America's Energy Gamble

People, Economy and Planet

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvShanti Gamper-Rabindran

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How can America get back to an energy transition that's good for the economy and the environment? That's the question at the heart of this eye-opening and richly informative dissection of the Trump administration's energy policy. The policy was ardently pro-fossil fuel and ferociously anti-regulation, implemented by manipulating science and economic analysis, putting oil and gas insiders at the helm of environmental agencies, and hacking away at democratic norms that once enjoyed bipartisan support. The impacts on the nation's health, economy, and environment were - as this book carefully demonstrates - dire. But the damage can be reversed. Ordinary Americans, civil society groups, environmental professionals, and politicians at every level all have parts to play in making sure the needed energy transition leaves no one behind. This compelling book will appeal to course instructors and students, government and industry officials, activists and journalists, and everyone concerned about the nation's future.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-01-13
Mått156 x 236 x 34 mm
Vikt912 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor540
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316510742

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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.

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.

'With America's Energy Gamble, public policy expert Shanti Gamper-Rabindran lays out a stark case that powerful oil and gas interests have, with considerable help from the outgoing Trump administration, gained control of the lever arms of our energy and environmental policy apparatus. Our economic competitiveness, the health of our environment, and the livability of our planet are all now threatened. Read this book to be informed about the threat and armed with the knowledge of what can be done in the Biden era to undo the damage and right the course.' Michael E. Mann, Penn State University; author of The New Climate War