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Can Targeted Tax Credits Bring Clean Energy to Coal Country?

Energy Institute at HAAS

At the heart of this deal are billions of dollars in clean energy tax … Continue Reading Can Targeted Tax Credits Bring Clean Energy to Coal Country? The Bidenomics of place-based climate policy. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a big climate deal.

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Mini Strip concept, hydrogen from coal, EV tax credit limits: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Looking at end use, hydrogen from coal is dirtier than coal combustion. The Senate votes to reel in an EV tax credit expansion, although it might not mean much yet. “Blue” hydrogen production facilities using coal or fossil fuels, such as. And Mini shows how stripped-down it can get with an EV.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.

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Major deposits of rare earth elements reported at Ramaco’s Brook Mine in Wyoming

Green Car Congress

In association with researchers from the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and analysts at mining consultancy Weir International, metallurgical coal producer Ramaco Resources released an independent Exploration Target report with technical assessment of rare earth elements (REE) found at its Brook Mine in Wyoming.

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Kentucky electric cars now pay two taxes where gas cars only pay one

Baua Electric

Photo by Mobilus in Mobili on Flickr As of January 1st, Kentucky has implemented not one but two new taxes on electric vehicles, both of which are individually higher than what gas vehicles pay on similar units of energy. At the Kentucky Public Service Commission’s approved rate of 25c/kWh , this represents a 12% or 24% tax.

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Fuel provisions in the Tax Relief bill

Green Car Congress

4853 , the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (“Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010”). The bill extends the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) through 2011 at the current rate of $0.45/gallon Refined Coal. US President Barack Obama on Friday signed H.R.

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Petition to Create Green Jobs From Coal

Electric Cars are for Girls

Decrease payroll taxes. Increase taxes on dirty carbon-based fuels at the source. Retrain coal miners and refinery workers into green jobs. Here's an idea: 1. Yeah, you know who I'm talking about; ) 3. Save the planet for future generations. Follow the link to whitehouse dot gov to sign the petition.

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