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- The Impact of Energy Shortages on U.S. Environmental Standards
- This report discusses how the recent energy shortages have created numerous problems in the United States and it also includes about the fossil fuels which require combustion to release their energy, illustrated with graphs and diagrams.
- Energy and the FY 1975 Budget Request: an Estimate of Totals in the Federal Energy Effort
- This report is about the budget of the FY 1975 regarding the energy resources
- Coal Conversion: Gasification and Liquefaction (Revised)
- This report is a comprehensive effort to identify opportunities for meeting United States energy needs.
- Federal energy organization
- This report presents information about Federal energy organization for handling the energy issues with in nation's interest.
- Energy Facility Siting
- This report discusses the state energy facility siting programs and federal involvement in energy facility siting.
- A Brief Summary of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-438)
- This report provides the summary of the energy reorganization act of 1974. It also discusses the statement by the president and executive order activating the energy resource council.
- U.S Energy policy: A perspective on major Immediate issues
- This report discuss the control of the significant portion of the U.S energy supply by the members of the OPEC.
- Offshore Oil: Selected References, 1969-1975
- This report cites the references to the literature on offshore oil in North America which follow have been compiled from the computerized bibliographic database.
- Congressional Energy Jurisdiction
- This report is about Congressional Energy Jurisdiction.
- U.S. Energy Policy- Major Issues and Options, 1976, March 3
- This report is the descriptive summary of major issues and options of U.S. energy policy.
- Basic Research needs in Energy Technologies
- This report is about the basic research needs in energy technologies
- Residential applications of solar heating and cooling technologies
- This report is about residential applications of solar heating and cooling technologies
- The Impact of Energy Conservation on the U.S. Economy
- This report discusses the conservation concept and economic impact of energy conservation.
- Energy Famine in Late-20th Century America? Prospects and Policies
- This reports on the United States energy crisis over the course of several years.
- Summary of the Department of Energy Organization Act
- This report briefly summarizes the major provisions of the law.
- What Should Be the Energy Policy of the United States? (A Preliminary Bibliography on the 1978-1979 High School Debate Topic
- This bibliography was created to reflect energy policy issues for use in 1978 - 1979 high school debate topic, "What Should Be the Energy Policy of the United States?"
- The Economics of Solar Power
- This report's purpose is to review the currently available applications of solar energy and to determine their economic feasibility in comparison with other energy sources. The primary focus of this analysis is on the economics of solar heating and cooling facilities installed directly on the user's premises.
- The Costs and Benefits of Residential Energy Conservation
- This report is on The Costs and Benefits of Residential Energy Conservation.
- Costs And Benefits Of Federal Regulation: An Overview
- This report consists of costs and benefits of federal regulation: an overview
- Gasoline: Public opinion on the shortage
- This report gives details about the opinion polls on the shortages and on the possible actions to meet the shortage can illuminate Public views on the debate.
- Environmental Protection Agency Programs: Congressional Actions
- This report details the environmental protection activities of the 96th Congress. Specifically, it reviews the three major issues which that Congress faced in regard to environmental protections: reauthorizations, oversight of regulations and their impacts on energy and the economy, and hazardous substances.
- Soft Versus Hard Energy Paths: An Analysis of the Debate
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- Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Power Generation: More Energy from Less Fuel
- This report discusses magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power generation, which is a method for converting heat directly into electrical energy without the use of a rotating electrical power generator.
- The Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act: Context and Content
- Debate over natural gas pricing has included the consideration of a windfall profit tax, with the oil windfall profit tax as a possible guide to what might be levied on natural gas at the wellhead. This report reviews the issues surrounding the enactment of the crude oil windfall profit tax, spells out its provisions, and provides data on the revenues collected and anticipated.
- The Unfolding of the Reagan Energy Program: The First Year
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- Onshore and Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing and Operations
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- Solar Energy and the Reagan Administration
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- Leasing of Energy and Mineral Resources on Federal Lands
- This report discusses the leasing of energy and mineral resources on federal lands. Leasing of energy minerals has been an issue of varying intensity for most of the past century, as oil, gas, and coal became indispensable commodities in both U.S. and world commerce.
- The Webster-Heise Valve: A Significant Improvement in the Internal Combustion Engine and Its Fuels?
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- Soviet Gas Pipeline: U.S. Options
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- Soviet Pipeline
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- Energy and the 97th Congress: Overview
- During his campaign, President Reagan called for a major shift in this country's energy policy. In particular, the President emphasized the need for more domestic production of energy and reliance on market forces to produce and distribute energy products. Now in office, the new Administration is employing executive, administrative, and legislative methods to implement these changes.
- Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands: Leasing for Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Development
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- Natural Gas Policy Act
- The Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA) culminated decades of dispute over natural gas policy and was the "centerpiece of President Carter's National Energy Act. Now there are many issues of both regulatory and legislative concerns under discussion. These items were unanticipated by the framers of this difficult and delicate compromise. Generally speaking, they all stem from the fact that oil prices more than doubled in 1979 and 1980. The NGPA1s framers set wellhead gas prices within the new law's framework in such a way that they would converge on oil equivalent prices -- as they were then perceived -- in real dollar terms by 1985.
- The Changing Role for Federal Energy R&D
- This paper discusses and analyzes the major issues evolving from the changes in funding.
- Synthetic Fuels Corporation and National Synfuels Policy
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- Handbook of Alternative Energy Technology Development and Policy
- This report examines alternate energy policies and federal funding for these policies.
- Energy and The 98th Congress: Overview
- This report is about perceptions of national energy problem
- Energy Efficiency Standards for Appliances: Are They Needed?
- The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA! (P.L. 94-163), as amended by the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (NEPCA) (P.L. 95-619) , requires that energy efficiency standards be established for each of 13 classes of appliances that are major consumers of energy. NEPCA stipulates that such standards "be designed to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency which the Secretary [of Energ'y] determines is technologically feasible and economically justified." The Department of Energy ' announced proposed standards for 8 of the 13 classes of appliances in June 1980 and initiated public hearings on them prior to final promulgation. In January 1981, the DOE suspended this process; after re-studying the proposed standards, it announced in April 1982 a finding that no standards are economically justified.
- Urea-Formaldehyde Foam Insulation: Health Effects and Regulation
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- Urea-Formaldehyde Foam Insulation: Health Effects and Regulation
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- Nuclear Explosions in Space: The Threat of EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse)
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- Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982
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- Solar Energy: The Federal Program and Congressional Interest
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- Three Utility Financing Issues
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- Three Utility Financing Issues
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- Persian Gulf Oil Trade: Numbers and Issues
- "This report is an overview of the role of Persian Gulf petroleum exporters in world oil supply" (p. iii).
- Japan's Sea Shipment of Plutonium
- Japan's sea shipment of a ton of plutonium from France to Japan on Nov. 7, 1992, faced strong public opposition, as did a previous one in 1984, from various public interest groups, independent analysts, and Members of Congress. The shipment arrived safely in Tokyo Jan. 4, 1993. Several more shipments at intervals of about 3 years are expected. While the plutonium is owned by Japanese utilities, it was produced from uranium enriched in the United States and supplied under a U.S.-Japan agreement for nuclear cooperation, revised in 1988. Although the agreement ties some strings to what Japan can do with nuclear imports from the United States, it also in effect gives to Japan a 30-year advance consent to ship plutonium subject to informing the United States.
- Market-Based Environmental Management: Issues in Implementation
- Increasingly, efforts to protect integral features of the natural environment that are essential to human well being face a double challenge. First, the magnitude of some conventional and emerging threats to environmental quality is growing, despite solid progress in controlling some causes. This is particularly the concern on a global scale in terms of atmospheric changes and loss of biological diversity. Second, easily-implemented uniform control methods using feasible technologies or other direct regulatory approaches are already in place for many pollution and resource management problems in the United States. Additional progress with so-called command and control policies can be expensive and disruptive, and thus counter productive to overall economic well being. This type of dilemma is common where environmental deterioration results from diffuse and complex causes inherent in technically-advanced high-consumption industrial societies such as the U.S. Solutions to these types of environmental problems are complicated by the diffuse benefits which obscures the net gains of additional controls that have concentrated and highly visible costs. Given this double bind, many policy analysts and academics have for years advocated more cost-effective and flexible approaches relying on market forces to further some environmental management objectives. Although market-based theory and practical environmental policy are still far apart, the incremental approach to environmental policymaking since the late seventies has resulted in some market-type innovations within traditional regulatory frameworks at all levels of government. The most prominent examples are the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) air emissions trading program and the recently enacted sulfur dioxide allowance trading program under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.
- DOE Environmental Technology Department - A Fact Sheet
- The Department of Energy (DOE) established the Office of Technology Development in 1989 to develop faster and less expensive technical solutions to the Department's widespread environmental problems, primarily the legacy of decades of nuclear weapons production. Without new environmental technologies, DOE contends, some types of contamination may prove impossible to clean up. The Office of Technology Development, which is part of DOE's Environmental Management Program (EM), manages all stages of the development of new environmental restoration and waste management technologies, from basic research and development through final testing, demonstration and evaluation.