Climate of Capitulation (Record no. 26219)
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fixed length control field | 02401 a2200169 4500 |
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ISBN | 9780262036344 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 363.7387 |
Item number | THO-C |
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Personal name | Thomson, Vivian E. |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Climate of Capitulation |
Sub Title | : An Insider's Account of State Power in A Coal Nation |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Year of publication | 2017 |
Place of publication | Cambridge |
Name of publisher | MIT Press |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Number of Pages | ix, 242p |
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Bibliography, etc | Include Bibliography and Index<br/> |
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Summary, etc | How power is wielded in environmental policymaking at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favouritism toward coal and electric utilities. The United States has pledged to the world community a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28 per cent below 2005 levels in 2025. Because much of this reduction must come from electric utilities, especially coal-fired power plants, coal states will make or break the U.S. commitment to emissions reduction. In Climate of Capitulation, Vivian Thomson offers an insider's account of how power is wielded in environmental policymaking at the state level. Thomson, a former member of Virginia's State Air Pollution Control Board, identifies a "climate of capitulation" in state government--a deeply rooted favouritism toward coal and electric utilities in states' air pollution policies. Thomson narrates three cases involving coal and air pollution from her time on the Air Board. She illuminates the overt and covert power struggles surrounding air pollution limits for a coal-fired power plant just across the Potomac from Washington, for a controversial new coal-fired electrical generation plant in coal country, and for coal dust pollution from truck traffic in a country hollow. Thomson links Virginia's climate of capitulation with campaign donations that make legislators politically indebted to coal and electric utility interests, a traditionalistic political culture tending to inertia and a part-time legislature that depended on outside groups for information and bill drafting. Extending her analysis to fifteen other coal-dependent states, Thomson offers policy reforms aimed at mitigating the ingrained biases toward coal and electric utilities in states' air pollution policymaking. |
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Topical Term | Politics and government |
Form subdivision | Energy policy |
-- | Energy industries--Political activity |
Geographic subdivision | United States |
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Topical Term | Environmental Policy |
Form subdivision | Air-Pollution--Government policy |
-- | Coal-fired power plants |
-- | Electric utilities |
Geographic subdivision | Virginia |
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Koha item type | Books |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Bill Date | Full call number | Accession Number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 2020-07-07 | OP | 1648.41 | 2020-06-11 | 363.7387 THO-C | 50978 | 2258.10 | 2020-06-11 | Books |