Arkansas Law Review
Keywords
Oil and gas, oil and gas development, energy conservation
Abstract
The principal tasks of the chief executive officers of publicly-traded exploration and production companies is to guide senior management and the company through various operational, regulatory, and financial challenges, all the while mitigating risk and providing shareholders with an expected return on their investment. Executives face declining reserves, increased funding and development costs, and some shareholder and public opposition to oil and gas development or hydraulic fracturing based on climate change or negative environmental externalities. Although these oil and gas companies are familiar with technical and financial challenges, public opposition to extractive industries is a newer barrier to entry and development.
This article, adapted from the University of Arkansas School of Law symposium, The Role of Private Environmental Governance (October 27, 2017), reviews, in brief, the need to implement energy efficiency within the domestic demand-side sector and possible strategies to increase energy efficiency while working towards reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Recommended Citation
Monika Ehrman,
Reclaiming Energy Efficiency in an Age of Petroleum Exclusion,
71 Ark. L. Rev.
481
(2018).
https://doi.org/10.54119/alr.kequ4021
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/alr/vol71/iss2/5