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Obama hails wind energy incentives as ‘win-win’

By Chase Martyn 4/22/09

In the midst of a global recession and a decades-long slump in American manufacturing, President Barack Obama spent part of Earth Day in central Iowa defending an ambitious policy agenda reflecting the view that economic prosperity is intertwined with energy security.

Legendary Texas oilman Pickens sees America’s future in Iowa’s wind

By Douglas Burns 8/15/08

T. Boone Pickens, who funded the Swift Boat ads that devastated U.S. Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election, insisted under repeated questioning from Iowa Independent following the Le Mars event that he has no intention of backing either U.S. Sen. John McCain or U.S. Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race.

“I’ve said this is a totally non-partisan issue,” Pickens said. “it doesn’t have anything to do with politics. This is about America is what it is. Nothing like that would happen.”

Braley and Grassley Double-team Tax Credit Extension

By Lynda Waddington 2/9/08

Two of Iowa’s federal lawmakers, working on opposite sides of the aisle and in different houses of Congress, are taking steps to help ensure stability in the federal tax policy affecting wind energy.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, authored the Wind Energy Incentives Act of 1993, which established the first wind energy production tax credit. [...]

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