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Lawmakers Drop Broadband Tax Credit From Final Stimulus Package

Bloomberg - Feb 13, 2009

FOXNews Midsize local-phone companies such as Monroe, Louisiana- based CenturyTel Inc. and Windstream Corp., based in Little Rock, Arkansas, are more likely to Video: Stimulus Compromise Reached Stimulus could aid builders, carmakers, clean tech Lyons: Bush’s budgets kill GOP stimulus balking

Calif. lawmakers set Valentine's Day budget vote - San Diego Union Tribune

San Diego Union Tribune, CA - Feb 14, 2009

Calif. lawmakers set Valentine's Day budget vote Republican and Democratic leaders tentatively agreed to a framework that would give businesses tax credits and relax some environmental rules in exchange

Proposed Tax Credit Could Boost Home Sales - Today's THV

Today's THV, AR - Feb 11, 2009

Proposed Tax Credit Could Boost Home Sales The Arkansas Realtors Association Tuesday released its report for the final month of 2008. In a month-by-month comparison with December 2007, home sales in

OGE Energy Corp. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha

Seeking Alpha, NY - Feb 13, 2009

OGE Energy Corp. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript Rate cases in both Arkansas and Oklahoma to recover more than $700 million that OGE has invested since the live rate cases are in the plans as well.

Atwell hiring may be years off despite tax credits - MLive.com

MLive.com, MI - Feb 11, 2009

Atwell hiring may be years off despite tax credits Atwell-Hicks has four Michigan offices, two each in Florida and Korea, and also locations in Arizona, Arkansas, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois.

Calif. lawmakers set Valentine's Day budget vote - San Diego Union Tribune

14.02.09

— Will there be love between Democrats and Republicans this Valentine's Day?

Although there were no assurances that enough Republicans would vote for it, both houses of the state Legislature were scheduled to vote Saturday on a critical budget package to tackle California's $42 billion shortfall.

Democrats in contested districts were under tremendous pressure not to cave on a tenuous plan that calls for some $14 billion in tax increases, $15 billion in cuts and $11 billion in borrowing.

Republicans also faced pressure from conservative backers who oppose higher taxes.

"There are 120 members that don't like this budget," said Sen. Abel Maldonado, a moderate Republican from Santa Maria, referring to all members of the Legislature. He said he was still undecided on the plan.

"I'm not the only one. This could be a career-ender for folks on both sides. I haven't seen any one member do cartwheels for this budget," Maldonado said.

Legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have been locked in a battle for 100 days over how to solve the massive shortfall. Republican and Democratic leaders tentatively agreed to a framework that would give businesses tax credits and relax some environmental rules in exchange for tax increases and borrowing.

Source: San Diego Union Tribune, CA

Carbon credits may offer farmers new income source

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may offer a new source of income for Arkansas farmers.

Federal regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide, one of several gases known to contribute to global warming, require industries that expel carbon to lower their emissions, said Kris Brye, a researcher for the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture and an associate professor of crop, soil and environmental sciences for Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

Companies that cannot lower their carbon dioxide emissions sufficiently to meet regulations are allowed to purchase carbon offsets, sometimes referred to as carbon credits. Companies and other entities, including landowners whose land management practices result in a net storage of carbon rather than emission into the atmosphere, sell these offsets, Brye said.

Carbon offsets are traded in North America through the Chicago Climate Exchange, a voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources. Brye said the Exchange has assigned soil carbon sequestration rates for agricultural land according to continuous tillage and grassland restoration.

“In reality, determining soil carbon sequestration is not that simple,” Brye said. “The rate at which carbon is stored in the soil depends on soil texture, climate, management practices, crop rotation and vegetation present.”

The amount of soil carbon sequestering that can occur depends on the amount of initial carbon present when management practices change, Brye said. The higher the initial soil carbon is, the slower the rate at which carbon can be sequestered and the smaller the amount that can be stored.

A problem with the Chicago Climate Exchange system, as Brye sees it, is that eastern Arkansas farmland is assigned the same carbon sequestration rates as farmland in the upper Midwest. But he believes those northern lands...