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FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING NEW

Leave It in the Ground Epigenetics and The Reality of

The Politics of Public Policy American Energy
Coal and Climate The Tangled Web of The Hidden Costs
JOHN C. BERG Science and Politics of Electricity Policy

SHEA K. ROBISON RYAN M. YONK,
JORDAN LOFTHOUSE,
AND MEGAN HANSEN

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Employing scientific explanations and eBook: 978-1-4408-5392-0
hard data, this book shows why coal The exciting field of epigenetics offers
is such a problem, how the pro-coal novel and unanticipated science-
forces got to be so powerful, and how based insights into human origins and This book dispels common myths
those forces might be defeated through development. This book presents one about electricity and electricity policy
political activism. and reveals how government policies
of the first detailed examinations of the manipulate energy markets, create
FEATURES political implications of epigenetics. hidden costs, and may inflict a net
• Examines scientific data to provide FEATURES harm on the American people and the
a clear explanation—in layman’s environment.
terms—of the relation of coal to • Focuses on the latest developments in
climate change epigenetics, a subject that is attracting FEATURES
increased attention among scientists
• Illustrates how activism can lead to and researchers yet is practically • Identifies the direct impact of policies
meaningful government policy change unknown among policymakers and on electricity markets and especially
• Provides non-expert readers with a members of the general public on the affordability of electricity for
clear understanding of the political • Explains how epigenetics works, U.S. consumers
issues surrounding coal mining and how it is related to genetics, how it
coal burning as well as the domestic differs from conventional genetics, RYAN M. YONK, PhD, is assistant research
and international politics of coal and the different kinds of epigenetic professor in the Department of Economics
climate mechanisms, and the political history and Finance at Utah State University and
• Shows the interconnection of of genetics and epigenetics vice president and executive director of
coal’s role in labor exploitation, Strata Policy.
the environmental destruction of JORDAN LOFTHOUSE, MSE, has
Appalachia and other coal areas, and SHEA K. ROBISON is currently published several op-eds in The Hill and
the acceleration of climate change postdoctoral research fellow at the The Salt Lake Tribune.
City University of Hong Kong with the
Department of Public Policy in the MEGAN HANSEN, MSE, is a policy
Center for East Asian and Comparative analyst at Strata Policy. She has
JOHN C. BERG is professor Philosophy. published op-eds in USA Today,
of government and director of Newsweek, and The Salt Lake Tribune.
environmental studies at Suffolk
University.
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