Energy in American History : A Political, Social, and Environmental Encyclopedia [2 volumes] / edited by Jeffrey B. Webb and Christopher R. Fee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

B. Webb, Jeffrey, editor.

R. Fee, Christopher, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy consumption.

Energy development.

Energy policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1015 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics. Focusing on the major energy transitions in U.S. history, from the pre-industrial era to the present day, this two-volume encyclopedia captures the major advancements, events, technologies, and people synonymous with the production and consumption of energy in the United States. Expert contributors show how, for example, the introduction of electricity and petroleum into ordinary American life facilitated periods of rapid social and political change, as well as profound and ongoing impacts on the environment. These developments have in many ways defined and accelerated the pace of modern life and led to vast improvements in living conditions for millions of people, just as they have also brought new fears of resource exhaustion and fossil-fuel induced climate change. Today, as America begins to move beyond the use of fossil fuels toward a greater reliance on renewables, including wind and solar energy, there is a pressing need to understand energy in America's past in order to better understand its energy future.

Contents:

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chronology A to Z Entries Acid Rain Adair, Paul Neal "Red" Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy Agriculture and Energy Alta Wind Energy Center American Petroleum Institute American Radiator Company An Inconvenient Truth Animal Power Aramco Argo Merchant Oil Spill Atomic Energy Acts Austin Dam Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Bartlett Electric Cooperative Battle of Blair Mountain Bell Labs Benedum, Michael Late Biofuels Black Lung Disease Block Island Wind Farm Boeing, William Edward Bowser, Sylvanus Freelove Brockovich, Erin Brush, Charles Francis Buffalo Chips Bush, George H.W. Caddo Oil Field CAFE Standards California Electric Light Company Caltex Cap and Trade System Carrier, Willis Haviland Carter Doctrine Centralia Mine Disaster Cheney, Richard Bruce "Dick" Cherry Mine Disaster Chicago Smoke Abatement Ordinances of 1881 and 1903 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill Cist, Jacob Clean Air Act of 1970 Clean Coal Clean Power Plan of 2015 Clean Water Act Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion Climate Change Coal Coal Gasification Coaling Stations Coke Colliers Consolidated Edison Company Consortium Agreement of 1954 Cooke, Morris Llewellyn Cooke-Zevada Agreement of 1942 Cooper, Peter Corliss, George Henry Crotched Mountain Wind Farm Cumberland Iron and Coal Company Dakota Access Pipeline Davenport, Thomas Dawson Mine Disaster Daylight Saving Time Deepwater Horizon Densmore Oil Tank Car Digital Revolution Drake, Edwin Laurentine Duryea, Charles and J. Frank Duryea Dysart, Stella Earth Day Edison, Thomas Alva Electricity Enbridge Pipeline System Energy Crisis of the 1970s Energy Fuels, Inc. Energy Independence Energy Policy Act of 2005 Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 Energy Security Act of 1980 Evans, Oliver Evard, Mary E.A. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill ExxonMobil Farmington Mine Disaster Federal Power Act of 1935 Federal Power Commission Federal Water Power Act of 1920 Fermi, Enrico Fesler, Milton A. Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917 Ford, Henry Franklin, Benjamin Free Energy Myths Frick, Henry Clay Frigidaire Fuel Cell General Electric Company Geothermal Power Getty, Jean Paul Global Climate Coalition Gold, Stephen J. Gulf Oil Company Gulf War Halladay Windmill Halliburton Company Harlan County War Hart, William Aaron Henry, Joseph Hobart Electric Manufacturing Company Holmes, Joseph Austin Home Energy Efficiency Hoover Dam Hughes, Howard R., Sr. Hydraulic Fracking Hydroelectric Power Idaho National Energy Laboratory Indiana Natural Gas Boom Industrial Revolution Insull, Samuel Interstate Highway System Iraq War and the Project for a New American Century Johnson, Warren Seymour Joy, Joseph Francis Kerr-McGee's Kermac No. 16 Keystone Pipeline System Kier, Samuel Martin Kingston Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill KitchenAid Appliances Koch Brothers Krebs Mine Disaster Lakes, Arthur Lithium-ion Battery Lowell Waterpower System Ludlow Massacre Mandatory Oil Import Quota Program Manhattan Project Martin County Coal Slurry Spill Mahan, Alfred Thayer Mellowes, Alfred W. Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 Miner's and Laborer's Benevolent Association Mobil Oil Corporation Molly Maguires Monongah Mine Disaster Morse, Samuel Nason, Joseph National Energy Act of 1978 Natural Gas Natural Gas Act of 1938 Natural Resources Defense Council Navajo Reservation Uranium Mining New London School Explosion New York City Blackout New York Steam Company North Antelope Rochelle Mine Nuclear Power Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 Ohio Oil Boom Oil Embargo of 1941 Oil Tankers Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Osgood, John Cleveland Paint Creek Mine War Panama Canal Peak Oil Pearl Street Station Pennsylvania Oil Boom Perry, Thomas Osborn Petroleum Pierce Steam Heating Company Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion Powell River Project Powers, William Penn Project Gasbuggy Prudhoe Bay Oil Field Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 Red Fork Oil Gusher Red Line Agreement of 1928 Renewable Energy Revelle, Roger R. D. Richardson and Boynton Company Richmond, Indiana Gas Explosions Richmond Union Passenger Railway Rockefeller, John D. Roughnecks Rumford Fireplace Rural Electrification Act of 1936 Santa Barbara Oil Spill Scofield Mine Disaster Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane "Nellie Bly" Seven Sisters Oil Companies Shippingport Atomic Power Station Shuman, Frank Sierra Club Sinclair, Upton and King Coal Singer Manufacturing Company Slater, Samuel Smart Grid Solar Power Spindletop Oil Gusher Sport Utility Vehicles Standard Oil Company Stanley, William Jr. Steam Power Steele, John Washington "Coal Oil Johnny" Steen, Charles Augustus Stewart, Philo Penfield Strategic Petroleum Reserve Summerland Oil Field Summers, Emma A. McCutchen Surface Mining Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 Susquehanna Company Sweeney, Peter Tarbell, Ida Teapot Dome Scandal Tennessee Valley Authority Tesla, Nikola Texaco Texas Oil Boom Three Mile Island Accident Tokheim Oil Tank and Pump Company Tommyknockers Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Transcontinental Railroad Truck Transportation Technology U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Green Building Council Underwriters Laboratories Union of Concerned Scientists United Mine Workers of America United States Fuel Administration Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster Upton Machine Company and Whirlpool Corporation Usibelli, Emil Vulcan Street Plant War of the Currents Waste to Energy Water Power Weir, Paul West Frankfort Mine Disaster Westinghouse, George Whale Oil Whiting Refinery Williams Oil-o-Matic Wind Power Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Primary Documents Contributors Bibliography Index

ISBN:

9798216171348

9798216171355

9781440872150

1440872155

OCLC:

1431202094