Subsidies for Bad Energy To Be Retroactively Reauthorized?

Friends of the Earth criticizes the US Congress for attempting to retroactively reauthorize tax credits for fossil fuels and bioenergy that expired in 2009, asserting that such subsidies incur high economic and environmental costs and contradict President Obama's goals.

• Several environmentally damaging tax credits for 'dirty energy sources', including fossil fuels and bioenergy, expired at the end of 2009.
• The specific energy sources that received these tax credits include refined coal, low sulfur diesel fuel, coke or coke gas, oil and gas from marginal wells, biodiesel, biomass electricity, aviation kerosene, noncommercial aviation gasoline, and 'alternative fuels' such as liquid coal.
• Friends of the Earth opposes the retroactive reauthorization of these subsidies by Congress, stating they ignore fiscal responsibility and contradict President Obama's call to end global fossil fuel subsidies.

APA

Fox, A. (2010). Subsidies for Bad Energy To Be Retroactively Reauthorized? Friends of the Earth. https://foe.org/blog/2010-03-subsidies-for-bad-energy-to-be-retroactively-reautho/

Chicago

Fox, Audrey. Subsidies for Bad Energy To Be Retroactively Reauthorized? Friends of the Earth, 2010. https://foe.org/blog/2010-03-subsidies-for-bad-energy-to-be-retroactively-reautho/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{fox2010subsidies, author = {Fox, Audrey}, title = {{Subsidies for Bad Energy To Be Retroactively Reauthorized?}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth}, year = {2010}, month = mar, url = {https://foe.org/blog/2010-03-subsidies-for-bad-energy-to-be-retroactively-reautho/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }