Extract from technical appendix of report by Doug Koplow for the Alliance to Save Energy. Detail on federal subsidies to decommissioning, waste disposal, accident liability, uranium enrichment, and regulatory oversight of the industry.
(Word Document). Doug Koplow, Dale Andrew, Jean Marc Burniaux, and Erkki Adorian. OECD, Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment, September 2001. Also available in French.
Current Biofuels Policy is Disfunctional and Creating Increasingly Serious Problems
Article for the Interpress News Service. (June 2007).
Formal comments outlining market distortions and structural weaknesses in DOE's multi-billion dollar program to subsidize favored energy technologies. Authorized under Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the program creates a huge potential windfall to the nuclear sector. Also accessible on DOE site. (July 2007).
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).