AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Congress

AAAS Policy Brief: Coal-to-Liquid Technology

• "Back to the Future for Coal"-ScienceNOW Daily News (13 January 2006)
  
• "Liquid Fuels from Coal: From R & D to an Industry"-Science (10 February 1978)
  
• "Clean Fuels from Coal Gasification"-Science (19 April 1974)
  
• "Energy Independence"-Science (23 November 1973)
  
• "Liquid Fuel from Coal"-Science (16 September 1927)
  

Links

• Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental Impacts The National Academies May 20, 2009
• "The Future of Coal," an MIT interdisciplinary study
  
• "Liquid Fuels from U.S. Coal" from the National Mining Association
  
• "Coal and Liquid Fuels" a slide presentation from Stanford University's Global Climate and Energy Project
  
• Coal-to-Liquids Coalition
  
• Fischer-Tropsch Archive
  
• "Coal Conversion" from EPA's AP 42
• "Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs," RAND Technical Report sponsored by the National Commission on Energy Policy, 2008 (or see Research Brief)
• Affordable, Low-Carbon Diesel Fuel from Domestic Coal and Biomass,” Dept. of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory Report, January 2009
• "Fischer-Tropsch Fuels from Coal, Natural Gas, and Biomass: Background and Policy," Congressional Research Service report, March 27, 2008

From the First Session of the 110th Congress

• American Fuels Act of 2007(S.133)
  
• Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Energy Act of 2007 (S.154)
  
• Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007 (S.155)
  
• Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007 (H.R. 370)
  
• Investment in Energy Independence Act of 2006 (H.R. 683)
  
• Program for Real Energy Security Act (H.R.1300)
  

Updated April 10, 2009