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Keystone XL Pipeline: Another Looming Cliff of Grave Consequence

2013-01-08 19:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: The wake up call that Hurricane Sandy gave us was but one of many just in the last year. We can see that climate change is happening all around the country after the wildfires, droughts, floods and violent storms of 2012. So when President Obama said it was time to deal with global warming in his victory speech, that made perfect sense. Why then would one of the first decisions after the election be to ignore the climate impacts of one of the dirtiest energy projects out there? That doesn`t make...

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Fiscal Cliff Moves Estate Tax In Right Direction

2013-01-08 00:36:51| Beef

If youve been paying attention this first week of 2013, you already know that Congress passed a tax compromise that averts the fiscal cliff and makes permanent the federal estate tax with an exemption of $5.12 million/individual (indexed for inflation) and a tax rate of 40% for amounts over the exemption. BEEF Daily read more

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U.S. Fiscal Cliff Deal Gives Canadian Renewable Energy a Tax Credit Reprise

2013-01-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe and Mail: Some Canadian renewable energy companies with activities in the United States will be among those benefiting from U.S. "fiscal cliff" legislation that extended crucial tax credits for wind energy and biodiesel production. As well as staving off immediate tax hikes on Americans, the law passed last week by U.S. legislators included a provision to extend for one more year a series of renewable energy tax breaks that were to expire at the end of 2012. The most important of these is a subsidy...

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