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This report, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008, 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.

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 Erin Beddingfield, Keith Forbes, Kristin Igusky, Makely Lyon, Michael Mondshine, and Richard Richards. We also wish to acknowledge the work done by our summer intern, Christine Donnelly (EIA).

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 November 2009 Monthly Energy Review (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.