USA

Annual Review of wasteful government programs across multiple sectors and the role this spending plays in the $521 billion deficit and a $7.1 trillion national debt.

Robert S. McIntyre and T.D. Coo Nyugen, Citizens for Tax Justice. The latest of a series of detailed assessments of the actual taxes paid by major US corporations and corporate sectors, and the tax breaks that allow them to dramatically reduce their federal tax liabilities. Energy is normally a big beneficiary of these tax breaks, and pays a low effective tax rate relative to other sectors. See also Citizens for Tax Justices Assessments Of Corporate Taxes 2000 and 1996.

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.

Report.  Summary slides from release.  Growing production and more subsidies converge to trigger an estimated $93 billion in support to ethanol and biodiesel for the 2006-12 period.  The report also contains a detailed review of the large and potentially environmentally harmful biofuels subsidies in the pending Energy and Farm bills. Prepared fo the Global Subsidies Initiative. (Oct. 2007).

Reviewed options for the state of California to more effectively align incentives for brownfields redevelopment and to identify financial tools that would help achieve land reclamation.

Prepared with the National Policy Workgroup of the National Recycling Coalition. September 1999.  Analysis identifies and quantifies a number of direct and indirect subsidies that put recycled materials at a disadvantage to virgin materials.

Published in Waste News Op-Ed, August 6, 2001. A host of new subsidies to converting a wide variety of biomass-based wastes into energy were proposed in legislation during 2001; many of these policies are in the newest energy bills before Congress again during 2003.

Prepared while at Industrial Economics, for the Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, February 1998, EPA 833-R-98-001.

Published in Resource Recycling, November 1994. Detailed assessment of how federal subsidies to the Bonneville Power Administration reduce the price of primary aluminum and with it the incentive to recycle the metal. The article estimated that the resulting undervaluation of embedded energy savings in aluminum scrap comprised between 7 and 18 percent of the scrap price.

Published by the Alliance to Save Energy, 1993.  Cover.  Main report (PDF).  Technical appendix.