Political Opportunities for Climate Policy : California, New York, and the Federal Government (Hardcover)

1. Introduction and overview; 2. Climate policies in the United States; 3. Theories of climate policy; 4. The structural theory applied to the cases; 5. Causes of climate policies in the fifty states; 6. Air-pollution and energy policy making in California (the 1940s to the 1980s); 7. Climate policy making in California (the 2000s to the present); 8. Energy and climate policy making in New York State; 9. Energy and climate policy making by the federal government; 10. Conclusions - political opportunities for climate policy in the United States.