Anyone who’s been following the news would be forgiven for assuming these are not salad days for clean energy. Dog-food days, more like it. Whatever-this-is days. The White House and an eager Congress have shredded environmental regulations and cleantech subsidies, thrown up roadblocks to new wind and solar projects and generally tried to make life as comfortable as possible for the fossil-fuel industry currently running the government and as uncomfortable as possible for that industry’s upstart rivals.