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 Engineering and Public Policy

Energy

• Associations, Organizations, and Institutes
• Databases
• Government Resources
• Internet Guides
• Reference Resources

Associations, Organizations, and Institutes

These groups can be a good source of information. For others, you might want to look at Associations on the Net (Internet Public Library), which is a searchable list of over 700 associations, grouped by subject category.

• American Gas Association
  Statistics, studies, publications, etc.

• American Petroleum Institute
  Research papers, statistics, news releases, etc.

• Associations@ElectricNet
  Directory of organizations relating to the Electrical Power Industry

• Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center (CEIC)

• Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
  Association of shareholder-owned electric companies. Electricity issues, a few statistics, links to other utility and related sites, etc.

• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

• Electricity Storage Association

• Energy and Resources Group (University of California, Berkeley)

• EnergyOnline
  Energy industry information, emphasizing electric industry restructuring. Reports, news, links to other sites.

• International Association for Energy Economics

• International Atomic Energy Agency

• Harvard Electricity Policy Group

• MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

• Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
  Official voice of the nuclear energy industry.

• Public Citizen
  Consumer protection group founded by Ralph Nader.
  • Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project

• Resources For The Future (RFF)
  Nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which does independent research on environmental and natural resource issues. News briefs, discussion papers, etc.

• University of California Energy Institute

• World Energy Efficiency Association (WEEA)
  Private, nonprofit international organization. Case studies, links to other sites.

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Government Resources

The United States Government is a good source of data and other types of materials. Below are some of the most useful for environmental issues. To see other government resources, you might want to search:

• FedWorld
  offers ways to search government web sites, reports, and databases
• USA.gov
  the official U.S. gateway to all government information
• Science.gov
  catalog containing descriptions of just those government web sites that are key entry points to government science and technology resources
• Science Accelerator
  "searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy."

For statistical information from governmental sources, see:

• Fedstats
  Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
• Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  ca. 1973-present.
  Search citations and abstracts to statistical publications from federal, state, international sources as well as private organizations. See Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe for an indepth description of coverage.

For legislative information see:

• Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Congressional publications, current topics of debate, members and committees, full text of proposed and recent bills, laws and regulations, etc.
• Thomas (Library of Congress)
  Legislative information on the internet.

For regulatory information see:

• HeinOnline Federal Register Library (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  The Federal Register Library contains:
  • Federal Register, 1936 to the present
  • Federal Register Indexes, 1939-present
  • Code of Federal Regulations, 1938-present
  • Administrative Procedure Act 1944-1946
  • Code of Emergency Federal Regulations 1965
  • U. S. Government Manual, 1935-present
  • Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1965-present

• Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Search and display full text of
  • Code of Federal Regulations
    1981-present
  • Federal Register
    1980-present
• Code of Federal Regulations (GPO Access)
  1996-present
• Federal Register (GPO Access)
  1994-present.
• Federal Register: Environmental Documents (Environmental Protection Agency)
  Full text of all Federal Register documents issued by EPA, and of selected documents issued by other Departments and Agencies.
• Regulations.gov
  Central online rulemaking portal of the United States government. Search by keyword or department or agency.
• Regulatory Agenda (Environmental Protection Agency)

For gray literature, that is, reports or materials that do not go through normal publication channels, see:

• GreyNet: Grey Literature Network Service
  "A selection of web based resources in grey literature"

Relevant federal departments and agencies include:

• United States Department of Energy (DOE)
  • Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • EnergyFiles: The Virtual Library Collections of Energy Science and Technology
  • Energy Information Administration
  • Information Bridge
    Full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics, ca. 1995 to the present.

• U. S. Geological Survey
  • Energy Resources Program
  • Minerals Information
  • Minerals Resources

• United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Internet Guides

• Renewable Energy Policy Project and CREST (Renewable Energy Policy Project and the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (REPP-CREST))
  Sustainable energy information

• Yahoo!:
  • Science: Energy

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Engineering and Public Policy

  Sue Collins, Senior Librarian, sc24@andrew.cmu.edu
  Lynn Berard, Principal Librarian, lberard@andrew.cmu.edu