{"id":3720,"date":"2012-05-24T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T23:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:51:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:51:02","slug":"why-congress-needs-to-renew-clean-energy-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3720","title":{"rendered":"Why Congress Needs to Renew Clean Energy Subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/\">Center for American Progress<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vts3mQ8I4e4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>President Obama is slated to visit TPI Composites on Thursday, a wind turbine blade manufacturer in Newton, Iowa, where he will urge Congress to extend two key renewable energy tax credits &#8212; the Production Tax Credit for wind and a clean energy manufacturing credit.<\/p>\n<p>Wind energy provides thousands of jobs in Iowa, like this one of a turbine maintenance worker in Franklin County. The Center for American Progress traveled to Iowa to talk to experts and officials about how uncertain federal policy is hurting the wind industry.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2011\/12\/wind_energy_heartland.html\">&#8220;Wind Energy Provides Stable Middle-Class Jobs in America&#8217;s Heartland: Congressional Inaction on Key Tax Credit Threatens to Undermine the Industry,&#8221;  by Andrew Satter, www.americanprogress.org, December 20, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Center for American Progress President Obama is slated to visit TPI Composites on Thursday, a wind turbine blade manufacturer in Newton, Iowa, where he will urge Congress to extend two key renewable energy tax credits &#8212; the Production Tax Credit for wind and a clean energy manufacturing credit. Wind energy provides thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[665,558,34,1079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}