Sentences with phrase «environmental tax incentives»

«To be fully effective, it is important that government gives people confidence that environmental tax incentives will be in place for a long period.

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For example, last year, FLPC students developed fact sheets on date labeling, tax incentives, and liability protections for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (Mass DEP) and Recycling Works as it rolled out its organic waste ban across the state.

It is also used for its secondary effects: punitive taxation, taxation used as an incentive (e.g. protectionist tariffs, environmental taxes to reduce pollution, sin taxes on gambling or drugs, financial transaction taxes, Pigovian taxes), foreign policy (tariffs), wealth redistribution (progressive taxation, negative income tax).

PLATTSBURGH Forestry associations, environmental groups and state lawmakers are asking the governor to prioritize reform of a program designed to preserve timberlands by giving private forest owners tax breaks and other incentives.

Speaker Vos, in a report to Assembly Republicans called «No Easy Answers,» said, «Transportation is a bigger concern for job creators looking to locate a business than Right to Work, tax incentives or environmental regulations.»

In addition, some green investments may be dependent on government tax incentives and subsidies, and on political support for certain environmental technologies and companies.

I have a feeling a program like this would create a bigger environmental win and the right financial incentives versus a tax where the economic incentives of the stakeholders are not aligned.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

These incentives can take the form of tax credits, subsidies, cost sharing, contracts, technical assistance, and environmental service payments.

Other green initiatives include the Eco-Marchamo, which is a voluntary complementary tax that allows drivers to offset 100 percent of the emissions generated by fuel consumption for one year and the Carbon Neutral Framework that incentives good environmental practice by Costa Rican companies.

Under Phillips» leadership, AFP has campaigned against the Environmental Protection Agency's carbon pollution standards and tax incentives for wind energy, while denying the existence of subsidies for the oil and gas industries.

The Federal government, through the office of the president, can direct the SEC and the IRS to create a more favorable regulatory environment for capital markets, or preferred tax incentives for companies that meet certain standards for accountability, transparency, or social and environmental impact.

· Regulation is often preferred to economic incentives for two reasons: 1) industry prefers to protect plants that are already built, and 2) some environmental groups oppose taxes because they make the cost of environmental protection transparent, ie the very factor which others argue is a positive asset is seen by some as being negative.

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Represented diversified public corporation undertaking redevelopment projects on several of its business units» campuses, including counsel on related legislation and tax incentives and representation in the environmental and land use permit proceedings required to construct and renovate buildings pursuant to a master plan for creating educational, housing, entertainment, retail, and employment opportunities in a mixed - use development district.

Tax incentives that encourage owners to make properties more energy efficient or satisfy other environmental goals and mitigate potential damage from natural disasters;