March 23 — The company criticized the Senate’s proposed spending package that would provide billions of dollars in loans for the oil and gas industry but ignores the solar energy industry, which has become one of the fastest growing sources of power in the United States. Solar accounted for 40 percent of new electric generation capacity last year, according to industry trade group Solar Energy Industries Association.
— Houston Chronicle
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