The Green Scissors coalition of taxpayer and environmental advocates sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) urging the agency to implement key taxpayer safeguards for the 45Q tax credit. 45Q Carbon Oxide Sequestration Credit, a tax credit for every ton of carbon captured and stored, was most recently extended and expanded by the Inflation […]
Continue Reading »Green Scissors concerned about new clean fuel production credit subsidizing dirty biofuels
The Green Scissors coalition of taxpayer and environmental advocates submitted comments on the clean fuel production credit, which was established by the Inflation Reduction Act to replace the biodiesel tax credit in 2025. In these comments, Friends of the Earth, R Street Institute, Taxpayers for Common Sense, U.S. PIRG, and Environment America sound the alarm […]
Continue Reading »Green Scissors Database Update
Today, Friends of the Earth, R Street Institute, Taxpayers for Common Sense, U.S. PIRG, and Environment America updated the Green Scissors Coalition database of $274 billion in wasteful federal support for environmentally harmful projects. The database identifies federal subsidies to cut from certain agriculture, energy, insurance, public lands, transportation, and water programs. To make this […]
Continue Reading »Taxpayer, Environmental Groups Sound Alarm on $6 Billion Nuclear Bailout
For immediate release: March 17, 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Energy took another step Thursday toward spending $6 billion in taxpayer funds to prop up the nuclear industry. Green Scissors, a coalition of taxpayer and environmental advocates, submitted comments on the Civil Nuclear Credit program, a new DOE initiative created by the bipartisan infrastructure bill to […]
Continue Reading »Organizations across the aisle demand Congress slash fossil fuel tax breaks
For immediate release: September 16, 2021 WASHINGTON– The Green Scissors coalition, an unlikely union of free-market, budget, consumer and environmental advocates, condemned the failure of the House Ways and Means Committee to repeal domestic fossil fuel tax breaks as infrastructure bill revenue raisers. In an open letter sent yesterday during the House mark-up of the […]
Continue Reading »Green Scissors Coalition Launches New Database of Wasteful Federal Subsidies
For immediate release: Jul. 15, 2021 WASHINGTON— Today, Friends of the Earth, R Street Institute, Taxpayers for Common Sense, U.S. PIRG and Environment America relaunched the Green Scissors Coalition database of nearly $300 billion in wasteful federal support for environmentally harmful projects. “We are in the midst of a climate crisis that demands immediate and […]
Continue Reading »Coalition Launches New Website & Database of Cuts
For immediate release: Jan. 10, 2016 WASHINGTON— As the 115th Congress begins its work, Green Scissors—a coalition of free-market, taxpayer and environmental groups—has launched a new online database targeting over $250 billion in wasteful federal subsidies to polluting industries. “This is the definitive guide to polluter welfare in the federal budget,” said Lukas Ross, climate […]
Continue Reading »Strange bedfellows challenge Congress to end “dirty” tax extenders
For immediate release: October 4, 2016 WASHINGTON — Green Scissors — a coalition of free-market, taxpayer and environmental groups — sent a letter today asking Congress to allow a suite of dirty energy tax breaks to expire at the end of 2016. A perennial ritual in Washington, almost every year Congress tries to pass a […]
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