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The Treasury Department estimates that eliminating subsidies for fossil fuel companies would create more than $35 billion in tax revenue over the coming decade. It also said the current subsidies undermine energy independence, hinders the fight against climate change, and harms air and water quality across the country, especially in communities of colour.
“Tax preferences for oil, gas and coal producers today decrease their tax liabilities relative to other firms,” the Treasury said in a statement. “Fossil fuel companies additionally benefit from substantial implicit subsidies, since they sell products that create externalities but they do not have to pay for the damages caused.”
Deforestation in Amazon Rainforest Rose By 17% In 2020 08/04/2021
An aerial view of a tract of Amazon jungle after it was cleared by farmers in Para, Brazil on September 26, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Ricardo Moraes
Bogota: Deforestation in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and logging causing forested areas roughly the size of El Salvador to disappear, according to new data published on Wednesday.
The loss of primary forest
– the clearing of old-growth, intact forest for the first time
– hit its third-highest annual total on record since 2000, reaching 2.3 million hectares (5.6 million acres) in the nine countries spanned by the Amazon.
The tipping point : Amazon deforestation rose 17 per cent in 2020, data shows
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Amazon deforestation rose 17pc in dire 2020, data shows
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Deforestation in the Amazon, the world s largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and logging causing forested areas roughly the size of El Salvador to disappear, according to new data published on Wednesday.
The loss of primary forest - the clearing of old-growth, intact forest for the first time - hit its third-highest annual total on record since 2000, reaching 2.3 million hectares (5.6 million acres) in the nine countries spanned by the Amazon. 2020, the year do
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