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Comments to House Ways and Means Committee 2013 Tax Reform Working Groups

The House Ways and Means Committee created eleven tax reform working groups to focus on select issues within the U.S. tax code as part of...

White House Budget Proposes Spending More On Small Modular Reactors, Winner of 2013 “Golden Fleece Award”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 10, 2013 CONTACTS: Steve Ellis, (202) 546-8500 x126, or...

Diverse Stakeholders Applaud Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Reform

Today, a bipartisan set of Representatives introduced a bill to take long overdue steps toward reforming the broken Renewable Fuel...

Energy Department Announces Second Round of Small Modular Reactor Funding

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday a second funding opportunity for its Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Program. The new...

Report: Foxes Guarding U.S. Nuclear Henhouse

Anyone familiar with a few fairy tales knows it’s not a good idea to let a fox guard a henhouse. But that’s just what the federal...

TCS President Statement on Golden Fleece Awarded for Federal Spending on Small Modular Reactors

Today we present the Golden Fleece Award to the Department of Energy for providing federal subsidies for small modular reactors or SMRs. ...

Golden Fleece Award Goes to Department of Energy for Federal Spending on Small Modular Reactors

TCS awarded the Golden Fleece to DOE for wasting taxpayer funds on small modular reactors....

FutureGen Project Moves Forward: $1 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Still Pending

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced the approval of Phase II for the $1.65 billion experimental FutureGen 2.0 Project located in...

Big Oil Boasts High Profits; Subsidies Continue

Oil and gas companies continue to boast substantial profits while reaping billions in taxpayer-backed subsidies. As of February 1st, four...

Congress: Only Fund Emergency Needs in Sandy Supplemental

  January 11, 2012 Dear Representative, As you know, the House of...

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...