For over a century, the federal government has constructed water resource projects for a variety of purposes, including flood control, navigation, ...

While billions have been provided to rebuild Iraq's oil and electricity sectors, Iraq's future needs are significant and sources of funding uncerta...

The atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases, most notably carbon dioxide, has gradually increased over the last century and, in the view of m...

Green marketing -- a marketing strategy highlighting the environmental attributes of a product -- dates back to the 1970s but began to flourish in ...

High petroleum and gasoline prices, concerns over global climate change, and the desire to promote domestic rural economies have greatly increased ...

When designing a cap-and-trade program, one of the more controversial and challenging questions for policymakers is how, to whom, and for what purp...

Stakeholders in the international economy have long considered energy a crucial aspect of national sovereignty - a commodity inherently political i...

This book examines the role of renewable energy certificates in new renewable energy projects. For more than a decade, renewable energy certificate...

Energy tax policy involves the use of one of the government's main fiscal instruments, taxes (both as an incentive and as a disincentive) to alter ...

Russian oil and natural gas industries are increasingly important players in the global energy market, particularly in Europe and Eurasia. Another ...

Key drinking water issues include problems caused by specific contaminants, such as the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), perch...

Saudi Arabia, a monarchy ruled by the Saud dynasty, enjoys special importance in much of the international community because of its unique associat...

Electric utilities have accelerated their deployment of smart meters to millions of homes across the United States with help from the Department of...

Solar energy is derived ultimately from the sun. It can be divided into direct and indirect categories. Most energy sources on Earth are forms of i...

This book addresses the rapid developments in the new field of solar resource knowledge as a reflection of growing needs of management of renewable...

Recent events have renewed long-standing congressional interest in safe management of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and other high level nuclear waste. ...

To help prevent a repetition of the economic dislocation caused by the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Congress authorised the Strategic Petroleum Reserv...

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was created in 1975 to help protect the U.S. economy from oil supply disruptions and it currently holds about...

This book is broadly divided into two sections. A number of main themes are discussed in the first section, 'Chemical Structure and Thermoplastic P...

"In the delta, water is boss, change is the only constant, and creation and destruction exist side by side." The Peace-Athabasca Delta in northern ...

This guide focuses on the identification of Surinamese trees, based on field, vegetative, floristic and wood characteristics. It includes botanical...

North America is experiencing a boom in crude oil supply, primarily due to growing production in the Canadian oil sands and the recent expansion of...