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- Handbook of Alternative Energy Technology Development and Policy
- This report examines alternate energy policies and federal funding for these policies.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Changing Role for Federal Energy R&D
- This paper discusses and analyzes the major issues evolving from the changes in funding.
- Energy and The 98th Congress: Overview
- This report is about perceptions of national energy problem
- Urea-Formaldehyde Foam Insulation: Health Effects and Regulation
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- Three Utility Financing Issues
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- Urea-Formaldehyde Foam Insulation: Health Effects and Regulation
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- Three Utility Financing Issues
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- Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982
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- Soviet Pipeline
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- Solar Energy: The Federal Program and Congressional Interest
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- Nuclear Explosions in Space: The Threat of EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse)
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- 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.
- Synthetic Fuels Corporation and National Synfuels Policy
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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.
- 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.
- Soviet Gas Pipeline: U.S. Options
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- Soft Versus Hard Energy Paths: An Analysis of the Debate
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- Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands: Leasing for Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Development
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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.
- The Webster-Heise Valve: A Significant Improvement in the Internal Combustion Engine and Its Fuels?
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- Onshore and Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing and Operations
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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).
- 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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