Over the past several years, gasoline prices have risen well above their historic average. In many parts of the United States, gasoline prices were...

The price and availability of oil and natural gas affects every American. That's why it is important that the Energy Committee's first hearing of t...

Access to cheap energy has become essential to the functioning of modern economies. However, the uneven distribution of energy supplies among count...

Today the energy sources used to create electricity differ in many ways, including in their environmental impacts. In the United States, convention...

Today, the energy sources used to create electricity differ in many ways, including in their environmental impacts. In the United States, electrici...

Direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), employing liquid methanol as a fuel, offer an attractive option in portable devices due to their simplicity in ...

In a world faced with massive and ever-growing energy demands where the environment is an important factor, an array of new technologies and or fue...

This book examines select elements, issues and analyses relating to international energy partnerships. Topics discussed include the proposed U.S.-M...

The future of oil and natural gas production in Mexico is of importance for both Mexico's economic growth, as well as for U.S. energy security, a k...

This book presents the staggering details of the US Government's national energy program. Over 150 energy-related program activities and 11 tax pre...

Natural gas markets in North America had a tumultuous year in 2008. This contrasted with the relative stability of 2007. In early 2008, the market ...

This book presents the latest research from around the globe in the field of energy economics which is a sub-field of economics that focuses on ene...

The United States (US) program for siting interim storage and permanent disposal facilities for used nuclear fuel (UNF) is at a crossroads. The Mar...

This book examines nuclear oversight, planning and safety efforts at U.S. nuclear power reactors across the United States. The U.S. Nuclear Regulat...

Radioactive wastes are waste types containing radioactive chemical elements that do not have a practical purpose. They are sometimes the products o...

Offshore wind power is poised to deliver an essential contribution to a clean, robust and diversified U.S. energy portfolio. Capturing and using th...

Windpower remains one of the world's most developed forms of renewable energy, and the oceans offer room for considerable expansion. This comprehen...

Thousands of oil and chemical spills of varying size occur in the United States each year. State and local officials located in proximity to these ...

Increased oil and gas production presents challenges for transportation infrastructure because some of this increase is in areas with limited trans...

Over the past 10 years, surging crude oil and petroleum product prices have increased oil and gas industry revenues and generated record profits, p...

The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid...

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...