Sentences with phrase «comprehensive conservation policies»

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Without such leadership and comprehensive economic policies, conservation of energy by individuals merely reduces demands for fuel, thus lowering prices and ultimately promoting the wasteful use of energy.»

However, the US still does not have a «comprehensive long - term energy policy» that balances increasing supply with conservation and defines the proper interplay between government and market forces.

Within the Policy Brief, Lehr writes that the ten years following the establishment of the EPA in 1971 he «helped write a significant number of legislative bills that were to make up a true safety net for our environment,» including, «Water Pollution Control Act (later renamed the Clean Water Act), Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (which, surprisingly, covered deep mines as well), Clean Air Act, Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (which we now know as Superfund).»