Book contents
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- 2 The Endangerment Game
- 3 The Precautionary Principle
- 4 The EPA’s Newfound Role in Regulating Automobile Mileage
- 5 “It Will Bankrupt You” – Using Environmental Regulations to End the Mining and Use of Coal in America
- 6 The Clean Power Plan, the Rule of Law, and the EPA’s Takeover of State and Regional Electricity Systems
- 7 Renewable Power and the Reliability and Cost of Electricity
- 8 Renewable Power Subsidies and Mandates
- 9 Spinning the Tort Liability Roulette Wheel
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- References
- Index
2 - The Endangerment Game
from Part I - The Costs of Precautionary Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2021
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- 2 The Endangerment Game
- 3 The Precautionary Principle
- 4 The EPA’s Newfound Role in Regulating Automobile Mileage
- 5 “It Will Bankrupt You” – Using Environmental Regulations to End the Mining and Use of Coal in America
- 6 The Clean Power Plan, the Rule of Law, and the EPA’s Takeover of State and Regional Electricity Systems
- 7 Renewable Power and the Reliability and Cost of Electricity
- 8 Renewable Power Subsidies and Mandates
- 9 Spinning the Tort Liability Roulette Wheel
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- References
- Index
Summary
As I explain shortly, the United States Congress has never enacted climate change legislation. After Congress failed to do so yet again in 2009, the Obama administration EPA began to issue regulations imposing GHG emission limits. But regulations implement statutes passed by Congress, and as Congress had repeatedly failed to pass legislation imposing limits on GHG emissions, one might well wonder how the EPA found the legal authority to promulgate any regulations limiting GHG emissions.
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- Climate RationalityFrom Bias to Balance, pp. 19 - 52Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021