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• Wisconsin Congressman Tries To Extend Black-Liquor Credits

  
  Dead Tree Edition — Authority: 118
  Its a simple piece of legislation you could call the Publication-Paper Manufacturers Protection Act. Or perhaps the Bankrupt The Canadian Pulp Industry Amendment.At barely 100 words, Rep. Steve Kagens recently introduced bill never mentions pulp, paper, or black liquor. But, if enacted, H.R. 4066 would indefinitely ...
  2 weeks ago

• Black Liquor Bonanza: Earnings Exceeding Projections of Experts and Congress

  
  Dead Tree Edition — Authority: 118
  Never underestimate the power of American ingenuity when it comes to taking maximum advantage of tax breaks. And never underestimate the ability of Congress to mess up a calculation involving money.Pulp and paper companies 3rd Quarter earnings statements suggest that the industry is earning more black-liquor credits ...
  3 weeks ago

• Black Liquor Scorecard: $4.7 Billion Through September

  
  Dead Tree Edition — Authority: 118
  Publicly traded pulp and paper companies have earned more than $4.7 billion in controversial black-liquor credits from the U.S. government during the first three quarters of the year, according to their financial reports.The 21 companies generated enough of the pulp byproduct in the 3rd Quarter to receive more than ...
  3 weeks ago

• House Moves To End Alternate Fuel Tax Credits For Paper Industry

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 439
  The paper manufacturing industry had found a way to claim a tax credit for its use of "black liquor". This is a byproduct of the paper process and...
  3 weeks ago

• House Moves To End Alternate Fuel Tax Credits For Paper Industry

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 439
  The paper manufacturing industry had found a way to claim a tax credit for its use of "black liquor". This is a byproduct of the paper process and...
  4 weeks ago

• Closing down $24 billion biofuels tax credit loophole: a good idea (here’s why)

  
  Biofuels Digest Biofuels DIgest — Authority: 579
  In Washington, the Health Care Bill passed the US House of Representatives and included — as part of a 42-page “manager’s amendment” , a provision striking a biofuel tax credit used by pulp and paper firms that could have been worth up to $24 billion. According to a report in FOX News, “That’s desperately ...
  4 weeks ago

• Did Black Liquor Credits Pave the Way for Healthcare Legislation?

  
  Dead Tree Edition — Authority: 118
  The Democrats healthcare plan hasnt even been approved by Congress yet, but it already seems to be doing wonders for several hundred pulp-mill workers in Baileyville, Maine.Pundits have been expressing surprise the past few days that the House version of healthcare reform includes a seemingly unrelated provision to ...
  4 weeks ago

• International Paper Drowns Its Sorrows in Black Liquor

  
  Dead Tree Edition — Authority: 118
  With a name like "International Paper", you would think the company made its money from selling paper.Nope. Once again in the 3rd Quarter, IP got far more money from Uncle Sam in the form of black-liquor credits than it made from selling actual products. The company booked $525 million in such credits during the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Coated Paper Market: Been Down So Long This Looks Like Up

  
  Dead Tree Edition — Authority: 118
  North American coated paper mills were generally busier in September than August, but that ain’t saying much.Despite various announcements of price increases on coated freesheet and high-brightness coated groundwood papers, the unanimous word from the trenches is that no prices are moving up except perhaps for some ...
  6 weeks ago

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