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Clean Energy Tax Credits: Creating An Energy Welfare State Or Saving The Planet, K. Alex Langley
Clean Energy Tax Credits: Creating An Energy Welfare State Or Saving The Planet, K. Alex Langley
The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review
This article addresses possible tax incentives that may be available in addition to or as an alternative to current tax credits. First, it will provide an overview of America’s ever-evolving energy policy. This section explains why the country’s energy policies resemble a rollercoaster. Second, this article offers a brief history of tax credits, specifically clean energy tax credits and fossil fuel tax credits. Part three describes Master Limited Partnerships (“MLPs”) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (“REITs”), two tax-flavored entity choices used by the oil and gas industry to improve their bottom line. Specifically, part three explores the tax benefits of …
Pace Energy & Climate Center 2016 Annual Report, Pace Energy & Climate Center
Pace Energy & Climate Center 2016 Annual Report, Pace Energy & Climate Center
Environmental Law Program Publications @ Haub Law
The Center staff and many allies are deeply involved in the business of electric utility transformation. We live and work in a remarkable time. Decades of steady, thoughtful leadership on clean energy issues is now bearing fruit. Clean energy is not just the right thing to do, it is increasingly recognized as the right choice economically, technically, and for all members of society. Our work, especially in 2016, has been about making sure that we seize the moment and secure the benefits of clean energy use for all communities in New York, the Northeast U.S., across the country, and throughout …
A Us Clean Energy Transition And The Trump Administration, Joseph P. Tomain
A Us Clean Energy Transition And The Trump Administration, Joseph P. Tomain
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
The Obama administration undertook several steps giving the US federal government a leadership role in a clean energy transition. Among other actions, the administration develop a Climate Action Plan, successfully negotiated higher fuel vehicle standards with car manufacturers, passed the Clean Power Plan, and signed the Paris Climate Agreement. Although the United States had been party to other international climate agreements and was a signatory to the Rio Declaration, other federal efforts were lax at best.
During his election campaign, Donald Trump promised his supporters to eliminate the Clean Power Plan, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, curtail the Environmental Protection …
Clean Electrification, Shelley Welton
Clean Electrification, Shelley Welton
University of Colorado Law Review
To combat climate change, many leading states have adopted the aim of creating a "participatory"g rid. In this new model, electricity is priced based on time of consumption and carbon content, and consumers are encouraged to adjust their behavior and adopt new technologies to maintain affordable electricity. Although a more participatory grid is an important component of lowering greenhouse gas emissions, it also raises a new problem of clean energy justice: utilities and consumer advocates claim that such policies unjustly benefit the rich at the expense of the poor, given the type of consumer best able to participate in the …