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Deficit Panel Would Cut Energy Subsidies and Perhaps Carbon Emissions [1]

"The president's deficit commission proposed slashing energy tax breaks yesterday, a move that could make renewable power more competitive and help chisel down greenhouse gas emissions. But the plan is brimming with political pitfalls and vagueness around whether clean power subsidies might also be axed to curb the nation's rising debt."

Evan Lehmann reports for ClimateWire December 2, 2010. [2]

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Source: ClimateWire [2], 12/03/2010
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