Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Friday, July 1, 2011

Clean-energy advocates on alert after Senate vote to kill ethanol subsidies

The Hill
By Bernie Becker and Kevin Bogardus - 06/30/11 05:45 AM ET

Lobbyists for renewable energy are on heightened alert following a recent Senate vote to end subsidies for ethanol, concerned that breaks for their industry might be next.

Groups supporting wind, solar and other energy sources are ready to spring into action if their preferred tax breaks are threatened in a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling.

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