Hardy buoys: Texas A&M project predicts oil spill movements
...ding on the sensors installed. A 2-cent-per-barrel tax on all oil transported in Texas waters helps support most of the costs, Guinasso says. The TABS project was put to the test in 1996 shortly after the first buoys were positioned in the Gulf of Mexico. In March of that year, the Buffalo Barge 292 star...LA BioMed Medical/Research Briefs, July/August 2004
...arch jobs will generate millions of dollars in new tax revenues for California. More importantly, if stem cell research results in a single cure that reduces healthcare costs by just one percent, it would pay for itself several times over during the following decade and save lives along the way. Mr. Tr...NPS Pharma and VIMAC Ventures locate at MaRS, a major new research and enterprise center in Toronto
...dwide survey (2003). Generous federal and Ontario tax credits for research and development. About NPS Pharmaceuticals NPS discovers, develops and intends to commercialize small molecules and recombinant proteins as drugs, primarily for the treatment of metabolic, bone and mineral, and central nervous...U.S. President's budget proposal means 5-year cuts 'well below historic levels'
...dget lie beyond 2009. Proposals to extend expiring tax provisions and the cost of Medicare drug benefits would reduce revenues by more than $1.1 trillion over the next decade. These fiscal impacts could come as the baby boomer generation hits retirement age, resulting in enormous increases in Social Secu...Ethanol to power the future of hydrogen fuel cells
...e cost of producing ethanol from corn and increase tax advantages in order to enable it to compete with fossil fuels. "Current production processes, such as partial combustion of natural gas or electrolysis of water require cheap fossil fuels or electrical power," notes Hester. "In such a scenario, ligh...Support needed for elderly breast cancer patients and for independent academic research
... donations to breast cancer research by increasing tax deductibility levels in Member States. Increasingly, women wish to know about their individual risk of getting breast cancer and the conference called for risk-reducing interventions to be made available to patients without cost. For women with a s...UN study shows environmental consequences from ongoing boom in personal computer sales
... the opposite effect of shortening lifespan. "The tax system should assess refurbished PCs at least equal to new ones," Kuehr says. An incentive system for those trying to prolong the lifespan of their IT products would mean depreciation according to the age of the machines. "Such a system would easily...Power plants, other industry could offer contracts to farmers in helping reduce carbon emissions
... in restricting carbon emissions, they could put a tax on power-generating companies to reduce their carbon emissions," Butt said. "This will, in turn, increase the cost of energy generation that will be passed on down to the consumer and industrial and manufacturing sectors. Agriculture may accomplish t...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
...ublished results of research financed by their own tax dollars. An ever-growing online treasury of scientific and medical knowledge is open only to the fortunate few who have access to a major university library, or who are able to pay the exorbitant access fees charged by publishers who claim the resear...A wake-up call for environmental health
... 'Changing behaviour will need changes in law (and tax incentives) to persuade not just Americans to reduce their fuel consumption, switch to public transport, use alternative sources of energy, adopt recycling initiatives, and reduce their reliance on power-consuming devices such as air-conditioning uni...Public Library of Science acts to increase public access to scientific research
...ccess to the results of research paid for by their tax dollars," said Michael B. Eisen, Ph.D., co-founder of PLoS, "And it's a scandal that the scientific community is denied the free and unfettered sharing of research discoveries upon which scientific and medical progress is built. If the public were mo...Researchers tie worldwide biodiversity threats to growth in households
...ditionally, changes in government policies such as tax incentives for sharing housing and resources could be helpful to influence personal and household decisions and actions. Liu will further study the complex interactions of governmentpolicies, household behavior and biodiversity that will take him bac...It pays to save: Science study shows huge economic benefits from conserving wild nature
...markets to "capture" and value these services, and tax incentives and subsidies that encourage land conversion all contribute to continued habitat destruction, say the Science authors. "We need to tackle all three of these, and there's no reason not to tackle all three at once. However, in terms of imm......hnologies. Dr Rankin says the advent of a carbon tax would have a major effect on metals production, with greater emphasis on low energy extraction processes, and a greater emphasis on recycling. "Despite earlier concerns about possible shortages, there are no indications that metals scarcity will be a...Conference focuses on practical strategies for preventing and treating obesity
...making physician-prescribed plans to treat obesity tax deductible. "This will have a profound effect in legitimizing obesity as a public health issue," said Conference Director Duane Eichler, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and pediatric endocrinology at USF. Dr. Eichler said he ex...Definitive analysis of President's FY2003 R&D budget available
...return to deficit spending, the President proposes tax cuts and large increases in discretionary spending for FY 2003. These follow even larger tax cuts and spending increases in FY 2002. The FY 2003 budget calls for overall increases in federal in......ted by this funding add their purchasing power and tax dollars to the regional economy.......se properties, you can create jobs and improve the tax base. So the cities and states have an economic incentive to promote new construction on the brownfields if the environmental concerns can be addressed." That's where the new center comes in. Bouwer and his colleagues are developing new tests and com......ice tag is substantially less than the $40 billion tax refund mailed to American households earlier this summer." The article states that $25 billion is required to fund the protection of the worlds 25 "biodiversity hotspots," which contain high concentrations of species found nowhere else and which are......reative strategies such as conservation easements, tax incentives, and other methods, can provide habitat crucial to U.S. species," says Scott. There are signs that policy makers are heeding this call, as the recently passed Refuge Improvement Act of 2000 calls upon the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's N...