U.S. Energy and Climate Change Policy: What to Expect in 2009

The November elections dramatically reshaped Washington’s political landscape, especially in the area of energy and climate change policy. President-elect Barack Obama made clean energy and climate change solutions a central theme of his campaign, and the leaders of more robust Democratic majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives are pursuing similar agendas. Thus, one might guess that Federal legislation on greenhouse gas regulation and renewable energy requirements, for instance, is just around the corner.  While the clean energy agenda certainly received a boost in the elections, however, political challenges remain, and other serious problems facing the Nation will compete for attention in the early days and months of the new Administration and Congress.

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Reprinted with permission from Bloomberg Law Reports.