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
This week TCS released a letter to Congress supporting the Salmon Solutions and Planning Act. The legislation was introduced by...
The GAO has just released a lengthy report on the questionable land exchange process. TCS has frequently pointed out how the process is...
Congressman Rahall has introduced legislation, H.R. 699 to reform the law that governs the mining of gold, silver, copper, uranium and...
A report released today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concludes that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) is at risk of...
Government officials responsible for the collection of billions of dollars of oil royalties to the federal treasury accepted gifts from...
The so-called roadless rule, promulgated in the final days of the Clinton Administration, has once again been struck down by U.S....
Fair Compensation for Taxpayers
For more than eight decades the coal, oil, and natural gas industries have all paid royalties for the...
Overview
Under the General Mining Law of 1872, mining companies pay no royalties to the federal government for hardrock minerals...
Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) was indicted in federal court on Feb. 22, 2008, on 35 counts including official extortion and money laundering....
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
December 17, 2012
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