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This report, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2007, was prepared under the general direction of John Conti, Director of the Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting, and Glen E. Sweetnam, Director, International, Economic, and Greenhouse Gases Division, Energy Information Administration. General questions concerning the content of this report may be directed to the National Energy Information Center at 202/586-8800. 

Specific technical information concerning the content of the report may be obtained from Perry Lindstrom  at 202/586-0934 (e-mail, perry.lindstrom@eia.doe.gov). Without the assistance of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), this report would not have been possible. In particular we would like to thank Keith Forbes, Kristin Igusky, Sarah Litke, Makely Lyon, Michael Mondshine, and Richard Richards. We also wish to acknowledge the work done by our summer interns, Rebecca Zarin-Pass (EIA) and Erin Beddingfield (SAIC), and to offer belated thanks to last year’s summer intern, Shiao-Ke Chin-Lee, for his help on this report and other projects.

Specific questions about the report should be referred to the following analysts:

For this report, activity data on coal and natural gas consumption and electricity sales and losses by sector were obtained from the October 2008 Monthly Energy Review (MER). Petroleum detail is now also available in published tables within the MER. Also, while generally in agreement with the MER, some data revisions were obtained from the Electric Power Annual that are not reflected in the October MER. 

In keeping with current international practice, this report presents data on greenhouse gas emissions in million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent. The data can be converted to carbon equivalent units by multiplying by 12/44.