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...Caleb Gore Leave It in the Ground: The Politics of Coal and Climate , by John C. Berg , Santa Barbara, California : Praeger , 2019 , 198 pp., $50.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-14408-3914-6 © 2022 Caleb Gore 2022 @NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 173 "walk while trans," because trans...

... unions with a tradition of neo-corporatism will be best positioned to demand just transitions for their mem bers. This article provides two comparative case studies of coal miners’ unions in areas where environmental reform threatens coal workers’ livelihoods. Workers in Germany’s IG Bergbau, Chemie...

... 'ideologically aggressive' policies and only three 'unaggressive' ones. A passage on each follows. The Major Government's Aggressive, Rightist ('troubleseeking') policies: 1. Closing and privatizing of state-owned coal pits; 2. Part-privatizing of the state-owned railways; 3. Part-privatizing of the prison...

... on subsistence farming and extractive industries (although his primary focus is on the coal industry). He notes that If[i]nternal elites have always exploited the Appalachian citizenry" (26, italics in original). He also includes an extensive discussion of the twentieth century's Iffailed development models" (74...

... and nonbinary people. Queer J. Thomas Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI, USA S [email protected] © 2022 Queer J. Thomas httpsdoLorg/l 0.1 080/07393148.2022.2033042 Check for updates Leave It in the Ground: The Politics of Coal and Climate, by John C. Berg, Santa...

... innovation and resource replacement.17 In the short term, the United States can extract and use as much domestic and foreign fossil fuels (including petroleum, coal, natural gas, and tar sands) as is economically feasible. In the slightly longer term, the government and industry can invest in research...

... room of a restaurant, someone asks about the regulation of coal. Udall gives a rote sounding platitudinous answer about marketplace innovation being the American way. Charlie's response speaks to critical, local concerns. He wrests the mic from Udall and s.1Paul Herrnson, Congressional Elections...

... to the northern tip of Appalachia.67 In West Virginia, a state where the Democratic vote at the presidential level has declined in every election since the 1990s, Obama carried only seven of the State's fifty-five counties in 2008 (Figure 2). The decline was especially pronounced in heavily unionized, coal-mining...

..., environmental degradation, and globalization. Coal-mining communities throughout the Appalachian regions of the US, for example, whole-heartedly backed Trump because he promised to bring back coal mining jobs in decline for decades. The solution Trumpism offers is rolling back federal environmental regulations...

... to 2.6 billion people, who used 20.1 TWh (terawatt hours) of oil, gas, and coal fossil fuel energy. However, as the Korean War dragged out along the 39th Parallel, the US in 1952, and the Soviet Union in 1953, successfully tested thermonuclear bombs. Neither Washington nor Moscow were willing to use...

... cheap energy policies (the London Economist estimated India's energy prices to be 40% of the world average) which encouraged wasteful, environmentally destructive uses of coal, oil, and water and which have proved to be also economically unviable, in effect encouraging inefficient product...

... to the rate of methane leakage from shale-gas wells and a carbon footprint that is similar to coal when compared over the long term.34 28The United States Energy Information Administration deems extraction of shale oil and gas resources "technically recoverable" in over a dozen countries worldwide (USEIA...

... of the market in defending the highly unpopular behavior of the privatized utilities. Not only have ministers defended the rights of utility bosses to raise prices and pay themselves huge bonuses, but they have sought to extend privatization to areas the Thatcher government shied away from: such as the coal...

... of so-called free labor meet flows of energy in the form of coal-fired steam power. In the process, energy itself emerges as a concept. The surplus capitalists extract is not quite the same as that which landlords extract. The difference is that capitalism is a more abstract system of exploitation...

... George Davis teaches political science at Marshall University. His current research explores coal and the politics of identity in Central Appalachia. ...

... farming and extractive industries (although his primary focus is on the coal industry). He notes that If[i]nternal elites have always exploited the Appalachian citizenry" (26, italics in original). He also includes an extensive discussion of the twentieth century's Iffailed development models" (74...

...; Roosevelt's Two Years' Work Killed in Twenty Minutes59 The next year, 1936, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), Guffey Coal Conservation Act (similar to the NIRA for coal mining), and a New York state minimum wage law for women would fall under the same doctrines.6o After Black Monday, Senator George...

...:30am, the usual shift of 1,665 workers entered the pits at the Courrieres mine, one of the largest in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France. Ninety minutes later, the mine's ambient coal dust ignited. The resulting explosion killed more than a thousand people over 110 kilometers of tunnel, some...

... politics, were therefore compelled to focus increasingly upon the firm as an arena for realizing gains. In part because of the global steel shortage brought on by the Korean War, however, the coal and steel workers in the Ruhr were able to establish national codetermination legislation for their sectors...

... forms of capital also suffice. The hegemony of capital comes primarily through financial institutions (banks, cooperative societies) and industries. This industrialism is primarily based on nonrenewable energy and nonrenewable raw materials such as coal, iron, oil, natural gas etc. Even when renewable...