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We project that global energy-related CO2 emissions from consumption of coal, liquid fuels, and natural gas will increase over the next 30 years across most of the cases we analyzed in our International Energy Outlook 2023 (IEO2023). [...]

The National Center for Education Statistics releases the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) High School Transcript Study (HSTS) 2019 restricted-use datasets for analyzing HSTS 2019 results. The 2019 NAEP HSTS analyzes transcripts from a national sample of U.S. public and private school graduates who also took 2019 NAEP [...]

U.S. coal-related CO2 emissions decreased by 7%, or 68 million metric tons (MMmt), in 2022 relative to 2021. This decrease was largely due to an 8% decline in coal-fired power generation because of retiring coal-fired generating capacity. Changes in electricity generation sources decreased the carbon intensity of electricity by 4% [...]

State government agencies’ expenditures for research and development increased by 5.2% from FY 2021 to $2.6 billion in FY 2022. Although state government expenditures for R&D are relatively small within the national portfolio of R&D performance, state agencies themselves performed $697 million in R&D while also financing $1.953 billion in [...]

The 23 data tables in this report present FY 2022 and time series data for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Data are available on total R&D expenditures; intramural and extramural performers; source of funds; and R&D by governmental function by state and department or agency, [...]

Five State Education Practices tables were released with 2020 and 2021 data on school attendance laws, prekindergarten programs, standards and teacher qualifications, early childhood school readiness, and state-level accountability and reporting. [...]

Today, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) mailed survey codes to a selected sample of irrigators across the 50 states with an invitation to respond online to the 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey. [...]

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release the 2022 Census of Agriculture data on February 13, 2024. NASS concluded the data collection this summer with a preliminary national return rate of 61%. The ag census, conducted once every five years, was mailed to [...]

Higher education in science and engineering (S&E) develops the talent that sustains the U.S. S&E enterprise. This report describes U.S. undergraduate and graduate education in S&E and S&E-related fields with international comparisons. The number of S&E certificates and degrees awarded is increasing, as is the share of all degrees awarded [...]

Recently released data describe how students and their families paid for postsecondary education in the 2019–20 academic year. These data are nationally representative of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as state-representative samples of undergraduate students in some states. At the national level, the study includes student survey data and [...]

Representatives from USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and Economic Research Service (ERS) will be available for interviews at the annual National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) Trade Talk at the Westin Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., on Thursday, Nov. 16. [...]

The September 2023 School Pulse Panel (SPP) U.S. Outlying Area release provides information on summer 2023 program offerings and after-school program offerings during the 2023-24 school year, as reported by school staff in public schools in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects global liquid fuels production to increase by 1.0 million barrels per day next year. We expect OPEC+ production cuts will remain in place through the end of 2024 and offset non-OPEC production growth. EIA expects a slight decline in global oil inventories in [...]

Working natural gas in storage in the Lower 48 United States ended the natural gas injection season at 3,776 billion cubic feet (Bcf), according to estimates based on data from our Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report released on November 16. The Lower 48 states will enter the winter heating season, [...]

This InfoBrief presents research and development (R&D) data on microbusinesses, defined as businesses with one to nine domestic employees. In 2021, microbusinesses in the United States reported a total of $8.1 billion in R&D expenditures, of which $7.3 billion (89%) was for domestic costs and $6.1 billion (75%) was performed [...]