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Amy Taylor, Matthew Bramley, and Mark Winfield, The Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development. This report, commissioned by the Climate Action Network Canada, identifies and quantifies federal government expenditure on Canada's oil and gas sector. It also investigates both federal and provincial support for oil sands developments. Useful information, though the subsidy numbers were lower than expected for resource-rich Canada. There may be programs or subsidy types that have not yet been counted.

Matthew Saunders and Karen Schneider. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. June 2000. Australia is only one case in this international overview of problems with subsidies. AUSTRALIA, CANADA, UNITED STATES, JAPAN, EUROPEAN UNION, FORMER SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE, CHINA, INDONESIA, KOREA, THAILAND, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, MEXICO, ARGENTINA.

Christopher Riedy, Institute for Sustainable Futures, January 2003. Overview of Australian subsidies includes fossil fuel production and consumption, electricity and road transportation subsidies.

Joe Loper, Alliance to Save Energy, Washington, DC. Despite old data, the methods remain extremely timely. This is perhaps they only detailed state-by-state assessment of net taxes on energy. Posted with permission of the Alliance to Save Energy. See original report cover.

By J. Andrew Hoerner, Center for a Sustainable Economy.

Tellus Institute. This primer describes the theory and options for Environmental Tax Shifting (ETS) in Massachusetts. By shifting the state tax base from income, savings, or labor to use of resources, pollution, and sprawl, revenue raising would discourage unattractive activities rather than work and savings.

New England Environmental Finance Center. Current development patterns and increased tax pressures in local municipalities combine to harm both Maine’s natural resources and its quality of life.

Energy Policy. V. 31, No. 13, pp. 1379-1391. Alexander Ritschel and Greg Smestad. Many interventions implemented by the state to smooth out the impacts of the energy crisis insulated electricity consumers from market realities and supported the existing structure of California’s electricity market, which is predominantly based on fossil fuels, while suppressing market incentives to improve energy conservation.

Current. Summaries of policies that encourage the development of green power markets, state-by-state.

Robert S. McIntyre and T.D. Coo Nyugen, Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Detailed assessments of the actual taxes paid by major US corporations and corporate sectors at the state level. Tax breaks often allow particular sectors, including energy, to pay an effective tax rate that is much lower than their statutory rate. Companion studies to various federal tax assessments done by CTJ and the tax breaks that allow them to dramatically reduce their federal tax liabilities.