Can we regulate our way to energy efficiency? Product standards as climate policy

Vanderbilt Law Review

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1631-1678

  Sachs, Noah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

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