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The wide range of environmental consequences associated with our current energy system necessitates solutions to reduce emissions, water quality impacts, and habitat destruction while also providing reliable, safe, and cost-effective energy. U. S. climate change policy gridlock has prevented the type of top-down legislation needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and encourage wide-scale development of fossil fuel alternatives. Despite a lack of climate change legislation, renewable energy and energy efficiency costs have decreased to a point that these technologies are now not only environmentally sustainable but also economically cost-effective (due in part to federal renewable energy tax incentives and state-based renewable energy policies).
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Klein, S.J.W., Coffey, S. (2018). United States Community Energy. In: Holstenkamp, L., Radtke, J. (eds) Handbuch Energiewende und Partizipation. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-09416-4_56
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