World Bank Data in Google Search Results

World Bank, Google
http://tinyurl.com/ydj7ept (press release)
http://datafinder.worldbank.org/
[UN Pulse]  A special Google public data search feature will show numeric results for 17 World Development Indicators (WDI) sourced to the World Bank with data beginning in 1960, containing a link to Google’s public data graphing tool. Google’s feature lets users see and compare country-by-country statistics and offers customized graphs. Read [...]

State Energy Profiles and Rankings for Energy Production, Consumption, Price, CO2 Emissions

Energy Information Administration
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_rankings.cfm?keyid=89&orderid=1
New State Rankings Pages display charts and maps ordered by data value. They cover energy production, consumption, and price, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from electric power producers.

Nanotechnology Records Now a Part of NLM’s Toxicology Data Network, TOXNET

National Library of Medicine
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) has added its first set of nanomaterial records.  Nanotechnology is the study of matter on an atomic and molecular scale– structures 100 nanometers or smaller. A nanometer (nm) is one billionth of a meter.
Like other HSDB records, the nanomaterial records are [...]

Energy Technology Transitions for Industry : Strategies for the Next Industrial Revolution

OECD
http://www.sourceoecd.org/9789264068728
(RFFers will need to access the SourceOECD username and password on the library’s welcome page top left frame under “databases by title”.)
[Abstract] Industry accounts for one-third of global energy use and almost 40% of worldwide CO2 emissions.  Achieving substantial emissions reduction in the future will require urgent action from industry.  What are the [...]

IEA Statistics Annuals : Renewables Information, Coal Information, Electricity Information, Nuclear Energy Information, Natural Gas Information 2009

International Energy Agency
(RFFers will need to access the SourceOECD username and password on the library’s welcome page top left frame under “databases by title”.)
Renewables Information 2009
Coal Information 2009
Electricity Information 2009
Nuclear Energy Information 2009
Natural Gas Information 2009
[Abstract for Renewables Information] Part I of the publication provides an overview of the development of renewables and waste [...]

Phytosanitary Regulation of the Entry of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables into the United States

Economic Research Service, USDA
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FruitVegPhyto/#2009-8-24
[Overview] Increased trade in fresh fruits and vegetables provides U.S. consumers with a variety of benefits including the possibility of improved nutrition by making these products available year-round. Imports of these products are regulated by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health and Inspection Service (APHIS) to reduce the risk of inadvertent entry of [...]

Electric Power Flash Estimates

Energy Information Administration, Dept. of Energy
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/flash/flash.html
[General Description]  The Monthly Flash Estimates of Electric Power Data (“Flash Estimates”) is prepared by the Electric Power Division. ..The survey data is collected monthly from a statistically-derived sample of power plants and electricity retailers…The Flash Estimates is based on an incomplete sample and includes only national-level estimates. ..Values displayed [...]

European Community Emission Inventory Report 1990-2007 Under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP)

European Environment Agency
http://tiny.cc/AKYT7
[From executive summary] Under the LRTAP Convention, Parties (including the European Community) are obliged to report emissions data for a number of air pollutants, including sulphur oxides (SOX), nitrogen oxides (NOX), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), ammonia (NH3), carbon monoxide (CO), primary particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), heavy metals (HMs) and persistent organic [...]

Preliminary Toxics Release Data from EPA

Toxics Release Inventory Program, US EPA
http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/tri08/early_data/indexearlyhome.html
[Website]  EPA has a new strategy to speed up public access to information on the release of toxic chemicals in communities across the United States. The Agency is providing access to the most recent Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) information. The annual reporting deadline was July 1, 2009. The 2008 data [...]

Short-Term Energy Carbon Dioxide Emissions Forecasts

Energy Information Admin., DOE
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/special/2009_sp_04.html
[From summary] The economic downturn, combined with a significant switch from coal to natural gas as a source of electricity generation, is projected to lead to a 5-percent decline in fossil-fuel-based CO2 emissions in 2009 . An improving economy is expected to increase CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by 0.7 percent [...]