Energy Follies - Missteps, Fiascos, and Successes of America''s Energy Policy

examines principal energy policy decisions and their lingering effects, by recounting the historical context surrounding the interplay of law, markets, and technology.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Federal energy regulation begins flowing; 3. The Supreme Court creates a gap; 4. The gap continues: changing electricity markets; 5. Natural gas' tortured road from regulation to decontrol; 6. Oil shocks, gas lines, and energy policy; 7. Carter crowns coal king: coal's war on people; 8. Energy eclipsing air; 9. Oil, cars and climate; 10. Embedded judgments and energy resilient transitions.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Robert R. Nordhaus was the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) first General Counsel, and later served as General Counsel for the Department of Energy during the Clinton Administration. From 1963 to 1974, he was Assistant Counsel in the Legislative Counsel's Office of the US House of Representatives, where he assisted in drafting many of the nation's prominent legislative programs, including the 1970 Clean Air Act. He was also an adjunct faculty member at George Washington Law School and Georgetown University Law Center.Sam Kalen is the Centennial Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming College of Law, as well as the founder and co-director of the Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies, at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of numerous law review articles, and co-author of Basic Practice Series: ESA (Endangered Species Act) (2012) and Natural Resources Law and Policy (2016).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sam Kalen, Sam (University of Wyoming) Kalen, Kalen Sam, Esq. Robert R. Nordhaus, Robert R. Nordhaus, Robert R. Kalen Nordhaus
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781108439206
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43920-6
• Seiten: 254
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht; USA, LAW / General, Environmental Economics, United States of America, USA, Energy resources, Energy industries and utilities, Coal & Solid Fuel Industries, Energy & natural resources law, Energy and natural resources law