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Climate Change, Environment, and Sustainability

Energy and Environmental Policy: Grand Bargain or a Guerilla War on the Piece Parts?

With a change in control of the U.S. House of Representatives, an active EPA pushing forward on new and tighter regulation that will significantly impact power generators, and a White House seeking rapprochement with the business community, federal energy and environmental policy can take a number of different paths. We handicap the potential outcomes. Read more below.

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