Wolters Kluwer Energy Law in the United States of America

Product Description Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in the United States of America. The book describes the administrative organization, regulatory framework, and relevant case law pertaining to the development, application, and use of such forms of energy as electricity, gas, petroleum, and coal, with attention as needed to the pervasive legal effects of competition law, environmental law, and tax law. A general introduction covers the geography of energy resources, sources and basic principles of energy law, and the relevant governmental institutions. Then follows a detailed description of specific legislation and regulation affecting such factors as documentation, undertakings, facilities, storage, pricing, procurement and sales, transportation, transmission, distribution, and supply of each form of energy. Case law, intergovernmental cooperation agreements, and interactions with environmental, tax, and competition law are explained. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for energy sector policymakers and energy firm counsel handling cases affecting the United States of America. It will also be welcomed by researchers and academics for its contribution to the study of a complex field that today stands at the foreground of comparative law. About the Author Lincoln L. Davies is the James I. Farr Professor of Law, Presidential Scholar, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. His research focuses on energy law and policy, as well as on administrative law, environmental law, water law, and law, religion and the environment. Professor Davies is co-author of one of the two leading energy law textbooks in the United States, ENERGY LAW AND POLICY (West Academic, 2014), with Alexandra Klass, Hari Osofsky, Joseph Tomain, and Elizabeth Wilson. He has written extensively on energy law and policy, and in particular on renewables and alternative energy, nuclear power, and regulatory and technology innovation. His articles include Feed-in Tariffs in Turmoil, 116 WEST VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 100 (2014) (with Kirsten Allen); Power Forward: The Argument for a National RPS, 42 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 1339 (2010); Alternative Energy and the Energy-Environment Disconnect, 46 IDAHO LAW REVIEW 473 (2010); Understanding Barriers to Commercial-Scale Carbon Capture and Sequestration in the United States: An Empirical Assessment, 59 ENERGY POLICY 745 (2013) (with Kirsten Uchitel and John Ruple); Beyond Fukushima: Disasters, Nuclear Energy, and Energy Law, 2011 B.Y.U. LAW REVIEW 1937; and Standing, On Appeal, 2010 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 957 (with Amy J. Wildermuth). In 2012, Professor Davies was awarded the McCloy Fellowship in Environmental Policy to conduct a comparative study of renewable energy law in the United States and Germany. He has written several reports on energy issues for the U.S. Department of Energy and the Korea Legislation Research Institute and is the former Chair of the Energy and Infrastructure Siting Committee for the American Bar Association. Joseph P. Tomain is Dean Emeritus and the Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. His teaching and research interests focus in the areas of energy law, regulatory policy, contracts, and law and the humanities. Before returning to the faculty in 2004, he had previously served the College of Law as Dean for 15 years. Dean Tomain has written extensively in the energy law field. His energy-related publications include Clean Energy Politics: The Democratization of Energy (forthcoming Cambridge University Press), Ending Dirty Energy Policy: Prelude to Climate Change (2011 Cambridge University Press), Energy Law in