‘Green jobs’ farm in Colorado sheds jobs after receiving $200M in stimulus funds
[President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” initiatives suffered another major
blow late Monday, as the nonprofit National Renewable Energy Lab(NREL) in
Golden, Colorado, announced a plan to lay off roughly 10 percent of its staff
through a voluntary buy-out plan. According to the Denver Post, the lab plans
to eliminate between 100 and 150 of its 1,350 jobs. The Obama administration
supported the NREL in 2009 with roughly $200 million in stimulus grants. Energy
Secretary Stephen Chu visited Golden in May 2009 to promote the NREL as a
beneficiary of those funds.]
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