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The Dominant Model Of United States Energy Policy, Joseph P. Tomain

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Conventional wisdom has it that the United States has no coherent and comprehensive national energy policy.! This notion persists despite the fact that Congress requires the President to submit to it, biannually, a national energy plan.2 Like all catechisms, this belief is partially true and partially false, depending upon one's perspective. The better statement about U.S. energy policy is that it is kaleidoscopic. If one concentrates on one portion of a kaleidoscope, shapes, colors and images appear chaotic. So, too, does energy policy if one examines only one segment of the policymaking process, as does an analyst who concentrates on …

Getting The Coal Leasing Program Back On Track: The Linowes Commission And Beyond, Sandra L. Blackstone

Public Lands Mineral Leasing: Issues and Directions (Summer Conference, June 10-11)

37 pages.

Contains 2 pages of references.

State Taxation Of Energy Resources: Are Consuming States Getting Burned?, Nancy E. Shurtz

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the severe energy shortage it caused in the United States prompted federal authorities to formulate a national energy policy that would encourage exploitation of domestic energy resources. As the federal government has implemented this energy policy, states rich in natural resources have begun to tax the energy mining and production operations within their borders.

In this Article Professor Shurtz discusses the constitutional limits of this taxation and examines how the revenues from these taxes alter the balance of wealth between energy-producing and energy-consuming states. Professor Shurtz concludes that revisions in revenue sharing formulae, …

Powerline: The First Battle Of America's Energy War, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War by Barry M. Casper and Paul David Wellstone

Energy: The Next Twenty Years, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Energy: The Next Twenty Years by A Study Group Sponsored by the Ford Foundation Administered by Resources for the Future

The Energy Crisis: A Few Perspectives, Alfred C. Aman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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