https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2013/09/23/oh-good-energy-department-ready-to-kick-their-green-loan-program-back-into-high-gear/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 15:07:09 -0400<![CDATA[The Department of Energy managed to round up a couple more multimillion dollar renewable energy loan-guarantee failures for their already impressive running list just this month, but let that not deter the Obama administration&#8217;s most august bureaucrats from reviving the program&#8217;s temporarily dormant outlay activities. As I mentioned earlier this summer upon the administration&#8217;s announcement of their draft loan guarantee solicitation, however, the administration is looking to re-package the program as a supposedly more fossil-fuel friendly approach and as a direct antidote to the war-on-coal narrative freshly instigated by the EPA&#8217;s regulatory de facto ban on new coal plants &#8212; never mind that a casual $8 billion dollars is one heck of an expensive PR effort.]]>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:41:39 -0400<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2013/09/23/oh-good-energy-department-ready-to-kick-their-green-loan-program-back-into-high-gear-n209802