WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal trade panel found China responsible Wednesday for harming the U.S. solar panel industry, clearing the final hurdle for U.S. attempts to impose steep tariffs on Chinese solar companies.

2. BioDimensions Makes Move to Agricenter - Monday, July 30, 2012

The Memphis biomass start-up that has focused on developing sweet sorghum as a fuel now has a financial partner who believes in the future of ethanol as a fuel.

BioDimensions Delta BioRenewables LLC recently moved to Agricenter International from the Whiteville, Tenn., cotton gin that has been home to the three-year-old undertaking.

3. Renewable Investment Hit $257B - Tuesday, June 12, 2012

GENEVA (AP) – Global investment in renewable energy reached a record of $257 billion last year, with solar attracting more than half the total spending, according to a U.N. report released Monday.

4. Obama Team to Focus on Romney's Record in Mass. - Thursday, May 31, 2012

President Barack Obama’s campaign is opening a new critique of Mitt Romney, focusing attention on the Republican’s economic record as governor of Massachusetts.

Obama’s team looked to respond to Romney, who seized the GOP presidential nomination with his primary win in Texas on Tuesday night. That pushed him past the 1,144-delegate threshold he needed to win the nod.

5. Report: Energy Loans Could Cost $3B - Monday, February 13, 2012

An independent review finds the government could lose about $3 billion on Energy Department loans for green energy programs – far less than the $10 billion Congress set aside for the high-risk program.

6. Obama Donor Discussed Solar Loan With White House - Thursday, November 10, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – Emails released by a House committee appear to show that a major donor to President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign discussed with White House officials a federal loan to a failed California solar company. That's despite repeated assurances by Obama administration officials that the donor, George Kaiser, didn't discuss the loan with the White House.

7. White House to Review Energy Department Loans - Monday, October 31, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday ordered an independent review of clean-energy loans made by the Energy Department, its latest response to questions and criticism over a half-billion-dollar loan to a California solar company that eventually went bankrupt.

8. Treasury Officials: Never Saw a Loan Like Solyndra - Monday, October 17, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – Two senior Treasury officials said Friday that they had never seen a loan restructuring similar to the Energy Department loan to a failed solar panel maker.

The half-billion dollar loan to Solyndra Inc. was restructured so that private investors moved ahead of taxpayers for repayment on part of the loan in case of a default.

9. Solar Company Solyndra Says its CEO Resigned - Friday, October 14, 2011

DOVER, Del. (AP) – The CEO of a California solar energy company that sought bankruptcy protection after receiving a $528 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration has resigned.

10. Obama Defends Solyndra Loan, Says Solar Viable - Friday, October 07, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama said Thursday the U.S. must not surrender development of clean energy to China and other countries, despite the spectacular failure of a solar-panel manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy after taking a half-billion dollar government loan.

11. Report Says Green Jobs Program Far Short of Goals - Tuesday, October 04, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Labor Department's inspector general says a $500 million program designed to train workers for green jobs has come up far short of its goals.

A report finds that only about 8,000 people participating in the program have actually found work so far. That's just 10 percent of the target goal of placing 80,000 workers in careers in energy efficiency or renewable energy by 2013.

12. Obama Admin Approves 2 Solar Loans Worth $1B - Thursday, September 29, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Energy Department on Wednesday approved two loan guarantees worth more than $1 billion for solar energy projects in Nevada and Arizona, two days before the expiration date of a program that has become a rallying cry for Republican critics of the Obama administration's green energy program.

13. Judge Refuses to Extend Sale Timeline for Solyndra - Wednesday, September 28, 2011

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday refused to extend the sale timeline for failed solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra LLC, which received a half-billion-dollar federal loan guarantee and was once touted by President Barack Obama in support of his administration's economic policies.

14. Senate Blocks House Disaster Aid Bill - Monday, September 26, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Democratic-led Senate blocked a House bill Friday that would provide disaster aid and keep government agencies open, escalating the parties' latest showdown over spending and highlighting the raw partisan rift that has festered all year.

15. Leading Republican Sees Danger for US Solar Power - Friday, September 23, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – A Republican House of Representatives chairman is calling loans to the solar industry a poor bet and says it is reasonable to predict that the entire solar panel manufacturing business in America could collapse.