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Think Renewables Need Huge Subsidies? Federal Energy Subsidies Visualized

March 8, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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Source: Environmental Law Institute One of the most persistent arguments coming from those who oppose renewable energy subsidies is that they could never stand on their own without government intervention and that we should let the market decide which electricity source is best. A complete analysis of the problems with that argument... [read more]

Nukes v. Coal at ELI Forum

October 18, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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Baseload demand gets a rhetorical workout Psst! Wanna see some rhetorical fireworks about nuclear energy and coal? Then  reserve a free seat at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) forum Oct 29th in Washington, DC. The topic is whether expanded use of nuclear power and coal is inevitable in our climate-constrained future, and... [read more]

About That $72 Billion Subsidy

September 21, 2009 by Robert Rapier
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I am going to be pretty busy for the next few days, and probably won't be able to put up anything new until at least mid-week. Until then, over the past few days there have been a lot of headlines about a recently released study from the Environmental Law Institute. The study concluded that over the past seven years, fossil fuels have... [read more]

Subsidizing filth to employ foreigners rather than cleanliness to employ Americans

September 18, 2009 by A Siegel
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That title provides a reasonable summation of Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008, a report released today by the Environmental Law Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars looking at U.S. subsidies for energy, the relationship of fossil fuel to renewable energy subsidies, and how... [read more]