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BP Statistical Review of World Energy - June 2013
Author(s): BP
Publication Date: 6/2013
For 62 years, the BP Statistical Review of World Energy has provided high-quality objective and globally consistent data on world energy markets. The review is one of the most widely respected and authoritative publications in the field of energy ...
Keywords: Alternative Fuels, Biofuels, BP, Coal, Energy Dataadded on Jun 13, 2013
Publication Date: 6/2013
For 62 years, the BP Statistical Review of World Energy has provided high-quality objective and globally consistent data on world energy markets. The review is one of the most widely respected and authoritative publications in the field of energy ...
Keywords: Alternative Fuels, Biofuels, BP, Coal, Energy Dataadded on Jun 13, 2013
Air Pollution: EPA Needs Better Information on New Source Review Permi...
Author(s): U.S. Government Accountability Office
Publication Date: 6/2013
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not maintain complete information on New Source Review (NSR) permits issued to fossil fuel electricity generating units. State and local permitting agencies track the NSR permits they issue, but EPA does...
Keywords: Air Quality, Electricity Generation, Emissions, EPA, Fossil Fuelsadded on Jun 11, 2013
Publication Date: 6/2013
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not maintain complete information on New Source Review (NSR) permits issued to fossil fuel electricity generating units. State and local permitting agencies track the NSR permits they issue, but EPA does...
Keywords: Air Quality, Electricity Generation, Emissions, EPA, Fossil Fuelsadded on Jun 11, 2013
Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map
Author(s): International Energy Agency
Publication Date: 6/2013
Governments have decided collectively that the world needs to limit the average global temperature increase to no more than 2 oC and international negotiations are engaged to that end. Yet any resulting agreement will not emerge before 2015 and new l...
Keywords: Climate Change, Climate Policy, Economic Costs, Energy Policy, IEAadded on Jun 10, 2013
Publication Date: 6/2013
Governments have decided collectively that the world needs to limit the average global temperature increase to no more than 2 oC and international negotiations are engaged to that end. Yet any resulting agreement will not emerge before 2015 and new l...
Keywords: Climate Change, Climate Policy, Economic Costs, Energy Policy, IEAadded on Jun 10, 2013
The Hidden STEM Economy
Author(s): The Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings
Publication Date: 6/2013
Workers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields play a direct role in driv- ing economic growth. Yet, because of how the STEM economy has been defined, policymakers have mainly focused on supporting workers with at least a bachelo...
Keywords: Education, Energy Education, Energy Literacy, STEM, STEM Educationadded on Jun 10, 2013
Publication Date: 6/2013
Workers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields play a direct role in driv- ing economic growth. Yet, because of how the STEM economy has been defined, policymakers have mainly focused on supporting workers with at least a bachelo...
Keywords: Education, Energy Education, Energy Literacy, STEM, STEM Educationadded on Jun 10, 2013
Leveraging Natural Gas to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Author(s): Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Publication Date: 6/2013
Recent technological advances have unleashed a boom in U.S. natural gas production, with expanded supplies and substantially lower prices projected well into the future. Because combusting natural gas yields fewer greenhouse gas emissions than coal...
Keywords: C2ES, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Coal, Frackingadded on Jun 5, 2013
Publication Date: 6/2013
Recent technological advances have unleashed a boom in U.S. natural gas production, with expanded supplies and substantially lower prices projected well into the future. Because combusting natural gas yields fewer greenhouse gas emissions than coal...
Keywords: C2ES, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Coal, Frackingadded on Jun 5, 2013
Duel in the Sun: The Solar Photovoltaics Technology Conflict between C...
Author(s): John Deutch and Edward Steinfeld
Publication Date: 5/2013
A Duel in the Sun analyzes the debate that is raging among government officials, industry members, technologists, and trade specialists about the nature of the competition between the United States and The People’s Republic of China (PRC) in develo...
Keywords: China, Foreign Relations, MIT, Photovoltaics, PVsadded on Jun 11, 2013
Publication Date: 5/2013
A Duel in the Sun analyzes the debate that is raging among government officials, industry members, technologists, and trade specialists about the nature of the competition between the United States and The People’s Republic of China (PRC) in develo...
Keywords: China, Foreign Relations, MIT, Photovoltaics, PVsadded on Jun 11, 2013
Oil and Gas Management: Continued Attention to Interior's Revenue Coll...
Author(s): U.S. Government Accountability Office
Publication Date: 5/2013
Interior's oversight of offshore resources. In July 2012, GAO reported on changes to the Department of the Interior's oversight of offshore oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon incident. Specifically, GAO repor...
Keywords: Federal Lands, GAO, Gas, Gulf Of Mexico, Human Capitaladded on Jun 11, 2013
Publication Date: 5/2013
Interior's oversight of offshore resources. In July 2012, GAO reported on changes to the Department of the Interior's oversight of offshore oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon incident. Specifically, GAO repor...
Keywords: Federal Lands, GAO, Gas, Gulf Of Mexico, Human Capitaladded on Jun 11, 2013
Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Observations on States' Role, Liabilities at ...
Author(s): U.S. Government Accountability Office
Publication Date: 5/2013
States, in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), participate in the cleanup of hazardous waste sites in several ways. Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, sites that ...
Keywords: CERCLA, DoD, EPA, GAO, Hazardous Wasteadded on Jun 11, 2013
Publication Date: 5/2013
States, in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), participate in the cleanup of hazardous waste sites in several ways. Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, sites that ...
Keywords: CERCLA, DoD, EPA, GAO, Hazardous Wasteadded on Jun 11, 2013
Unlocking American Efficiency: The Economic and Commercial Power of In...
Author(s): Rhodium Group
Publication Date: 5/2013
Americans spend $432 billion a year powering their homes, stores and offices, on par with what US businesses spend on employee health insurance. United Technologies Corporation, in collaboration with the Rhodium Group, analyzed the impact of a 30...
Keywords: Building Codes, Building Technology, Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Energy Efficiency Policyadded on Jun 7, 2013
Publication Date: 5/2013
Americans spend $432 billion a year powering their homes, stores and offices, on par with what US businesses spend on employee health insurance. United Technologies Corporation, in collaboration with the Rhodium Group, analyzed the impact of a 30...
Keywords: Building Codes, Building Technology, Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Energy Efficiency Policyadded on Jun 7, 2013
Technical Support Document: Technical Update of the Social Cost of Car...
Author(s): Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United States Government
Publication Date: 5/2013
Under Executive Order 12866, agencies are required, to the extent permitted by law, "to assess both the costs and benefits of the intended regulation and, recognizing that some costs and benefits are difficult to quantify, proposed or adopt a regulat...
Keywords: Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, GHGs, Interagency Working Group On Social Cost Of Carbon, SCCadded on Jun 7, 2013
Publication Date: 5/2013
Under Executive Order 12866, agencies are required, to the extent permitted by law, "to assess both the costs and benefits of the intended regulation and, recognizing that some costs and benefits are difficult to quantify, proposed or adopt a regulat...
Keywords: Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, GHGs, Interagency Working Group On Social Cost Of Carbon, SCCadded on Jun 7, 2013
Shale Gas, Competitiveness, and New US Chemical Industry Investment: A...
Author(s): American Chemistry Council
Publication Date: 5/2013
This report is the third in a series examining the potential economic and employment benefits of natural gas development from shale. The first report, released in March 2011, presented the results of an analysis of the potential economic effects of i...
Keywords: ACC, Economics, Ethane, Gas Markets, Jobsadded on Jun 7, 2013
Publication Date: 5/2013
This report is the third in a series examining the potential economic and employment benefits of natural gas development from shale. The first report, released in March 2011, presented the results of an analysis of the potential economic effects of i...
Keywords: ACC, Economics, Ethane, Gas Markets, Jobsadded on Jun 7, 2013
H.R. 1613: Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement...
Author(s): Congressional Budget Office
Publication Date: 5/2013
H.R. 1613 would approve a February 20, 2012, agreement between the United States and Mexico regarding the development of oil and gas resources in what is known as the “transboundary” area in the Gulf of Mexico. It would establish guidelines a...
Keywords: CBO, Congressional Budget Office, Gas, Gulf Of Mexico, Offshore Drillingadded on Jun 5, 2013
Publication Date: 5/2013
H.R. 1613 would approve a February 20, 2012, agreement between the United States and Mexico regarding the development of oil and gas resources in what is known as the “transboundary” area in the Gulf of Mexico. It would establish guidelines a...
Keywords: CBO, Congressional Budget Office, Gas, Gulf Of Mexico, Offshore Drillingadded on Jun 5, 2013
Dynamics of the coupled human-climate system resulting from closed-loo...
Author(s): Douglas G. MacMartin, Ben Kravitz, David W. Keith, and Andrew Jarvis
Publication Date: 5/2013
If solar radiation management (SRM) were ever implemented, feedback of the observed climate state might be used to adjust the radiative forcing of SRM in order to compensate for uncertainty in either the forcing or the climate response. Feedback migh...
Keywords: Climate Change, Climate Engineering, Geoengineering, Solar Geoengineering, Solar Radiation Managementadded on Jun 5, 2013
Publication Date: 5/2013
If solar radiation management (SRM) were ever implemented, feedback of the observed climate state might be used to adjust the radiative forcing of SRM in order to compensate for uncertainty in either the forcing or the climate response. Feedback migh...
Keywords: Climate Change, Climate Engineering, Geoengineering, Solar Geoengineering, Solar Radiation Managementadded on Jun 5, 2013
Landfill Methane
Author(s): Rachel Pierson
Publication Date: 5/2013
Landfills are the third largest source of anthropogenic methane in the United States. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), landfill gas (LFG) comprises 17.7 percent of all U.S. methane emissions. Landfill...
Keywords: Emissions, EPA, GHGs, Landfill Gas, Landfill Methaneadded on Jun 5, 2013
Publication Date: 5/2013
Landfills are the third largest source of anthropogenic methane in the United States. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), landfill gas (LFG) comprises 17.7 percent of all U.S. methane emissions. Landfill...
Keywords: Emissions, EPA, GHGs, Landfill Gas, Landfill Methaneadded on Jun 5, 2013
Combined Heat and Power: Pathway to Lower Energy Costs, Reduced Emissi...
Author(s): Ned Stowe
Publication Date: 5/2013
This fact sheet on combined heat and power (CHP) technologies seeks to explain how such technologies can and do benefit industry, communities and institutions. Combined heat and power (CHP) technologies provide industries, commerci...
Keywords: Buildings, CHP, Combined Heat And Power, EESI, Energy Efficiencyadded on Jun 5, 2013
Publication Date: 5/2013
This fact sheet on combined heat and power (CHP) technologies seeks to explain how such technologies can and do benefit industry, communities and institutions. Combined heat and power (CHP) technologies provide industries, commerci...
Keywords: Buildings, CHP, Combined Heat And Power, EESI, Energy Efficiencyadded on Jun 5, 2013
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