The Unites States of America is the single largest power consuming nation on earth.
Since the gasoline and fuel oil shortages of the 1970’s, the topic of renewable energy has been high on the agenda of politicians and environmentalists alike. The search for clean, renewable energy was deemed to be in the public interest, so the US Government stepped into the fight with research grants and financial aid for private companies in order to jump start clean energy industries here in the United States. Companies specializing in clean energy solutions using wind, solar, geothermal, and even ocean wave energy harvesting technology have sprung up, looking for their share of Government money offered by the Department of Energy under the
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Sounds simple, right? What could go wrong? The answer: plenty!
After the company was founded in 2005, Solyndra raised $450 million from private investors by 2008. It then applied for a loan from the US Government in 2008 under the Energy
Policy Act of 2005. The Bush Administration turned them down in January, 2009 just days before leaving office, citing the fact that there had not been an independent market study on the feasibility of what they were proposing. In March of 2009 after Obama took office, his
Administration hastily reopened discussions with Solyndra and the chase was on. Obama
Administration officials pushed the Solyndra deal through despite the grave concerns from
Government watchdog agencies and financial advisers. They arranged a political photo op for
President Obama to visit Solyndra in May 2010 to announce Solyndra’s partnership with the US
Government in providing clean energy, as promised while he was on the campaign trail.
Unknown to US Taxpayers, the partnership was fatally flawed from the start and was doomed to fail. All of the usual Government oversight process was circumvented by the Obama
Administration in order to drive the deal through without all of the normal checks and balances.
The President was keen to have his Green Energy policy kicked off, ready or not, for purely political reasons. There were those in the Administration who knew that Solyndra would not
succeed,
This remedy began with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by the U.S. senate on December 24, 2009 to then be passed in the U.S. house on March 21, 2010 to be signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010 which was upheld by the
At the beginning of last year, I convinced my family to start using environmentally products, focusing on green technology. In order to apply environmental technology properly and effectively, I had to figure out what alternative forms of energy existed and how well they worked. This led to my questioning: what other forms of energy could the United States be pursuing to increase its production of electricity? In an effort to research different form of energy and their benefits and detriments, I read two articles: “A Letter to the Editor” by David Rockwood and “Why Uranium is the New Green” by William Sweet. In his letter, David Rockwood, a professional engineer, discusses the several inaccuracies and possible ramifications of wind power as a main source of electricity. Rockwood claims that wind power is unreliable because of flaws in its system and design, not to mention the detrimental environmental impact. Similarly, in his article William Sweet, a college graduate, talks about different ways to impose some kind of carbon regulation. Sweet compares nuclear and wind power to coal-burning power, remarking that nuclear and wind power technologies can make an immediate beneficial difference on greenhouse gas emissions. Despite the fact that Rockwood goes in depth on only wind power while Sweet talks about multiple sources of power, both of the articles made me think that the United States should pursue some other form of energy to increase its production of electricity.
by issuing an executive action order on June 2012. The conservative party accused President Obama
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act., a health reform, known as the “Obamacare” was signed into law by formal President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
H.R 4872 commonly referred to as The Affordable Care was mandated into a law on March 23, 2010, by former President Barrack Obama (Rangel, 2010).
Patient protection and affordable care act or simply affordable care act or Obama care act was signed by President Barak Obama and enacted in 111th United States congress on March 23, 2010.
The legislation of the ARRA contains on its own a wide range of accountability provisions, that include the conception of a disclosure website that came to be recognized as Recovery.gov. This was the doing of both the Obama Administration and the Congress. Proactively, numerous advocacy groups outside the government were pressing maximum openness to stimulus spending.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obama Care) was passed by congress and signed into law by then President Barack Obama in March of 2010. The plan was promised to lower health care costs for millions of Americans while adding 30 million people to the covered pool of individuals in the country.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, was passed in June of 2010 by the Supreme Court (Doyle 1). Georges C. Benjamin, MD, the executive director of the Public Health Association says:
Since the agency don’t really need congressional permission or court permission to conduct activities they are able to go about it in a faster process is Mike Baker’s
After “decades of political wrangling over proposals for universal health care” (Thide 2012, 359), Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and President Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010. Thide (2012) calls the act “Congress’s solution to a complex market failure” (360).
In 2008, the housing market crashed, businesses were failing, and people were losing their jobs. This is how Barack Obama started off his presidency. Already, fingers were being pointed and cries were maybe. This would be the start off to Obama’s presidency. His creation of the Stimulus Package created a lot of criticism, but at the end of the day, it fixed the economy. Now Obama is ending his presidency with a flourishing economy and GDP Growth. Even if the Stimulus Package was one of the most criticized plans in his presidency, it did exactly what it was meant for, which was to fix the economy and create growth.
Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23, 2010. This policy was implemented for all Americans regardless of race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, the language of origin or demographic location. Barack Obama saw the disparities that was facing the American people so by creating this policy it would reduce premature deaths that many Americans face.
the decisions made by BP and to some extent by Transocean and Halliburton, were the main reason for the