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The Air Force is the largest user of fuel energy in the federal government. The Air Force uses 10% of the nation's aviation fuel. (JP-8 accounts for nearly 90% of its fuels.) This fuel usage breaks down as such: 82% jet fuel, 16% facility management and 2% ground vehicle/equipment. [4]
The official tally from the Office of Personnel Management is a smidge lower, at about 2.87 million, including postal workers. In fact, the number of full-time federal workers has been relatively ...
The now-dead bipartisan agreement would have kept the federal government operating through March 14, as well as provided nearly $100 billion in disaster aid and economic relief for farmers in ...
The following table summarizes the electrical energy generated by fuel source for the United States grid in 2021. Figures account for generation losses, but not transmission losses. Fission had the highest capacity factor, while petroleum had the lowest. The US grid first connected East and West in 1967. [81]
The federal government has closed 21 times since 1977, for a total of 162 days and an average of nearly eight days per shutdown. Here is what you need to know about how a government shutdown could ...
Executive Order 13514 required the Federal agencies to measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from Federal operations, improve energy efficiency, increase use of renewable energy, reduce water consumption, and purchase energy efficient and environmentally preferable goods and materials. The aggregate Federal government greenhouse ...
Per a nearly 3,000-page August 2024 report from the Federal Office of Management and Budget, roughly half of federal workers are in fully in-person roles, like healthcare and food-supply ...
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is an American federal program that requires transportation fuel sold in the United States to contain a minimum volume of renewable fuels. It originated with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and was expanded and extended by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.