WASHINGTON D.C. – The Institute for Energy Research officially launches today a new online transparency tool – www.energysubsidies.org – designed to give policymakers, government officials, researchers, journalists, and the general public greater access to data about taxpayer-funded energy subsidies, including federal loan guarantees, grants, and various tax credits. For more than a year, IER analysts have worked closely with transparency and data technology experts to build a comprehensive database with the power to provide user-friendly, searchable, sortable and easy-to-find information about energy spending across all federal agencies, an increasingly complicated task due to duplication, opaque reporting, and inadequate data standards that keep taxpayers in the dark about how government uses their money.
