Not One Without the Other: The Challenge of Integrating U.S. Environment, Energy, Climate, and Economic Policy
Abstract
Energy use is intertwined with environmental harms, climate, and economic development. However, the United States has failed to balance these interests together to make effective policy that can address each of these issues. The need for such integrative policy has become more and more obvious over time and with the added challenges of climate change. This essay reviews the historic challenge of integrating these policies, and by reviewing the policy core of prior statutes and policy debates, identifies principles which could guide a legislative body in attempting to integrate these issues successfully. The essay also notes the politicization of these issues and discusses possible paths forward from this gridlock.
Keywords
integrated policy, energy policy, environmental policy, environment, energy, climate, climate change, climate change policy, economic development, legislation
Publication Date
2014
Document Type
Article
Publication Information
44 Environmental Law 1079 (2014)
Repository Citation
Flatt, Victor B. and Payne, Heather, "Not One Without the Other: The Challenge of Integrating U.S. Environment, Energy, Climate, and Economic Policy" (2014). Faculty Publications. 2258.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/2258
