2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. Who Is Responsible for This Mess?: The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants 1
6. 2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants 30
7. 3. Recipes for Disaster: How Social Structures Interact to Make Environmentally Destructive Plants Even More So 52
8. 4. A Win-Win Solution?: The Paradoxical Effects of Efficiency on Plants’ CO2 Emissions 78
9. 5. Bottom-Up Strategies: The Effectiveness of Local Policies and Activism (with Ion Bogdan Vasi) 100
10. 6. Next Steps: Future Research and Action on Society’s Super Polluters 135
11. Appendixes 157
12. Notes 203
13. References 241
14. Index 265