Abstract
As many elements of a Green New Deal languished in Congress, economic policy took dramatic turns instead to address a different crisis: the Covid-19 pandemic. This Essay explores the way in which legal and policy responses to Covid-19 in the United States—particularly as discourse has focused on the impacts of Covid-19 response on labor markets—may provide insight into the political economy of a Green New Deal. New federal spending toward a just transition is structurally much easier to accomplish than developing new regulatory policy through legislation or executive action and avoids judicial policing of administrative authority.
Recommended Citation
Nicholas Bryner, Green Transitions in a COVID Economy, 40 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 37 (2023)DOI: https://doi.org/10.58948/0738-6206.1863
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pelr/vol40/iss1/2
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