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News: New bill in US Senate proposes increased subsidies for cellulosic ethanol

June 29, 2007
A bill has been introduced in the United States Senate which would offer incentives to farmers who plant switchgrass and other cellulosic ethanol feedstocks. The proposed Biofuels Innovation Program Act (BIP), introduced on 23 May by Corn Belt Senators John Thune of South Dakota and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, aims to help the cellulosic ethanol industry overcome market barriers so that it can compete with and supplement corn-based ethanol.

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News: European Commission report recommends no changes to coal subsidies

June 29, 2007
The European Commission (EC) has recommended to the European Parliament that the existing system of subsidies to coal production in the EU should remain unchanged. The "Commission Report on the Application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1407/2002 on State Aid to the Coal Industry", issued on 21 May, examines the application of Council Regulation No 1407/2002 ("the Coal Regulation") which has regulated state aid to coal production in the EU since coming into force in July 2002.

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News: Subsidy News in Brief

May 29, 2007
Thailand debates cutting oil subsidies Regulators in Thailand are debating three options for oil subsidy reform. These include ending subsidies from the State Oil Fund and oil refineries; simultaneously terminating the State Oil Fund subsidy while continuing support from refineries; or gradually eliminating the subsidy from both the oil fund and refineries.

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News: A draft new template for notifying subsidies to the WTO

March 29, 2007
The International Institute for Sustainable Development's Global Subsidies Initiative has released a draft version of its model template for notifying subsidies to the World Trade Organization, in what the organization hopes will be a first step towards a multilateral, multi-stakeholder process for improving the current system of subsidy notification.

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News: New edition of The World Economy: A Global Analysis

January 29, 2007
A new edition of a book by Horst Siebert, president-emeritus of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany, and Heinz Nixdorf Professor for European Studies at the Bologna Center of Johns Hopkins University, uses up to date empirical evidence to illuminate the mechanics of the world as a single entity.

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News: USDA releases information on farm subsidy recipients

January 29, 2007
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released new data on the recipients of U.S. farm subsidies to the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and a number of news organizations in response to freedom of information (FOI) requests. Congress had mandated a tracking system for farm subsidies in the 2002 Farm Bill, explains the EWG.

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News: Government support for ethanol and biodiesel

October 29, 2006
25 October 2006, Washington, D.C., USA The biofuels industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years, fuelled in large part by border protection, subsidies, government procurement, tax relief and rebates, as well as by mandated shares in total transport fuel sales.

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