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Energy Subsidies for Landfills Last modified: March 22, 2019 |
The waste industry is working to declare garbage a ‘renewable resource’ and secure federal tax credits for making energy from collecting landfill methane gas. GRRN believes such measures should be required, not subsidized, for such an antiquated technology.
GRRN Fact Sheet & Report (2001)
- What's Wrong with Tax Credits for Landfill Gas Energy Recovery? [html] | [pdf]
- Technical Report Summary [pdf]
- Technical
Report for Landfill Tax Credits [pdf]
Articles
- Recycling
groups register opposition to tax breaks for LFG, WTE [off-site]
(September 4, 2001) - Doug
Koplow's Op-Ed appearing
in Waste News
(August 6, 2001), p. 9 - Primer
on Landfill Gas as "Green" Energy [off-site]
Pensylvania Environmental Network
Letters to Congress
- GRRN's Letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, July 30, 2001 [html] | [pdf]
- GRRN's
Letter to House Ways
and Means Committee
Chairman Bill Thomas, July 23, 2001
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