Unnatural resources : energy and environmental politics in Appalachia after the 1973 oil embargo /

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Unnatural Resources explores the intersection of energy production and environmental regulation in Appalachia after the oil embargo of 1973. The years from 1969 to 1973 saw the passage of a number of laws meant to protect the environment from human destruction, and they initially enjoyed broad publi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Camp, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Power resources > Appalachian Region.
Environmental policy > Appalachian Region.
HISTORY > General.
Environmental policy
Power resources
Appalachian Region
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. A joke told too many times
  • "Little bitty cars" : the Department of Energy, oil decontrol, and the anticonservation backlash
  • "Rich, black veins of the future" : the United Mine Workers, railroad deregulation, and the political economy of coal
  • "The model-t of reactors" : the Clinch River Breeder Reactor debate in Congress
  • "Deliberately inflexible" : the Tellico Dam and endangered species law
  • "Hit by inflation like everyone else" : the Tennessee Valley Authority in the era of the market.

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