Environmental News Network

OCTOBER 22, 2013

A renewable energy credit is any tax credit offered by governments as an incentive for the installation and operation of renewable energy systems like solar and wind power. The tax credit commonly applies to businesses and organizations, however, recognizing the economical as well as environmental benefits that could be reaped from “green” systems, some governments, particularly the U.S., offer tax breaks for home improvements that make homes more energy efficient.

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Green (Living) Review

OCTOBER 1, 2016

by Michael Smith (Veshengro) The Swedish government attempts to tackle the “throwaway culture” by cutting VAT on fixing everything from bicycles to washing machines The Swedish government is introducing tax breaks on repairs to everything from bicycles to washing machines so it will no longer make sense to throw out old or broken items and buy new ones.

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Sightline Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Facing a Supreme Court order to fund public education , Governor Inslee and others have combed through the state tax code in search of outdated and perverse tax loopholes. Perhaps none of them is more bizarre than the “extracted fuel use tax exemption”—a purely accidental giveaway to oil refineries that costs the state $59 million each budget cycle. What Big Oil’s Tax Break Costs Our Classrooms. The Accidental Tax Loophole.

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Sightline Daily

JANUARY 23, 2014

Big Oil companies in Washington get $41 million from an accidental tax loophole that was never designed to benefit them. It’s enough to make the tangible investments in public education that our teachers and students so desperately need. To learn more about it, check out this 2 minute video graphic: Don’t have 2 minutes? This graphic says it all: There is some good news though. It’s entirely possible to end Big Oil’s taxpayer subsidy and redirect that money to kids.

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 10, 2011

Boehner’s choice is the latest indication that any effort by Democrats to repeal oil industry tax breaks as part of the package would face major roadblocks. Upton and many other Republicans have consistently opposed efforts to overturn the tax breaks. And the beat goes on: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Wednesday he would appoint House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) to a “supercommittee” charged with developing a $1.5

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Green (Living) Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

LA has been pushing for tax breaks for owners of vacant urban lots who lease out the neglected land to people who want to farm on it, and now the LA County Board of Supervisors (which would have to approve the tax breaks before they could be implemented) is doing their part to make it happen.

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Environmental Economics

MAY 18, 2011

The Senate failed to get rid of tax breaks for oil companies: Energy-state Democrats criticized the initiative, saying it was misdirected and would do nothing to ease gasoline prices and could cost American jobs. Getting rid of the tax breaks could increase gas prices and could cost jobs.

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Environmental Economics

MAY 12, 2011

Quote of the Day: Harry Reid (D) on congressional calls to remove tax breaks from Big Oil. "Let's make one thing clear: wasteful subsidies have nothing to do with gas prices. These oil handouts have existed for decades. Prices have continued to rise," via money.cnn.com. Daily Demand and Supply: Removing subsidies will decrease supply and (are you ready for it?) increase prices

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Environmental Economics

APRIL 23, 2013

The business is growing fast, in part because of federal tax credits. Looking at the picture I drew in class yesterday, the tax breaks push the backstop fuel price down and hurries up the switch point: Don't you wish you could be in my class every single gosh dang day Happy Earth Day, one day late: Duke Energy aims to more than double the wind, solar and biomass energy in its portfolio by 2020, according to its 2012 sustainability report.

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Environmental Economics

MARCH 27, 2012

The Senate yesterday launched a high-profile debate on a Democratic plan to block the nation’s five biggest oil companies from taking advantage of a suite of tax breaks. Menendez’s measure would repeal five tax incentives for the nation’s five biggest oil companies as a way to pay for renewable-energy tax credits used by wind and solar producers. In other words, removing tax breaks for Big Oil will increase, not decrease, gas prices.

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Environmental Economics

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But though he calls himself a conservative — “I want limited government,” he explains — Mankiw advocates a carbon tax, a position notably at odds with all of the current GOP presidential candidates. He articulated his reasons in a recent New York Times op-ed, “The Key Role of Conservatives in Taxing Carbon.”. We called him up to get his perspective on the rift over climate change among Republicans, and his advice on how to sell a carbon tax to conservatives.

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Eco Auto Ninja

MAY 11, 2011

It’s expected that legislation will be signed this month that will get rid of the motor vehicle tax on plug-in electric vehicles for their first 10 years of being registered. It is also rumored that electric vehicles used for businesses would benefit from such substantial tax breaks that the cars would end up costing the same as a comparable gas-powered vehicle.

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Environmental Economics

JANUARY 5, 2012

The Buffalo City Council provided the highest incentives, tax breaks, etc., (With advance apologies for a rant.). I was looking at some NCAA FBS football data last night and. has anyone noticed that SUNY-Buffalo changed their name to University at Buffalo ? Why didn't they just go with University@Buffalo? Very hip. As if we could have located "University" anywhere we wanted but we chose to locate at Buffalo.

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Green Prophet

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Cars in Israel for prospective buyers of the new Tesla, you should know, come with a hefty import tax of 100% so expect it to be much more than a pretty penny when you try to buy one. Israeli law used to have a tax break for people who buy electric and hybrid cars.

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Low Impact

JULY 11, 2021

That’s whose lobbyists their listening to, and where the tax breaks are going. This is the second part of an interview with Jon Halle of Sharenergy, about the prospects for keeping energy production local and mutualised.

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Green (Living) Review

MARCH 20, 2016

To compound this, there have been further tax breaks offered to the oil and gas industry, demonstrating ongoing subsidy support to the fossil fuel sector. by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Philip Simpson, Commercial Director, ReFood, said on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 in response to the announcements in the UK 2016 Budget by Chancellor George Osborne: “Today’s Budget is another signal that the environment and renewable energy is far from the top of this government’s agenda.

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Green (Living) Review

JULY 25, 2014

In contrast, the party had already unveiled fracking tax breaks. A new survey has revealed that almost two-thirds of Britons would choose to live near a wind farm over a fracking site. The findings have led to the government being accused of ignoring public opinion The YouGov poll, commissioned by renewable energy firm Ecotricity, found that 62% of participants – if forced to choose – would prefer to have a wind farm in their local council area.

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Green Blog

JANUARY 25, 2012

Yesterday hundreds of demonstrators dressed in referee uniforms called the US Congress to end the huge tax breaks and other subsidies to Big Oil and the fossil fuel industry. "We've got to end all of the tax breaks for the oil companies and coal companies and I'm going to introduce legislation to do just that," Sanders promised the demonstrators. "Ending

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Environmental Economics

APRIL 21, 2016

  That's why people move to Florida and Arizona during the winter (that and tax breaks, but let's stick with the weather for now).  In evaluating benefits and costs, preferences matter.    For the most part, people like milder weather.    As temperatures increase, people get more of what they like: longer milder weather. So people may actually benefit from warmer temperatures. 

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Green Blog

JANUARY 25, 2012

Yesterday hundreds of demonstrators dressed in referee uniforms called the US Congress to end the huge tax breaks and other subsidies to Big Oil and the fossil fuel industry. Sanders' legislation will end those tax breaks and tens of billions of dollars in other special subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. Meanwhile, in recent years, some of the very largest oil companies in America like Exxon Mobil and Chevron, paid absolutely nothing in federal income taxes.

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Environmental Economics

JANUARY 22, 2012

Greg Mankiw discusses "four keys to a better tax system" that includes an increase in the gas tax: A good rule of thumb is that when you tax something, you get less of it. That means that taxes on hard work, saving and entrepreneurial risk-taking impede these fundamental drivers of economic growth. The alternative is to tax those things we would like to get less of. Consider the tax on gasoline. or has the optimal gas tax rate changed ? *My

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Green (Living) Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Austerity is being used as a cover-story for class war against the poor Austerity and deficit reduction are being used as a cover-story for conducting class war against the poor as simultaneous reductions in taxes on the wealthy and cuts to spending on social security amount to a redistribution of wealth away from the poor to the rich. Corporation tax has also been dramatically reduced, while VAT, a flat tax, has gone up.

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Environmental Economics

JULY 16, 2014

The Federal Highway Trust Fund will live on for another 6 months or so: In April, Mr. Obama sent Congress a proposed transportation program that would spend $302 billion over four years, financed both by traditional gasoline taxes and the elimination of some corporate tax breaks. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, also proposed an increase in the gas tax to make up for more efficient cars and trucks that have sapped tax revenues as infrastructure needs have soared.

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Sierra Club Compass

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The American Wind Energy Association released an analysis on Wednesday , detailing how the wind industry could phase out reliance on federal tax credits over a six-year time period. Ed Markey to President Obama and Speaker Boehner says that ending special tax treatments and loopholes for oil and gas companies would generate more than $50 billion for the country over the next ten years. 7) NGVs can empower consumers to break the Oil Oligopoly. Compass.

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Environmental Economics

JANUARY 13, 2012

I like beer and low taxes as much as the next guy (and it is Friday), but I'm very confused by this article (and another) in the N&O: [ Congressman Brad ] Miller is a co-sponsor of legislation in the U.S. House, dubbed the Small BREW Act, which would cut the excise taxes small breweries pay from $7 to $3.50 If you ask the brewers, the tax break is a no-brainer: It means jobs and capital expansion.

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Environmental Economics

JANUARY 3, 2012

Phil Miller: From the New York Times comes a story describing the end of the ethanol tax credit in the US. The tax break, created more than 30 years ago, had long seemed untouchable. But in the last year, during which Congress was preoccupied with deficits and debt, it became a symbol of corporate welfare. Fiscal conservatives joined liberal environmentalists to kill it, with help from a diverse coalition of outside groups.

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Sightline Daily

JANUARY 16, 2014

Washington state representative Reuven Carlyle introduced a bill (HB 2465) yesterday that would close big oil’s tax loophole and redirect the money to public education. Properly referred to as the “extracted fuel use tax exemption,” the loophole—an outdated accident from decades ago—confers a $41 million benefit to oil refineries each budget cycle. When it was created in 1949, the tax break was intended to benefit sawmills.

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Sierra Club Compass

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

But two of their primary conclusions -- that “many Americans are skeptical of [the] EPA’s proposed power plant rule” and “voters are pretty skeptical of all facets of the wind production tax credits” – are inconsistent with nearly every other national poll I’ve seen recently. And a USA Today poll released in December found 73 percent of Americans favored extending tax reductions for wind companies and other sources of renewable energy.

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Green Home Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Donate Clothing and Get a Tax Break. Ask for an assumed value receipt and deduct it from your taxes. 10 New Money Saving Eco-Tips. Practicing such habits as recycling, re-using, responsible consumerism and more are all ways to keep costs down and eco-healing up. The hardest part of a green lifestyle is not caving to the incessant, flashy, often hypnotic tactics advertising company’s use to get you to purchase a new product you do not need.

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 25, 2015

@aguanomics why are carbon taxes more viable worldwide? should push for carbon taxes instead of cap and trade. In response, John Whitehead (a busy environmental economist and blogger) said "why taxes?" In terms of addressing climate change I think that a carbon tax and cap-and-trade are 1a and 1b policies. A long time ago I did the principles level analysis of carbon tax vs cap-and-trade and found that there is little to distinguish the two.

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Eco Friendly Daily

JUNE 5, 2013

This news follows on the heels of the Washington State Legislature passing a bill to provide tax breaks for electric charging stations and electric car batteries. In addition to the tax breaks, the bill will also require the state to install charging stations in the state’s parking and maintenance facilities by the year 2015. Nissan and the city of Seattle recently announced the plans to develop an electric vehicle charging network in the Seattle area.

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Sightline Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Last year, Portland State University (PSU) gave the Oregon legislature a teaser about how to face those problems with a carbon tax. NERC modeled carbon taxes ranging from $10 to $150 per ton of greenhouse gas pollution. The tax would apply to pollution from burning fossil fuels , such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas. It would tax pollution from coal burned outside the state to generate electricity used by Oregonians. How much carbon pollution can a carbon tax cut?

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Sightline Daily

APRIL 16, 2015

CarbonWA’s Initiative 732 is modeled after British Columbia’s successful carbon tax: it would tax pollution and use all the revenue to cut other state taxes. The CarbonWA tax would start at $15 per ton, rise to $25 per ton in year two, and then slowly and steadily increase by inflation plus 3.5 billion in annual revenue would: Reduce the state sales tax from 6.5 Eliminate the business and occupation (B&O) tax for manufacturers.

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Sierra Club Compass

JUNE 24, 2013

He fought for fuel efficiency standards, championed clean energy jobs, stood up to big polluters and their tax breaks, voted against the dirty and dangerous Keystone XL pipeline, and worked tirelessly to curb climate-disrupting carbon pollution. His name is on the bill to end tax subsidies for big oil companies.   On Tuesday, Massachusetts voters will go to the polls to choose a candidate to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry.

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Sightline Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

That’s the amount of time that passed between when the Wall Street Journal tweeted the breaking new about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death Sunday and the time they posted a verified story about it—and still, this is possibly before the actor’s own family was informed of the news. But it’s long enough to ask questions about what it means to responsibly, ethically break news.” Are young people different than salmon?

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 20, 2020

The July 27 version of the Manager’s Mark included the statement, “Democrats support eliminating tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuels, and will fight to defend and extend tax incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy.” The Democratic presidential and vice-presidential candidates were barely announced before the DNC removed campaign pledges to end fossil fuel subsidies.

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Green (Living) Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Refurbishment does not carry the tax relief and tax break that does the building of new homes does for the developers. by Michael Smith (Veshengro) In his latest wheeze the Planning Minister – yes, him again – is now looking to relax the planning laws governing National Parks to force through the erection of broadband masts and equipment to enable the speedier roll out of the service.

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EcoFriend

MAY 17, 2012

Along with the expansion of government tax breaks and extension of incentives, the factors that encourage the use of solar power include, better financing options and lower technology cost. Pratima Kalra: Reasons for switching over to solar power are aplenty, especially for the Mid Atlantic states, where the sun’s power is available in abundance.

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 30, 2011

Economic issues across the nation are contributing to the early demise of solar incentives such as tax breaks, grants and rebates. He received a 30% tax credit from the federal government and a 10% cash rebate from the state. And the 30% federal tax credit program will conclude at the end of 2016. In Florida, Michael Hoffman, a taxation professor, hoped that between the federal tax credit and the state rebate, he'd be able to better afford a solar energy system.

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Green (Living) Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The poor are being squeezed while the rich are getting tax breaks and exemptions on all fronts. In fact, the Con-Dem coalition under Cameron and Glegg have reduced the top rate of tax, which affects the rich and super rich, while cutting benefits to the poor and the wages of the public employees. The latter, however, does not give the same tax breaks and profits to the building companies and thus it is not going to happen.

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Sierra Club Compass

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

But two of their primary conclusions -- that “many Americans are skeptical of [the] EPA’s proposed power plant rule” and “voters are pretty skeptical of all facets of the wind production tax credits” – are inconsistent with nearly every other national poll I’ve seen recently. And a USA Today poll released in December found 73 percent of Americans favored extending tax reductions for wind companies and other sources of renewable energy.

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Sierra Club Compass

JANUARY 4, 2013

  While the centerpiece of the bill included extending tax breaks for most Americans and delaying broad spending cuts, there were many other tax provisions included in the final package. On the night of the vote, Sierra Club applauded the extension of two tax credits that will spur growth in wind energy. For years commuters have received bigger tax breaks for driving to work instead of taking public transit. Compass.

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Sierra Club Compass

MAY 20, 2014

Jeff Flake of Arizona took to the Senate floor to make the claim that the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) is a “zombie” provision that we should eradicate, arguing that would somehow bring purity to energy markets.   Those vampires are the oil and gas tax breaks that have been in the tax code for decades upon decades, hiding under the cover of permanence, never having to stare into the light of day – or an expiration. 

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