U.S. Climate Change Policy and the Energy Transition

Harvard FAS

U.S. climate change policy has seen increasingly large pendulum swings, including the adoption and subsequent abandonment of a large number of policy instruments. Different presidential administrations have variously stressed energy security, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting green jobs, environmental justice, and increasing domestic production of oil and gas. In the background, the Supreme Court has altered, substantially, what climate regulations are feasible under existing…