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Climate of capitulation : an insider's account of state power in a coal nation / Vivian E. Thomson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomson, Vivian E., 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Clean Air Act.
- United States.
- Air--Pollution--Government policy--Virginia.
- Air.
- Energy industries--Political activity--Virginia.
- Energy industries.
- Electric utilities--Virginia.
- Electric utilities.
- Coal-fired power plants--Virginia.
- Coal-fired power plants.
- Energy policy--Virginia.
- Energy policy.
- Politics and government.
- Energy industries--Political activity.
- Air--Pollution--Government policy.
- Air--Pollution.
- Virginia--Politics and government--21st century.
- Virginia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations, map
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities.
- Contents:
- 1 Mirant: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished 23
- Prelude: Ozone and Shenandoah National Park 24
- Mirant Before the Air Board's Direct Oversight 25
- The Air Board Joins the Mirant Fray 33
- Backlash in Richmond 39
- 2 Wise: "Rogue Board" 45
- Waiting for Godot 48
- The Process Matters 56
- "Strictest Permit Limits Ever Written" 61
- 3 Roda: Coal, Dust, and Inequality 69
- Why Worry About Dust? 72
- Air Quality Typical of Industrializing Countries 75
- "Them That's Got Shall Get, Them That's Not Shall Lose" 79
- 4 A Climate of Capitulation 85
- The Law Does Not Speak for Itself 88
- Regulatory Capture vs. Climate of Capitulation 90
- Origins of Virginia's Climate of Capitulation 95
- 5 Shotgun Marriage Federalism 105
- Federal-State Collaborations Under the Clean Air Act 106
- Coal and the Three Faces of Power 109
- Partisanship Does Not Explain Action or Inaction of State Policy Makers 112
- Public Opinion and Policy Makers' Decisions Are Not Necessarily Linked 115
- 6 Six Crucial Coal States and the South 121
- Campaign Finance 121
- Political Culture 129
- State Legislative Professionalism 134
- The South 138
- 7 "Thus Always to Tyrants": Lessons and Reforms 145
- Strengths in How the Virginia Cases Unfolded 147
- Weaknesses in How the Virginia Cases Unfolded 149
- Implications for Other States 151
- The Clean Air Act as the Nation's Climate-Change Law 152
- New Opportunities for Meaningful Citizen Engagement 155
- "You've Cot to Dance with Them What Brung You": Campaign Finance Reform 160
- Increase State Legislators' Independence 163
- Encourage Decentralized Power Generation and Address Longstanding Inequalities 167
- "Intervening on Behalf of National Values" 170.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262340663
- 0262340666
- OCLC:
- 983465762
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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