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Kochs and Republicans launch bid to snuff out wind-energy tax incentives
2013-11-07 08:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A key tax incentive credited with boosting wind-energy capacity in the U.S. is due to expire in eight weeks, and fossil fuel lobbyists are working hard to blow it to oblivion. The Koch-backed conservative group Americans for Prosperity is launching an advertising campaign calling on lawmakers to allow the production tax credit (PTC) to expire on Dec. 31. The wind industry says the tax credit was critical in helping it to attract as much as $25 billion in private investment last year, all the...
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