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Report#:EIA/DOE-0573(98)

November 5, 1999 
(Next Release: November,  2000)

1. See "Units for Measuring Greenhouse Gases" on page 3, and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

2. As of 1994, the most recent year for which information is available. Energy Information Administration, Manufacturing Consumption of Energy 1994, DOE/EIA-0512(94) (Washington, DC, December 1997), web site www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/mecs/contents.html.

3. Chemical Manufacturers Association, U.S. Chemical Industry Statistical Handbook 1999 (Washington, DC, September 1999), and American Iron and Steel Institute, Iron & Steel Industry Annual Statistical Report 1999 (Washington, DC, 1999). Both associations conduct proprietary surveys of their members' energy use. There are, however, steel and chemical companies which are not members of the industry trade associations and whose energy consumption is consequently not included in the surveys.

4. M. McGuigan and W.G. Vogt, SCS Engineers, "Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions from U.S. Landfill Gas Utilization Projects: Landfills to the Rescue." Presented at the 22nd Annual Landfill Gas Symposium (Orlando, FL, March 1999). The tax credits are the so-called "Section 29" tax credits for alternative energy, first enacted in 1981 and extended several times since.