Hi everyone,
On Thursday we have our next Baker School Energy and Environment Forum. Our discussion on Thursday will focus on policies that regulate fracking. I wanted to ask if you would please share the announcement below with faculty, staff and students in your respective units, who might be interested.
Thank you.
Paul Armsworth
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Join us for the next Baker School Energy and Environment Forum on Thursday, Oct. 5 at 1 p.m. in the Baker School’s Toyota Auditorium. Virtual participation is also available at https://tiny.utk.edu/Weible_lecture. This event is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Science, the Department of Political Science, and the Baker School.
Dr. Chris Weible will give a 45-minute presentation on Colorado’s varying policy responses to regulate the emerging practice of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in oil and gas development, analyzing the patterns of laws passed by the Colorado state legislature between 2007 and 2020.
Title of the talk: Policy Change in Oil and Gas Development in Colorado: Patterns and Explanations
Abstract:
One of the most significant innovations in U.S. energy policy, hydraulic fracturing has led to one of the biggest booms in natural gas production. However, its rapid expansion has created intense political conflicts about whether and how to regulate the industry. Dr. Chris Weible, professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs, will discuss the emergence of hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas development and how Colorado responded with a flurry of laws. Focusing on laws passed by the state legislature from 2007 to 2020, he will explore the distributional patterns of these policy changes and explain the emergence of policy adoptions as Colorado wrestled with adapting its governance strategies to the state’s changing energy landscape.
Bio:
Chris Weible is a professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center
for Policy and Democracy (CPD) and Co-Editor of Policy & Politics. His current research includes studying policy conflicts in energy issues, the role of emotions in public discourse, the institutional configurations of public policies, and patterns
of advocacy coalitions and policy change. He has published more than one hundred articles and book chapters. Professor Weible earned his PhD in Ecology from the University of California Davis and a Master of Public Administration from University of Washington.
He has an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy and a Visiting Professor position at Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden.
About the Forum:
The Energy and Environment Forum, hosted by the Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy (CETEP) at the Baker School, is an opportunity for academics to share their research findings with a broad set of academics, researchers, and students from outside their own discipline but who have a common interest in environment and energy issues. For more information, visit the CETEP website at https://baker.utk.edu/research-centers/cetep/events/.
Please join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion and presentation.
Paul Armsworth, College of Arts and Sciences
Charles Sims, Haslam College of Business
Becky Jacobs, College of Law
Charlie Kwit, Herbert College of Agriculture