This Review provides the most detailed look to date at gaps in federal tracking of energy subsidies. In addition to evaluating the research approach used by the US
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Mar 17, 2010 -
Feb 18, 2011Conspicuously absent from industry press releases and briefing memos touting nuclear power’s potential as a solution to global warming is any mention of the industry’s long and expensive history of
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Nov 09, 2010In its September 2009 Communiqué from Pittsburgh, the G20 nations (“Group of Twenty” nations that include the largest economies in the world) committed to “rationalize and phase out over the medi
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Oct 14, 2009
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 provides the reader with the basic quantitative and qualitative facts on the nuclear power plants in operation, under construction and in planning phas
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Mar 22, 2010Reforming subsidies to fossil fuels is a challenging prospect for many governments.
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Oct 01, 2008Extremely detailed, widely peer-reviewed, examination of subsidies to oil in the United States throughout every stage of the fuel cycle.
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Sep 29, 2008Examines the political drivers behind subsidy proliferation in the US federal system and a variety of options to improve transparency and
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Jul 24, 2009Federal Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) were nearly quintupled in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, mandating use of 36 billion gallons of biofuels per y
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Jun 16, 2010This memo evaluates three tax subsidies to nuclear power contained in the American Power Act (APA): 5-year accelerated depreciation for reactors; a 10% investment tax credit; and an expansion of a
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Dec 04, 2009The general message is clear: in France nuclear power works, in 2007 providing 77% of the electricity in the country and 47% of all nuclear electricity in the EU.
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Jul 24, 2009A case study of the proposed new reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Lusby, MD provides a useful window into the dynamics and implications of federal nuclear policy today.
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Nov 12, 2009Hundreds of government subsidies have fuelled the growth of ethanol and biodiesel in the USA, worth half or more their retail price.
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Feb 26, 2010Petroleum product subsidies have again started to rise with the rebound in international prices.
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Sep 29, 2008Detailed review of state and federal subsidies, prepared for the Global Subsidies Initiative. Subsidy costs per unit fossil fuel or GHG displaced
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Feb 08, 2010Review of key federal policy trends in the energy sector, identifying the unprecendented scale of interventions, and the inadequate attention being paid to incentive alignment and assessment of lev
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Jul 24, 2009Tracking energy subsidies for a single country is a challenging task; trying to measure them globally is even more so. Multi-country studies of fossil fuel studies have been done, and normall
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Oct 15, 2009Rapid and dramatic changes in the world’s approach to energy have major implications for Kentucky and its coal industry. Concerns about
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May 25, 2011During World War I, U.S. taxpayers provided the oil and gas industry with its first federal tax break. Over the decades, more lucrative tax breaks have been added.
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Apr 14, 2010The purpose of this report is to urge consistency in the development and implementation of federal administrative policies.
