Sentences with phrase «of federal incentives»

The paper didn't downplay the importance of federal incentives, but rather showed how federal policies have helped states meet their renewable portfolio standards.

No explanation is provided for why they did not use EIA's more recent 2015 and 2014 data, which show that wind energy imposes no net cost relative to conventional sources of energy even after removing the impact of federal incentives.

In arguing for the continuation of federal incentives, advocates of renewable energy often point out that all forms of energy — including fossil fuels — rely on a complex web of state and federal credits and aid.

Lack of federal incentives.

He also, unexpectedly, made the case for the continuation of the Race to the Top approach of federal incentives for state - level reforms (presumably via competitive grant programs).

Many wind projects are planning to come on line before the end of 2012, in advance of the possible expiration of a federal incentive, the wind production tax credit (PTC).

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Finally, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) proposed abolition of network neutrality rules provides stronger incentives to AT&T to use the acquired contents exclusively.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

But he also revealed plans to promote consumption by converting federal fleets to natural gas, offering tax incentives to transport companies for converting their vehicles, and creating five highway corridors, each with a string of natural gas fuel stations.

A new incentive policy backed by Federal and State governments, combined with tangible initiatives such as the Jervoise Bay industrial complex, holds out the promise of more progress in future.

Federal government could stimulate venture markets by introducing a capital - raising incentive such as a deferred capital gains tax for reinvestment of proceeds into small - business shares, effectively channeling locked - up capital earning uncompetitive returns into the shares of small enterprise.

When shares of Capital Stock are to be issued upon the exercise, grant or vesting of an Incentive Award, Google shall have the authority to withhold a number of such shares having a Fair Market Value at the date of the applicable taxable event determined by the Committee to be sufficient to satisfy the minimum federal, state and local withholding tax requirements, if any, attributable to such exercise, grant or vesting but not greater than the minimum withholding obligations, as determined by Google in its sole discretion.

Today, the U.S. federal government offers incentives of up to $ 7,500 USD for electric cars — an incentive that Ottawa has yet to match.

These features include the availability of physical cash and a behavioral aversion by some money market investors to investing at negative rates, and also encompass certain unique features of money markets in the United States, such as legal and regulatory incentives applicable to money market mutual funds and the ability of the government - sponsored enterprises to leave unremunerated deposits at the Federal Reserve.23

The HRC also continues to monitor a separate, on - going risk assessment by senior management of the Company's broader employee compensation practices as part of the Federal Reserve's regulatory initiative on incentive compensation paid by bank holding companies.

Going green is typically associated with elevated costs, but federal tax incentives can actually make going green financially appealing for real estate developers and owners of private buildings.

The new Income Tax Act contained many special exemptions and incentives which the commission had found objectionable and removed the federal Estate Tax Act, which had been a significant obstacle to the increasing concentration of wealth.

The 401 (k) plan on balance weakened Federal incentives for profit sharing and encouraged employees to buy stock in their companies with their wages, which gave them greater individual risk exposure than when they received grants of stock.17

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

Technological improvements and capacity - building projects are two areas of investment which the federal and provincial governments are most active in supporting, providing a number of grants, loans, and tax incentives for businesses to access.

The automaker is bringing back the 60 kWh Model S with a base price of $ 66,000 before federal and state tax incentives.

These wind energy milestones in cost reduction, performance improvements, and scale of deployment were supported by the Production Tax Credit (PTC), a federal deployment incentive.

The federal government was the main source of subsidy in the «60s and «70s, offering for - profit developers below - market interest rates and tax incentives to build and maintain affordable housing.

A Tribune analysis in January highlighted concerns about fraud in the federal school lunch program within Chicago Public Schools because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

School districts that comply with the new standards will receive an additional federal payment of 6 cents for each lunch served, a pretty big incentive to get with the program.

Unfortunately there is an incentive not to return the children to their families: Thanks to the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act when a child, even a healthy baby, is adopted out of foster care, there is $ 4000 or $ 6000 bonus to be made from the federal government.

[31] It is a bill that would address federal adoption incentives and would amend the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the state plan for foster care and adoption assistance to demonstrate that the state agency has developed policies and procedures for identifying, documenting in agency records, and determining appropriate services with respect to, any child or youth over whom the state agency has responsibility for placement, care, or supervision who the state has reasonable cause to believe is, or is at risk of being, a victim of sex trafficking or a severe form of trafficking in persons.

Two real estate developers hired the law firm to represent them in tax challenge cases in return for Silver allegedly backing the renewal of state tax incentives for developers of large housing projects that include affordable units, according to federal charges.

This amendment is necessary for the State to continue to receive a 10 percent share of False Claims actions that were originally authorized as a Federal incentive to states to implement their own False Claims Act statutes.

In the past he has advocated for federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth and he believes in providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation.

«It's completely dismaying — it's a huge incentive to play fast and loose with state law as a way of engaging potentially in bribery and quid pro quo under federal law, but as a private citizen.»

The total $ 41.1 billion cost would include an $ 8.2 billion city investment in the form of funding, tax incentives, and other investments, with the rest paid for with state, federal and private funding.

Incentives included sales and property tax breaks from the Lockport Industrial Development Agency, an allocation of discounted hydropower and a federal grant.

Your voting in favor of a motion to H.R. 5719 and voting in favor of House Amendment 294 (the Tancredo Amendment) which would deny tax incentive and federal funds, respectively, from being distributed to sanctuary cities; 3.

In the context of systemic risk due to banking panics, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has the political effect of giving bankers an overpowering incentive to influence the Federal Reserve System's Federal Open Market Committee and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors to implement system wide policies for extension of credit which socialize and cartelize the banking sector to work towards its own common purpose.

The federal government in which the constitution bestows control of solid minerals is either too remote from the locations of the minerals or lacks the incentives to focus on them as long as it gets its rents from oil!

«the compensation system for federal judges in the United States creates a very powerful economic incentive to retire at a reasonable retirement age by virtue of how the defined benefit pension plan works, that most judges assent to not long after reaching that age.»

If the US government does provide the same degree of federal funding does this mean that a territory is always costing more in tax dollars then provided, and if so what is the incentive for The US to take on territories?

But, the compensation system for federal judges in the United States creates a very powerful economic incentive to retire at a reasonable retirement age by virtue of how the defined benefit pension plan works, that most judges assent to not long after reaching that age.

The proposed federal tax overhaul will reduce tax incentives for homeownership, potentially depressing the prices of Long Island homes with high property taxes and spurring demand for already - scarce lower - cost homes and rentals.

It is also endangering tens of millions of dollars in federal Teacher Incentive Fund grants earmarked for its teachers, because it has not adopted a system which recognizes and highlights great teaching.

Speaking in Osogbo on Monday at the commencement of distribution of 15,000 health incentives to pregnant women in the state and the Save One Million Souls programme of the Federal Government supported by the World Bank.

The Trump plan rolled out Monday was not a surprise, following the lines laid out by the president practically since he took office over a year ago: $ 200 billion in federal money, with about half of it aimed at spurring state, local and private dollars through an «Incentives Program.»

Under the Scale Up Manufacturing Investment Company Act of 2015, Gillibrand says, private investors would be able to leverage federal dollars which would provide extra incentive to fund new manufacturing businesses.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

This week, the Massachusetts project cleared a major hurdle with approval of a power purchasing agreement, but it still must find $ 2 billion worth of financing through a mix of investors and federal incentives to become the nation's first offshore wind farm (ClimateWire, Nov. 23).

The Policy Loftness and others recommend that the federal government encourage efficiency through tax incentives and stricter standards for appliances, vehicles, and buildings to meet the goals of the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»

Whereas clinical studies of adults have taken place in the U.S. for well over 100 years, pharmaceutical companies did not regularly test their products in children until the 1990s, when the federal government began offering financial incentives to do so.