Today – The Green Scissors Coalition sent a letter to House Representatives, urging them to oppose the year-round expansion of E15.  The coalition highlights that taxpayers already spend billions subsidizing the US ethanol industry while also mandating a market through the Renewable Fuel Standard, and that this expansion would add billions more in taxpayer costs. […]

The Green Scissors coalition of taxpayer and environmental advocates sent the following comments to the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service on the proposed Clean Fuel Production Credit (Section 45Z) rulemaking. The comments highlight important guardrails in the draft rule and call for stronger protections against abuse of taxpayer funding.

Today, Green Scissors — a coalition of free-market, taxpayer and environmental groups — sent a letter to Congress urging against a proposed expansion of the 45Z Clean Fuels Production Tax Credit. The House Ways and Means Committee’s budget reconciliation bill proposed extending this biofuel subsidy and significantly loosening eligibility requirements. The bill proposes extending the […]

The Green Scissors coalition of taxpayer and environmental advocates submitted comments on the clean fuel production credit, which was established by the Inflation Reduction Act to replace the expired biodiesel tax credit. In these comments, Friends of the Earth, R Street Institute, Taxpayers for Common Sense, U.S. PIRG, and Environment America urge the Administration to ensure […]

The Green Scissors coalition of taxpayer and environmental advocates sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) urging the agency to implement key taxpayer safeguards for the 45Q tax credit. 45Q Carbon Oxide Sequestration Credit, a tax credit for every ton of carbon captured and stored, was most recently extended and expanded by the Inflation […]

The Green Scissors coalition of taxpayer and environmental advocates submitted comments on the clean fuel production credit, which was established by the Inflation Reduction Act to replace the biodiesel tax credit in 2025. In these comments, Friends of the Earth, R Street Institute, Taxpayers for Common Sense, U.S. PIRG, and Environment America sound the alarm […]

Today, Friends of the Earth, R Street Institute, Taxpayers for Common Sense, U.S. PIRG, and Environment America updated the Green Scissors Coalition database of $274 billion in wasteful federal support for environmentally harmful projects. The database identifies federal subsidies to cut from certain agriculture, energy, insurance, public lands, transportation, and water programs. To make this […]

For immediate release: March 17, 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Energy took another step Thursday toward spending $6 billion in taxpayer funds to prop up the nuclear industry. Green Scissors, a coalition of taxpayer and environmental advocates, submitted comments on the Civil Nuclear Credit program, a new DOE initiative created by the bipartisan infrastructure bill to […]