A democratic society is grounded on the informed participation of the citizenry, which in turn requires access to Government information. If offici...

For some time, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the U.S. transit industry having been working to improve the understanding and practice...

Millions of Americans are unable to provide their own transportation or have difficulty accessing public transportation. Such transportation-disadv...

This book is dedicated to research on transportation accidental injury and damage, including the pre-injury and immediate post-injury phases. It al...

This important book focuses on passenger and freight transportation modes: policy analysis, formulation and evaluation; planning; interaction with ...

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...

This book examines the travel and tourism industry in the United States which are critical to the American economy. This growing industry offers si...

Demers revives the memory of journalist Miriam Green Ellis, an all-but-forgotten feminist, suffragist, and agricultural reporter who documented the...

Protein research is a frontier field in science. Proteins are widely distributed in plants and animals and are the principal constituents of the pr...

Nearly 1 million people and $1.5 billion of trade entered the United States through 328 POEs on an average day in fiscal year 2013. CBP, within the...

The health of the U.S. manufacturing sector has long been of great concern to Congress. The decline in manufacturing employment since the start of ...

The United States is the undisputed world leader in agricultural production today, but as we look out across the 21st century, agriculture faces a ...

Leading markets for U.S. agricultural exports are Canada, Mexico, Japan, the European Union, China, South Korea, and Taiwan. The United States domi...

The Department of State and the Department of Defense (DOD) have long shared responsibility for U.S. assistance to train, equip, and otherwise enga...

Over one million Americans are employed in manufacturing motor vehicles, equipment and parts. But the industry has changed dramatically since the U...

This book looks at U.S. biobased products and their market potential. This study is based upon data and assumptions as of 2006 which were used to i...

Catch share programs are a fishery management tool that dedicates a secure share of quota allowing individual fishermen, fishing cooperatives, fish...

The US coal industry has gone through a number of gradual shifts in recent decades. The industry has become more concentrated, and mine productivit...

Financial stress encountered by dairy farmers in recent years has led Congress and the industry to reconsider how to deal with fluctuations in milk...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is an intergovernmental organisation which acts as an advisor to 28 member countries, including the United St...

Energy supplies and prices are major economic factors in the U.S., and energy markets are volatile and unpredictable. As an aid in policy making, t...

Almost four decades ago, in response to the Arab oil embargo and recession it triggered, Congress passed legislation restricting crude oil exports ...

This book explores economic information about the Nation's commercial and recreational fishing activities, and fishing-related industries. Descript...

Tens of thousands of foreign nationals travel to the United States each year under the H-2A (agricultural) and H-2B (nonagricultural) visa programs...

Transportation is important. It is about people and how they live their lives, how they get to work, how they get their children to school, how the...

Grasslands provide both ecological and economic benefits. The importance of grasslands lies not only in the areas they cover, but also in the diver...

Fuel cells (FCs) are considered essential future energy technologies by developed and developing economies alike. Several countries, including the ...

The U.S. petroleum refining industry -- the largest refining industry in the world -- experienced a period of high product prices and industry prof...

Congress designed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to be a self-supporting government agency. Since 1971, the agency has not relied upon annual appro...

Rice, an ancient grain, is the primary staple for more than half the world's population, through its role in the diets of billions of low-income, f...

The U.S. shipbuilding and repairing industry is comprised of establishments that are primarily engaged in operating shipyards, which are fixed faci...

Following terrorist attacks against the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983, the U.S. Department of State began an embassy construction progra...

The US postal service has moved from a largely ignored agency of the government to the frontline troops in the battle with terrorists sending anthr...

The U.S. travel and tourism sector, the main economic and employment engine in a number of states, suffered a steep decline in 2008 and 2009 as the...

This book examines uranium mining and management in the United States with a focus on federal considerations. From 2005 to 2007, uranium prices inc...

This book discusses the uses of minerals. Today over 3,000 minerals have been reported and named of which 1800-2000 have been studied and described...

The imminent exhaustion of fossil energy resources and the increasing demand for energy were the motives to put into practice an energy policy base...

Public utilities constitute a large section of Europe' economy, and they have historically been at the centre of national states and their industri...

Trade in manufactured goods has expanded rapidly. U.S. manufacturing export share of GDP grew by 140 percent between 1960 and 2006. The share of ma...

Video games are not necessarily uniform in the "lessons" they teach players. Indeed, even violent video games are not simply hotbeds of violent con...

This book examines 2011 trends in the U.S. "voluntary" markets - those in which consumers and institutions purchase renewable energy to match their...

Edwin Cole Bearss, born in 1923, is an American World War II wounded warrior of the Greatest Generation. As a U.S. Marine, he was shot four times b...

This volume presents the results of an interview survey among Greenland subsistence hunters on walruses and the catch of walruses in West and North...

This book examines how water management practices can influence commercial fishing activities and their economic benefits. Government water managem...

Pollution is undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities so that t...

sn’t it time that we are told the insider TRUTH regarding the intentional and unintentional cover-ups made by the big boys in Detroit. We will be b...