Government Procurement and Operations, the second volume in the Environmental Law Institute's (ELI's) State and Local Energy Conservation Series, will be available in July from Ballinger Publishing Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts.¹ Written by Ivan J. Tether, an ELI staff attorney, the book considers the issue of what goverments—usually in a posture of controlling the rest of society—can do to run their own houses with energy thrift.

More specifically, the book examines the laws governing state and local procurement and the institutions involved in it. The author identifies legal, political, bureaucratic, and economic stumbling blocks to the conservation of energy by the government and offers a broad range of strategies for overcoming these impediments and for mounting affirmative conservation programs. Some of these strategies are supplemented with legislative approaches that suggest appropriate statutory implementation.