Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal subsidies»

U.S. federal subsidies for renewable energy, which includes biofuels as well as renewable electricity generation, has declined by 56 percent since 2013, dipping to $ 6.7 billion in 2016.

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Separately on Tuesday, a judge for the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ruled narrowly in favor of the subsidies in a case called David King.

That bill would have allowed undocumented adults who arrived in the U.S. before a certain date to live and work here legally — but without access to federal benefits like Medicaid, food stamps, or Obamacare health subsidies.

In a November 4, 2011, Globe and Mail article, Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says U.S. dairy subsidies amounted to US$ 450 million annually.

How Trump Administration's Proposed USDA Cuts Could Harm America's Multibillion - Dollar Wine Industry USDA budget cuts could impact U.S. wine exports Though grape growers aren't supported by federal subsidies, US wine makers could still be effected by potential cuts to the USDA.

Thanks to federal and state cash subsidies and surplus commodities provided free by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, every high school student in Illinois can purchase a five - component lunch for $ 1.40.

But, the tobacco farming industry has collapsed in the last decade or two, and a lot of big U.S. farm products are heavily dependent upon federal subsidies, (for much of recent history, 50 % of the income of corn, sugar and cotton farmers came in the form of federal subsidies), in part, because their international competitors are also heavily subsidized.

The sad thing is that our local community in New Square is described in Wikipedia as a place where «four Hasidic men created a nonexistent Jewish school to receive $ 30 million in education grants, subsidies, and loans from the U.S. federal government.

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to announce its decision in a lawsuit that threatens federal health insurance subsidies for more than 6 million Americans, health care economist Timothy D. McBride, PhD, professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, is confident the high court will side with the Obama administration.

After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.

Federal funds provide additional subsidies: DSU received an award from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education program while JCPS and Region 1 used Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act funds to support their principal training initiatives.

The Conference recognizes that the Congress enacted the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 provision prohibiting the combination of Federal guarantees with tax - exempt debt, because of concerns that such a double - subsidy could result in the creation of a «AAA» rated security superior to U.S. Treasury obligations.

The 35 percent U.S. Federal interest subsidy is deeper than the corresponding 25 percent Federal interest subsidy on Build America Bonds (Tax Credit).

Meantime, he should phase out taxpayer subsidies over which the Administration has some control — for example, increasing the fossil industry cost - share for federal research and development and bringing U.S. royalty and lease rates up to the levels charged by other nations.

Aside from Block Island and a second, slightly larger Deepwater Wind project now in the works, offshore wind development in the U.S. is not expected to benefit from federal subsidies.

Douglas Koplow, founder of Earth Track, calculated in a 2006 study that annual U.S. federal energy subsidies have a total value to the industry of $ 74 billion.

Today, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii unveiled the FAIR Energy Policy Act, which would end a subset of existing U.S. federal oil subsidies within four years.

Yet the U.S. federal government essentially provides electric car buyers with a subsidy of up to $ 7,500.

These state measures — along with federal government subsidies such as the production tax credit for wind, the investment tax credit for solar and the tax credit for purchasing electric vehicles — provide lasting incentives that are pushing green technologies into the U.S. marketplace.

Rather than finding ways to curtail fossil fuel production in line with the demands of climate science, the U.S. federal government, under President Obama's «All of the Above» energy strategy, is currently channeling more than $ 5 billion each year in exploration subsidies to actually expand proven reserves, leading to the discovery of fossil fuels that we know we should never burn.

In 1986, the U.S. federal government created the Low - Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program as an indirect subsidy to encourage private investment in affordable housing.