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The construction of new power plants in the United States carries the risk of significantly contributing to global climate change. After concluding that the current federal regulatory response to climate change risks from power plants is inadequate, this Article examines three potential roles...
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An appropriately conceived and well-designed border climate adjustment scheme, as a policy mechanism potentially utilizable by many States party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, may lead to desirable consequences for the development of comprehensive global greenhouse...
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Congress is likely to consider domestic climate change legislation during 2009, with a cap-and-trade system continuing to draw support from the Obama Administration and many leaders in Congress. Yet cap-and-trade regulations would take years for EPA to develop and implement, the desired price...
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constructed will have enormous impacts on the economy and the ultimate stabilization of the world's climate. While interest groups …
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In 2009, the promise of a comprehensive federal cap and trade bill to address climate change fell apart. At least in part, this was due to the fears that exotic 'carbon' financial instruments might cause more financial crises. As California launches it economy wide carbon trading system, and...
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other pre-existing statutory authority. Much of this new regulation was facilitated – if not mandated – by the Supreme Court … impose substantial regulatory costs for minimal environmental gain. Extensive GHG regulation will not produce much actual …
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Economics has played an increasingly important role in shaping policy, in the United States and elsewhere. This chapter reviews some of the dimensions of the economic approach to analyzing, understanding, and developing solutions to the problem of climate change. We then turn to the issue of...
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Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and subsequent efforts to implement new regulations. The time to start progressing up the …
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The vast majority of climate change impacts will accrue on foreign soil, to people who have yet to be born. How should domestic policymakers think about these impacts, and what practices are already in place to account for the foreign impacts of domestic climate change policy? This Article...
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