Energy's New Game Plan

摘要

In January 2001, early in George W. Bush's first administration, Vice President Dick Cheney convened a blue-ribbon energy task force to formulate a U.S. energy policy. Public-interest groups excluded from the process attacked the administration's closed-door approach. When the National Energy Policy appeared four months later, critics seized upon a perceived Big Oil and coal bias and decried a lack of emphasis on climate change.