Missouri receives more than 80% of its electricity from coal – more than two times the national average. Nearly all coal burned in Missouri power plants is imported from states such as Wyoming causing a $1.1 billion drain ...

Buildings consume approximately 40% of the total energy use in the world. A building is a complex system whose annual energy use consists of many factors. The top five end-uses of building energy are space heating, space ...

This study explores the causal relationship between firms’ climate actions and financial performance. I examined the market reactions associated with announcements of two categories of climate and energy initiatives with ...

North Carolina is located within the Southeastern region of The United States, an area which has experienced varying degrees of drought over the last two decades. Water withdrawal and consumption are integral and unavoidable ...

The United States Postal Service is a government agency created with the foundation of the United States of America. Today, the Internet has become its biggest competition, taking significant revenue away from the Postal ...

Several automakers are preparing for the next generation of passenger transportation, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs). These vehicles are slated to be commercially available starting in 2010. PHEVs operate similar ...

This paper analyzes the impact of increasing fuel prices on public transit ridership in the United States. Using regional gasoline prices and transit ridership and supply figures from 218 US cities from 2002 to 2008, I ...

This paper explores the metrics used by FCC and others for evaluating competition between wireless telecom carriers. It focuses on the impact of wireless spectrum quality on the results of FCC spectrum auctions and the ...

Satellite imagery has become a powerful tool to analyze land-use trends across large portions of the globe, including remote areas where access is logistically or political impossible. Due to the rapid pace of deforestation, ...