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Biomass battles expanding from liquid fuels to electricity

With the liquid biofuels industry so well organized and so well financed, it is sometimes easy to forget that there are other uses for biomass.  No, not habitat, compost, or food; other subsid ...


IMF releases new data on global petroleum product subsidies

David Coady and his team at the IMF have just released an update on estimated global subsidies to ...


Growth Energy: Hear no subsidy, see no subsidy

Subsidy recipients rarely admit their government largesse is a subsidy rather than some sort of altruistic investment they've reluctantly agreed to accept on behalf of their good work for the commo ...


Boyden Gray: Indirect land use impacts from biofuels just "flat wrong"

It has been a banner couple of weeks for the ethanol industry.  To my inbox come their daily proclamations and jubilations over a reprieve they have been given in a recent US EPA analysis of G ...


Vetting the incentive alignment in large scale federal energy lending programs

I've just posted the slides from a presentation I gave at the New America Foundation in December.&nbs ...


Does the Obama budget proposal really eliminate fossil fuel subsidies?

After my last post on the new subsidies to nuclear power, inquiries have started to c ...


Obama "deficit control" plan triples nuclear loan guarantees to $56.5 billion

With federal guarantees already on the table for up to 100% of project debt for new reactors ($18.5 billion) and front-end enrichment investments ($2 billion), the Obama administration's decision t ...


CNN Stimulus Tracker: "Stealth" subsidies dominate

Check out CNN's Stimulus "Big Bang", a graphical representation of federal stimulus spending over ...


Pete Domenici: Subsidy Slayer

When I think of former Senator Pete Domenici, the first thing that pops into my mind is his long-standing, unwavering, and open-checkbooked support for nuclear power.  A http://www.ms ...


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