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The Energy Policy Act of 2005 -- as amended by subsequent tax acts in 2006, 2008 and 2009 -- and other Internal Revenue Code provisions offer many energy tax incentives for taxpayers who are constructing or planning new energy-efficient buildings and energy- efficient improvements to existing buildings.
Incentives include:
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The Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (Corporation or FCSIC) announces that it has given final approval to a new Policy Statement Concerning Adjustments to the Insurance Premiums and a new Policy Statement on the Secure Base Amount and Allocated Insurance Reserves Accounts (AIRAs). These two policy statements, which were earlier published with a request for comments, reflect amendments to the Farm Credit Act of 1971 made by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, and other changed conditions. The policy statement concerning premiums maintains the Corporation's semiannual review process as a basis for the Corporation's exercise of its discretion to adjust premiums in response to changing conditions. The policy statement concerning the secure base amount and AIRAs maintains...
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... the statutory targets set out in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (the "EISA"). Cell... to biofuels under Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.25 The Section 1703 Program is named f...It was authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill, which included mandatory funding for th...
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The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and commercial and industrial equipment. Microwave ovens are covered products under EPCA, although there are no existing microwave oven standards. EPCA requires the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to determine whether amended, more stringent, standards are technologically feasible and economically justified, and would save a significant amount of energy. Additionally, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007) amended EPCA to require any final rule adopted after July 1, 2010 establishing or revising energy conservation standards for covered products, including microwave ovens, to address standby mode and off mode energy use. On October 17, 2008, DOE issu...
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...2301-2312, 45-58), Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6201-6422, 15 U.S.C. 2008), Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of ...
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As required by the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 (the Act), the Department of Energy (DOE) plans to identify a facility or facilities for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury generated in the United States. To this end, DOE intends to prepare a supplement to the January 2011 Environmental Impact Statement for the Long-Term Management and Storage of Elemental Mercury to analyze additional alternatives, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This supplemental EIS (SEIS) will evaluate alternatives for a facility at and in the vicinity of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico.
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This report summarizes federal energy legislation enacted into law from January 1 through Dec 31, 2008, specifically the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008. After a relatively long period in which federal energy law was enforced without major amendment, more recent shifts in the energy policy arena led to the enactment of significant energy legislation in 2005, 2007 and most recently in late 2008. The Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008 (Act) was ultimately included as part of the contentiously debated Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which was signed into law by President Bush on Oct 3, 2008, in response to disruptions in the economy and financial system. The Act provides an eight year extension, through Dec 31, 2016, of the 30% individual tax credit for ...
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This final rule establishes the process and procedures to certify a qualifying college or university as a Hispanic-Serving Agricultural Colleges and Universities (HSACU) institution. NIFA will publish 7 CFR part 3434 in the Code of Federal Regulations to chronicle the eligibility criteria colleges and universities must satisfy in order to be certified as HSACU institutions by the Secretary of Agriculture. The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (FCEA) amended section 1404 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to add a definition for a new group of cooperating educational institutions known as Hispanic-Serving Agricultural Colleges and Universities. Section 1404 defines HSACUs as colleges and universities that qualify as Hispanic-serving...
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The president's Dream Act-by-dictate provides the latest evidence of this administration's determination to push its agenda through without respect to Congress, the Constitution or the rule of law. While there are enough examples to fill a book (which I wrote and titled "Democracy Denied"), the most outrageous of all is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) being used to advance an extreme anti-energy agenda that the American people decisively rejected when Mr. Obama proposed it as cap-and-trade. Wednesday we'll find out where every U.S. senator stands.
In 2008, Barack Obama explained his energy policy: "Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad." He went on to explain, "So,...