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Energy Law & Policy-Carbon Constrained World

Professor(s)

Semester

2020 Summer Online - Term 1

About This Class

Examines key issues in American energy policy and searches for ways to ease the strains which that policy puts upon environmental sustainability. The course reviews fundamental facts about our energy demands and sample regulatory orders and legal writings that address many of those elements from the perspective of a legal review. Background readings will include ethical issues of social justice in siting projects and meeting or limiting energy demand, the statutory schemes underlying traditional regulation, and an introduction to wholesale electric markets.

Class Code

ENV5226E1

Subject

Environmental Law