HELEN H. RICHARDSON, THE DENVER POST
Members of all four armed forces listen as President Barack Obama speaks at Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.ORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT
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President Obama's energy program hangs on fading funds
January 27, 2012 1:00 AM
THE DENVER POST
AURORA - President Barack Obama's goal of approving enough renewable-energy projects on federal lands to power 3 million homes may be the easy part — getting them built could be another story.
In his speech at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora on Thursday, Obama repeated the goal he set in his State of the Union address — 10 gigawatts of renewable-energy generation on public land.
Yet even as the Obama administration is approving projects, the federal financing programs that are key to their construction are fading.
"Congress needs to act," Obama told about 400 invited guests gathered in a spare hangar. "They need to pass clean-energy tax credits."
