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Coal to Liquids: A Costly Gamble

December 07, 2009 | Energy

Discovered by German scientists during World War II, the Fischer-Tropsch process – referred to by the Department of Energy as... Read More

Department of Energy Issues the “final rule” on Loan Guarantees

December 07, 2009 | Energy

Today the Department of Energy (DOE) released their amended final rule governing the Title XVII loan guarantee program. The program’s... Read More

Oil Companies To Reap More Profits on Backs of Federal Taxpayers

October 04, 2009 | Energy , Natural Resources

Taxpayers will likely lose at least $19 billion to oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court... Read More

Administration Calls for an End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies

September 24, 2009 | Energy

At the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh today, President Obama and the other G-20 leaders called for an international end to fossil fuel... Read More

NEW ANALYSIS: Royalty-in-Kind Program Costing Taxpayers Millions

September 15, 2009 | Energy , Natural Resources

Oil and Gas companies have skirted millions of dollars in payments owed to the federal government for the extraction of natural gas from... Read More

Salazar Announces Termination of Royalty-in-Kind Program

September 15, 2009 | Energy , Natural Resources

This morning, Interior Secretary Salazar announced that he will end the mismanaged and wasteful Minerals Management Service’s (MMS)... Read More

Nuclear Power Subsidies

August 05, 2009 | Energy

Since the nation began using nuclear energy, the federal government has provided billions in subsidies to the industry. More than $85... Read More

Important Legislation Calls for End to Double Subsidies for Hardrock Mining Operations

August 03, 2009 | Natural Resources

Taxpayers for Common Sense applauds Senators Feingold (D-WI), Cantwell (D-WA), and Feinstein (D- CA) for introducing the Elimination of... Read More

TCS Letter to the Senate on Hardrock Mining Laws

July 06, 2009 | Natural Resources

                 June 23, 2009 Dear Senator, For more than 137... Read More

House Energy and Water Subcommittee Cuts a Billion Dollars from the President’s Budget Request

June 29, 2009 | Energy

Last Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held their mark-up of the fiscal year 2010 Energy and Water... Read More

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February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as... Read More