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Energy & the Environment

Studies in this area cover environmental issues related to the use, supply, and demand of energy sources including coal, natural gas, wind energy, biofuels, nuclear power, and emerging technologies.

Activities in Energy & the Environment are overseen by:

Recent Reports

	Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use (2009)
	Global Sources of Local Pollution: An Assessment of Long-Range Transport of Key Air Pollutants to and from the United States (2009)
	Letter Report on the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (2009)
	Advice on the Department of Energy's Cleanup Technology Roadmap: Gaps and Bridges (2009)
	Catalysis for Energy: Fundamental Science and Long-Term Impacts of the U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Catalysis Science Program (2009)
	Disaster Risk Management in an Age of Climate Change: A Summary of the April 3, 2008 Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable (2009)
	Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges (2008)
	Review of the Research Program of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership: Second Report (2008)
	Bioinspired Chemistry for Energy: A Workshop Summary to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable (2008)
	Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States (2007)