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The Trojan Horse Of Electric Power Transmission Line Siting Authority, Jim Rossi
The Trojan Horse Of Electric Power Transmission Line Siting Authority, Jim Rossi
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Reform proposals pending in the U.S. Congress would increase federal and regional power to preempt states in siting transmission lines on order to allow the development of a high-votage transmission grid for renewable resources. This Article recognizes the inadequacy of existing state siting authority over transmission, but takes a skeptical approach to expanding federal siting jurisdiction as a solution to the problem and argues that the over-attention to transmission line siting authority is a bit of a Trojan horse in the climate change debate. Specifically, because it ignores the more difficult issues of how the costs and benefits of transmission …
The Energy Crisis: The Need For Antitrust Action And Federal Regulation, P. Scott Dye, Samuel H. Gillespie, Iii, Steven P. Howard, Franklin M. Tatum
The Energy Crisis: The Need For Antitrust Action And Federal Regulation, P. Scott Dye, Samuel H. Gillespie, Iii, Steven P. Howard, Franklin M. Tatum
Vanderbilt Law Review
The energy industry faces a crisis--an energy shortage that may not be alleviated for a number of years. Unlike the transitory regional supply shortages of the past, the present crisis is far more pervasive,threatening the industrial and economic progress of the nation. Authorities have predicted that this energy gap, spurred on by the convergence of a variety of circumstances affecting the delicate balance of supply and demand, will have collateral consequences that stagger the imagination, including sharp buyer competition for scarce fuel supplies and spiraling consumer prices for basic fuel services. The very existence of the crisis raises many grave …