On Solyndra, the buck stops with Chu - POLITICO.com

REPUBLICANS DECRY DOE ‘RUSH’: Reps. Cliff Stearns and Michael Burgess are reiterating concerns that DOE is pushing loan guarantee applications, like the one given to Solyndra, out the door ahead of the Friday deadline. “Solyndra was the product of a bad bet rushed out the door and taxpayers are now on the hook. We cannot afford DOE rushing out more Solyndras in these final hours,” Stearns said in a statement. “If you’ve got the end of the fiscal year breathing down your neck, if you’ve got another $6-8 billion to push out the door, are you at risk for making the same kind of mistakes? And honestly that’s what’s keeping me awake at night now,” Burgess said on Fox News on Wednesday evening. “We’re putting our best effort into making sure no more Solyndra money is going out the door in the last minute.”

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Gvt source tells us #Baillieu Gvt has instructed them not to refer to 'climate change' anymore. Have 2 call it 'evolving climate'. WTF???

2011 Much Cooler Than 2010 So Far

It is very unlikely that 2011 will be anywhere near a record year

Poland Vows To Veto Any EU Anti-Shale Legislation

POLAND would veto any EU legislation that threatened its sovereignty in energy policy, Maciej Olex-Szczytowski, an adviser to the Polish foreign minister on economics and business, said yesterday.