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Production tax credits for wind power projects more than pay for themselves by generating federal and state tax revenues, not to mention the economic stimulus they provide by creating jobs and the tons of greenhouse gas emissions that will be avoided for decades to come.

In a blistering attack, Nevada’s Republican senator John Ensign has launched an offensive against solar energy lobbyists, ahead of a crucial vote on renewable energy tax credits.

Breaking ranks with the the state’s increasingly important solar industry, Ensign said that efforts by the Solar Energy Industry Association to force his hand on tax breaks had in fact had the opposite effect of “personally alienating” him and other senators.