Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and America's Energy Future - Energy Policy Book for Environmental Activists & Political Science Students - Perfect for Energy Debate Research & Political Discussions
Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and America's Energy Future - Energy Policy Book for Environmental Activists & Political Science Students - Perfect for Energy Debate Research & Political Discussions

Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and America's Energy Future - Energy Policy Book for Environmental Activists & Political Science Students - Perfect for Energy Debate Research & Political Discussions" (注:根据您提供的原始标题,这似乎是一本书籍而非跨境电商商品。我已按书籍类产品进行优化,添加了受众群体和使用场景。如果是其他类型商品请提供更多信息以便优化。)

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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, green energy future. This was the gist of the letter that Dominion Energy sent to thousands of residents living along the path of its proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline in 2014, setting off an epic, six-year battle that eventually led all the way to the Supreme Court. That struggle’s epicenter was in the mountains of Virginia, where communities stretching from the Blue Ridge foothills to the Shenandoah Valley and the Allegheny highlands became Dominion’s staunchest foes. On one side was an archetypal Goliath: a power company that commands billions of dollars, the votes of politicians, and the decisions of the federal government. On the other, an army of Davids: lawyers and farmers, conservationists and conservatives, scientists and nurses, innkeepers and lobbyists, families who farmed their land since before the Revolutionary War and those who were not allowed to until after the Civil War. At stake was not only the future of the communities that lay in the pipeline’s path but the future of American energy. Would the public be swayed by the industry’s decades-long public relations campaign to frame natural gas – a fossil fuel and itself a potent greenhouse gas – as a “solution” to climate change? Or would we recognize it as a methane bomb, capable of not only imperiling local property and upending people’s lives, but of pushing the planet further down the road towards climate chaos? Vivid and suspenseful, gut-wrenching and insightful, Gaslight is more than the chronicle of a turning point in American history. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the dark, overlooked story of America’s “favorite fossil fuel,” and the immense future stakes of the energy choices we face today.

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"Gaslight" is everything you want in an illuminating work of non-fiction: well researched facts encased within a gripping narrative. Author Jonathan Mingle has a way with words. In his marvelously written book, he paints vivid portraits of the valiant citizens who successfully battled Dominion Energy in its attempt to construct a gas pipeline through their lands and the ancient mountains they hold dear. He does this while at the same time educating the reader as to the true nature of natural gas - actually methane, a driving force behind the alarming rise in atmospheric and sea water temperatures. Jonathan Mingle also manages to pull back the curtain on the powerful Federal Energy Regulating Commission (FERC), and the self-serving economic strategies of gas utilities. This book is so good, so rich in detail and information that I'm reading the book for the second time! BON
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