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*Sen. Sherrod Brown steps into controversy over wind turbine jobs, China
(Cleveland Plain Dealer) –* Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is seeing red
because a green energy grant program that funds new wind turbines doesn't
require their construction with American parts. He wants to suspend the
program until Congress imposes "Buy American" restrictions. Brown's stance
puts him at odds not only with the Obama administration, but with his friend
and political ally, Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland, who backs domestic wind
turbine manufacturing but doesn't want to ignore the hundreds of Ohio jobs
that could be created by building and operating wind farms. *On Wednesday,
Brown criticized a $450 million federal stimulus grant to a Texas wind farm
that will be built with Chinese wind turbine components. Brown and three
other senators said the project would generate 3,000 jobs in China, and 330
in the United States, all but 30 of which will be temporary.*

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/03/sen_sherrod_brown_steps_into_c.html

-- 
Karen Hansen
Ohio Conference on Fair Trade
614.280-3631
www.OhioFairTrade.org
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