Energy Policy Assignment

Energy Policy Assignment

Env.S 001

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Energy Policy Assignment,

The energy policy choices made by state and federal government authorities have many impacts. These include air quality (pollution), global climate change, the economy, foreign aid, military presence in other countries, your life, the lives of others, jobs, and determines current and future opportunities.

We’ve discussed many issues in this course and while good science is critical, politics is the driving force that allows solutions to flounder or to be developed and implemented. While some solutions are based more in myth than fact; your job is analyze energy policy in a factual essay and come to well- reasoned recommendations on what a U.S. energy policy should be. This is your opportunity learn the issue and to prepare yourself to answer questions in the final exam.

Energy Policy Assignment

In your paper, discuss energy sources (non-renewables, renewables) and practices (efficiency) and how they impact air pollution, acid deposition, global climate change, the economy, etc., and whether they move us away or towards sustainability. While opinions are important and valuable, this paper is to be factual—provide statistics to support your conclusion and recommendation(s).

You need only use the text book and course lectures but may use other sources.

Open your essay with an overview
(about 1 paragraph): explain the issue (what the essay is about—U.S. energy policy), the problems

with current energy sources (largely non-renewables) and how renewables and energy efficiency solve these problems.
In subsequent paragraphs, provide data on current uses of energy sources (what they are and how they are used). Address fossil fuel use, oil imports, how oil is used (transportation, etc.), air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, global climate change and any other issues you’d like to address.

Once you have explained the problem areas, provide evidence that supports a solution. This section must address efficiency and renewables.

Next, make a conclusion (make a comprehensive statement of your findings), and follow this with a well-reasoned recommendation.

Energy Policy Assignment

Instructions and Suggestions:
Give yourself plenty of time to collect info, organize it, analyze it, and come to a well-reasoned conclusion and a recommendation.
1) Make well-reasoned statements.

1. a)  Be specific.
2. b)  Substantiate relevant points with facts.
3. c)  Use factual information and statistics from your textbook, course lectures and videos, and

   outside sources.

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d) Reference every statistic—like this (Author, 2018, p.8).

2. 2)  Excerpt self control
   1. a)  Avoid hyperbole and innuendo.
   2. b)  Don’t go off on rambling diatribes.
   3. c)  Be respectful and professional.
3. 3)  Edit, edit, edit!
   1. a)  Write on one day, and edit it a few days or hours later with a fresh perspective.
   2. b)  Carefully reread your work to catch oversights.
   3. c)  Use spell-check and grammar check before submitting the paper for grading.
   4. d)  Neatly format your paper.

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i) Your paper must be formatted correctly. Standard rules of college papers apply (margins, indents, headings, spelling, plagiarism etc.). 1.5 spacing, throughout. Energy Policy Assignment

4. 4)  Don’t exceed four pages (loosely enforced).
5. 5)  Paper Organization and Format: Provide subtitles for each of the following.
   1. a)  Basic advice: Tell the reader what you are going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told

      them.

   2. b)  Overview/Introduction section: Statement of the issue and the components within the paper.
      1. i)  Cleary state: a) what this paper is about (what our energy policy should be) and, b)

         describe contents within the paper.

      2. ii)  Advice
         (1) The opening paragraph is critical. Carefully consider it. I strongly advise writing the

         intro after you collect and analyze the issue. In other words, know what you are

         introducing!
         (2) Tell them what you are going to tell them: Tell the reader what the paper is about.

   3. c)  Analysis section
      1. i)  Describe our current energy sources and problems with them. This will likely require a few paragraphs. Include statistical data. Do not provide opinions in this section.
         (1) Include multiple paragraphs, subsections are recommended, of each issue.
      2. ii)  Second, describe efficiency and renewable energy sources and how they reduce the scope of the problem.

         (1) Include multiple paragraphs, subsections are recommended, of each issue.

      3. iii)  Advice

         (1) Tell them: Provide your evidence.

   4. d)  Conclusion

i) Restate major findings from the analysis section. This should be about one or two paragraphs.

(1) Tell them what you told them: Draw a conclusion(s) based on your data and make a recommendation.

e) Recommendation
i) Based on your analysis and conclusion, in a few sentences provide a recommendation.

Explain what our energy policy be and what energy sources should we use.

Energy Policy Assignment

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