By exploring the roles of books, magazines, newspaper articles and other media in creating regional and national environmental coalitions, the authors offer insights into the relationship between environmental conflict and mass media in the US.

The Forbidden Fuel is the definitive history of alcohol fuel, describing in colorful detail the emergence of alcohol fuel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the political and economic forces behind its popularity, opposition, and eventual growth. In 1982, when The Forbidden Fuel was first published, approximately 350 million gallons of ethanol were produced in the United States for transport fuel. In 2008 that number had grown to 9 billion gallons an approximate average annual growth rate of 98.9 percent. Similar dramatic growth has occurred all over the world,...