Pollution, Politics, and Power : : The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity / / Thomas O. McGarity.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: McGarity, Thomas O.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Big Dirties --; 2. Electricity, Power Plants, and the Environment --; 3. First Steps --; 4. Minor Adjustments, Major Controversy --; 5. The Lost Decade --; 6. Major Adjustments --; 7. Cautious Implementation and Vigorous Enforcement --; 8. Retrenchment --; 9. The Obama Administration Takes a New Approach --; 10. The War on Fossil Fuels --; 11. The Transformation of the Electric Power Industry --; 12. The Trump Effect --; 13. Toward a Sustainable Energy Future --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674242791; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674242791
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas O. McGarity.

Today’s electric power companies compete to provide cleaner electricity. That’s a good thing, but progress has come with costs, especially for communities reliant on the coal industry. Thomas McGarity examines the changes of recent decades and offers ideas for building a more sustainable grid while easing the economic downsides of coal’s demise.