As government interventions in US energy markets grow by leaps and bounds, some of the core principles that made the US an economic superpower are being forgotten. These include using price signals to guide allocation of capital; aligning incentives such that promoters have enough "skin" in the… Read More
While subsidies to fossil fuels are thankfully getting increasing attention, even at the level of the G20 (see paragraphs 24-26 of the link), subsidies to a variety of environmentally harmful activities are pervasive at lower levels of government as well. An Earth Track review of state-level… Read More
We are excited to welcome you to the new Earth Track web site. In
addition to much better visuals, the site is structured to make it
easier for people interested in environmentally harmful subsidies to
share information on new work you are doing, and to track subsidy
recipients around the world. … Read More
This blog is about environmentally harmful subsidies: what they are,
where they come from, how you measure them, how you make others
disclose them, and just maybe how you can get rid of them.I should say I'll be writing mostly
about environmentally harmful subsidies, because some other stuff will… Read More
Written by dkoplowPosted: October 27, 2009 - 11:42am