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＜p＞＜strong＞How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The United States has pledged to the world community a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 26?28 percent below 2005 levels in 2025. Because much of this reduction must come from electric utilities, especially coal-fired power plants, coal states will make or break the U.S. commitment to emissions reduction. In ＜em＞Climate of Capitulation,＜/em＞ Vivian Thomson offers an insider's account of how power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level. Thomson, a former member of Virginia's State Air Pollution Control Board, identifies a “climate of capitulation” in state governmentーa deeply rooted favoritism toward coal and electric utilities in states' air pollution policies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thomson narrates three cases involving coal and air pollution from her time on the Air Board. She illuminates the overt and covert power struggles surrounding air pollution limits for a coal-fired power plant just across the Potomac from Washington, for a controversial new coal-fired electrical generation plant in coal country, and for coal dust pollution from truck traffic in a country hollow. Thomson links Virginia's climate of capitulation with campaign donations that make legislators politically indebted to coal and electric utility interests, a traditionalistic political culture tending to inertia, and a part-time legislature that depended on outside groups for information and bill drafting. Extending her analysis to fifteen other coal-dependent states, Thomson offers policy reforms aimed at mitigating the ingrained biases toward coal and electric utilities in states' air pollution policy making.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。

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