by Sarah Laskow. Who needs government loan guarantees? SolarCity is going to put solar panels on 120,000 military houses with financing from Bank of America-owned Merrill Lynch. (Er, down with the banks?) Environmental regulations have ” benefits and costs .” They do kill jobs, but they also create new ones. The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. is close to being a net exporter of petroleum products. Mother Jones takes a closer look at the WSJ 's own reporting and says, ” Eh, not so much .” Here, the U.S. climate change envoy points fingers at China and India for trashing the chance of a Durban deal. Mitt Romney’s advisor once worked for a lobbying firm that once took $50,000 from Solyndra !! I think we’re done here.

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