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TE3 Transportation, Economics, Energy & the Environment Conference

4th Annual Conference on Transportation, Economics, Energy, and the Environment

Oct

Transforming CO2 from a Liability into an Asset

Location: Fellowship Space, Munger Graduate Residences

Nov

Climate of Capitulation: An Insider’s Account of State Power in a Coal Nation

Location: Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)

CLOSUP Lecture Series

Climate of Capitulation: An Insider’s Account of State Power in a Coal Nation

Vivian E. Thomson, Former Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Politics, University of Virginia

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

10:00 am to 11:30 am

About the lecture:

Vivian Thomson will offer an insider’s account of how power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level. Drawing on her experience as a former member of Virginia’s State Air Pollution Control Board, she narrates cases in Alexandria, Wise, and Roda that involved coal and air pollution. She identifies a “climate of capitulation” —a deeply rooted favoritism toward coal and electric utilities in state air pollution policies. Thomson links Virginia’s climate of capitulation with campaign finance patterns, a state legislature that depends on outsiders for information and bill drafting, and a political culture that tends toward inertia. She extends her analysis to fifteen other coal states and recommends reforms aimed at mitigating ingrained biases toward coal and electric utility interests.

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TE3 Transportation, Economics, Energy & the Environment Conference

Transforming CO2 from a Liability into an Asset

Climate of Capitulation: An Insider’s Account of State Power in a Coal Nation

Suljo Linic