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Taxpayers Subsidize Forbes 'Green' Billionaires' Schemes

Submitted by Paul Chesser on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 11:15

Vinod Khosla

This story has been updated below.

The three top U.S. tycoons on Forbes’s “Green” billionaires list have received billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for their clean technology companies, after they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for political campaigns and lobbying.

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