{"id":33606,"date":"2013-01-11T08:50:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=33606"},"modified":"2015-11-01T14:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:10:04","slug":"firms-sue-energy-dept-claim-cronyism-in-green-car-loan-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2013\/01\/firms-sue-energy-dept-claim-cronyism-in-green-car-loan-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms Sue Energy Dept, Claim Cronyism in \u2018Green Car\u2019 Loan Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>“The White House and the Energy Department say all clean energy loans and grants were decided on the merits” — the merits of political contributions, that is.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>“An electric car start-up and its sister company sued the Energy Department on Thursday, claiming Secretary Steven Chu and his agency awarded money to politically favored firms and strung along their firms and others in a \u201cfixed\u201d race for federal funds.” [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/car-company-says-obama-team-hurt-its-company-steered-stimulus-to-political-favorites\/2013\/01\/10\/169d384a-5a86-11e2-beee-6e38f5215402_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>“The White House and the Energy Department say all clean energy loans and grants were decided on the merits” — the merits of political contributions, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-8K2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}