Bringing Everyone, Including the Poor, in Energy Law and Policy
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Uma Outka’s article, Energy Law and the Low-Income Household (forthcoming in Environmental Law), convincingly argues that the affordability challenges related to energy facing poor households should not be treated as external to the field of energy law. As Professor Outka shows, it is tempting to treat the problems faced by low-income households—high energy cost burdens, poor insulation, and vulnerability to service cutoffs—as exogenous to energy law. By sidelining such concerns as matters of poverty law, those within the energy sector, as well as academics working within energy law, can ignore the precariousness of low-income households and neglect the need for innovation and support within the field.
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Lex Jotwell
Repository Citation
Ezra Rosser,
Bringing Everyone, Including the Poor, in Energy Law and Policy,
Lex Jotwell
(2025).
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https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_media/653