United States Congress, Joint Committee on Taxation http://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=3789 The Senate Committee on Finance has announced a public hearing to examine public financing of infrastructure. This document, prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, provides a description of present-law provisions relating to certain infrastructure trust funds and their dedicated taxes, an overview of public-private … Continue reading »
Posted on May 25, 2011 …
Tax Policy and Gasoline Prices
Congressional Research Service via Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-NV) http://democrats.senate.gov/pdfs/20110511-crs-analysis-on-gas-prices.pdf This memorandum is written in response to your request for an analysis of the extent to which proposed tax changes on the oil industry are likely to affect domestic gasoline prices. The specific tax proposals that you requested be considered are the Section 199 deduction … Continue reading »
Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest: Powering the Next Generation of Flight
Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest (SAFN) http://www.safnw.com/sustainable-aviations-fuels-bibliography/ [Green Car Congress] The Pacific Northwest has the diverse feedstocks, fuel-delivery infrastructure and political will needed to create a viable biofuels industry capable of reducing greenhouse gases and meeting the future fuel demands of the aviation industry, according to a newly-released study by Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest (SAFN). Creating … Continue reading »
House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee – Fifth Report: Shale Gas
UK Parliament http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmenergy/795/79502.htm [Green Car Congress] Shale gas drilling in the UK has been given the go-ahead by MPs in a new report looking at the impact it could have on water supplies, energy security and greenhouse gas emissions. Shale gas extraction could reduce the UK’s dependence on imported gas, but it is unlikely to … Continue reading »
GBEP Sustainability Indicators
Global Bioenergy Parnership http://www.globalbioenergy.org/news0/detail/en/news/79357/icode/ [Green Car Congress] The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) has agreed on a set of voluntary, practical and science-based sustainability indicators with the aim of helping countries to assess and develop sustainable production and use of bioenergy. In addition the Partnership has approved to launch a capacity building initiative that seeks to … Continue reading »
Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Symposium on the Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage (MIT Energy Initiative and the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin, July 23 2010) http://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/reports/EOR-CCS.html [Green Car Congress] A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to … Continue reading »
Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the US: Reducing the Deadly Risks of Storage
Institute for Policy Studies/ by Robert Alvarez http://bit.ly/in5FMF [Yale Environment 360] The huge amounts of spent nuclear fuel accumulating in containment pools across the U.S. pose a potentially catastrophic risk and should be moved to dry storage as soon as possible, a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies warns. Of the 65,000 metric … Continue reading »
Flight Path to Sustainable Aviation
CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship http://www.csiro.au/resources/Sustainable-Aviation-Fuels.html [Yale Environment 360] The creation of a sustainable, “bio-derived” aviation industry for Australia and New Zealand can be achieved within two decades, a report by Australia’s top science agency says. According to the report by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the region has enough sources of non-food … Continue reading »
Water for Food; Innovative Water Management Technologies for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation
UN Conference on Trade and Development http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/dtlstict2011d2_en.pdf This series publication seeks to contribute to exploring current issues in science, technology and innovation,with particular emphasis on their impact on developing countries. [H/T: UN Pulse]
California’s Energy Future—The View to 2050
California Council on Science and Technology http://ccst.us/publications/2011/2011energy.php In the next 40 years, California’s population is expected to surge from 37 million to 55 million and the demand for energy is expected to double. Given those daunting numbers, can California really reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, as required … Continue reading »
