An invaluable source for course instructors and students, government and industry officials, activists and journalists, this book explores the Trump administration's pro-fossil fuel policy and analyzes its impact. It provides a comprehensive account of the major conflicts between pro-oil advocates and those pushing for a more sustainable energy mix.
An invaluable source for course instructors and students, government and industry officials, activists and journalists, this book explores the Trump administration's pro-fossil fuel policy and analyzes its impact. It provides a comprehensive account of the major conflicts between pro-oil advocates and those pushing for a more sustainable energy mix.
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, with a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.Sc. in Environmental Management and BA in Jurisprudence, both from Oxford University where she was a Rhodes scholar. She served as the August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, at the Department of Environment and Climate Policy. She is the editor of The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development (2018), which received critical acclaim.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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