A group of environmentalists says taxpayers should be worried about extending an $8 billion credit line to Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project in Augusta.
Earthtrack In the Media
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The Obama administration’s approval of a federal loan guarantee for the construction of two Georgia nuclear reactors was met with applause from across the political spectrum, but new analysis revea
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While no nuclear loan guarantees have been granted, one has nonetheless been promised to the companies now building the Vogtle 3 and 4 reactors, near Augusta, Ga.
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Environmental groups are crying foul on loan terms acquired by Southern Company for its Vogtle nuclear plant.
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Construction of the first newly licensed US nuclear power plant in decades could become a "Solyndra-like" debacle thanks to billio
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Three years after the U.S. Department of Energy approved an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to be used by Southern Co.
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The powerful fossil fuel interests that reap huge subsidies on the federal level have been doing the very same thing on the state level in the US.
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Doug Koplow of the policy consulting firm Earth Track said that the mandate is effectively another kind of subsidy for ethanol, and warns that it may be difficult to come up with new alternative
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...Moreover, citizens and companies that rely on fossil fuels usually do not pay the full cost of resulting environmental problems like , sludg
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Desperately seeking fiscal savings, Congress and President Obama are scrambling to find anything in the federal budget that can be thrown overboard, from child nutrition aid to funding for milita
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LAST time it met, in 2009, the G20 took a stand against a little discussed problem that unites environmentalists and economists: fossil-fuel subsidies.
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Interesting article by Amory Lovins in The Weekly Standard examining the history and market-related problems associated with nuclear subsidies past and present. Lovins suggests that
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Identifying the real costs of competing energy technologies is complicated by the wide range of subsidies and tax breaks involved. As a result, U.S.
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Subsidies for biofuels in the United States have reached levels unimagined when support for an "infant industry" began in the late 1970s.
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One way to correct market failures is tax shifting -- raising taxes on activities that harm the environment so that
