
Gaslight
the atlantic coast pipeline and the fight for america's energy future
$62.24
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
8 May 2024
Summary
Gaslight: The Battle for America’s Energy Future
Imagine receiving a letter informing you that a massive energy company plans to build a pipeline through your property. Surveyors are coming, and they have the legal right, regardless of your consent, because it’s in the “public interest”—carrying natural gas, the “bridge fuel” touted as the path to a clean energy future.
This was the reality for thousands along the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline in 2014, igniting a six-year…
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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