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Battery maker's bankruptcy is ill-timed for White House
Just days before a White House-appointed auditor is set to deliver a report on the Department of Energy's troubled loan guarantee program, another of the department's stimulus-funded endeavors made headlines this week at a particularly bad time for the Obama administration. Ener1 Inc. -- which received more than $118 million in the form of a DOE grant to make electric-car batteries -- filed for bankruptcy yesterday. The announcement threatened to undermine the administration's offensive on its investments in renewable energy. Go to story #1