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Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study

This study addresses a wide array of scientific, economic and technological issues related to the ...

This can't be good for subsidy reform

The US Supreme Court has just greatly loosened the restrictions on spending corporate cash on political candidates and

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The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 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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Splash and Dash: The perils of subsidy

"Absolutely not," says Doug Koplow of the Cambridge, Mass.-based group Earth Track. He pointed to ...

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Subsidies to Ethanol in the United States

This chapter reviews the major policy developments affecting the fuel-ethanol industry of the United States since the late 1970s, quantifies their value to the industry, and evaluates the efficacy of ethanol subsidization in achieving greenhouse gas reduction goals.  Total support to ethanol is currently substantial ($5.8-7.0 billion in 2006) and set to rise sharply even under existing policy settings.  However, its cost effectiveness is low, especially as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Worldwatch Paper #133: Paying the Piper: Subsidies, Politics, and the Environment

David Malin Roodman. Worldwatch Institute. Very useful history of perverse subsidies and delineation ...
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The Challenge of Reducing Subsidies and Trade Barriers

This is one of ten studies for the Copenhagen Consensus Project that sought to evaluate the most fea ...
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Subsidies to Nuclear and Biofuels Among the Most Costly Carbon Abatement Strategies.

Provides subsidy cost per mt CO2eq abated via goverment supports to biofuels (including cellulosic) and nuclear energy.  Integrating data from McKinsey & Co.

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