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  • $91 Million Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Louisiana Biofuel Plant

    - Cole Avery, Octo­ber 3, 2014, The Times-Picayune Tom Vil­sack, the sec­re­tary of the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture, announced a $91 mil­lion loan guar­an­tee from the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to help build a bio­mass fuel plant in Louisiana. Vil­sack trav­eled to Baton Rouge on Fri­day to make the announce­ment. He said the plant could have a “pro­found…

  • Biomass Incinerators Sue Feds for $22 Million

    - by Maeusz Perkosw­ki, Sep­tem­ber 16, 2014, Cap­i­tal Press Two bio­mass facil­i­ties in Cal­i­for­nia that use agri­cul­tur­al waste to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty claim the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment owes them about $22 million. The plain­tiffs — Amper­sand Chow­chilla Bio­mass and Merced Pow­er — claim the U.S. Trea­sury Depart­ment is wrong­ly with­hold­ing funds from an eco­nom­ic stim­u­lus pro­gram that helps pay…