Report: White House bullied FAA into approving wind farms
Posted Monday, July 2nd 2012 @ 4pm
After more than a decade of push and pull, the nation's first offshore wind farm got the green light -- but longtime opponents of Massachusetts' Cape Wind claim they have a smoking gun that shows the Obama administration applied "pressure" to get the project approved.
Now the same congressman who led the investigation into failed solar panel firm Solyndra is calling for a probe into Cape Wind.
"The emails that came from the FAA that I have seen obviously shows the White House is pushing the FAA for political reasons," said Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla.
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