Meet the center of the green-industrial complex

Bryan Preston | 10:45 AM on March 07, 2011

His name is Steve McBee, and he’s a former staffer to Democrat Sen. Maria Cantwell.

McBee’s clients include SolarCity and the Green Tech Action Fund as well as electric-car maker Better Place Inc., waste-to-power company Ze-gen, and solar-power developer BrightSource Energy. But the big guys — Boeing, JP Morgan, and Google — also hire McBee to lobby for green-energy subsidies.

Electric car company Tesla signed on with McBee days after Obama’s election, and soon won a $465 million loan guarantee to aid in building a new all-electric car.

With McBee’s former boss being a senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, McBee Strategic used to be an earmark factory. After Obama’s election, though, McBee pivoted to green energy and saw revenues soar in 2009.

Check out the rest at the Examiner.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

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Meet the center of the green-industrial complex

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