Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
For decades, hardrock mining companies have benefited from generous tax breaks at the expense of taxpayers, all the while extracting...
A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that there are at least 161,000 abandoned mines in western states. The research,...
In a recent analysis on hardrock mining, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that among twelve western states, all assess...
Early this year, Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV) introduced H.R. 699, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009. H.R. 699 would...
Over the last two decades, federal agencies have spent more than $8 billion on efforts to restore salmon to the Columbia and Snake River...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructs large water projects (dams, levees, pumping sand on beaches) across the country. In the...
SUPPORT THE ANDREWS-CHABOT AMENDMENT TO CUT
ROAD-BUILDING SUBSIDIES
Since 1982, the Forest Service has lost nearly $1 billion...
Taxpayer subsidies to the oil and gas industry have played a major role in U.S. energy policy since 1916. Two of the largest tax breaks,...
The following are links to TCS's analysis and database for each of the FY09 appropriations bills. (Note: With the exception of House...
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Volume XVIII No. 37
Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...
July 11, 2013