America's Energy Gamble: People, Economy and Planet

ISBN-13: 9781009018012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 550 str.

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran

Opis

Rigorous exploration of the Trump administration's pro-fossil fuel policy and its lasting impact on public health, the economy, and the environment.

Recenzje

'Recommended.' R. M. Ramazani, Choice

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. America's Energy; 2. Oil and gas: the quest for energy dominance; 3. Renewable energy: setbacks, successes and strategies for the energy transition; Part II. America's Lands; 4. Public and private lands: extraction and infrastructure versus competing economic pursuits; 5. Native American lands: respect for tribes' rights vs. encroachment; Part III. America's Seas; 6. Oceans: drilling v. competing use of coasts and seas; 7. Backtracking on safety: risking another BP oil spill; Part IV. America's Regulatory Process. 8. Science: undermining facts to understate regulatory benefits; 9. Economics: skewing analyses to justify weaker regulations; 10. Law: anti-regulatory statutory interpretations and reshaping the judiciary; Part V. The Global Climate; 11. Endangering the climate: attacking global cooperation, state governments' leadership and the private sector's economic restructuring; 12. America at crossroads.