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  • Treasury Releases Additional Information on CREBs

    On March 26, the Treasury Department issued additional information on the second round of CREB requests made by consumer-owned utilities.  At the request of Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), the IRS sent the Congressman a detailed letter outlining allocations by state, type of project, type of entity requesting the allocation, and whether the ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on April 8, 2008
  • Cantwell and Ensign Advance Short-Term Clean Energy Tax Package

    On April 3, Sens. Cantwell and John Ensign (R-NV) introduced a short-term, $6 billion energy tax incentive bill, the Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act (S. 2821), which may be offered today as an amendment to a housing bill being considered on the Senate floor. The Cantwell-Ensign bill is a scaled-down version of previous tax packages that the Senate ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on April 8, 2008
  • Alliance for Climate Protection Announces Ad Campaign

    On Wednesday, April 2, Cathy Zoi, CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection discussed in an OnPoint interview a $300 million climate change ad campaign, funded in part by former Vice President Al Gore.  She said that 80% of the American people are now aware that climate change is a problem.  However, this has not been translated into ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on April 8, 2008
  • Senate to Consider Lieberman-Warner Bill in Early June; House Draft Expected in April

    In early April, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid formally announced he would schedule consideration of a modified version of the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade climate change bill during the first week of June.  Given the complexity of the legislation, the impacts on the economy and the strong opposition from Environment and Public Works ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on April 8, 2008
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