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Natural Gas Deregulation in the US : 1970-2000
Isser, Steve N. - 2018
This paper traces the process of deregulation in the US natural gas market in the 1970s and 1980s and the restructuring … of the gas market in the 1990s. I review the politics behind deregulation and the actions of the FPC and FERC to first … regulate the market and then implement the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978. The interplay between the Courts and the regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918519
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United States Establishes Fund for Abandoned Seafarers
Allen, Craig H. - 2015
In the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014, the U.S. Congress established a US$5 million fund to pay "necessary support" of a seafarer who is physically present in the U.S. after having been abandoned. Such support may include repatriation expenses. This article examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030959
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the United States
Suppanz, Hannes; Wise, Michael; Kiley, Michael - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
Regulatory reform efforts in a broad range of industries have resulted in increased importance of competitive forces as a means to allocate resources and improve economic efficiency. A number of indicators suggest that such forces have been stronger in the United States than in most other OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045769
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The Importance of Being Factual : The U.S., China, and the Future of the Kyoto Protocol
Anand, Aarthi - 2014
By most accounts, the December 2012 Doha Round negotiations achieved little. The continued failure of member governments to reach consensus increases the risk of a catastrophic rise in global emissions. The current impasse is due in no small measure to the expressed concern of the United States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051093
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the United States
Suppanz, Hannes - 2004
Regulatory reform efforts in a broad range of industries have resulted in increased importance of competitive forces as a means to allocate resources and improve economic efficiency. A number of indicators suggest that such forces have been stronger in the United States than in most other OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444089
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The Political Economy of Deregulation in the U.S. Gas Distribution Market
Hlasny, Vladimir - 2015
Causes and consequences of deregulation and restructuring in utility markets in US states continue to draw heated debate. It is unclear why different utilities choose retail restructuring, price caps or sliding-scale plans. Various economic and political reasons lend themselves to explaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187186
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Revised U.S. Deep Seabed Mining Policy Reflects UNCLOS and Other International Environmental Law Obligations
Kogan, Lawrence A. - 2013
This article questions the extent to which U.S. continental shelf seabed mining policy, as reflected in the U.S. administration's recently issued five-year OCS development plan and accompanying agency regulations, is influenced by international environmental law, especially the deep seabed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086850
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Do Electricity Markets Promote Decarbonization? Evidence From State Level Data in the United States
Kiesling, L. Lynne; Rhodes, Joshua; Zyontz, Samantha - 2023
in the period up to 2012, largely but not entirely due to natural gas substitution for other fossil fuel generation. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347295
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A comparison between shale gas in China and unconventional fuel development in the United States : health, water and environmental risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013
China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory … produce commercial shale gas will have a crucial impact on the regional gas market and on China's energy mix, as Beijing … level of resource autonomy. The development of the unconventional natural gas extractive industry will also endow China with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010203405
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Overcoming data limitations in nonparametric benchmarking : applying PCA-DEA to natural gas transmission
Nieswand, Maria; Cullmann, Astrid; Neumann, Anne - 2009
measurement to US natural gas transmission companies in 2007. This allows us to reduce dimensions of the optimization problem … regulation ; natural gas transmission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003915871