Adapting Energy and Environmental Policy for Climate Change
11 Pages Posted: 23 Oct 2012
Date Written: December 1, 2010
Abstract
The United States has long suffered from a schizophrenia about energy policy. The importance of one of the factors in energy policy, the environment, has never been formally defined. Climate change adds another distinct layer to this complexity, as neither energy policies nor environmental policies were formulated with climate change in mind, and in fact, may be based on conflicting asumptions. This article explores how current environmental and energy policy may be at odds with climate change concerns, and then explains how we might discover policy guides and implement those.
Keywords: climate change, energy, environment, energy law, energy policy, environmental law
JEL Classification: D61, D62, D63, D78, D81, H10, H41, I18, K23, K32, L90, Q4, Q20, Q30, Q40, Q48
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