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The coal can look and burn like regular coal. The IRS rule for transforming coal into synfuel--and getting the tax credit--requires only that the substance be chemically altered in some way. The alchemy that satisfies the IRS is a simple process: some plants spray newly mined coal with...
Today about 55 such plants around the U.S. process 125 million tons of coal or, in many cases, coal waste from an earlier mining era. For owners and operators, the whole point isn't creating a profitable new energy resource for the U.S.; it's about collecting the tax subsidy...
GOLD With bullion prices rising to levels not seen since 1983, traditional investors have shown renewed interest in gold. But rather than hoarding bars or investing in mining-company stocks, online traders can buy shares in a new gold exchange-traded fund (ETF) called Streettracks Gold Trust, which mirrors the...
It's a question that Specter and other senators have already been informally discussing, but they aren't likely to find an easy answer. The first problem, and one of the reasons some lawmakers have stopped short of putting pen to paper, is that "they still don't know what...
The President and his top aides deny that the program involves anything more than listening in on the calls that suspected al Qaeda operatives overseas are making to the United States. And since legislation passed after 9/11 gives him that authority as part of the war on terror, they argue...