Obama Touts Solar in Nev. as Part of Four-state Tour on Energy Policy

The Washington Post

BOULDER CITY, Nev. – President Obama traveled here to the Nevada desert Wednesday to highlight the future of solar energy ? and ridicule Republicans for trimming back federal funding to develop it.

“If some politicians get their way, there won’t be any more public investments in solar energy,” Obama said at the Copper Mountain Solar 1 plant, about a half-hour’s drive southeast from Las Vegas.