Sentences with phrase «including federal subsidies»

NRDC has for over 40 years sought to close nuclear plants directly and indirectly by lobbying for laws including federal subsidies and renewable energy mandates that discriminate against nuclear.

Not exact matches

Antos expects the replacement plan to also include individual insurance that has a form of Federal subsidies, as envisioned in House Speaker Paul Ryan's proposed plan to replace Obamacare.

Besides, most child - care benefits in Canada are already means - tested, including municipally and provincially run child - care subsidy systems, as well as the federal government's Universal Child Care Benefit.

The commission recommended several reforms including reforming civilian and military retirement programs, reducing agricultural program spending, eliminating in - school subsidies in federal student loan programs, and giving the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation the authority to increase premiums.

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.

As an employer, the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals offers eligible employees an excellent compensation and benefits package that includes federal insurance plans, life insurance coverage, leave policies, thrift - savings plans, transit and child - care subsidies, training and development, and work flexibility.

The IDC's plan would include a strengthening of the Facilitated Enrollment Child Care subsidy by hiking funding to $ 25 million and would expand those eligible for the program to within 400 percent of the federal poverty line.

It includes a wave of cuts to benefit programs such as Medicaid, federal employee pensions, welfare benefits and farm subsidies.

The ad accuses Slaughter of a voting for a slew of tax increases, including the so - called «cap and trade» emissions measure and trots out the frequent Republicant talking point that the 2010 federal health care bill cuts $ 716 billion for Medicare, which is actually spread out over 10 years and targets subsidies to insurance companies.

Benefits DA Zugibe claims the defendants attained through fraudulent means include federal and state housing subsidies, food stamps and Medicaid assistance.

«Building on the innovative legacy of the New Deal, this report describes a far - reaching, two-fold agenda to tame the growth of wealth among the top one percent and establish rules and institutions that ensure security and opportunity for the middle class,» reads the document, which calls for the federal government to adopt several recommendations, including childcare subsidies and universal pre-K.

The Council wants de Blasio's 2019 city budget to include $ 212 million in subsidies to offer half - price MetroCards to some 800,000 New Yorkers living below the federal poverty line.

The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of federal crop insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of federal flood, crop and nuclear insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.

The report, «Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Assessment of Regional Supply and Demand Conditions Affecting the Future of Renewable Energy in the West,» compares the cost of renewable electricity generation (without federal subsidy) from the West's most productive renewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers it serves.

What Kline essentially proposes to do is allow states and districts to spend federal education subsidies as they see fit without being accountable for providing all children — including those from poor and minority backgrounds — with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

Because the purpose of Title 1 is to provide additional support for children from poor and minority backgrounds, any use of the subsidies for general school operations (including for kids from the middle class) is a violation of federal law.

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.

This effect of including federal funds reflects the fact that the bulk of federal education dollars are allocated based largely on the income profile of the communities schools serve, primarily through federal subsidies for free and reduced price meals and under Title I of the ESEA.19 But because subsidies for school lunch programs are the largest source of federal funds flowing to schools, those concerned with equity must determine how expenditures of those non-instructional funds are considered.

The TIFIA Program is governed by the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, which requires the DOT to establish a capital reserve, or «subsidy amount,» sufficient to cover the estimated long - term cost to the Federal Government of a Federal credit instrument, including any expected credit losses, before the DOT can provide TIFIA credit assistance.

In addition to the TIFIA loan, project funding sources included $ 38 million in CDOT Federal and State grants, $ 46 million in CDOT bridge enterprise funds, $ 44 million in regional Federal funds, $ 120 million in RTD sales tax revenue, and $ 4.8 million of the TIGER Challenge grant (the remaining portion of the $ 10 million TIGER TIFIA Challenge Grant funded the TIFIA subsidy cost).

The task force suggested the new department include the Federal Aviation Agency, the Bureau of Public Roads, the Coast Guard, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the Great Lakes Pilotage Association, the Car Service Division of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the subsidy function of the Civil Aeronautics Board, and the Panama Canal.

The NDP's platform does include subsidies in the form of tax breaks for landlords to construct affordable rental units, but Mulcair has refused to say if he would use the federal government's regulatory powers to tighten lending rules and cool the market.

Under Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA) rules, subsidy costs such as default costs and in - school interest benefits are embedded within the program subsidy, whereas Federal administration costs are treated as annual cash amounts and are not included within the subsidy rate.

Given all the other subsidies, including federal grants for capital expenditures, my $ 100 is probably supplemented by more than $ 100 of government spending taxed from others who don't enjoy the service.

The most recent estimates of these amounts by CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) were included in the September 2017 report Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65: 2017 to 2027.

Americans know that a portion of that price per gallon already includes the cost of federal and state climate change subsidies.

WHEREAS, the federal government and many individual states currently provide direct subsidies in the form of tax credits, rebates, and other incentives to owners of alternative - fueled vehicles, including electric, natural gas, biofuel, propane clean diesel and, in some instances, supporting fueling infrastructure; and

That sum includes all local, state, and federal subsidies as well as federal loans and loan guarantees received by companies on the American Wind Energy Association's board of directors since 2000.

These changes in market structure to favor the few were accomplished by various means: lack of oversight leading to concentration of market power through mergers and acquisitions, outright government subsidies to industry in various forms, including explicit subsidies to the equities and housing markets (among others) by the Federal Reserve to create a trickle down «wealth effect» in those markets, changes in the tax structure which increase the concentration of wealth, etc..

The subsidies available to the West Virginia wind farms include federal accelerated depreciation (5 years as opposed to 20 years for other electric generating facilities), production tax credits, a reduction in the West Virginia Corporate Net Income Tax (due to accelerated depreciation), an 87.5 to 93.75 percent reduction in West Virginias Business and Occupation Tax, and a 91.67 percent reduction in West Virginia property taxes.

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.

The possible components of such an approach that would be relevant in the context of climate change include: a national renewable electricity standard; Federal financing for clean energy projects: energy efficiency measures (building, appliance, and industrial efficiency standards; home retrofit subsidies; and smart grid standards, subsidies, and dynamic pricing policies); and new Federal electricity ‑ transmission siting authority.

They also include further despoliation of Federal lands with ugly and bird and bat - killing windmills and solar installations that are likely to be abandoned when the Federal subsidies end and the coercion is relaxed.

* Taxpayers who end up bearing the burden of taxes escaped by wind energy developers who take advantage of generous tax shelters (including federal production tax credits and accelerated depreciation), similar tax shelters provided by some states, property tax exemptions, and direct subsidies.

Government actions to encourage «wind farm» construction include generous federal tax shelters and other subsidies as well as state mandates and subsidies provided by the State of Wisconsin and other states.

The White House reported to House Republicans that there are 18 federal agencies engaged in global warming activities in 2013, funding a wide range of programs, including scientific research, international climate assistance, incentivizing renewable energy technology and subsidies to renewable energy producers.

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:

They should support including nuclear in state renewable portfolio standards, and seek to equalize federal subsidies.

While there have been a few bids of 2 - 3 cents per kWh for utility - scale renewable power, they include federal renewable energy subsidies that will soon end and do not reflect all of the costs of a renewable energy grid.

Representation of developer of $ 65,000,000 coastal hotel / retail / entertainment resort, including negotiation / closing of purchases / leases of raw land, performance / resolution of due diligence, obtaining from local, state and federal authorities of coastal development permits, abandonment of streets / alleys and low - income job - creation subsidies, negotiation of construction contracts, negotiation of retail leases and acquisition of amusement rides, together with provision of day - to - day legal services to resort management.

Your premiums are now also effected by federal tax subsidies and new mandates that require essential benefit packages to be included on all new policies.

Of particular interest to this study are patterns of subsidy receipt, the role of federal support for adoption subsidies under Title IV - E, and the relationship between adoption subsidies and adoption outcomes, including the rate of adoptions among eligible children and the timeliness of adoption.

Title IV - E Claims and Adoption Assistance Payments Hansen (2006) Discusses Federal legislation that was passed to provide subsidies to adoptive families to encourage the adoption of children with special needs, including Adoption Opportunities grants and the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, also known as Title IV - E of the Social Security Act.

We work to more effectively implement proven federal programs — including the Child Care and Development Block Grant, Head Start, and Early Head Start — that provide child care subsidies and early learning opportunities to low - income families.

She is the author or co-author of numerous publications, including several publications on immigrant families» access to early education, reports on the use of Title I funds for early childhood programs, and analyses of federal and state child care subsidy policies.

The Child Care Development Fund (CCDF), including the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), is a Federal funding stream administered by states used to provide child care subsidies to low - income working families.