During Governor’s first year in office, DWD recovers $87.6 million in 2011, a 24.4 percent jump over 2010 Madison – Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Reggie Newson announced today that DWD’s efforts to curtail waste, fraud and abuse under Governor Walker’s leadership helped the agency recover $43.7 million in Unemployment Insurance (UI) overpayments and…
Paul Driessen
Time to terminate Big Wind subsidies – and protect environmental values, endangered species, jobs and human welfare
By Paul Driessen Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough. Informed and inspired by a loose but growing national coalition of groups opposed to more giveaways with no scientifically proven net benefits, thousands of citizens called their…
Paul Chesser
Another Taxpayer-Funded Solar Company Looks Like a Failure
By Paul Chesser National Legal & Policy Center An Ohio-based solar company received millions of dollars in state and federal subsidies despite government officials’ knowledge that the company was in financial trouble, and now a local newspaper reports little activity at the manufacturer’s Perrysburg plant. According to a report last month in The Toledo Blade,…
Paul Chesser
Taxpayers Reward Executives for Failure as Green Jobs are Slashed
By Paul Chesser National Legal & Policy Center First Solar, the beneficiary of at least $3 billion in Department of Energy loan guarantees, paid its former CEO $32 million over two years as he stewarded its stock price from $143 to below $100. Today it sells for less than $21-per-share, hitting a 52-week low last…
Sen. Frank Lasee
Frac Sand-It’s good for Wisconsin and our Nation’s economy
By Senator Frank Lasee You might remember my Lasee’s Notes from a few weeks ago where I talked about the oil boom in the Williston area of North Dakota. This boom was made possible by a new oil drilling technique called fracturing. Now, you might be thinking “That’s great for North Dakota, but what does…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT
The Week That Was May 12, 2012 Quote of the Week “Even a succession of professional scientists-including famous astronomers who had made other discoveries that are confirmed and now justly celebrated-can make serious, even profound errors in pattern recognition.” Carl Sagan [H/t Paul MacRae, see link under Questioning the Orthodoxy] ******************************* Number of…