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Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress

Description: Key components of federal policies to reduce fuel consumption include the promotion of alternatives to petroleum fuels and the promotion of more efficient vehicles. This report provides an overview of current issues surrounding alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles — issues discussed in further detail in other CRS reports referred to in each section.
Date: July 20, 2006
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waiver Authority Under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)

Description: This report provides a brief overview of the renewable fuel standard (RFS) program and discusses the process and criteria for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve a waiver petition. The RFS program required that renewable fuels be blended into gasoline and other transportation fuels.
Date: August 20, 2010
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Natural Gas Passenger Vehicles: Availability, Cost, and Performance

Description: Higher gasoline prices and concerns over U.S. oil dependence have raised interest in natural gas vehicles (NGVs). Use of NGVs for personal transportation has focused on compressed natural gas (CNG) as an alternative to gasoline. Consumer interest has grown, both for new NGVs as well as for conversions of existing personal vehicles to run on CNG. This report finds that the market for natural gas vehicles will likely remain limited unless the differential between natural gas and gasoline prices r… more
Date: October 20, 2008
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Deployment Options for A Spent Fuel Treatment Facility in the United States

Description: A promising alternative to direct disposal is to process the commercial spent nuclear fuel into key partitions permitting recovery of some of the energy value while providing vital flexibility to the operation of a repository in a manner to minimize and possibly defer the near-term need for future repositories. It is assumed that such a Spent Fuel Treatment Facility (SFTF) will provide significant benefit to the US nuclear waste program and this paper focuses on key options for deployment of su… more
Date: November 20, 2003
Creator: Boore, W. Brent & McGuire, David H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Estimates of Carbon Mitigation Potential from Agricultural and Forestry Activities

Description: This report presents a brief overview of the available estimates from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carbon mitigation studies, and then discusses some of the limitations of the available data and modeling results. It includes informationa bout estimated current emissions and sequestration, estimated addtional potential sequestration, limitations of mitigation potential estimates, and considerations for Congress.
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: Johnson, Renée; Gorte, Ross W.; Yacobucci, Brent D. & Schnepf, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Estimates of Carbon Mitigation Potential from Agricultural and Forestry Activities

Description: The report is organized into three parts. The first provides a brief overview of the role of the agriculture and forestry sectors within the broader climate change debate, describing available estimates of current GHG emissions and carbon sequestration in the farm and forestry sectors. The second describes available data and information on the potential for carbon storage (tonnage) by type of farming and forestry activity, and presents available estimates of the carbon sequestration potential i… more
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: Johnson, Renée; Gorte, Ross W.; Yacobucci, Brent D. & Schnepf, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alternative Fuel and Advanced Vehicle Technology Incentives: A Summary of Federal Programs

Description: This report gives an overview of the federal incentives that support the development and deployment of alternatives to conventional fuels and engines in transportation including tax deductions and credits for vehicle purchases and the installation of refueling systems; federal grants for conversion of older vehicles to newer technologies; mandates for the use of biofuels; and incentives for manufacturers to produce alternative fuel vehicles. It also addresses how these incentives relate to goal… more
Date: November 20, 2018
Creator: Cunningham, Lynn J.; Canis, Bill; Arostegui, Danielle A. & Yacobucci, Brent D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Carbon-Oxygen Bond Formation via Organometallic Baeyer-Villiger Transformations: A Computational Study on the Impact of Metal Identity

Description: Article discussing a computational study on the impact of metal identity and carbon-oxygen bond formation via organometallic Baeyer-Villiger transformations.
Date: December 20, 2011
Creator: Figg, Travis M.; Webb, Joanna R.; Cundari, Thomas R., 1964- & Gunnoe, T. Brent
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Six-, Five-, and Four-Coordinate Ruthenium(II) Hydride Complexes Supported by N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, Fundamental Reactivity, and Catalytic Hydrogenation of Olefins, Aldehydes, and Ketones

Description: This article discusses six-, five-, and four-coordinate ruthenium(II) hydride complexes.
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: Lee, John P.; Ke, Zhuofeng; Ramírez, Magaly A.; Gunnoe, T. Brent; Cundari, Thomas R., 1964-; Boyle, Paul D. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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