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Quick Information from ANGA

• Why Natural Gas? Highlights the key benefits of natural gas: abundant, clean, domestic, jobs, and where we see the biggest opportunities for growth.
• Natural Gas: Working for America How America's natural gas industry is bringing jobs and revenue to communities across the country.
• Natural Gas: America's Clean, Abundant Energy Resource A special insert in The Hill on the benefits of natural gas.
  
• Workforce Development in the Natural Gas Industry How the industry's commitment to workforce training and education is creating job opportunities with real staying power.
• Shale Gas Jobs Brochure More information on the job creation and economic potential of shale gas development identified in the 2011 IHS shale gas jobs study.
• The Shale Gas Revolution The reasons behind America's new wealth of natural gas, and what it means for domestic energy supplies and price stability.
• Natural Gas: Driving the Change to Cleaner Transportation How natural gas vehicles are poised to help communities and businesses reduce emissions and save money.
• Natural Gas: Plugging Into a Clean Energy Future The changing role of natural gas in America's electricity mix.
• Safe and Responsible Development How we produce America's new natural gas, including measures that companies and state/federal regulators are already taking to make sure that air and water quality are protected.
• The Truth About Gasland Every story has two sides. Here are a few key facts and supporting documents we hope you will consider when watching the documentary film "Gasland."
• Natural Gas Works for Cities Examples of how municipal governments are using CNG-powered fleet vehicles to reduce emissions and save money.

Key Studies and Reports

Multidisciplinary Studies

• Prudent Development: Realizing the Potential of North America's Abundant Natural Gas and Oil Resources National Petroleum Council, 2011
• Shale Gas and U.S. National Security
  James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University (2011)
• The Pennsylvania Marcellus Natural Gas Industry: Status, Economic Impacts and Future Potential
  The Pennsylvania State University (July 2011)
• The Future of Natural Gas
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (June 2011)
• Annual Energy Outlook 2011
  U.S. Energy Information Administration (April 2011)
• Fueling North America's Energy Future
  IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (March 2010)
• Natural Gas: Platform for a Clean Energy Future
  Third Way Clean Energy Initiative (January 2010)
• Natural Gas - Unlocking the Low-Carbon Future
  International Gas Union, 24th World Gas Conference (October 2009)
• Natural Gas End Use: A Vision for Today and the Future
  Gas Technology Institute/American Gas Foundation (September 2009)
• Modern Shale Gas: A Primer
  U.S. Department of Energy (April 2009)

Economic Impact of Natural Gas

• America's New Energy Future: The Unconventional Oil and Gas Revolution and the US Economy IHS Global Insight (December 2012)
  
• The Economic and Employment Contributions of Unconventional Gas Development in State Economies
  IHS Global Insight (June 2012)
• Texas Natural Gas: Fuel for Growth
  Michael J. Economides, PhD (March 2012)
• The Economic and Employment Contributions of Shale Gas in the United States
  IHS Global Insight (December 2011)
• The Economic Impact of Replacing Coal with Natural Gas for Electricity Production
  Michigan State University (August 2011)
• Economic Impacts of Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania: Employment and Income in 2009
  Marcellus Shale Education and Training Center (August 2011)
• Economic Impact of the Eagle Ford Shale
  University of Texas San Antonio (February 2011)
• The Economic Impacts of the Marcellus Shale: Implications for New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia
  Timothy J. Considine, Ph.D., Natural Resource Economics (July 2010)
• The Economic Impacts of the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Play: An Update
  Penn State University (May 2010)
• Economic Impact of the Haynesville Shale on the Louisiana Economy
  Dr. Loren C. Scott & Associates (April 2010)
• The Contributions of the Natural Gas Industry to the U.S. National and State Economies
  IHS Global Insight (November 2009)
• The Contributions of the Natural Gas Industry to the Canadian Economy
  IHS Global Insight (December 2009)
• An Enduring Resource: A Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future Contribution of the Barnett Shale to the Economy of Fort Worth and the Surrounding Area
  The Perryman Group (March 2009)

Water and Environment

• The Impact of Marcellus Gas Drilling on Rural Drinking Water Supplies
  Pennsylvania State University (October 2011)

Power Generation Studies

• Displacing Coal with Generation from Existing Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants
  Congressional Research Service (January 2010)
• Clean Over Green: Striking a New Energy Balance as We Build a Bridge to a Low-Carbon Future
  Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions (December 2009)

LNG Exports

• U.S. LNG Exports: Truth and Consequence Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D., James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy - Rice University, 2012
• Liquid Markets: Assessing the Case for U.S. Exports of Liquefied Natural Gas Energy Security Initiative at Brookings, 2012
• Effect of Increased Natural Gas Exports on Domestic Energy Markets U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2012
• Macroeconomic Impacts of LNG Exports from the United States NERA Economic Consulting, 2012
• Made in America - The Economic Impact of LNG Exports from the United States Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions and Deloitte MarketPoint LLC, 2011

Natural Gas Supplies and Prices

• Annual Energy Outlook 2013 Early Release Overview U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2012
• Annual Energy Outlook 2012 U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2012
• Potential Supply of Natural Gas in the United States
  Colorado School of Mines (April 2011)
  
• State of the Markets Report 2009
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (April 2010)
• Estimates of Consumer Savings from Natural Gas Price Decline
  Richard G. Smead, Navigant Consulting (February 2010)
• The Recognition of Natural Gas Abundance Continues to Grow
  Navigant Consulting (2009)
• North American Natural Gas Supply Assessment
  Richard G. Smead and Gordon B. Pickering, Navigant Consulting (July 2008)

Natural Gas Vehicle Studies

• Securing America's Future: Enhancing Our National Security by Reducing Oil Dependence and Environmental Damage
  Center for American Progress (August 2009)

Clean Air

• Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of Marcellus shale gas
  Carnegie Mellon University, 2011
• Mismeasuring Methane - Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Upstream Natural Gas Development
  IHS CERA, 2011
• Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Power Producers in the United States
  CERES, NRDC, Constellation Energy, Entergy, PSEG (June 2010)
• State of the Air 2010
  American Lung Association (June 2010)
• Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use
  National Academy of the Sciences (October 2009)