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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Under Pressure: Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism, by Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Peter K. Bsumek, and Jennifer Peeples2017 •
SSRN Electronic Journal
Whither the Regulatory 'War on Coal'? Scapegoats, Saviors, and Stock Market Reactions2019 •
Anyone who has traveled through the coal producing areas of northern Appalachia during the past five years has probably noticed the appearance of billboards and yard signs with colorful slogans decrying the “War on Coal.” In 2012, both the Obama and Romney campaigns paid particular attention to the Upper Ohio Valley, a blue-collar region that often voted Democratic, but where many residents had developed a strong sense of resentment against policies portrayed as harmful to the local high sulfur coal industry. In October 2015, local mining giant Murray Energy joined Ohio, West Virginia and twenty-two other states in suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its new “Clean Power Plan,” designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions using provisions of the Clean Air Act. In a December editorial, CEO Robert Murray declared his intention “to aggressively fight back against the Obama regime's political power grab [on behalf of] good Americans [who] only want to work in honor and dignity.” “It is a blatantly illegal effort by the Executive Branch,” he continued, “to use the Clean Air Act of 1971 in a way never intended by Congress to promulgate carbon dioxide emission reductions across America, which will radically and destructively transform our electric power system.” The current debate over the Clean Power Plan is the latest in a series of political, cultural and economic battles that have been fought since the passage of the Clean Air Act during the height of the postwar environmental movement. These tensions were especially apparent in the periods around significant amendments to the law in 1977 and 1990. Despite the ongoing significance of the Clean Air Act, however it has yet received surprisingly little attention by historians. Journalists and legal scholars who have examined conflict between the coal industry and environmental regulators largely focused on the formal arena of Congressional politics, leaving a critical gap in our understanding of how broader issues played out on the local and state levels. This paper focuses on the Upper Ohio Valley before, during and after the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 as mining companies and their political allies mobilized the region’s residents to attend hearings, travel to rallies, and vote against candidates seen as allied with pro-environmental platforms. Ohio’s Republican governor, James Rhodes, proved particularly adept at tapping into this anti-environmental sentiment and repeatedly clashed with EPA officials over regulating the state’s coal-burning power plants. These local and state frictions also manifested on the federal level, where Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum found himself at odds with his Democratic colleague and equally powerful Senator Edmund Muskie, whose native Maine was on the receiving end of devastating acid rain pollution. Understanding the economic and cultural as well as political history of these dynamics is particularly important in contextualizing not only the contemporary debate over global warming but also the broader shift of conservatives and the Republican Party away from the tenuous environmentalist consensus of the early 1970s.
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Cleaning Coal: The Battle to Rebrand Coal highlights the fierce battle to misleadingly rebrand coal as a "clean energy" and provides a peek at the manipulation of public sentiment via sophisticated media mechanisms through a thorough rhetorical analysis.
This legislation does not stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from new coal fired power plants. The bill simply requires EPA to base its regulations on the best performing existing coal plants. We should encourage the implementation of newer cleaner burning coal technologies, but a de facto ban on new coal plants won’t encourage new technologies
The coal industry has played a major role in the culture and history of the state ofWestVirginia, establishing an identity as the “backbone” of the economy in this region. However, as the mining process has become more mechanized, employment has declined and risks have increased, but support for the industry continues.This study explores research that could provide explanations for this phenomenon and examines whether there is an overestimation of the role of the coal industry in the regional economy.We also examine factors that may affect one’s perceptions of the economic impact of the industry. In particular, certain demographic qualities or ideological tendencies described in previous work by Bell and York are shown to have some effect on these perceptions.
We thank Brathwaite et al. for starting a very useful debate about what role, if any, coal should play in future energy transitions. Expanding upon their piece, we question that a coal-based economy, in which energy production for both electricity and transport comes from coal, can meet the energy security needs of the United States and other countries.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies/Supplement 60
Archaeology of Eastern Anatolia I (DARK I): From Prehistoric Times to the End of Iron Ages2023 •
The first conference to be dedicated to the archaeology of eastern Turkey was held at Ege University, Izmir, in February 2019. This volume publishes 15 revised versions of papers dealing with issues related to the archaeology of the region. The wide range of topics includes discoveries dating from prehistoric times to the Iron Ages, and both surface surveys and excavations. Chapters cover production activities, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, chronology and dating, cultural interactions, classification systems, archaeometric analysis and fieldwork experiences. A crucial theme of the conference and of this publication is problems associated with practising archaeology in eastern Anatolia. The main questions addressed are why is there declining interest in doing eastern Anatolian archaeology, how can we ensure consistency among archaeological projects in the region and how can financial and logistical support be secured, what should be done to attract undergraduate and graduate students to the field, and what is the reason for the decreasing number of international collaborations in the region? This book is intended for all those who are interested in the present and future of archaeological practice in eastern Turkey.
Revista Contribuciones a las Ciencias Sociales
The national question: imperialism and Lava Jato in the Brazilian economyA grande ilusao do Brics e o universo paralelo da diplomacia brasileira
A grande ilusao do Brics e o universo paralelo da diplomacia brasileira (2022)2022 •
Desconsideração da personalidade jurídica: aspectos materiais e processuais
Aspectos probatórios do incidente de desconsideração da personalidade jurídica2018 •
Ain-Shams Journal of Anesthesiology
Inferior vena cava collapsibility index as a predictor of fluid responsiveness in sepsis-related acute circulatory failureResearch Papers in Economics
A Target-Wage Dilemma: Some Consequences of Incomplete Information1989 •
Filosofía Unisinos
Logical pluralism and linguistic relativism: a hypothesis about the relationship between logic, language and thought2024 •
Standing Before the Challenges of the Future
The Future of Europe: The Way of Dialogue2023 •
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CALL:What's Your Motivation. JALT CALL SIG
Title: Teacher peer review using Skype Author 1: Martin Meadows Affiliation: Nayoro City University Author 22011 •