As of November 2011, a large majority of Americans (70 %) also opposed
federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry (coal, oil, and natural gas), including majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents:
Eliminate
federal subsidies for fossil fuels and re-direct those federal funds to renewable energy development and energy efficiency programs.
Not exact matches
In the near term,
federal policy could: i) level the playing field between air captured CO2 and
fossil -
fuel derived CO2 by providing
subsidies or credits
for superior carbon lifecycle emissions that account
for recovering carbon from the atmosphere; ii) provide additional research funding into air capture R&D initiatives, along with other areas of carbon removal, which have historically been unable to secure grants; and iii) ensure air capture is deployed in a manner that leads to sustainable net - negative emissions pathways in the future, within the framework of near - term national emissions reductions, and securing 2 °C - avoiding emissions trajectories.
These measures include levying a price on carbon emissions, eliminating tax
subsidies for fossil fuels and ending implicit
subsidies, such as leasing
federal lands that contain coal or oil at rates below the fair market rate.
Hence, if you want to change directions, you have to influence the politics — you have to work to prevent the Koch Brothers from destroying California renewable energy initiatives, you have to work to eliminate
federal subsidies and liability caps
for fossil fuel projects (which would mean that oil drillers would have to post $ 10 billion bonds
for every deepwater project they initiated), and —
for academic scientists — you have to lobby your academic administrators to cut their ties with shady
fossil fuel interests like BP and Exxon, and work to open renewable energy research institutes at America's leading universities.