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The Trump Effect On Power Plant Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Thomas O. Mcgarity
The Trump Effect On Power Plant Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Thomas O. Mcgarity
San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law
This Article will probe the legal, technological and economic underpinnings the Trump Administration initiatives and the viewpoint that their initiatives will have little impact on CO2 emissions from power plants. Part II will highlight the Trump Administration’s views on the extent to which human activities are the leading contributing factor. Part III will describe the radical change in direction that that the Trump Administration is taking with respect to regulations designed to reduce GHG emissions from power plants. Part IV will offer predictions about the likely effect of the Trump Administration’s rollbacks on the electric power and coal industries, on …
From Top-Down To Bottom-Up Climate Policy: New Challenges In Carbon Market Design, Jonas Monast
From Top-Down To Bottom-Up Climate Policy: New Challenges In Carbon Market Design, Jonas Monast
San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law
This Article explores the shift from top-down to bottom-up approaches to carbon market design, focusing on three strategies that have emerged since 2009: the California Cap-and-Trade Program, the Clean Power Plan, and the UNFCCC process. The Article then examines the prospects for broad multilateral markets to emerge under a bottom-up approach and identifies three pathways to streamline market design choices: a coordinated approach; a dominant actor approach; and a common elements approach.
Subnational Discretion Mediating New Climate Regulatory Challenges, Steven Ferrey
Subnational Discretion Mediating New Climate Regulatory Challenges, Steven Ferrey
San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law
Subnational units of government are critical actors in the U.S. federalist scheme of regulation. It was the original 13 colonies/states which were the core of the American experiment, and banded together as a nation for common defense and commerce after fighting for independence from the United Kingdom. The Constitution vested in the new federal government the treaty and war powers, as well as powers over interstate commerce.