What Is Stopping the Renewable Energy Transformation and What Can the US Government Do?
The article identifies the hindrances, including the evolution of technology, to the implementation of a policy gearing towards the transition to a renewable energy environment in the U.S. as of September 2015. The barriers including advancing technology, infrastructure, and complex political nature...
| Published in: | Social Research Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 689 - 711 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Fall2015
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