The air transport deregulation has placed airports in a competitive environment. And the Low-Cost Carriers (LCC) offer made routes and secondary airports number to dramatically increase.
The second...
For the past 20 years, corporations have been receiving huge tax breaks and subsidies in the name of "jobs, jobs, jobs." But, as Greg LeRoy demonstrates in this important new book, it's become a co...
The term “special needs” is used in a distinct way in Title IV-E programs. In order to be considered a child with special needs for the purpose of providing adoption assistance payments, states mus...
This paper reviews biofuel measures that are commonly used in major producing countries against WTO subsidies disciplines. These measures are found in a range of laws and policies relating to energ...
Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) introduced this week H.R.3187, a bill “to reduce and eliminate the tax credit for alcohol fuel mixtures and the tariff on imported ethanol.” While other bills (e.g., H.R.235...
On the January 23, 2008 the European Commission agreed on a far-reaching package of proposals that will deliver the European Council's commitments to fight climate change and promote RE. With the p...
Big Oil Investments in Corn Ethanol Net Billions
According to a report from the the U.S. oil industry, they are are the biggest investors in greenhouse gas (GHG)-mitigating technologies this cen...
GAO Reports on Ethanol Tax Breaks
By CURT ANDERSON, AP Tax Writer
12 October 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal tax breaks for the oil industry totaled almost $150 billion over the last three deca...
“This was a response to a local newspapers’ criticism of a buy-local policy that had been proposed by a city council. It underscores the need for a city to be self sufficient given the uncertainti...
Written by Editor of sub-scribe Magazine, Montage. This essay covers America's "addiction" to clean energy, particularly wind energy, in response to global warming.
The Impact of Stimulus, Subsidies and Protectionism for Green Energy in the US.
To some it may seem bad timing that the U.S. chooses to become the leader in green energy at a time when its econ...
This study produces calculations of the amount of money being dispersed by the government to the 16 primary dealers and investment banks who qualify to borrow through the special lending facilities...
An election review produces by the local proposition 2 measure defeated by Austin voters in the general election of 2008 regarding subsidies for business.
A research paper that is meant establish socioeconomic balance by challenging the use of subsidies for commodities such as cotton. In effect this would entail hard working farmers in the region of ...