Beyond Words

• Date: 01 December 2009

12-2009 NEWS & ANALYSIS 39 ELR 11141

BEYOND WORDS

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Notes: *Carbon capture and storage is a developing technology that would allow coal-burning utilities to

capture and store their carbon dioxide emissions. Although this technology does not make coal a renew-

able fuel, if successful it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared to coal plants that do not use

this technology. **Recognizing that the production and use of corn-based ethanol may generate signicant

greenhouse gas emissions, the data depict renewable subsidies both with and without ethanol subsidies.

Sources: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration),

Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, Oce of Management and Budget, & U.S. Department of

Agriculture, via Environmental Law Institute.

Copyright © 2009, Environmental Law Institute®. For more information, see http://www.eli.org/Program_

Areas/innovation_governance_energy.cfm.

Federal Subsidies (2002-08)

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