BNA's Web Watch - Energy Policy Issues

WEB WATCH: Energy Issues before the 107th Congress (October 2002)
BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura Gordon-Murnane. Documents and Reports are arranged first by federal government, state governments, international governments, and nongovernment organizations. E-mail suggestions for future weekly topics always welcome.

Federal Government

Senate
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Gas Prices: How Are they Really Set? REPORT Prepared by the Majority Staff of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (May 2002)

Department of Agriculture
The Energy Balance of Corn Ethanol: An Update (July 2002)

Department of Energy – Energy Information Administration

Annual Energy Outlook 2003 with Projections to 2025

Annual Energy Outlook 2003 With Projections to 2025 January 2003 - Full Report

Annual Energy Outlook 2002 With Projections to 2020 December (2001)

Analysis of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards for Light Trucks and Increased Alternative Fuel Use (March 2002)

Gasoline Type Proliferation and Price Volatility (September 2002)

Renewable Motor Fuel Production Capacity Under H.R.4 (September 2002)

Review of Transportation Issues and Comparison of Infrastructure Costs for a Renewable Fuels Standard (September 2002)

Status of State Electric Industry Restructuring Activity (As of November 1, 2002)

Supply Impacts of an MTBE Ban September 2002

The Effects of the Alaska Oil and Natural Gas Provisions of H. R. 4 and S. 1766 on U.S. Energy Markets February 2002

FERC
Standard Market Design Proposal (Summer 2002)

General Accounting Office
Alaska's North Slope Requirements for Restoring Lands After Oil Production Ceases (June 2002)

Nongovernment Organizations
The Brookings Institution
The War on Terrorism, the World Oil Market and the U.S. Economy George Perry (November 2001)

Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future
Electricity Competition: The Story Behind the Headlines A 50-state Report (September 2002)

Congressional Research Service Via National Council For Science and the Environment
Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: Is CAFE Up to Standards? Robert Bamberger (September 2002)

Energy Efficiency: Budget, Oil Conservation, and Electricity Conservation Issues. Fred Sissine (September 2002)

Energy Policy: Setting the Stage for the Current Debate. (August 2002)

Energy Tax Policy. Salvatore Lazzari (October 2002)

Fuel Ethanol: Background and Public Policy Issues Brent Yacobucci, Jasper Womach (July 2, 2002)

Renewable Energy: Tax Credit, Budget, and Electricity Production Issues. Fred Sissine (September 16, 2002)

Edison Electric Institute
Economic Principles of Demand Response in Electricity (October 2002)

Energy Foundation/Hewlett Foundation
Implications and Policy Options of California’s Reliance on Natural Gas (2002)

Environmental Working Group
MTBE: WHAT THE OIL COMPANIES KNEW AND WHEN THEY KNEW IT Election-Year Deal in Congress Would Shield Industry From Lawsuits for Water Contamination Internal Industry Documents Are Rewriting The MTBE Pollution Story (2002)

FuelCellPath.Org
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen: The Path Forward (September 5, 2002)

National Research Council
Energy Research at DOE: Was It Worth It? Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy Research 1978 to 2000 Committee on Benefits of DOE R&D on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2001)

Natural Resources Defense Council
Fueling the Future: A Plan to Reduce California's Oil Dependence September 2002.

NRDC/Union of Concerned Scientists
Dangerous Addiction: Ending America's Oil Dependence January 2002

Northeast Regional Biomass Program
Toward a Renewable Power Supply: The Use of Bio-based Fuels in Stationary Fuel Cells (June 30, 2002)

Renewable Fuels Association
Ethanol & Fuel Cells: Converging Paths of Opportunity by Jeffrey Bentley & Robert Derby (August 2002)

Resources for the Future
Producing Oil or Reducing Oil: Which is Better for U.S. Energy Security? By Heather L. Ross (Summer 2002)