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Acting in time on energy policy [electronic resource] / Kelly Sims Gallagher, editor.

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BookPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.Description: xiv, 194 p. : ill., mapSubject(s):

Energy policy -- United States

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Electronic books.

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333.790973 22

LOC classification:

HD9502.U62 A37 2009eb

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Contents:

Acting in time on energy policy / Kelly Sims Gallagher -- Acting in time on climate change / Kelly Sims Gallagher -- Making carbon capture and storage work / Daniel P. Schrag -- Oil security and the transportation sector / Henry Lee -- Policy for energy technology innovation / Laura Diaz Anadon and John P. Holdren -- Electricity market structure and infrastructure / William W. Hogan -- Barriers to acting in time on energy and strategies for overcoming them / Max H. Bazerman.

Summary: "Details the often incomplete, incoherent, and ineffectual U.S. energy policy, tackling specific policy questions: Why are these components of energy policy so important? How would 'acting in time'--not waiting until politics demands action--make a difference? What should our policy actually be? Proposes measures to overcome this counterproductive tendency"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Details the often incomplete, incoherent, and ineffectual U.S. energy policy, tackling specific policy questions: Why are these components of energy policy so important? How would 'acting in time'--not waiting until politics demands action--make a difference? What should our policy actually be? Proposes measures to overcome this counterproductive tendency"--Provided by publisher.

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