Pollution, Politics, and Power : : The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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