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Emerging Energy Industries and Rural Growth

  • by Jason Brown, Jeremy G. Weber and Tim Wojan
  • 11/21/2013
  • ERR-159

Overview

This report builds on findings from recent studies led by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service researchers investigating the economic effects of the emerging energy industries-unconventional natural gas extraction, wind power development, and corn-based ethanol production-in rural areas of the United States in the last decade.

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