Solyndra: Separating Fact From Fiction

Conservatives in Washington are working hard to turn the Solyndra solar power company bankruptcy into a broad attack on government support for green energy. Our posts following this controversy present the facts and the context that counters the scandal-mongering from the right.

Solyndra and the self-referential Beltway media cycle

By David Roberts, Grist
From grist.org
October 11th, 2011

grist.org — One sign of Republicans' success in hyping the Solyndra scandal is that they've got everybody calling it a scandal. Despite the turgid atmospherics, though, there still hasn't been any official wrongdoing established, or even charged. It's like an optical illusion of a scandal, a trick of the media light. Or, to mix metaphors, a hard candy shell with no nut inside.

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Solyndra 'Scandal' About Big Oil, King Coal Power And Intimidation

By Dave Johnson
September 27, 2011

Last week big oil/big coal sent a not-subtle message to the country's investment community: if you back companies or technologies that compete with us we will crush you. Our media/political machine will accuse you of every crime in the book. more »

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Oil-Backed Conservatives Try To Kill Green Jobs Effort

By Dave Johnson
September 22, 2011

For more on how we can fight for green jobs, hear Rep. Chris Murphy, United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard, Alliance for American Manufacturing's Scott Paul and Leo Hindery, Jr. at the Oct. 3-5 Take Back the American Dream conference. more »

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Five Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Solyndra

By Dave Johnson
September 16, 2011

Oil-backed conservatives have been absolutely ecstatic over the collapse of American solar-power company Solyndra and the rise of China as the dominant country in green energy, because they think they can turn this into a story that makes President Obama and government look bad. It also gives them a bonus opportunity to attack alternatives to coal and oil. more »

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Solyndra Controversy a Transparent Attempt to Kill Green Energy

By David Dayen
September 14, 2011

David Dayen will be a featured speaker at the Take Back the American Dream conference, convening in Washington, D.C., from Oct. 3 to 5. The following was originally published at FireDogLake. more »

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The Phony Solyndra Solar Scandal

By Dave Johnson
September 14, 2011

Well here's a surprise: conservatives and oil interests are pushing deceptive and destructive stories about President Obama and clean energy. Imagine that! Their intent (as always) is to turn people against President Obama, clean energy, national energy policy, stimulus to help the economy, and government in general. more »

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Will the GOP Celebrate the Solyndra Bankruptcy, or Will We Learn Some Valuable Lessons?

By Stephen Lacey and Joe Romm
From thinkprogress.org
September 1st, 2011

thinkprogress.org — The news broke yesterday that solar manufacturer Solyndra was filing for bankruptcy. The thin-film producer closed its California-based manufacturing facility and laid off 1,100 workers. Conservatives are dancing all over Solyndra’s grave, trying to turn it into a referendum on renewable energy and green jobs. But the U.S. invented the modern solar cell half a century ago, and the route to sustainable wealth can’t possibly be one where we invent technologies and other countries manufacture them. No, rather than a referendum, this should be is a chance to learn the lesson of how the U.S. can compete in one of the fastest job-creating sectors in the world.

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