August 22 News: Wind Manufacturer Laying Off Workers In
Iowa, Citing Tax Credit That Romney Wants To Eliminate

post from ThinkProgress on 22 August 2012 09:00:05 AM. © ThinkProgress

A wind turbine manufacturing facility in Cedar Rapids is laying off some employees. Clipper Windpower officials say they?re reducing their company wide workforce by 32-percent, from 550 to 376 workers. The company is not releasing how many of those 174 layoffs are in Cedar Rapids, but workers at the plant believe it?s around 75. [Radio Iowa]

In spite of the PTC uncertainty wreaking havoc on the supply chain, turbine manufacturers continued to move their sourcing activities to the U.S. last year, with 67 percent of the equipment used in U.S. [Renewable Energy World]

Life in the world’s oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale extinctions than at any previous time in human history, a team of the world’s leading marine scientists has warned. [Science Daily]

The world urgently need to adopt drought-management policies as farmers from Africa to India struggle with lack of rainfall and the United States endures the worst drought it has experienced in decades, top officials with the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday. [Associated Press]

Mitt Romney plans to roll out an energy policy blueprint on Thursday, according to published reports. [The Hill]

The UK Government believes companies have been ?profiting unfairly at the expense of [the] consumer? by overloading the national grid with electricity. [The Telegraph]

Wave power developers planning a project off the Oregon Coast now have the nation’s only federal permit to develop a commercial wave power park. [CBS News]

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says GE’s $10 million clean technology innovation investment proves business wants to embrace a clean-energy future. [World News Australia]

China?s solar panel manufacturers, who dominate global sales with a two-thirds market share, are confronting growing trade and financial problems, a Chinese industry official acknowledged Tuesday, shortly before one of the industry?s largest companies, Trina Solar, announced weak results for the second quarter. [New York Times]

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