Category: Energy

“Tidal Wave” of Chemical, Fertilizer, Petroleum & Other Plants Unleashed by Cheap Gas from Fracking; TX and LA Top List of New “Major Source” Polluter Sites, Others Going to AK, AR, CO, FL, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MD, MI, MN,...

The Center for Rural Affairs transmitted a letter to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry urging the White House and State Department to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. “Like the sign said in the...

U.S. crude oil production is expected to surpass U.S. crude oil imports by the fourth quarter of this year. That would mark the first time since February 1995 that domestic crude oil output exceeds imports, according to the...

Syria’s energy sector has been challenged since the onset of civil discord in March 2011, and it has been severely hindered by continuous fighting between government and opposition forces and the effects of international...

Utilities and other electric power plant developers tend to bring their new generators into commercial operation at certain times of the year.

Beginning in summer 2012, the prices of ethanol and corn reached levels where production costs at relatively simple ethanol plants exceeded revenue. These simple plants, which are not able to recover corn oil, make up a...

Saudi Arabia was the world’s largest producer and exporter of petroleum and other liquids in 2012, producing an average of 11.6 million barrels per day (bbl/d) and exporting an estimated 8.6 million bbl/d (net). Saudi...

In the United States, energy intensity has been declining steadily since the early 1970s and continues to decline in EIA’s long-term projection. A country’s energy intensity is usually defined as energy consumption...

Electricity use varies with the weather, as changes in temperature and humidity affect the demand for space heating and cooling. But the level of change between the seasons varies significantly across the residential,...

Several companies combined to produce about 20,000 gallons of fuels using cellulosic biomass (e.g., wood waste, sugarcane bagasse) from commercial-scale facilities in late 2012. EIA estimates this output could grow to more than...