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Obama - a major overhaul of US energy policy?

01/01/2009

The US president-elect, Barack Obama, will take office later this month having promised sweeping changes to America's energy policy. These include aggressive regulations on carbon emissions to combat climate change and substantially increased government funding for alternative energy with the aim of creating a new 'green' sector of the American economy. Russel Berman reports from Washington DC.

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EW Jan 2009 - p16-17.pdf

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Journal title: Energy World

Region: North America

Publisher: Energy Institute

Subjects: Protection of ambient air and climate, Policy and Governance, Law and Legal practice, Research and development, Economics, business and commerce, Energy consumption, People and behaviour, Transportation, Transmission and Distribution, Electricity, Primary energy production, Funding, Energy policy, Carbon emissions