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Top Nuclear Loan Guarantee Contenders in Financial Shambles

  ***Originally Posted January 29, 2010***  The Department of Energy announced in December 2009 that they would soon issue Treasury-backed...

FY2011 Budget Request: Department of Energy Request

The Presidents fiscal year 2011 (FY2011) budget request includes a $28.4 billion discretionary budget for the Department of Energy (DOE)....

FY2011 Budget Request: President Terminates Yucca Mountain, Increases Funding for Other Nuclear Projects

The President’s budget ends funding for the Yucca Mountain project, which was intended to be a permanent nuclear waste disposal site....

FY2011 Budget Request: Administration Triples Risky Loan Guarantees for Nuclear Reactors

The President’s FY2011 budget proposal triples funding to the Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program.  This includes $36 billion in...

FY2011 Budget Request: President Expands Cuts to Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Similar to last year’s budget request, the Fiscal year 2011 budget request eliminates several longstanding oil and gas subsidies.  TCS is...

Congressional Budget Office Analysis Confirms Senate CEDA Jeopardizes Billions of Taxpayer Dollars

The American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 (ACELA), S. 1462, as approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in...

Senate Version of The Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA)

Both the House and Senate have proposed the creation of the new federal financing entity known as the Clean Energy Deployment...

Coal to Liquids: A Costly Gamble

Discovered by German scientists during World War II, the Fischer-Tropsch process – referred to by the Department of Energy as...

Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program

What are federal loan guarantees? Federal loan guarantees allow borrowers to receive a loan from an independent or federal lender with the...

The Amazing Waste: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Funding

Despite being expensive, inefficient, and ineffective, hydrogen fuel cell technologies have received more than $1.4 billion in federal...

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...