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A Lifeline for Renewable Energy at Stake

By | 10.02.08 | 2:25 pm

Dennis Markatos-Soriano has been worried. And so are, probably, the hundreds of thousands of other workers in the renewable-energy sector.

Markatos-Soriano, an employee of Carolina Solar Energy, and his fellow clean-energy workers could lose their jobs if the existing federal tax credits for wind and solar energy companies are allowed More…

Expiring Renewable Energy Tax Credits Get Last Chance

By | 10.01.08 | 3:16 pm

A bill to renew federal tax credits for solar and wind energy has been stuck in Congress all year. That’s made business owners and employees in the industry uneasy.

But the credits may not be dead. Senate leaders decided to attach the renewable energy bill that prolongs the credits onto More…