Staying Alive: Critical Clean Energy Tax Credits Hitch Last Minute Ride on Bailout Bill

10.06.2008 | 12:10:00 pm | Posted by WattHead

By Keith Brower Brown; Cross-posted from the Breakthrough Blog.Last Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill left for dead just weeks ago, apparently deciding the country actually ought to keep its burgeoning clean energy industry. But they didn't really mean to...The Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind, the biomass/solar/hydropower PTC, and solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) got their one-, two- and eight-year extensions, respectively. But they only got passed by being strapped to Friday's economic bailout bill, as a sweetener to aid its passage. So how, exactly, does a ke...

 
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