The role of climate change litigation in establishing the scale of energy regulation

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 775-782

  Osofsky, Hari M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Energy; Federalism; Law and geography; Litigation; Scale

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; POWER PLANT; SUSTAINABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958703035     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.567940     Document Type: Article

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