Robert R. Nordhaus was the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) first General Counsel, and later served as General Counsel for the Department of Energy during the Clinton Administration. From 1963 to 1974, he was Assistant Counsel in the Legislative Counsel's Office of the US House of Representatives, where he assisted in drafting many of the nation's prominent legislative programs, including the 1970 Clean Air Act. He was also an adjunct faculty member at George Washington Law School and Georgetown University Law Center. Sam Kalen is the Centennial Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming College of Law, as well as the founder and co-director of the Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies, at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of numerous law review articles, and co-author of Basic Practice Series: ESA (Endangered Species Act) (2012) and Natural Resources Law and Policy (2016).
Bob Nordhaus and Sam Kalen provide insights into the making of some of America's most significant energy and environmental policies. Their extensive experience in crafting, implementing, and teaching these policies gives them unique credibility. They offer us solid recommendations as this generation engineers a vital energy transition to address the challenge of climate change. Climate policy stakeholders-journalists, academics, students, advocates and policy-makers-should read this book. Phil Sharp, Former Congressional Representative, Former President of Resources for the Future, and Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs