In this week’s address, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of Energy is awarding nearly $2 billion in conditional commitments from the Recovery Act to two solar companies. These projects will create more than 2,000 construction jobs, and over 1,500 permanent jobs as the plants produce millions of state of the art solar panels each year.
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Obama Weekly Address: Recovery and Jobs of the Future
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama touted the gains the Recovery Act has made in a little more than 100 days. While the recession is still far from over, the Recovery Act has helped end the economic…
Solar Energy Advances Negate Nuclear Argument
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
For those continuing to advocate for a lifting on the ban on building new nuclear facilities (forgetting it could take as long as 10 years to get new plants online and the high cost of mining uranium) comes this promising…
