Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals
December 17, 2012
Subsidizing Oil Shale: Tracing Federal Support for Oil Shale Development in the United States
November 29, 2012
It was payback time for President Obama this week when he threw down the gauntlet to tax-dodging contractors.Taxpayers pay contractors...
For decades, hardrock mining companies have benefited from generous tax breaks at the expense of taxpayers, all the while extracting...
A recent GAO report found that there are at least 161,000 abandoned mines in western states. The research, conducted in the states of...
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...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructs large water projects (dams, levees, pumping sand on beaches)...
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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed rule for Oil Shale Management. Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) is a non-partisan...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
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