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  • March 2015
    Solar Panels: Another Taxpayer Rip-Off

    States are finding that subsidies and net metering policies for rooftop solar panels are costing taxpayers millions and tend to benefit higher-income...

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  • March 2015
    Busting the “100 Percent Renewable” Myth

    Many companies such as Apple and Google claim that they get their electricity from 100 percent renewable sources. At best, this claim...

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  • March 2015
    EIA Report: Subsidies Continue to Roll In...

    At the request of Congress, the Energy Information Administration (EIA), an independent agency of the U.S. Department of Energy, evaluated the amount...

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  • March 2015
    Solar Industry Fiascos Continue

    Many Americans are familiar with federal, taxpayer-financed fiascos in the solar industry such as Solyndra and Abound Solar, but they are less...

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  • February 2015
    Obama Subsidizes U.S. Solar Energy and Promises...

    President Obama subsidized solar and other renewable energy in the United States with taxpayer money to the tune of $39 billion per...

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    The U.S. solar manufacturing industry employed about 32,000 workers in 2014—just a tiny portion of the more than 12 million domestic manufacturing...

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