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Will you pay or will you go?
Renewables score big victory in the Senate |
Josh Dorner |
10 Apr 2008 |
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| With today's green energy boom (and over 100,000 existing jobs in the wind and solar industries alone) hanging in the balance, the Senate voted this morning by an overwhelming 88 to 8 margin to attach short-term extensions of key clean energy tax incentives set to expire at the end of this year -- the Production Tax Credit that mostly goes to wind power, the Investment Tax Credit for solar, and other incentives for energy efficient appliances and the like -- to the housi ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives, US Senate (all these topics) |
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