Dept. of Energy Offers USEC $280 Million Handout

Dept. of Energy Offers USEC $280 Million Handout
In yet another attempt to revive the struggling United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), the Department of Energy (DOE) has offered USEC $88 million in cash immediately and promised another $200 m...
Pub Date: Jun 14, 2012
Categories: Cut Subsidies, Energy, Headlines By TCS, Increase Transparency, Our Take, Stop Waste
Tags: Department of Energy, loan guarantees, nuclear energy, nuclear subsidies

Energy OKs $280M for ailing USEC centrifuge project in Ohio (USA Today)
By Gregory Korte WASHINGTON ? The U.S. Department of Energy will invest $280 million ? in a company worth less than half that ? to research whether American-made centrifuge technolo...
Pub Date: Jun 13, 2012
Categories: Headlines About TCS
Tags: news

Congress Votes to Keep Same Program That Brought You Solyndra Alive
Last week the House of Representatives passed the Energy and Water spending bill that provides funding for the Department of Energy?s (DOE) Title 17 loan guarantee program. This is the same ...
Pub Date: Jun 12, 2012
Categories: Energy, Headlines By TCS
Tags: coal-to-liquid, coal subsidies, loan guarantees, nuclear subsidies, renewable energy, solar, subsidies, synthetic fuels

TCS Testifies before House Natural Resources Subcommittee
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) Vice-President Steve Ellis testified about federal subsidies for western water contractors and legislation to allow pre-payment of those contracts before the Water &am...
Pub Date: Jun 11, 2012
Categories: Headlines By TCS, Natural Resources, Water Resources
Tags: Bureau of Reclamation, Central Valley Project, water resources

Much Ado About Earmarks
If you hear some lawmakers tell it, earmarks made Washington a well-oiled machine. As special interest spending provisions that were slipped into legislation, they were key to getting votes on bills a...
Pub Date: Jun 08, 2012
Categories: Earmarks & Appropriations, Wastebasket
Tags: earmark disclosure, earmark reform, earmarks

New Farm Bill Focuses On Reaping, Not Sowing (NPR)
by Tamara Keith The Senate will spend the next several weeks hashing through the farm bill. The legislation deals with everything from crop insurance subsidies to food stamps. ...
Pub Date: Jun 08, 2012
Categories: Headlines About TCS
Tags: news

Senate Ag Committee: More is Less
With debate on the 2012 Farm Bill underway on the Senate Floor, proponents of this nearly trillion dollar bill are touting it as a bipartisan achievement toward deficit reduction. Rather than a parago...
Pub Date: Jun 08, 2012
Categories: Agriculture, Headlines By TCS
Tags: agriculture committee, crop insurance, crop subsidies, Senate, subsidies

With ban on earmarks in Congress, Jacksonville's politicians get creative (Florida Times-Union)
Faced with a congressional freeze on earmarks, two U.S. representatives from Jacksonville found a novel path to House approval for a $35 million project at Jacksonville's port. The city and port have...
Pub Date: Jun 08, 2012
Categories: Headlines About TCS
Tags: news

Crop Insurance Proposal Could Cost U.S. Billions (The New York Times)
By Ron Nixon WASHINGTON ? At the same time that high crop prices are prompting farmers to expand into millions of acres of land once considered unsuitable for farming, Congress is considering e...
Pub Date: Jun 07, 2012
Categories: Headlines About TCS
Tags: news

House Cuts $25 Million in Subsidies for Oil Shale
Yesterday the House of Representatives cut $25 million in new funding for oil shale development. Instead of directing more subsidies at oil shale development the money will go towards deficit reductio...
Pub Date: Jun 07, 2012
Categories: Energy, Federal Budget, Headlines By TCS, Natural Resources
Tags: energy subsidies, fiscal year 2013, Oil Shale, oil subsidies

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