Coal country and the research battle: Interview with Ken Ward Jr. of the Charleston Gazette
2013 interview with Ken Ward Jr., of The Charleston Gazette (W.Va.), one of the country’s leading voices on energy and environment issues.
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“Resource curse,” poverty and Appalachia; lessons in research, data and politics
2013 study from Ohio State University published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics on the effects of coal mining and poverty in the Appalachia region.
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Automobiles on steroids: Trade-offs and technological progress in the automobile sector
2012 study by MIT on the technological progress in automobiles since 1980 and the trade-offs between fuel economy, weight and power.
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Global oil: Areas of growth, capacity and long-term outlook
2012 study from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center on how the production of oil may increase rapidly in the coming decade.
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Air pollutants from automotive traffic act on glutamatergic neurons
2011 study in Environmental Health Perspectives on responses in rodent brains to particulate matter from highway traffic.
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Congressional Research Service: Petroleum and its role in the U.S. economy
2012 petroleum-related statistics from the Congressional Research Service, including production and consumption, with breakdowns for industrial and consumer use of oil.
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Congressional Research Service: Electrical generation and consumption in the U.S.
Electricity-related data from the 2012 Congressional Research Service report, “U.S. Energy: Overview and Key Statistics.”
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Energy in the United States: Overview and key statistics
2012 report from the Congressional Research Service on U.S. energy production and consumption, with breakdowns of production and consumption by sector.
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Prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure and child behavior at age 6-7
2012 study in Environmental Health Perspectives on the link between prenatal exposure to airborne pollutants and behavioral issues later in the children’s lives.
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Oil revenues for public investment in Africa: Targeting urban or rural areas?
2011 study in Review of World Economics analyzing the case of Ghana to see how countries might avoid the so-called resource curse.
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