Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Harvard Environmental Law Review
Publication Date
1995
ISSN
0147-8257
Page Number
195
Keywords
energy law, environmental law, national energy policy
Disciplines
Energy and Utilities Law | Environmental Law | Law
Abstract
This Article examines the political and procedural history of the EPAct in order to arrive at some general lessons and recommendations regarding congressional formation of energy policy. At least two commentators on the EPAct praise it as the "second generation" of federal energy policy, based in laws that achieve "their mandates more by consensus than coercion." The EPAct's history, however, was far from smooth. Procedural obstacles, such as filibuster, inter-committee conflict, and inter-chamber conflict, led many to declare the EPAct dead on several occasions prior to its passage.
Recommended Citation
Jim Rossi,
Lessons from the Procedural Politics of the "Comprehensive" National Energy Policy Act of 1992, 19 Harvard Environmental Law Review. 195
(1995)
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