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Farewell Fossil Fuels: Reviewing America's Energy Policy » Read Now
by Sidney Borowitz. 224 pgs.

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Energy has become America's forgotten crisis. For more than a decade, Americans have become stridently complacent towards the use and especially the availability of energy to fuel most aspects of their economic and recreational lives.
Memories of the oil shocks of the '70s have grown very dim. Long...
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Energy has become America's forgotten crisis. For more than a decade, Americans have become stridently complacent towards the use and especially the availability of energy to fuel most aspects of their economic and recreational lives.
Memories of the oil shocks of the '70s have grown very dim. Long lines at gas stations have been replaced with long lines of people at auto dealers buying gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles. The United States now imports more oil, over 50%, than it did prior to the first "oil crisis" of 1973-74. Yet our reliance on fossil fuels has not been tempered by history.
Fossil fuels -- petroleum, natural gas, and coal -- are finite, and eventually they will run out. They are not renewable, and they carry significant political and environmental complications. But there are alternatives. Sidney Borowitz presents a concise, coherent narrative of the major sources of energy currently in use today throughout the world, and explains, in a cogent, jargon-free manner, how these other energy sources -- nuclear, solar photovoltaics, wind, geothermal, fusion, hydrogen, and ocean currents -- can be developed.
To continue on our present complacent course is to court environmental and political disaster. This prescient book presents a clear-eyed, even-handed explication of solutions that will help us avoid future energy crises.
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The Making of Energy and Telecommunications Policy » Read Now
by Georgia A. Persons. 196 pgs.

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This is a study of how policy ideas, first raised as definitions of specific problems and as solutions for those problems, get translated into formal public policy. Specifically, the work tracks the making of energy and telecommunications policy in Congress.
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Searching for a National Energy Policy, in Issues in Science and Technology » Read Now
by John P. Holdren. 8 pgs.

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...sales of nuclear energy technology to Iran...developments, energy policy is again a matter...in reshaping U.S. energy policy is to boost federal...Science and Public...
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Energy Surprises for the 21st Century, in Journal of International Affairs » Read Now
by Amory Lovins, Chris Lotspeich. 18 pgs.

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...simple, high-leverage reforms in public policy rewarded least-cost results, such...utilities for minimizing the cost of energy services rather the price of...
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Energizing the Energy Policy Process: The Impact of Evaluation » Read Now
by Roberta W. Walsh, John G. Heilman. 246 pgs.

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Explores the connection between the design of energy policy and the evaluation of policy, and the billion-dollar impact on public and private expenditures.
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We Still Have an Energy Crisis, in World and I » Read Now
by Barry Worthington. 6 pgs.

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...ensuring stable energy markets, protecting U.S. foreign policy and environmental...overwhelming majority of policy recommendations...the presidents energy policy plan...
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Meeting the U.S. Energy Challenge, in Presidents & Prime Ministers » Read Now
by Spencer Abraham. 2 pgs.

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...Meeting the U.S. Energy Challenge...Administration employed a policy of taxing demand...we have an energy policy and a regulatory...the Department of Energy estimates that...
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Energy Policy from Nixon to Clinton: From Grand Provider to Market Facilitator, in Environmental Law » Read Now
by Alan S. Miller. 18 pgs.

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...I. A Brief History of U.S. Energy Policy A. 1973 to 1980 While the federal...In summary, this period of U.S. energy policy was marked by a willingness to...about the likely...
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Renewable Energy Sources for Development, in Environmental Law » Read Now
by Richard L. Ottinger, Rebecca Williams. 38 pgs.

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...good practice" commercial energy codes, as defined by the...states. (85) The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (86) requires...a good discussion of the policy considerations...
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Revamping and Repowering, in Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy » Read Now
by Richard F. Hirsh. 7 pgs.

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...Generating Units." Energy Systems and Policy 4 (1980). p. 43. (5.) For more details...Regulatory Policies Act," Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy...
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Running on Empty: Toward a New Energy Policy, in The American Enterprise » Read Now
by Diana Furchtgott-Roth. 2 pgs.

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...mistakes, we can implement an energy policy that focuses on developing our resources...Sources. Oil supplies 40 percent of U.S. energy. Many federal properties...
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The Electricity System at the Crossroads--Policy Choices and Pitfalls, in Economic Perspectives » Read Now
by Richard Mattoon. 17 pgs.

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...the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT...1.) This policy preference favoring...S. Department of Energy, Energy Information...S. Department of Energy, Federal...
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E-vision 2002: Shaping Our Energy Future: Shaping Our Future by Reducing Energy Intensity in the U.S. Economy » Read Now
by David Ortiz, Jerry Sollinger. 59 pgs.

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Includes the proceedings of the May 2002 e-Vision 2002 Conference, a gathering of the nation's leading energy experts to discuss ways to reduce U.S. economic energy intensity.
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Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies » Read Now
by David E. Nye. 338 pgs.

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...How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a
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Energy, the Environment, and Public Policy: Issues for the 1990s » Read Now
by David L. McKee. 236 pgs.

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With contributions by experts in economics, geography, marketing, agriculture, business, international affairs, and more, this book addresses the extent and gravity of the current environmental situation. From toxic industrial and medical waste to acid rain and radioactive waste, from the Alaskan...
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With contributions by experts in economics, geography, marketing, agriculture, business, international affairs, and more, this book addresses the extent and gravity of the current environmental situation. From toxic industrial and medical waste to acid rain and radioactive waste, from the Alaskan oil spill to the continuing destruction of the rain forests, McKee's focus is on economic welfare. He points out that public and private issues regarding environmental problems have been limited to crisis response. The contributions he has chosen for this volume clarify key issues for formulating policy options toward long-range economic welfare.
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The Political Economy of World Energy: A Twentieth-Century Perspective » Read Now
by John G. Clark. 397 pgs.

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...ISBN 0-8078-4306-7 pbk. 1. Energy policy--History-- 20th century. 2. Energy...1960-73 186 Energy policy common denominators 186...Soviet bloc 207 Energy policy confusion in...