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Captain Morgan’s Bailout Binge

June 26, 2009 | Budget & Tax

Bloomberg News reports today on some of the more egregious unintended consequences of the Economic Stabilization legislation (Bank... Read More

Senate Energy Committee Passes American Clean Energy Leadership Act

June 16, 2009 | Energy

Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources completed work on the American Clean Energy Leadership Act (ACELA), passing... Read More

Taxpayer Giveaway to Oil and Gas Industries Repealed in Senate Energy Committee

June 15, 2009 | Energy

Today the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee narrowly passed an amendment to repeal the outer continental shelf deep water and... Read More

GAO and Land Swaps

June 11, 2009 | Budget & Tax , Natural Resources

The GAO has just released a lengthy report on the questionable land exchange process.  TCS has frequently pointed out how the process is... Read More

House Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing on Department of Energy FY10 Budget Request

June 07, 2009 | Budget & Tax , Energy

On Wednesday, the House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee heard testimony from Department of Energy Secretary... Read More

TCS Supports Reform of 1872 Mining Law

March 06, 2009 | Natural Resources

Congressman Rahall has introduced legislation, H.R. 699 to reform the law that governs the mining of gold, silver, copper, uranium and... Read More

President Cuts Oil and Gas Subsidies

March 02, 2009 | Budget & Tax , Energy

The President’s budget highlights, released last week, took the ax to major subsidies to the oil and gas industry. Through the... Read More

TCS Presents: Loan Guarantees and You

February 25, 2009 | Energy

Today TCS explained the basics of the Department of Energy's loan guarantees program at an Institute for Energy and Environmental... Read More

Clean Coal Gets Boost in House and Senate Stimulus Bills

January 30, 2009 | Energy

Both the House and Senate included increase for clean coal technologies in their stimulus bills. The House provided $2.4 billion for... Read More

GAO and Bailout banks

January 16, 2009 | Budget & Tax

As part of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) work on offshore tax havens, their most recent report – released today – really... 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