Bibliography Category: Energy and Environmental Issues

Wise, Charles R. and Rosemary O’Leary. 1997. Intergovernmental Relations and Federalism in Environmental Management and Policy: The Role of the Courts. Public Administration Review Vol. 57, no. 2: 150-159. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/977063?uid=3739744&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101613563447 (accessed 3 January 2013). This article examines the role of the federal courts on federalism and environmental policy. The authors find that the courts are sending […]

Wilson, Todd M., et al. Interagency Strategy for the Pacific Northwest Natural Areas Network. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 2009. http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/LPS117419/LPS117419/www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr798.pdf (accessed 17 August 2011). This strategy identifies visions, goals, and actions that can help transform this regional collection of natural areas into a network that has the resiliency to meet a […]

White House, The. Council on Environmental Quality. Interim Report of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2009. http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/09_17_09_Interim_Report_of_Task_Force_FINAL2.pdf (accessed 8 August 2011). This interim report has been coordinated with U.S. national security and foreign policy interests and reflects a careful balancing of stewardship with these long-standing and well-established interests. This […]

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-12-79, Green Building: Federal Initiatives for the Nonfederal Sector Could Benefit from More Interagency Collaboration. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2011. http://www.gao.gov/assets/590/586022.pdf (accessed 6 December 2012). This report identifies current initiatives by federal agencies to foster green building in the nonfederal sector, and determines what is known about the results of these […]

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-11-876T, Climate Change Adaptation: Aligning Funding with Strategic Priorities. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2011. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11876t.pdf (accessed 10 August 2011). This testimony addresses the actions federal, state, and local authorities are taking to adapt to climate change, as well as the challenges that federal, state, and local officials face in their […]

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-11-319, Federal Oil and Gas: Interagency Committee Needs to Better Coordinate Research on Oil Pollution Prevention and Response. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2011. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11319.pdf (accessed 10 August 2011). This report assesses the extent to which the interagency committee has facilitated the coordination of federal agencies’ oil pollution research. As part […]

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Interagency Agreements to Use Other Agencies’ Contracts Need Additional Oversight. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2007. http://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=472007 (accessed 27 September 2011). This report examines the interagency contracting by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The report sought to determine whether the EPA effectively follows interagency contracting requirements and whether opportunities exist […]

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S. Department of the Army. Memorandum of Understanding for Hydropower. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, 2010. http://www.usbr.gov/power/SignedHydropowerMOU.pdf  (accessed 24 April 2012). This document outlines a memorandum of agreement to develop clean, reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable hydropower.

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Department of Energy. Memorandum of Understanding for Hydropower: Two Year Progress Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, 2012. http://www.usbr.gov/power/hydropower-mou/HydropowerMOU.pdf (accessed 24 April 2012). This document reviews the progress of a memorandum of agreement to develop clean, reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable hydropower. […]

Thomas, Craig W. Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. This book explores the reasons for the success and failure of interagency cooperation, focusing on several case studies of efforts to preserve biodiversity in California. The book examines why public officials tried to cooperate and the obstacles they […]