DOE Poised To Dole Out $400 Million to Energy Company on Brink of Financial Collapse—After Evading Tariffs on Chinese Imports

The Department of Energy is set to give a $400 million loan to a financially troubled battery company that admitted to defrauding the federal government in 2022, according to court records.

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Biden Blocked Solar Panel Tariffs To 'Accelerate Domestic Production.' Two Years Later, China Is Even More Dominant.

In June 2022, President Joe Biden implemented an unprecedented 24-month moratorium on tariffs targeting Chinese solar panels and invoked a Cold War-era law in an effort to spur domestic clean energy manufacturing. The president characterized the action as a two-year "bridge" that would allow American companies to catch up to their Chinese competitors.

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Liberal Billionaire Who Made a Killing on Chinese Solar Panels Wants Biden To Dump Chinese Solar Tariffs

The liberal billionaire and former Enron executive John Arnold has made a tidy profit selling solar energy farms in the United States in part by importing solar panels from China. Now, in an effort to keep the gravy train rolling, Arnold is suggesting that the Biden administration remove Obama-era tariffs that boosted the prices of those panels.

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Thousands of Americans Try To Take Advantage of Biden's Solar Subsidies. They Can't Connect to a Power Grid.

Shortly after President Joe Biden offered tax credits to anyone buying solar panels, a Colorado homeowner named Stacie took out loans to install $30,000 worth of panels on her roof. Nearly six months later, however, those panels sat unused, generating no power.

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Green Energy Industry Admits It Needs Cheap Chinese Goods To Survive

The green energy industry is scrambling as Congress pushes forward with legislation that would impose costly tariffs on Chinese solar panels, a move that industry leaders say would cripple their business given their overwhelming reliance on cheap Chinese suppliers.

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Meet the Biden Energy Official Who Fought To Shield China From US Solar Tariffs

When China's largest solar companies faced costly U.S. tariffs, they turned to industry veteran Jigar Shah to lobby on their behalf. Now, President Joe Biden is handing that same man hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to invest in green energy companies, prompting concern that the money could benefit Beijing.

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Biden Faces Potential Congressional Backlash on China Policy

President-elect Joe Biden promised a radical departure from the Trump administration's China policies on the campaign trail, but the Democrat will likely face stiff pushback on Capitol Hill.

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Trump Crackdown on Slave Labor Could Cost China $250 Million

The Trump administration banned the import of up to $250 million worth of Chinese goods produced using the forced labor of Uighurs as part of its ongoing effort to oppose Chinese human-rights abuses, according to a top national security official.

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