Gaslight, 9781642832488
Hardcover
Fight for land, energy, and truth against a powerful corporation.

Gaslight

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future

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  • Hardcover

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    8 May 2024

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Summary

Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property. That surveyors will be coming out soon. That they have the legal right to do so, whether you like it or not, because this project is in the “public interest”—because the pipeline will be carrying natural gas, the so-called “bridge fuel” that politicians on both sides of the aisle have been peddling for decades as the path to a clean, gree…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781642832488
ISBN-10:1642832480
Author:Jonathan Mingle
Publisher:Island Press
Imprint:Island Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:8 May 2024
Weight:630g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

“Gaslight tells the story of how a group of people took on the powerful fossil fuel industry – and won. It’s a hopeful story of how we can make progress on climate change. Gaslight is the perfect blend of narrative, history, and science - it’s a gripping read!”–Leah Stokes, author of ‘Short Circuiting Policy’ and professor of environmental politics, University of California, Santa Barbara

About The Author

Jonathan Mingle

Jonathan Mingle is an independent journalist. Over the past fifteen years, he has written about climate change impacts and solutions, air pollution, public health, energy and resource issues, technology, and much more for a range of outlets including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Undark, Yale Environment 360, Slate, and The Boston Globe. As a 2020 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, he reported on political and grassroots battles over natural gas (aka methane) infrastructure and its local and global climate consequences. His first book is Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World.

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