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…
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…
The Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE)
Posted on:
1/5/2009
Current. The Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and selected federal incentives that promote renewable energy.
Pacific Northwest Laboratory (operated by Battelle Memorial Institute) for the US Department of Energy. Very detailed historical data on production subsidies to multiple fuels and the origination of many federal programs. Includes information on federal investments into many large hydro dams and in…
Pre-publication draft. Joseph Bowring, Energy Information Administration, March 1980. Legend has it political pressure ensured this draft never made it to actual publication; if you know the real story, please share it with us. Even in its draft form, this paper is a great source for information and…
Duane
Chapman, Kathleen Cole, and Michael Slott of Cornell University for the
Ohio River Basin Energy Study. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Research and Development. Report is one of a number that
Chapman worked on during this time to quantify the tremendous value of
capital…
U. S. Department of Energy. Very detailed review of many federal programs that helped to boost the nation's energy consumption. Great source of historical information on U. S. energy policy and legislation going back many decades.
Rick
Heede, Rick Morgan, and Scott Ridley. Center for Renewable Resources.
Multi-fuel review of federal subsidies in the early 1980s. Good
historical data. Posted with permission of authors.
Komanoff
Energy Associates for Greenpeace. Detailed review of historical federal
subsidies to nuclear power. Thanks to Charlie Komanoff and to
Greenpeace for permission to repost.
Jenny
Wahl for the Institute for Local Self Reliance. Overview of the
external costs of petroleum not included in the market price, including
tax breaks, oil security, and environmental and health effects.
Amy Bricker, Mark Bricoe, Blake Ethridge, Evan Harrje, and Karmen Kallio
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1/2/2009
Amy
Bricker, Mark Bricoe, Blake Ethridge, Evan Harrje, and Karmen Kallio
for the International Center for Technology Assessment. Includes
estimates for environmental and transport-related externalities.
Results not easily comparable to other U. S. studies.
Marshall Goldberg for the Renewable Energy Policy Project. July 2000 Research Report No. 11. Links to supporting data tables: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7.
Ronald
Sutherland for the Cato Institute, February 2001. Cato does good work
advocating for subsidy reform, with the fairly glaring exception of
anything having to do with petroleum. Perhaps the organization's heavy
reliance on funding from Koch Industries constrains free expression
here. For…
National Environmental Trust.
Review of the challenges and costs of US dependence on foreign oil.
Discussion of past and present proposals to address the problem.
