Coal Trap

Coal Trap

How West Virginia Was Left Behind in the Clean Energy Revolution

Van Nostrand, James M.

Cambridge University Press

07/2022

280

Mole

Inglês

9781108822152

15 a 20 dias

423

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Introduction: "the lost decade"; 1. The rise of environmental regulations under Obama's EPA; 2. The shale gas revolution; 3. The rise of renewable energy; 4. The Ds of today's electric utility industry: Decarbonization and decentralization; 5. From "friends of coal" to the "war on coal:" how West Virginia went from blue to red; 6. "Leadership" from Washington, DC: the congressional delegation that could have but didn't; 7. "Manchin in the middle"; 8. The failure of the public service commission to serve the public; 9. The role of the legislature in West Virginia's failed energy policies; 10. Bailing out the coal industry on the backs of West Virginia electric ratepayers; 11. Coal operators get rich and West Virginia gets to clean up the mess; 12. What the future could hold if the leaders choose to lead.
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