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The broad ownership of America’s public corporations, as researchers have found, yields substantial economic and social benefits. It encourages companies to focus on investments that can secure strong returns, including new plant and equipment, research and development (R&D), and employment and training of highly-qualified personnel. Broad corporate ownership also generates capital that companies need to increase their efficiency and innovative capacities. This study examines the distribution of ownership of one of our key industries, U.S. oil and natural gas companies.…
View Full ResourceThis report responds to a May 29, 2014 request from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (DOE/FE) for an update of the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) January 2012 study of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export scenarios. DOE/FE asked EIA to assess how specified scenarios of increased exports of LNG from the Lower 48 states could affect domestic energy markets, focusing on consumption, production, and prices. DOE/FE requested that EIA consider the specified Lower 48 states LNG export scenarios in the context of baseline cases from EIA’s 2014 Annual Energy Outlook (AEO2014) that reflect varying perspectives on the …
View Full ResourceIncreased use of natural gas has been promoted as a means of decarbonizing the US power sector, because of superior generator efficiency and lower CO2 emissions per unit of electricity than coal. We model the effect of different gas supplies on the US power sector and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Across a range of climate policies, we find that abundant natural gas decreases use of both coal and renewable energy technologies in the future. Without a climate policy, overall electricity use also increases as the gas supply increases. With reduced deployment of lower-carbon renewable energies and increased electricity consumption, the …
View Full ResourceSignificantly increased production of natural gas in the United States has dramatically changed the country’s energy landscape—both lowering domestic natural gas prices and providing substantial economic benefits.1 At the same time, debate has surrounded the environmental impacts of natural gas as compared with other fossil fuels.
Prompted by these uncertainties and the need to better understand the climate impacts of increased natural gas production and use, researchers have been investigating natural gas emissions throughout its lifecycle.…
View Full ResourceUnconventional extraction methods, namely horizontal drilling and fracking, are transforming global energy production, consumption, and trade. The extraction of large amounts of oil and gas from shale formations has led to an unprecedented surge of domestic production in the United States. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is now processing more than 40 applications from domestic producers to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). While experts still disagree about the magnitude and duration of the energy boom, we are at the “dawn of a US oil and gas renaissance” (Houser and Mohan 2014).
The foreseeable reduction of oil imports and increased …
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