisenmiller said. \"It's another thing to say, 'How do you make sure that everyone participates in some fashion? How do you make sure that you're really reaching out to our disadvantaged communities?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'There's Going to Be Mistakes Made'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his climate plan, Biden pledged to seize the \"opportunity\" of climate change to reshape the country's economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're the only country in the world that’s ever turned great problems into great opportunities,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make that happen, Biden sounded ready to embrace lessons from the Recovery Act's clean energy investment: political patience and an embrace of risk-taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the experimentation that's going to take place to get us to net zero emissions, there's going to be mistakes made,\" Biden said. \"But that can't turn us back from the commitment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If climate-focused research and development goes off without a hitch, it likely isn't moving the needle enough, said Weisenmiller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to really expect some failures to occur,\" Weisenmiller added. \"But if you do enough things, and you have enough successes, you're going to push things forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Joe Biden is betting voters will take a second look at the billions of dollars in clean energy funds that went to California thanks to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1588719836,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":64,"wordCount":2194},"headData":{"title":"With California Voters Focused on Climate, Biden Touts Obama-Era Energy Investments | KQED","description":"Joe Biden is betting voters will take a second look at the billions of dollars in clean energy funds that went to California thanks to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11799776 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11799776","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/05/with-california-voters-focused-on-climate-biden-touts-obama-era-energy-investments/","disqusTitle":"With California Voters Focused on Climate, Biden Touts Obama-Era Energy Investments","audioTrackLength":201,"path":"/news/11799776/with-california-voters-focused-on-climate-biden-touts-obama-era-energy-investments","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/22d63c70-0a88-4e94-a92b-ab590132d6e9/audio.mp3","audioDuration":201000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With early voting underway in California, the Democratic candidates for president are facing a Golden State electorate more concerned than ever before with how the next commander in chief will confront the globe's changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Biden's climate spending plan pales in comparison to the ambitious proposals of his Democratic rivals. But the former vice president can make a unique pitch: He is the only candidate who has already guided a nationwide clean energy initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden is betting that the billions of dollars in clean energy funds that went to California in the Obama administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will help him make his case to voters — and provide him with a boost in the March 3 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The attitude of Californians in terms of the intensity of their feeling for all of what we were doing through the Recovery Act in California was a heck of a lot less intense than it is today,\" Biden said in an interview with KQED. \"Here we are now eight, nine, 10 years later and I'm not being critical of anybody in California — you've been ahead of everybody — but everybody sort of had an epiphany here. Everybody understands this is really worth it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, with the country reeling from the Great Recession, President Barack Obama tasked Biden with overseeing the administration's $787 billion stimulus package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in the bill was a $90 billion investment in clean energy, the largest in U.S. history. The biggest renewable energy windfall went to California: $11.8 billion by the end of Obama's first term — triple the amount awarded to any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Recovery Act experience showed that Biden can pursue a green initiative that balances large-scale government investment with private sector innovation, said Joseph Aldy, professor of the practice of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's this kind of experience that for Vice President Biden, helps him form a very pragmatic approach,\" said Aldy, who served in the Obama administration as special assistant to the president for energy and environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a presidential primary marked by competition over ambitious progressive agendas, there's a political risk in asking voters to turn their attention back a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden's leading opponents in California are running on their climate plans, not records. Bernie Sanders' (the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798764/bernie-sanders-pulls-away-from-pack-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current leader\u003c/a> in state primary polling) is calling for a \"Green New Deal\" with nearly 10 times the spending Biden's plan envisions, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm concerned about whether or not climate change will be at the top of the agenda for a Biden administration,\" said Leah Stokes, assistant professor of political science at UC Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike Biden, candidates including Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg are calling for a nationwide ban on new hydraulic fracking — a method of extracting oil by using water and chemicals to crack open geological formations. That position is likely to win over environmental activists in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom recently placed a moratorium on new fracking permits, in part over concerns about methane leakage from the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To win over California climate voters, Biden will have to persuade them to take a second look at Obama-era investments that largely flew under the radar, re-examine some high-profile failures and embrace lessons from the Recovery Act as a stepping stone to future climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11800190\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden look at solar panels as they tour the solar array at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado, February 17, 2009.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden look at solar panels as they tour the solar array at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado, on Feb. 17, 2009. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter Focus on Climate Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Biden ran for president, in 2008, climate change barely registered as a priority for California primary voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_1207MBS.pdf\">December 2007 survey\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California, just 3% of primary voters picked \"environment\" as the issue they wanted to hear about most from presidential candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve years later, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1932445/un-report-issues-life-or-death-warning-for-planetary-survival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dire warnings\u003c/a> about the impending damage that could come with a warmer planet, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1944993/study-climate-change-a-leading-driver-of-californias-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more intense wildfires\u003c/a> wreaking havoc at both ends of the state, voter priorities among Democrats in California have drastically shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, primary voters name climate change as their highest priority for the next president, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/12/09/warren-biden-slip-in-california-primary-race-says-new-berkeley-igs-poll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December poll\u003c/a> from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The perception of what is needed, that’s changed drastically, thank God,\" Biden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden is betting that the Recovery Act, remembered by most as a Keynesian response to revive the economy during the Great Recession, will gain new bona fides as a major climate initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A 'Major Down Payment'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, California became home to the world's bestselling electric car and largest solar-thermal power plant. Cities replaced millions of street lights with energy-efficient LED bulbs and state leaders recently celebrated California's one-millionth solar roof installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those gains were made, in part, because of the funds that flowed from the Recovery Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billions of dollars in loan guarantees helped develop the Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave Desert and the Tesla Motors factory in Fremont, while grants and tax breaks provided incentives for cities and homeowners to make energy efficiency upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11533488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11533488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-960x618.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-375x241.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisenmiller, who served as a California's energy commissioner from 2010 to 2019, said the stimulus package provided a \"major down payment on our energy infrastructure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We did a surprisingly large number of projects, about nine major solar projects,\" he added. \"No one had ever really tried to do that level of permitting. And many of these projects combined state and federal land in some fashion. So it really laid the groundwork for a lot of the future we’re in now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160225_cea_final_clean_energy_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credited Recovery Act\u003c/a> investments with saving enough energy to power 10,000 homes by 2050 and a 2011 study from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/resources/rebuilding-green-the-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act-and-the-green-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlueGreen Alliance\u003c/a> credited the Recovery Act's clean energy initiatives with \"creating or saving nearly a million jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the past, people would say, 'Oh, if you're supporting solar panels, that might be costing us jobs in other parts of the economy,'\" said Harvard professor Joseph Aldy. \"Well now we realize that if we're investing in the installation of solar panels, and in their manufacturing, we're actually creating some jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes people think twice about what a clean energy transition might look like from a labor standpoint, not just from a reducing carbon dioxide emissions standpoint,\" Aldy added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Notable Failures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like so much of the Obama administration's stimulus package, many clean energy investments largely flew under the radar, like the tax breaks folded into corporate and personal returns, and grants dropped into city coffers for future spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projects in California that did receive attention were not the shining examples the administration had hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most notable failure was Solyndra, the solar panel manufacturer which received the first loan guarantee from the Recovery Act: $535 million to build their manufacturing facility in the Bay Area city of Fremont and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYiJ-_K9NCo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit from President Obama\u003c/a> to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/38746/fremonts-solyndra-solar-tech-firm-suspending-operations-filing-bankruptcy\">company went bankrupt\u003c/a>, laying off 1,100 workers. Solyndra's flop \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/08/f26/11-0078-I.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drew scrutiny\u003c/a> of the company's loan application and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/solyndra-energy-department-failed-to-sound-alarm-as-solar-company-sank/2011/11/04/gIQAGQgfBN_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unleashed criticism\u003c/a> that the Energy Department propped up the manufacturer because of its investors' ties to the president. The next year, Republicans spent millions on ads attacking Obama over the loan guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We learned that the appetite for risk in the political environment in Washington, D.C. is relatively low,\" Aldy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Solyndra, the massive Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert has been targeted as a symbol of the stimulus packages' largess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10826397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GettyImages-476570455-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"Heliostats - in essence, rotating mirrors - at the Ivanpah solar power plant, in California's Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas. \" width=\"800\" height=\"539\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heliostats - in essence, rotating mirrors - at the Ivanpah solar power plant, in California's Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas. \u003ccite>(Ethan Miller/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most New Deal-esque project to land in California through the Recovery Act, Ivanpah was the largest solar thermal power plant in the world at the time of its completion in 2014: Hundreds of thousands of sunlight-reflecting mirrors spread across 5 square miles of federal land. Oakland-based BrightSource Energy received more than $1.37 billion in loan guarantees through the Recovery Act to construct the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early reports on Ivanpah were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/3812/the-ivanpah-solar-facilitys-pollution-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less than stellar\u003c/a>: criticism that it harmed local wildlife, energy production that fell short of targets and an over-reliance on natural gas to operate the system at night and on cloudy days, which rendered the facility a carbon polluter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the cost efficiency of Ivanpah is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-15/green-flops-why-some-promising-cleantech-ideas-didn-t-work-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still maligned\u003c/a>, clean energy production from the facility has \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57074?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57074-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57074-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">edged up\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57073?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57073-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57073-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57075?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57075-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57075-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">years\u003c/a>, and experts have hailed it as a trailblazer for future large-scale solar power production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Barbara professor Leah Stokes argued that the loan guarantee program that funded Ivanpah and Solyndra deserves a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government made money on that program while also supporting lots of companies creating new technologies,\" Stokes said. \"And a project like Ivanpah, which is riskier because it's new and innovative, is exactly the kind of thing that the federal government should be supporting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I actually think that those were really smart investments that the federal government made,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Future Investments Must Go Further, Experts Say \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even proponents of the Recovery Act's clean energy impacts acknowledge that Biden, or any other Democratic contender, will have to drastically up the ante in future climate-focused investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because while the stimulus invested heavily in renewable energy, it wasn't explicitly designed to fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal dollars were prioritized for shovel-ready projects as part of the stimulus' chief goal of getting Americans back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a mechanism to limit greenhouse gases, like California's cap-and-trade system, never came to fruition: Obama and Biden failed to rally enough support in the U.S Senate for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112795024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carbon pricing measure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade later, it's hard to evaluate the impact the Recovery Act had on the decarbonization of the economy. Studies \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114008855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have found\u003c/a> that emissions dropped more than expected in the years after the stimulus, but largely attribute that to a slowed economy and a nationwide shift from coal to natural gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let's face it, in 2010, it was economic recovery we were focused on. Now, we have to focus on climate change,\" said Weisenmiller, the former California energy commissioner. \"We need more on the level of a World War II-type of effort to really move the needle on climate — American Recovery and Reinvestment Act times ten or something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Election 2020 ","tag":"election2020"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden's leading opponents in California have made climate proposals that more closely mirror that wartime scope, led by Sanders' promise of a $16.3 trillion investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has pledged $1.7 trillion in spending and wants Congress to pass emissions limits that would drive further private-sector capital toward clean energy. And he says his foreign policy experience makes him well-equipped to bring other nations along in a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Recovery Act was signed, the concept of climate justice was in its nascent stages. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114008855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 study from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics\u003c/a> at Lund University found that \"there is no data that can be used to determine which demographic groups gained most as a result of the Renewable Energy stimulus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the climate plans of the leading Democrats in 2020 all come with a nod to climate justice and promise that economic mobilization in the face of a climate crisis will also address racial and socioeconomic disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one thing to say, 'How do we get photovoltaics commercialized?' \" Weisenmiller said. \"It's another thing to say, 'How do you make sure that everyone participates in some fashion? How do you make sure that you're really reaching out to our disadvantaged communities?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'There's Going to Be Mistakes Made'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his climate plan, Biden pledged to seize the \"opportunity\" of climate change to reshape the country's economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're the only country in the world that’s ever turned great problems into great opportunities,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make that happen, Biden sounded ready to embrace lessons from the Recovery Act's clean energy investment: political patience and an embrace of risk-taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the experimentation that's going to take place to get us to net zero emissions, there's going to be mistakes made,\" Biden said. \"But that can't turn us back from the commitment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If climate-focused research and development goes off without a hitch, it likely isn't moving the needle enough, said Weisenmiller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to really expect some failures to occur,\" Weisenmiller added. \"But if you do enough things, and you have enough successes, you're going to push things forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11799776/with-california-voters-focused-on-climate-biden-touts-obama-era-energy-investments","authors":["227"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_13","news_356"],"tags":["news_255","news_27370","news_27419","news_19542","news_717","news_27441","news_394","news_1824","news_57","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11798086","label":"news_72"},"news_78029":{"type":"posts","id":"news_78029","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"78029","score":null,"sort":[1349969575000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-m-splash-216","title":"A.M. Splash: Oakland Sues U.S. Over Marijuana; Calif. Leads U.S. in Foreclosure Drop; Suit Filed Against Central Subway; Gas Prices Drop ","publishDate":1349969575,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-sues-feds-over-pot-dispensary-3937839.php\">Oakland sues feds over pot dispensary\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The city of Oakland took the unusual step Wednesday of filing a suit in an attempt to stop the federal government from seizing and closing down one of the largest medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. Attorneys for Harborside Health Center said the suit against the federal government appears to be the first such action by a municipality on behalf of a marijuana dispensary.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-11/california-leading-u-dot-s-dot-out-of-housing-bust-mortgages\">California: The Unlikely State Leading U.S. Out of Housing Bust\u003c/a> (Business Week)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California, the state that led the U.S. into the housing boom and bust with some of the most reckless subprime mortgage lending, is now leading the way out. A plunge in new defaults in California helped push U.S. foreclosure filings to the lowest level in almost five years, according to RealtyTrac Inc., a seller of home-loan data. Across the country, 531,576 properties received notices of default, auction or repossession in the third quarter, down 13 percent from a year earlier and the lowest since 2007. One in every 248 households got a filing, RealyTrac said today. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_21745773/gas-prices-slide-bay-area-california\">Gas prices slide in Bay Area, California\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Gasoline prices slid again on Wednesday throughout the Bay Area and California, offering further relief for drivers in the San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco regions, according to the Gas Buddy website. The average price for gasoline Wednesday was $4.65 in the East Bay, down 1 cent from Tuesday; $4.65 in the South Bay, down 1 cent; and $4.73 in the San Francisco area, unchanged from Tuesday. California gasoline prices averaged $4.65, down less than a 1 cent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Central-Subway-subject-of-suit-3937837.php\">S.F. Central Subway subject of suit\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A day before federal transportation officials are expected to give $942.2 million to the controversial Central Subway, opponents of the project on Wednesday filed suit to stop construction of a station with a Union Square entrance. The lawsuit, filed by subway critics Save Muni, is the latest, and so far most aggressive, effort to stall or kill construction of the 1.7-mile subway from Caltrain to Chinatown. The suit contends that the Municipal Transportation Agency's plans to build an entrance to the Union Square/Market Street station in the square violated a City Charter prohibition of nonrecreational uses in city parks. It seeks to force the Municipal Transportation Agency to move the station or put its location to a public vote.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_21748689/michaela-garecht-case-tests-bone-fragment-found-linden\">Michaela Garecht case: Tests on bone fragment found in Linden well could take weeks\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> The family of Michaela Garecht is awaiting results of lab tests to tell them if a bone fragment found in a Linden well belongs to the Hayward girl who went missing 24 years ago. Hayward police said Thursday morning that a 3-inch bone fragment unearthed with other remains in February was sent to an Arizona lab initially and has been forwarded to a Virginia lab for further analysis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20121011/COMMUNITY/121019945\">Leipheimer fans deflated by doping admissions\u003c/a> (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> Resignation and sadness greeted hometown cycling hero Levi Leipheimer's admission that for almost a decade he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs to race in the sport's top echelons. \"It's tragic anytime a professional athlete cheats to win, and that's really what we're talking about here,\" said Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Shirlee Zane, a cycling enthusiast.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_21745815/chevron-stock-plummets-weak-forecast-disclosure-richmond-refinery\">Chevron stock plummets on weak forecast, disclosure of Richmond refinery unit outage for rest of 2012\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Shares of San Ramon-based Chevron plunged on Wednesday, the first trading day after the oil company said its third quarter would be weaker than the second quarter. Chevron's shares sank 4.2 percent, or $4.91, and finished at $112.45. The energy giant was hobbled by the Richmond refinery fire, which slashed the company's refining capacity by 92,000 barrels a day. The fuel factory has a capacity of 245,000 barrels a day. The reduction means the refinery is operating at roughly 63 percent capacity, the company report shows.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_21744050/solyndra-bankruptcy-plan-draws-opposition-from-alameda-county\">Solyndra bankruptcy plan draws opposition from Alameda County, DOE, IRS\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> Solyndra has been slapped with several objections to its plan to reorganize its finances, including opposition from Alameda County, the U.S. Energy Department and the Internal Revenue Service. The objections come at the same time Solyndra is attempting to sell its solar equipment factory in Fremont. Solyndra has struck a deal to sell the plant to Seagate Technology for $90.3 million.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/20-arrested-in-housing-protest-in-Castro-3937559.php\">20 arrested in housing protest in Castro\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> A group protesting the lack of housing for thousands of San Franciscans briefly took over a vacant building in the heart of the Castro district on Wednesday evening as part of a worldwide day of action aimed at drawing attention to the plight of homeless people. About 50 protesters gathered at Dolores Park at 5 p.m. and listened to music for an hour before marching down 18th Street, chanting \"Homes not jails.\" Shortly after 6 p.m., protesters wearing black masks broke into an empty building at 535 Castro St. and hung a sign reading, \"Gentrification Equals Assimilation.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cli>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1349976604,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":866},"headData":{"title":"A.M. Splash: Oakland Sues U.S. Over Marijuana; Calif. 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Leads U.S. in Foreclosure Drop; Suit Filed Against Central Subway; Gas Prices Drop ","path":"/news/78029/a-m-splash-216","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-sues-feds-over-pot-dispensary-3937839.php\">Oakland sues feds over pot dispensary\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The city of Oakland took the unusual step Wednesday of filing a suit in an attempt to stop the federal government from seizing and closing down one of the largest medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. Attorneys for Harborside Health Center said the suit against the federal government appears to be the first such action by a municipality on behalf of a marijuana dispensary.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-11/california-leading-u-dot-s-dot-out-of-housing-bust-mortgages\">California: The Unlikely State Leading U.S. Out of Housing Bust\u003c/a> (Business Week)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California, the state that led the U.S. into the housing boom and bust with some of the most reckless subprime mortgage lending, is now leading the way out. A plunge in new defaults in California helped push U.S. foreclosure filings to the lowest level in almost five years, according to RealtyTrac Inc., a seller of home-loan data. Across the country, 531,576 properties received notices of default, auction or repossession in the third quarter, down 13 percent from a year earlier and the lowest since 2007. One in every 248 households got a filing, RealyTrac said today. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_21745773/gas-prices-slide-bay-area-california\">Gas prices slide in Bay Area, California\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Gasoline prices slid again on Wednesday throughout the Bay Area and California, offering further relief for drivers in the San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco regions, according to the Gas Buddy website. The average price for gasoline Wednesday was $4.65 in the East Bay, down 1 cent from Tuesday; $4.65 in the South Bay, down 1 cent; and $4.73 in the San Francisco area, unchanged from Tuesday. California gasoline prices averaged $4.65, down less than a 1 cent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Central-Subway-subject-of-suit-3937837.php\">S.F. 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It seeks to force the Municipal Transportation Agency to move the station or put its location to a public vote.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_21748689/michaela-garecht-case-tests-bone-fragment-found-linden\">Michaela Garecht case: Tests on bone fragment found in Linden well could take weeks\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> The family of Michaela Garecht is awaiting results of lab tests to tell them if a bone fragment found in a Linden well belongs to the Hayward girl who went missing 24 years ago. Hayward police said Thursday morning that a 3-inch bone fragment unearthed with other remains in February was sent to an Arizona lab initially and has been forwarded to a Virginia lab for further analysis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20121011/COMMUNITY/121019945\">Leipheimer fans deflated by doping admissions\u003c/a> (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> Resignation and sadness greeted hometown cycling hero Levi Leipheimer's admission that for almost a decade he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs to race in the sport's top echelons. \"It's tragic anytime a professional athlete cheats to win, and that's really what we're talking about here,\" said Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Shirlee Zane, a cycling enthusiast.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_21745815/chevron-stock-plummets-weak-forecast-disclosure-richmond-refinery\">Chevron stock plummets on weak forecast, disclosure of Richmond refinery unit outage for rest of 2012\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Shares of San Ramon-based Chevron plunged on Wednesday, the first trading day after the oil company said its third quarter would be weaker than the second quarter. Chevron's shares sank 4.2 percent, or $4.91, and finished at $112.45. The energy giant was hobbled by the Richmond refinery fire, which slashed the company's refining capacity by 92,000 barrels a day. The fuel factory has a capacity of 245,000 barrels a day. The reduction means the refinery is operating at roughly 63 percent capacity, the company report shows.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_21744050/solyndra-bankruptcy-plan-draws-opposition-from-alameda-county\">Solyndra bankruptcy plan draws opposition from Alameda County, DOE, IRS\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> Solyndra has been slapped with several objections to its plan to reorganize its finances, including opposition from Alameda County, the U.S. Energy Department and the Internal Revenue Service. The objections come at the same time Solyndra is attempting to sell its solar equipment factory in Fremont. 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Splash: Solyndra Backers May Get Tax Benefits; Hanta Virus Kills 2nd Yosemite Visitor; Petaluma Little Leaguers Get Heroes' Welcome ","publishDate":1346167785,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21411970/solyndras-private-backers-stand-reap-tax-gains-bankruptcy\">Solyndra's private backers stand to reap tax gains, bankruptcy filing says\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> Two investment firms could walk away from the bankruptcy of Fremont solar panel maker Solyndra with hundreds of millions of dollars in future tax breaks, the U.S. government said in court papers seeking more information on the arrangement. Units of Argonaut Ventures and Madrone Partners could end up with \"significantly more\" than $500 million in tax benefits as part of Solyndra's bankruptcy, the Department of Energy and the Internal Revenue Service said in a bankruptcy court filing on Friday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120827/ARTICLES/120829582/1334/news?Title=1-500-welcome-Little-League-heroes-home-to-Petaluma\">1,500 welcome Little League heroes home to Petaluma\u003c/a> (SR Press Democrat)\u003c/li>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Stepping like celebrities from a 32-foot white Hummer stretch limousine, Petaluma's Little League World Series team got a raucous welcome home Monday from about 1,500 people at the Petaluma fairgrounds.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/2nd-death-from-hantavirus-in-Yosemite-3819491.php\">2nd death from hantavirus in Yosemite\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Another visitor to Yosemite National Park this summer who contracted the hantavirus while staying in the popular Curry Village has died, park officials said Monday. That makes three confirmed cases, including two deaths. A fourth case, also reported Monday, is being investigated.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/GOP-convention-hears-swipe-at-Jerry-Brown-3818808.php\">GOP convention hears swipe at Jerry Brown\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He's 2,861 miles away in sunny Sacramento, but California Gov. Jerry Brown held center stage among hundreds of Republicans here on Monday as the object of an enthusiastic bash fest where state and national political figures excoriated him as a \"retread\" vestige of Democratic tax-raising and union-influenced leadership.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/census/ci_21417046/california-assembly-approves-bill-allow-multiple-parents\">California Assembly approves bill to allow multiple parents\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A bill approved Monday by the state Assembly would allow judges to declare more than two legal parents for some California children. Lawmakers approved SB1476 by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, on a party line vote, with Democrats supporting it. The legislation would allow judges to legally recognize multiple parents when it is in a child's best interest to have more than two parental relationships.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_21411277/flurry-immigration-bills-will-test-gov-jerry-brown\">Flurry of immigration bills will test Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California lawmakers are pushing this week to pass four bills that would make life easier for immigrants living and working here illegally, but all require the support of a governor who chooses his immigration causes carefully. Gov. Jerry Brown won praise last fall from Latinos and immigrant communities when he signed a law giving illegal immigrant college students access to state financial aid, but this season he must sift through a more complicated set of measures that opponents view as defying federal prerogatives.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Few-concrete-answers-to-the-Chevron-fire-3819354.php\">Few concrete answers to the Chevron fire\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The agencies investigating the fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond sought to assure residents Monday that they would hold the company accountable and use lessons from the Aug. 6 blaze to prevent future accidents. \"We want to take the lessons here to all of the 150 refineries,\" Dan Tillema, the lead investigator from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, said at a public meeting in Richmond's City Council chambers. The investigators, though, faced a skeptical and at times angry crowd of about 50 people - and they were able to provide few concrete answers. Some in the audience said they were still feeling ill from the plume of smoke put out by the fire in the refinery's crude-oil processing unit.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21413910/san-rafael-priest-pleads-innocent-lewdness-nude-charges\">Marin priest pleads innocent to lewdness, nude charges from China Camp sting\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A San Rafael priest pleaded innocent Monday to two misdemeanor charges in connection with allegations he exposed himself to an undercover investigator during a crackdown on lewd behavior at China Camp State Park. The Rev. Feliciano Torres Mofan, 58, appeared in Marin Superior Court on charges of lewd conduct in public and being nude in a state park, according to the Marin district attorney's office. If convicted, Mofan faces up to six months in Marin County Jail.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/burning-man-2012_n_1834494.html?utm_hp_ref=san-francisco\">Burning Man 2012: Creators Spend Countless Hours, Money On Projects \u003c/a>(Huffington Post)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco cleared out considerably over the weekend as tens of thousands of artists, dreamers, hippies, techies, corporate professionals, newcomers and veteran Burners made a mass exodus to Nevada for the annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert... Participants spend months before the event designing intricate campsites, organizing performances, building ornate sculptures, constructing the famous \"art cars\" that will navigate the festival grounds and holding flashy fundraisers to pay for their creations. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\u003c/li>\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/transportation/2012/08/dumbarton-bridge-shut-holiday\">Dumbarton Bridge to shut on holiday\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Motorists looking to cross the Bay this weekend will have to find an option other than the Dumbarton Bridge, as the span will be shuttered for three days for much-needed seismic rehabilitation work. Starting at 10 p.m. Friday, the bridge, which is part of state Highway 84, will be closed to all automobile traffic while crews replace a joint on the eastern segment, a move that will improve the seismic integrity of the structure.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/sanrafael/ci_21413102/demonstrators-stage-san-rafael-protest-against-circumcision\">Demonstrators stage San Rafael protest against circumcision\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> About a dozen members of an anti-circumcision group demonstrated in San Rafael on Monday outside the Bay Area chapter office of the American Academy of Pediatrics, after the academy adopted a new policy on male circumcision.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21416796/san-rafael-boy-gets-letter-from-neil-armstrong\">San Rafael boy gets letter from Neil Armstrong shortly before astronaut's death\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal) \u003c/li>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> As the world mourns Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon, an 11-year-old San Rafael boy has a special reason to miss him -- and a message from the astronaut he will always treasure.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1346172179,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":922},"headData":{"title":"A.M. 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Splash: Solyndra Backers May Get Tax Benefits; Hanta Virus Kills 2nd Yosemite Visitor; Petaluma Little Leaguers Get Heroes' Welcome ","path":"/news/74604/a-m-splash-190","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21411970/solyndras-private-backers-stand-reap-tax-gains-bankruptcy\">Solyndra's private backers stand to reap tax gains, bankruptcy filing says\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> Two investment firms could walk away from the bankruptcy of Fremont solar panel maker Solyndra with hundreds of millions of dollars in future tax breaks, the U.S. government said in court papers seeking more information on the arrangement. Units of Argonaut Ventures and Madrone Partners could end up with \"significantly more\" than $500 million in tax benefits as part of Solyndra's bankruptcy, the Department of Energy and the Internal Revenue Service said in a bankruptcy court filing on Friday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120827/ARTICLES/120829582/1334/news?Title=1-500-welcome-Little-League-heroes-home-to-Petaluma\">1,500 welcome Little League heroes home to Petaluma\u003c/a> (SR Press Democrat)\u003c/li>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Stepping like celebrities from a 32-foot white Hummer stretch limousine, Petaluma's Little League World Series team got a raucous welcome home Monday from about 1,500 people at the Petaluma fairgrounds.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/2nd-death-from-hantavirus-in-Yosemite-3819491.php\">2nd death from hantavirus in Yosemite\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Another visitor to Yosemite National Park this summer who contracted the hantavirus while staying in the popular Curry Village has died, park officials said Monday. That makes three confirmed cases, including two deaths. A fourth case, also reported Monday, is being investigated.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/GOP-convention-hears-swipe-at-Jerry-Brown-3818808.php\">GOP convention hears swipe at Jerry Brown\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He's 2,861 miles away in sunny Sacramento, but California Gov. Jerry Brown held center stage among hundreds of Republicans here on Monday as the object of an enthusiastic bash fest where state and national political figures excoriated him as a \"retread\" vestige of Democratic tax-raising and union-influenced leadership.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/census/ci_21417046/california-assembly-approves-bill-allow-multiple-parents\">California Assembly approves bill to allow multiple parents\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A bill approved Monday by the state Assembly would allow judges to declare more than two legal parents for some California children. Lawmakers approved SB1476 by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, on a party line vote, with Democrats supporting it. The legislation would allow judges to legally recognize multiple parents when it is in a child's best interest to have more than two parental relationships.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_21411277/flurry-immigration-bills-will-test-gov-jerry-brown\">Flurry of immigration bills will test Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California lawmakers are pushing this week to pass four bills that would make life easier for immigrants living and working here illegally, but all require the support of a governor who chooses his immigration causes carefully. Gov. Jerry Brown won praise last fall from Latinos and immigrant communities when he signed a law giving illegal immigrant college students access to state financial aid, but this season he must sift through a more complicated set of measures that opponents view as defying federal prerogatives.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Few-concrete-answers-to-the-Chevron-fire-3819354.php\">Few concrete answers to the Chevron fire\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The agencies investigating the fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond sought to assure residents Monday that they would hold the company accountable and use lessons from the Aug. 6 blaze to prevent future accidents. \"We want to take the lessons here to all of the 150 refineries,\" Dan Tillema, the lead investigator from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, said at a public meeting in Richmond's City Council chambers. The investigators, though, faced a skeptical and at times angry crowd of about 50 people - and they were able to provide few concrete answers. Some in the audience said they were still feeling ill from the plume of smoke put out by the fire in the refinery's crude-oil processing unit.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21413910/san-rafael-priest-pleads-innocent-lewdness-nude-charges\">Marin priest pleads innocent to lewdness, nude charges from China Camp sting\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A San Rafael priest pleaded innocent Monday to two misdemeanor charges in connection with allegations he exposed himself to an undercover investigator during a crackdown on lewd behavior at China Camp State Park. The Rev. Feliciano Torres Mofan, 58, appeared in Marin Superior Court on charges of lewd conduct in public and being nude in a state park, according to the Marin district attorney's office. If convicted, Mofan faces up to six months in Marin County Jail.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/burning-man-2012_n_1834494.html?utm_hp_ref=san-francisco\">Burning Man 2012: Creators Spend Countless Hours, Money On Projects \u003c/a>(Huffington Post)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco cleared out considerably over the weekend as tens of thousands of artists, dreamers, hippies, techies, corporate professionals, newcomers and veteran Burners made a mass exodus to Nevada for the annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert... Participants spend months before the event designing intricate campsites, organizing performances, building ornate sculptures, constructing the famous \"art cars\" that will navigate the festival grounds and holding flashy fundraisers to pay for their creations. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\u003c/li>\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/transportation/2012/08/dumbarton-bridge-shut-holiday\">Dumbarton Bridge to shut on holiday\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Motorists looking to cross the Bay this weekend will have to find an option other than the Dumbarton Bridge, as the span will be shuttered for three days for much-needed seismic rehabilitation work. Starting at 10 p.m. Friday, the bridge, which is part of state Highway 84, will be closed to all automobile traffic while crews replace a joint on the eastern segment, a move that will improve the seismic integrity of the structure.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/sanrafael/ci_21413102/demonstrators-stage-san-rafael-protest-against-circumcision\">Demonstrators stage San Rafael protest against circumcision\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> About a dozen members of an anti-circumcision group demonstrated in San Rafael on Monday outside the Bay Area chapter office of the American Academy of Pediatrics, after the academy adopted a new policy on male circumcision.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21416796/san-rafael-boy-gets-letter-from-neil-armstrong\">San Rafael boy gets letter from Neil Armstrong shortly before astronaut's death\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal) \u003c/li>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> As the world mourns Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon, an 11-year-old San Rafael boy has a special reason to miss him -- and a message from the astronaut he will always treasure.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/74604/a-m-splash-190","authors":["1367"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_3037","news_3036","news_3040","news_2509","news_1824"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_66829":{"type":"posts","id":"news_66829","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"66829","score":null,"sort":[1338498909000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mitt-romney-pours-salt-in-the-wounds-at-solyndra","title":"Fact Checking Mitt Romney's Comments That Obama Administration Steered Solyndra Money to 'Friends and Family'","publishDate":1338498909,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/7349057-raw-video-romney-discusses-economy-from-former-solyndra-plant/\">\u003cstrong>raw video\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> today of Mitt Romney at Solyndra slamming President Obama, the stimulus, and a \"serious conflict of interest on the part of the president and his team.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what Romney said: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Two years ago President Obama was here to tout this building and this business as a symbol of the success of his stimulus. Well you can see that's it a symbol of something very different today. It's a symbol not of success but of failure. It's also a symbol of a serious conflict of interest. An independent inspector general looked at this investment and concluded the administration had steered money to friends and family, to campaign contributors. This building, this half-billion taxpayer investment, represents a serious conflict of interest on the part of the president and his team. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Romney went on to claim that the Solyndra loan was an example of \"heads and his cronies win, tails and the taxpayers lose.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solyndra loan has certainly been found to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYiJ-_K9NCo\">problematic\u003c/a>. But Romney's claim that an inspector general concluded that Obama \"steered money to friends and family,\" well, that isn't true. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Solyndra was given a $535 million loan guarantee under a Dept of Energy program created by the stimulus bill. In May, 2010, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYiJ-_K9NCo\">President Obama visited the firm\u003c/a> and held it up as an example of the kind of green-energy company the administration was trying to cultivate. But in August of 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/fremonts-solyndra-solar-tech-firm-suspends-operations-filing-bankruptcy/\">firm laid off about 1,100 workers and filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>, providing Republicans with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/02/gop-makes-anti-obama-hay-out-of-solyndra-collapse-video-of-gop-ad/\">ready-made talking points\u003c/a> against some favorite targets: Obama, renewable energy, the stimulus bill, and government involvement in business in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of negative revelations about the Solyndra loan, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gop.com/images/research/the_solyndra_file_book.pdf\">packaged by the Republican National Committee here\u003c/a>, have provided fodder for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/14/watch-live-now-house-solyndra-hearings/\">GOP-led House hearings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrHAApqp8Cw\">negative advertising\u003c/a>. And a Treasury Dept Inspector General audit released in April was titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/ig/Agency%20Documents/OIG%20Audit%20Report%20%20-%20Consultation%20on%20Solyndra%20Loan%20Guarantee%20Was%20Rushed.pdf\">Consultation on Solyndra Loan Guarantee Was Rushed\u003c/a>.\" The report concluded that DOE may not have properly consulted with Treasury about the loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And emails released to congressional investigators showed that a former Obama fundraiser who was an Energy Dept advisor \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/obama-fundraiser-pushed-s_n_1000826.html\">pushed administration officials to finalize the loan\u003c/a> in time for a visit by VP Joe Biden to Solyndra's groundbreaking. The advisor, Steve Spinner, had pledged to stay out of the Solyndra deal because his wife's law firm represented the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as CBS News reports today: \"Republicans have not found evidence to back up claims by some lawmakers that the loan was approved for political reasons.\" The fact-checking site \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2011/nov/15/americans-prosperity/solyndra-ad-president-barack-obama-taxpayer-money/\">PolitiFact has a detailed entry on the Solyndra scandal\u003c/a>. Here's its conclusion about a TV ad that makes the same claim about crony capitalism, Solyndra and Obama that Romney made today. This was written last November:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solyndra's story is unfinished. FBI and congressional investigations continue, and more information about the loan guarantee program may yet come to light. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TV ad says \"(President Barack Obama gave) half a billion in taxpayer money to help his friends at Solyndra, a business the White House knew was on the path to bankruptcy.\" Some of this is correct, while some isn't supported by the existing evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the money wasn't Obama's to give. Solyndra's request predated his administration, and career Energy Department officials handled the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, e-mails so far don't show an administration pushing through a loan to help Obama's \"friends at Solyndra.\" Rather, it appears the administration asked the Energy Department officials to hurry the regular process, so the administration could burnish its stimulus efforts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, while e-mails raised doubts about Solyndra's liquidity as the Energy Department finalized the loan, those questions were answered by an official who argued investors would step in to protect the project — red flags, yes. But awareness in the White House the company would dissolve? No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government wasn't the only blindsided investor — private investors put up far more, and stand to lose more, than taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solyndra story might be one of the poor design of the Energy Department's loan guarantee program — something the Government Accountability Office has pointed out since 2008. And with the congressional investigation ongoing, we may learn more about the Obama administration's role in the loan program — perhaps better supporting the ad's claims. \u003cstrong>For now, though, information in the public record does not support the ad's claim that the Obama White House is a pay-to-play cash machine for the politically well-connected\u003c/strong>. We rate this ad's claim Mostly False.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Earlier today, KQED's Ian Hill \u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/kqednews/mitt-romney-takes-reporters-to-solyndra?utm_source=embed_header\">Storified\u003c/a> all the Twitter chatter from reporters who were told by the Romney campaign they were being taken somewhere, but not the actual location...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://storify.com/kqednews/mitt-romney-takes-reporters-to-solyndra\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1398475421,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":817},"headData":{"title":"Fact Checking Mitt Romney's Comments That Obama Administration Steered Solyndra Money to 'Friends and Family' | KQED","description":"Here's the raw video today of Mitt Romney at Solyndra slamming President Obama, the stimulus, and a "serious conflict of interest on the part of the president and his team." Here's what Romney said: Two years ago President Obama was here to tout this building and this business as a symbol of the success of","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"66829 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=66829","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/31/mitt-romney-pours-salt-in-the-wounds-at-solyndra/","disqusTitle":"Fact Checking Mitt Romney's Comments That Obama Administration Steered Solyndra Money to 'Friends and Family'","path":"/news/66829/mitt-romney-pours-salt-in-the-wounds-at-solyndra","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/7349057-raw-video-romney-discusses-economy-from-former-solyndra-plant/\">\u003cstrong>raw video\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> today of Mitt Romney at Solyndra slamming President Obama, the stimulus, and a \"serious conflict of interest on the part of the president and his team.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what Romney said: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Two years ago President Obama was here to tout this building and this business as a symbol of the success of his stimulus. Well you can see that's it a symbol of something very different today. It's a symbol not of success but of failure. It's also a symbol of a serious conflict of interest. An independent inspector general looked at this investment and concluded the administration had steered money to friends and family, to campaign contributors. This building, this half-billion taxpayer investment, represents a serious conflict of interest on the part of the president and his team. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Romney went on to claim that the Solyndra loan was an example of \"heads and his cronies win, tails and the taxpayers lose.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solyndra loan has certainly been found to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYiJ-_K9NCo\">problematic\u003c/a>. But Romney's claim that an inspector general concluded that Obama \"steered money to friends and family,\" well, that isn't true. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Solyndra was given a $535 million loan guarantee under a Dept of Energy program created by the stimulus bill. In May, 2010, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYiJ-_K9NCo\">President Obama visited the firm\u003c/a> and held it up as an example of the kind of green-energy company the administration was trying to cultivate. But in August of 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/fremonts-solyndra-solar-tech-firm-suspends-operations-filing-bankruptcy/\">firm laid off about 1,100 workers and filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>, providing Republicans with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/02/gop-makes-anti-obama-hay-out-of-solyndra-collapse-video-of-gop-ad/\">ready-made talking points\u003c/a> against some favorite targets: Obama, renewable energy, the stimulus bill, and government involvement in business in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of negative revelations about the Solyndra loan, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gop.com/images/research/the_solyndra_file_book.pdf\">packaged by the Republican National Committee here\u003c/a>, have provided fodder for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/14/watch-live-now-house-solyndra-hearings/\">GOP-led House hearings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrHAApqp8Cw\">negative advertising\u003c/a>. And a Treasury Dept Inspector General audit released in April was titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/ig/Agency%20Documents/OIG%20Audit%20Report%20%20-%20Consultation%20on%20Solyndra%20Loan%20Guarantee%20Was%20Rushed.pdf\">Consultation on Solyndra Loan Guarantee Was Rushed\u003c/a>.\" The report concluded that DOE may not have properly consulted with Treasury about the loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And emails released to congressional investigators showed that a former Obama fundraiser who was an Energy Dept advisor \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/obama-fundraiser-pushed-s_n_1000826.html\">pushed administration officials to finalize the loan\u003c/a> in time for a visit by VP Joe Biden to Solyndra's groundbreaking. The advisor, Steve Spinner, had pledged to stay out of the Solyndra deal because his wife's law firm represented the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as CBS News reports today: \"Republicans have not found evidence to back up claims by some lawmakers that the loan was approved for political reasons.\" The fact-checking site \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2011/nov/15/americans-prosperity/solyndra-ad-president-barack-obama-taxpayer-money/\">PolitiFact has a detailed entry on the Solyndra scandal\u003c/a>. Here's its conclusion about a TV ad that makes the same claim about crony capitalism, Solyndra and Obama that Romney made today. This was written last November:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solyndra's story is unfinished. FBI and congressional investigations continue, and more information about the loan guarantee program may yet come to light. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TV ad says \"(President Barack Obama gave) half a billion in taxpayer money to help his friends at Solyndra, a business the White House knew was on the path to bankruptcy.\" Some of this is correct, while some isn't supported by the existing evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the money wasn't Obama's to give. Solyndra's request predated his administration, and career Energy Department officials handled the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, e-mails so far don't show an administration pushing through a loan to help Obama's \"friends at Solyndra.\" Rather, it appears the administration asked the Energy Department officials to hurry the regular process, so the administration could burnish its stimulus efforts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, while e-mails raised doubts about Solyndra's liquidity as the Energy Department finalized the loan, those questions were answered by an official who argued investors would step in to protect the project — red flags, yes. But awareness in the White House the company would dissolve? No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government wasn't the only blindsided investor — private investors put up far more, and stand to lose more, than taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solyndra story might be one of the poor design of the Energy Department's loan guarantee program — something the Government Accountability Office has pointed out since 2008. And with the congressional investigation ongoing, we may learn more about the Obama administration's role in the loan program — perhaps better supporting the ad's claims. \u003cstrong>For now, though, information in the public record does not support the ad's claim that the Obama White House is a pay-to-play cash machine for the politically well-connected\u003c/strong>. We rate this ad's claim Mostly False.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Earlier today, KQED's Ian Hill \u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/kqednews/mitt-romney-takes-reporters-to-solyndra?utm_source=embed_header\">Storified\u003c/a> all the Twitter chatter from reporters who were told by the Romney campaign they were being taken somewhere, but not the actual location...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://storify.com/kqednews/mitt-romney-takes-reporters-to-solyndra\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/66829/mitt-romney-pours-salt-in-the-wounds-at-solyndra","authors":["80"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_13"],"tags":["news_1705","news_2489","news_1824"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_61381":{"type":"posts","id":"news_61381","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"61381","score":null,"sort":[1333644942000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"treasury-dept-inspector-general-finds-solyndra-loan-was-rushed","title":"Treasury Dept Inspector General Finds Solyndra Loan Was 'Rushed'","publishDate":1333644942,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/solyndralogo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/solyndralogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"solyndralogo\" width=\"202\" height=\"41\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-61385\">\u003c/a>WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal financial experts weren't consulted on a half-billion federal loan to a failed solar company until the last minute, and only then had \"about a day\" to complete their review, an internal watchdog concluded Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/ig/Agency%20Documents/OIG%20Audit%20Report%20%20-%20Consultation%20on%20Solyndra%20Loan%20Guarantee%20Was%20Rushed.pdf\">\u003cstrong>Full report: 'Consultation on Solyndra Loan Guarantee Was Rushed'\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The report from the Treasury Department's inspector general found that the department's review was \"rushed\" and began only after the Energy Department was poised to sign off on the terms of a $528 million loan to Solyndra Inc. The review was completed a day before Energy issued a press release saying it was approving the loan with conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasury officials complained to the White House that regulations governing federal loan guarantees say that the department should have been involved earlier in the process, but the inspector general said it was unclear whether the review's late start violated the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasury officials also told investigators that the shortened time frame was sufficient to review the loan. But investigators found no evidence that concerns raised by those officials, such as the debt-to-equity ratio in the project, were ever addressed by the Energy Department. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation is the latest to look closely at the Obama administration's decision to back Solyndra. Congress also is examining the deal, which was used to showcase the economic stimulus bill's support for renewable energy projects and so-called green jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solyndra was the first renewable-energy company to receive backing from a loan program created by the stimulus bill. But last year it declared bankruptcy and laid off more than 1,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's implosion and revelations that it received preferential treatment from federal officials have become an embarrassment for the Obama administration and a focal point for GOP criticism of the president's green-energy agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Energy Department approved the loan, and taxpayers were on the hook when it failed, the Treasury Department's Federal Financing Bank was the entity that actually disbursed the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal emails obtained by the inspector general suggest that Treasury officials' concerns at the time the loan was granted were dismissed in order to get it out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"DOE says their hands are tied on this issue...They are under pressure to complete a deal,\" one email read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another said: \"We pressed on certain issues...but the train has really left the station on this deal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., two Republicans leading the congressional investigation into the Solyndra loan, issued a joint statement Wednesday saying that the report shows \"Solyndra was a bad bet from the beginning that was rushed out the door while every red flag was ignored.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails obtained by Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce committee last year showed that the Treasury Department was also concerned that a later restructuring of the Solyndra loan could violate federal law. The loan was restructured in February 2011 so that private investors moved ahead of taxpayers for repayment on part of the loan in case of a default.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials have defended the loan restructuring, saying that without an infusion of cash, Solyndra would likely have faced immediate bankruptcy, putting more than 1,000 people out of work. Even with the federal help, Solyndra closed its doors Aug. 31, 2011, and let all its workers go.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1333645172,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":566},"headData":{"title":"Treasury Dept Inspector General Finds Solyndra Loan Was 'Rushed' | KQED","description":"WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal financial experts weren't consulted on a half-billion federal loan to a failed solar company until the last minute, and only then had "about a day" to complete their review, an internal watchdog concluded Wednesday. Full report: 'Consultation on Solyndra Loan Guarantee Was Rushed' The report from the Treasury Department's inspector general","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"61381 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=61381","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/05/treasury-dept-inspector-general-finds-solyndra-loan-was-rushed/","disqusTitle":"Treasury Dept Inspector General Finds Solyndra Loan Was 'Rushed'","path":"/news/61381/treasury-dept-inspector-general-finds-solyndra-loan-was-rushed","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/solyndralogo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/solyndralogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"solyndralogo\" width=\"202\" height=\"41\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-61385\">\u003c/a>WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal financial experts weren't consulted on a half-billion federal loan to a failed solar company until the last minute, and only then had \"about a day\" to complete their review, an internal watchdog concluded Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/ig/Agency%20Documents/OIG%20Audit%20Report%20%20-%20Consultation%20on%20Solyndra%20Loan%20Guarantee%20Was%20Rushed.pdf\">\u003cstrong>Full report: 'Consultation on Solyndra Loan Guarantee Was Rushed'\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The report from the Treasury Department's inspector general found that the department's review was \"rushed\" and began only after the Energy Department was poised to sign off on the terms of a $528 million loan to Solyndra Inc. The review was completed a day before Energy issued a press release saying it was approving the loan with conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasury officials complained to the White House that regulations governing federal loan guarantees say that the department should have been involved earlier in the process, but the inspector general said it was unclear whether the review's late start violated the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasury officials also told investigators that the shortened time frame was sufficient to review the loan. But investigators found no evidence that concerns raised by those officials, such as the debt-to-equity ratio in the project, were ever addressed by the Energy Department. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation is the latest to look closely at the Obama administration's decision to back Solyndra. Congress also is examining the deal, which was used to showcase the economic stimulus bill's support for renewable energy projects and so-called green jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solyndra was the first renewable-energy company to receive backing from a loan program created by the stimulus bill. But last year it declared bankruptcy and laid off more than 1,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's implosion and revelations that it received preferential treatment from federal officials have become an embarrassment for the Obama administration and a focal point for GOP criticism of the president's green-energy agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Energy Department approved the loan, and taxpayers were on the hook when it failed, the Treasury Department's Federal Financing Bank was the entity that actually disbursed the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal emails obtained by the inspector general suggest that Treasury officials' concerns at the time the loan was granted were dismissed in order to get it out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"DOE says their hands are tied on this issue...They are under pressure to complete a deal,\" one email read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another said: \"We pressed on certain issues...but the train has really left the station on this deal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., two Republicans leading the congressional investigation into the Solyndra loan, issued a joint statement Wednesday saying that the report shows \"Solyndra was a bad bet from the beginning that was rushed out the door while every red flag was ignored.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails obtained by Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce committee last year showed that the Treasury Department was also concerned that a later restructuring of the Solyndra loan could violate federal law. The loan was restructured in February 2011 so that private investors moved ahead of taxpayers for repayment on part of the loan in case of a default.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials have defended the loan restructuring, saying that without an infusion of cash, Solyndra would likely have faced immediate bankruptcy, putting more than 1,000 people out of work. Even with the federal help, Solyndra closed its doors Aug. 31, 2011, and let all its workers go.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/61381/treasury-dept-inspector-general-finds-solyndra-loan-was-rushed","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906"],"tags":["news_1824"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_47474":{"type":"posts","id":"news_47474","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"47474","score":null,"sort":[1321559746000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"live-video-live-now-energy-secretary-chu-testifies-on-solyndra-loan","title":"Energy Secretary Chu Testifies on Solyndra Loan; Watch Replay of Hearing","publishDate":1321559746,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/solyndralogo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/solyndralogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"solyndralogo\" width=\"202\" height=\"41\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47480\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SolyndraL\">\u003cstrong>Video: Hearing part 1\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Loanto\">\u003cstrong>Video: Hearing part 2\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/solyndra-hearing--steven-chu-testifies-live-updates/2011/11/17/gIQALRYQUN_blog.html\">\u003cstrong>Washington Post live blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 11:58 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Climate Watch's Craig Miller reports on today's congressional testimony by Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu regarding the Solyndra affair....\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Energy Secretary Stephen Chu stood his ground this morning at a congressional hearing on the ill-fated federal loan guarantee for Solyndra Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michigan Republican Fred Upton sought an apology from Chu for approving a loan for the failed Fremont solar company. But Chu said it was market developments that led to the company’s collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is extremely unfortunate what has happened to Solyndra but if you go back and look at the time decisions were being made, was there incompetence, was there any undue influence of a political nature, I would have to say ‘no,’ Chu said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the bottom of a market falls out and the price of solar decreases by 70% in two and a half years, that was totally unexpected...Fundamentally, this company and several others got caught in a very bad tsunami, if you will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans on the committee said they considered the loan approval illegal. Chu says that Energy Department administrators under both the Bush and Obama administrations found the Solyndra loan application worthy and placed it “at the head of the line.” Chu said his department will be watching future loans “like a hawk.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Watch \u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SolyndraL\">\u003cstrong>part 1 of the video replay of the hearing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> at C-SPAN. \u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Loanto\">\u003cstrong>Part 2\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washington Post also \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/solyndra-hearing--steven-chu-testifies-live-updates/2011/11/17/gIQALRYQUN_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">\u003cstrong>live-blogged\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nAt the end of August, Fremont-based solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra went belly up, putting 1,100 employees out of work and touching off a scandal -- at least according to Republicans -- about a $535 million federal loan guarantee from the Department of Energy in 2009, part of a program created under the much-maligned -- again, by Republicans -- stimulus bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another House hearing on Solyndra is in session now. From CSPAN: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Energy Secretary Steven Chu is being questioned by House Oversight Committee lawmakers today on his role in the federal loan guarantee made to the solar energy company Solyndra.The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has scheduled a hearing entitled \u003ca href=\"http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=9090\">The Solyndra Failure: Views from DOE Secretary Chu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOP members are investigating a series of emails sent between Chu, the White House and Solyndra. Energy Committee Republicans began looking into the Solyndra loan earlier this year. This summer, the committee subpoenaed documents from the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which was responsible for reviewing the risks of providing Solyndra the guarantee, which was part of the president's economic stimulus. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nThe company's failure was a particularly acute embarrassment to the Obama administration, and even to the president himself, who made a high-profile visit to Solyndra in May, 2010, hyping the notion that government should help cultivate clean-energy companies for reasons both economic and environmental. From his remarks that day: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I try to visit places like this about once a week, hear from folks as often as possible who are actually doing the extraordinary work of building up America. And I appreciated the chance to tour your plant and to see the incredible, cutting-edge solar panels that you're manufacturing, but also the process that goes into the manufacturing of these solar panels. And it is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world. And you guys all represent that. So thank you very much for that...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we recognized that we've got to go back to basics. We've got to go back to making things. We've got to go back to exports. We've got to go back to innovation. And we recognized that there was only so much government could do. The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra, will always be America's businesses. But that doesn't mean the government can just sit on the sidelines. Government still has the responsibility to help create the conditions in which students can gain an education so they can work at Solyndra, and entrepreneurs can get financing so they can start a company, and new industries can take hold...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. It's also worth noting, to achieve this doubling of our share of solar capacity, we actually need to make four times as many solar panels, because other countries are adding capacity, too. Nobody in this race is standing still. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/KYiJ-_K9NCo\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the company went out of business, the GOP has made much political hay out of a series of revelations related to the loan guarantee, including the fact that Solyndra \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/28/solyndra-received-favorable-irs-ruling-weeks-before-loan/\">received a favorable IRS ruling\u003c/a> weeks before it was granted, and the release of an October 2010 email \"from a Solyndra investment adviser to a colleague [that] said Energy Department officials were pushing 'very hard' to delay making the layoffs... public until Nov. 3, 2010 -- the day after the midterm elections.\" That's from \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/white-house-solyndra-emails-released-1.3327377\">AP\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have also made much out of the fact that bigtime Obama donor George Kaiser has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/george-kaiser-solyndra_n_1084568.html\">connection to a firm that was an investor in Solyndra\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the issue in September, Solyndra CEO Brian Higgins and Chief Financial Officer Bill Stover \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/23/video-todays-solyndra-house-hearing/\">invoked their Fifth Amendment right to not testify\u003c/a> to avoid self-incrimination. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, Chu \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/11/15/142361912/chu-discusses-solyndra-controversy\">appeared on NPR \u003c/a> to discuss the Solyndra controversy. From the interview with Melissa Block:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>BLOCK: People now, though, Secretary Chu, are saying that were a lot of red flags through this process, that the loan was not properly vetted, and that there was pressure placed to approve the loan before your visit for that groundbreaking. Do you think that's a fair critique, that there should have been more due diligence before that loan went through?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHU: We were very thorough in the application of loan at the time. In the end of 2008, the beginning of 2009, we asked outside people to give us second and third opinions. What was unanticipated was that the market for the prices of solar modules really plummeted. We're talking about something like over a two- or three-year period, we had more than 60 percent decrease. As we go back and look at what were people predicting as the months rolled on, they were consistently over-projecting what the selling prices would be. And so hindsight in some cases appeared to be better than 20/20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BLOCK: Hmm. But Secretary Chu, six months after the groundbreaking, the company's auditor, Price Waterhouse, warned that Solyndra had real financial trouble. They talked about recurring losses, negative cash flows and raised what they called substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern. This was the same month that you said you were confident that Solyndra would be able to repay its loan. Based on what? Were you aware of that audit at the time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHU: I was not aware of the audit instantly at that time, became aware of it later. And so what has happened during this period is we have a very good loan people, and they tried to, you know, what are the best projections, going forward, and how do you monitor progress of the loan? Certainly, any new company in the process of constructing a new factory that would be more efficient, more highly roboticized(ph) to be competitive would be burning through cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BLOCK: This was a point at which industry analysts, people who follow the solar industry, people at the Office of Management and Budget were raising concerns, were raising red flags. It does seem that the Energy Department was convinced that this was a good bet. Why? What were you basing that on?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/Media/file/Hearings/Oversight/111711_solyndra/memo.pdf\">Background memo from House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Staff\u003c/a> (pdf)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1321560593,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1382},"headData":{"title":"Energy Secretary Chu Testifies on Solyndra Loan; Watch Replay of Hearing | KQED","description":"Video: Hearing part 1 Video: Hearing part 2 Washington Post live blog Update 11:58 a.m. KQED Climate Watch's Craig Miller reports on today's congressional testimony by Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu regarding the Solyndra affair.... 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But Chu said it was market developments that led to the company’s collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is extremely unfortunate what has happened to Solyndra but if you go back and look at the time decisions were being made, was there incompetence, was there any undue influence of a political nature, I would have to say ‘no,’ Chu said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the bottom of a market falls out and the price of solar decreases by 70% in two and a half years, that was totally unexpected...Fundamentally, this company and several others got caught in a very bad tsunami, if you will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans on the committee said they considered the loan approval illegal. Chu says that Energy Department administrators under both the Bush and Obama administrations found the Solyndra loan application worthy and placed it “at the head of the line.” Chu said his department will be watching future loans “like a hawk.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Watch \u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SolyndraL\">\u003cstrong>part 1 of the video replay of the hearing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> at C-SPAN. \u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Loanto\">\u003cstrong>Part 2\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washington Post also \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/solyndra-hearing--steven-chu-testifies-live-updates/2011/11/17/gIQALRYQUN_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">\u003cstrong>live-blogged\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nAt the end of August, Fremont-based solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra went belly up, putting 1,100 employees out of work and touching off a scandal -- at least according to Republicans -- about a $535 million federal loan guarantee from the Department of Energy in 2009, part of a program created under the much-maligned -- again, by Republicans -- stimulus bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another House hearing on Solyndra is in session now. From CSPAN: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Energy Secretary Steven Chu is being questioned by House Oversight Committee lawmakers today on his role in the federal loan guarantee made to the solar energy company Solyndra.The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has scheduled a hearing entitled \u003ca href=\"http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=9090\">The Solyndra Failure: Views from DOE Secretary Chu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOP members are investigating a series of emails sent between Chu, the White House and Solyndra. Energy Committee Republicans began looking into the Solyndra loan earlier this year. This summer, the committee subpoenaed documents from the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which was responsible for reviewing the risks of providing Solyndra the guarantee, which was part of the president's economic stimulus. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nThe company's failure was a particularly acute embarrassment to the Obama administration, and even to the president himself, who made a high-profile visit to Solyndra in May, 2010, hyping the notion that government should help cultivate clean-energy companies for reasons both economic and environmental. From his remarks that day: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I try to visit places like this about once a week, hear from folks as often as possible who are actually doing the extraordinary work of building up America. And I appreciated the chance to tour your plant and to see the incredible, cutting-edge solar panels that you're manufacturing, but also the process that goes into the manufacturing of these solar panels. And it is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world. And you guys all represent that. So thank you very much for that...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we recognized that we've got to go back to basics. We've got to go back to making things. We've got to go back to exports. We've got to go back to innovation. And we recognized that there was only so much government could do. The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra, will always be America's businesses. But that doesn't mean the government can just sit on the sidelines. Government still has the responsibility to help create the conditions in which students can gain an education so they can work at Solyndra, and entrepreneurs can get financing so they can start a company, and new industries can take hold...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. It's also worth noting, to achieve this doubling of our share of solar capacity, we actually need to make four times as many solar panels, because other countries are adding capacity, too. Nobody in this race is standing still. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/KYiJ-_K9NCo\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the company went out of business, the GOP has made much political hay out of a series of revelations related to the loan guarantee, including the fact that Solyndra \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/28/solyndra-received-favorable-irs-ruling-weeks-before-loan/\">received a favorable IRS ruling\u003c/a> weeks before it was granted, and the release of an October 2010 email \"from a Solyndra investment adviser to a colleague [that] said Energy Department officials were pushing 'very hard' to delay making the layoffs... public until Nov. 3, 2010 -- the day after the midterm elections.\" That's from \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/white-house-solyndra-emails-released-1.3327377\">AP\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have also made much out of the fact that bigtime Obama donor George Kaiser has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/george-kaiser-solyndra_n_1084568.html\">connection to a firm that was an investor in Solyndra\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the issue in September, Solyndra CEO Brian Higgins and Chief Financial Officer Bill Stover \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/23/video-todays-solyndra-house-hearing/\">invoked their Fifth Amendment right to not testify\u003c/a> to avoid self-incrimination. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, Chu \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/11/15/142361912/chu-discusses-solyndra-controversy\">appeared on NPR \u003c/a> to discuss the Solyndra controversy. From the interview with Melissa Block:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>BLOCK: People now, though, Secretary Chu, are saying that were a lot of red flags through this process, that the loan was not properly vetted, and that there was pressure placed to approve the loan before your visit for that groundbreaking. Do you think that's a fair critique, that there should have been more due diligence before that loan went through?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHU: We were very thorough in the application of loan at the time. In the end of 2008, the beginning of 2009, we asked outside people to give us second and third opinions. What was unanticipated was that the market for the prices of solar modules really plummeted. We're talking about something like over a two- or three-year period, we had more than 60 percent decrease. As we go back and look at what were people predicting as the months rolled on, they were consistently over-projecting what the selling prices would be. And so hindsight in some cases appeared to be better than 20/20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BLOCK: Hmm. But Secretary Chu, six months after the groundbreaking, the company's auditor, Price Waterhouse, warned that Solyndra had real financial trouble. They talked about recurring losses, negative cash flows and raised what they called substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern. This was the same month that you said you were confident that Solyndra would be able to repay its loan. Based on what? Were you aware of that audit at the time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHU: I was not aware of the audit instantly at that time, became aware of it later. And so what has happened during this period is we have a very good loan people, and they tried to, you know, what are the best projections, going forward, and how do you monitor progress of the loan? Certainly, any new company in the process of constructing a new factory that would be more efficient, more highly roboticized(ph) to be competitive would be burning through cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BLOCK: This was a point at which industry analysts, people who follow the solar industry, people at the Office of Management and Budget were raising concerns, were raising red flags. It does seem that the Energy Department was convinced that this was a good bet. Why? 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As Solyndra ran out of cash, the company's two largest investors -- Argonaut Private Equity and Madrone Capital Partners -- gave the struggling company another $75 million to keep it afloat. In exchange, the Department of Energy agreed to restructure the debt, and the $75 million was ranked ahead of the government's claims in the event of bankruptcy. Solyndra was required to provide weekly information about its cash flow to the Department of Energy, which gained observer status on Solyndra's board of directors.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Solyndra\">\u003cstrong>video archive from CSPAN\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1318615703,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":141},"headData":{"title":"Video Archive: Today's House Hearing on Whether Dept of Energy Broke Law on Solyndra | KQED","description":"From the Mercury News: The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommitee on Oversight and Investigations is focusing on whether the Department of Energy broke the law when it agreed to restructure Solyndra's debt earlier this year... The hearing is focusing on a decision made in February. As Solyndra ran out of cash, the company's two","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"43019 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=43019","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/14/watch-live-now-house-solyndra-hearings/","disqusTitle":"Video Archive: Today's House Hearing on Whether Dept of Energy Broke Law on Solyndra ","path":"/news/43019/watch-live-now-house-solyndra-hearings","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19112887\">Mercury News\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommitee on Oversight and Investigations is focusing on whether the Department of Energy broke the law when it agreed to restructure Solyndra's debt earlier this year...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing is focusing on a decision made in February. 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Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, that credit was boosted from 10 percent to 30 percent through 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in August 2009, the IRS also determined that companies buying Solyndra products would qualify for another 30 percent tax credit – as long as they were installed on roofs painted white to reflect the sun. At the time, only Solyndra was selling products that would work on so-called \"cool roofs.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, had been pushing the cool-roofs model as a low-cost way to adapt to global warming and reduce the so-called “urban heat island effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu's idea has been lauded by most scientists, but there is a catch. Conventional solar panels don't work in conjunction with cool roofs – they get in the way and can't absorb the reflected energy. Solyndra's products would work because their 360-degree cylindrical design allows them to absorb reflected light, especially from cool roofs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this flat roof was painted white, it would reflect energy onto the bottom of tubes. A typical solar panel can only receive energy from one side,” said Benjamin Higgins, director of government affairs for Mainstream Energy Corp., an installer and distributor of solar panels in San Luis Obispo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its ruling, the IRS effectively gave Solyndra's customers the opportunity to benefit twice from tax credits – once for installing a cool roof and again for installing the company's solar cylinders. \"One of the most important considerations in the United States are federal tax incentives that apply to both solar systems and the roof,\" Solyndra touted on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have given assurance that if a taxpayer purchased Solyndra's product, it would have likely been eligible for the tax deduction,” said Blake Christian, a partner at Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP, a Long Beach accounting practice that advises its clients on IRS rulings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The favorable tax ruling for Solyndra's customers came at a critical time for the company – just a few weeks before the $535 million loan approval from the Energy Department. At the time, the company was engaged in a $1.9 million lobbying campaign to secure the federal loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A so-called IRS \"private letter ruling\" like the one favoring Solyndra's customers can often can take months or a year to secure. And they aren't cheap, with costs ranging from $150,000 to $200,000 in legal fees to specialty tax law firms to write the brief, according to tax attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there was a quick turnaround by the IRS, that raises some questions,” said Mainstream Energy's Higgins. “Often, these PLRs are like Freedom of Information Act requests, and they take months, if not years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Eldridge, an IRS spokeswoman, declined comment, citing taxpayer confidentiality. A spokesman for the Energy Department did not return calls for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the IRS decision, Solyndra touted the ruling on its company website, hiring the influential tax firm Jones Day to advise buyers of Solyndra products that they could benefit from the tax break, even if they already had installed a cool roof. Jones Day attorneys Scott Levine and Todd Wallace, who were advertised by Solyndra as energy tax experts, did not return phone calls seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is no evidence of influence by the White House on the IRS decision, House Republicans investigating the Solyndra loan likely will claim the Obama administration pushed the IRS into speeding the tax credit decision. Republicans have pointed to e-mails from White House officials showing pressure on Energy Department loan officers to approve the $535 million loan guarantee in time for Vice President Joe Biden to announce the loan to the company via satellite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama visited the Fremont company in May 2010, saying, “The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra.” The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Aug. 31, shutting its doors earlier this month and laying off more than 1,100 workers. The FBI raided the company's headquarters Sept. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solyndra President and CEO Brian Harrison, along with William Stover, the company's CFO, refused to answer questions at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing last week, citing their Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Daniel J. Goldstein is an investigative reporter with California Watch. Read more from California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1317236021,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":821},"headData":{"title":"Solyndra Received Favorable IRS Ruling Weeks Before Loan | KQED","description":"From California Watch Just weeks before Solyndra received approval for a $535 million taxpayer-funded loan, the Fremont, Calif.-based solar panel manufacturing company received a favorable ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, giving its customers a significant tax break. 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A spokesman for the Energy Department did not return calls for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the IRS decision, Solyndra touted the ruling on its company website, hiring the influential tax firm Jones Day to advise buyers of Solyndra products that they could benefit from the tax break, even if they already had installed a cool roof. Jones Day attorneys Scott Levine and Todd Wallace, who were advertised by Solyndra as energy tax experts, did not return phone calls seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is no evidence of influence by the White House on the IRS decision, House Republicans investigating the Solyndra loan likely will claim the Obama administration pushed the IRS into speeding the tax credit decision. Republicans have pointed to e-mails from White House officials showing pressure on Energy Department loan officers to approve the $535 million loan guarantee in time for Vice President Joe Biden to announce the loan to the company via satellite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama visited the Fremont company in May 2010, saying, “The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra.” The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Aug. 31, shutting its doors earlier this month and laying off more than 1,100 workers. The FBI raided the company's headquarters Sept. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solyndra President and CEO Brian Harrison, along with William Stover, the company's CFO, refused to answer questions at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing last week, citing their Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Daniel J. Goldstein is an investigative reporter with California Watch. 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The House Energy and Commerce Committee is looking into the controversial loan guarantees the now-bankrupt company received from the Dept. of Energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the \u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Solyndr\">full video\u003c/a> of today’s Solyndra hearing in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hey you know who’s really interested in this hearing? The Republican National Committee. 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