Son of Black Liquor Finally Enters the Limelight

Dead Tree Edition’s long—some would say obsessive—campaign to raise awareness of the “Son of Black Liquor” giveaway to pulp companies paid off big time today in the form of a major Washington Post article. Steven Mufson, a Post reporter who helped bring the original black-liquor credits to light in 2009, wrote today of “a new binge of tax breaks” for companies that burn the pulp byproduct to produce energy, as they have been doing since the 1930s.

The new tax breaks come in the form of cellulosic biofuel credits, he noted, which “can be applied in future years