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Removing the baseline

Nature Climate Change volume 1, pages 430–432 (2011)Cite this article

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Budget cuts earlier this year to the US agency that collects and analyses energy data are worrying industry experts. Many fear that businesses and policymakers won't have vital information to make decisions regarding infrastructure, from building design to grid deployment.

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Figure 1: After an initial burst of funding when the US Energy Information Administration was created in 1978, its budget has, in inflation-adjusted dollars, been generally flat or declining.

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Inman, M. Removing the baseline. Nature Clim Change 1, 430–432 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1296

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