UID:
almafu_9960118803502883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781108334457
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1108334458
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9781108334099
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1108334091
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9781108539388
,
1108539386
Content:
Conversations about energy law and policy are paramount, undergoing new scrutiny and characterizations. Energy Follies: Missteps, Fiascos, and Successes of America's Energy Policy explores how a century of energy policies, rather than solving our energy problems, often made them worse; how Congress and other federal agencies grappled with remedying seemingly myopic past decisions. Sam Kalen and Robert R. Nordhaus investigate how misguided or naïve energy policy decisions caused or contributed to past energy crises, and how it took years to unwind their effects. This work recounts the decades-long struggles to move to market supply and pricing policies for oil and natural gas in order to make competition work in the electric power industry and to tame emissions from the coal fleet left to us by the 1970s coal policies. These historic policies continue to present struggles, and this book reflects on how future challenges ought to learn from our past mistakes.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Sep 2018).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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's 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 -- Bibliographic Note -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108439206
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1108439209
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108423977
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1108423973
Language:
English
