Colleagues: President Trump has floated the idea of installing solar panels on the proposed wall on the Mexican border. In assessing the policy merits of his proposal, three crucial issues should be examined. First, will the solar wall pay for itself, as President Trump has suggested? Second, to what extent will the wall help mitigate the impacts of climate change? And third, what are the tradeoffs between environmental goals and other policy issues, such as immigration policy? Here are our thoughts: https://www.theregreview.org/2017/07/11/dolsak-prakash-solar-wall/ Nives & Aseem ******************************************************************** Aseem Prakash Professor, Department of Political Science Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics 39 Gowen Hall, Box 353530 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-3530 http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/ http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/
