Abstract

Explores the politics of green energy policies and considers the prospect of a long-term transition toward an economy that has much lower levels of human impact on the environment. Discusses energy, manufacturing, and the changing global economy; green jobs and the green energy transition; green industrial policy and the 111th Congress; state governments and the greening of import substitution; the greening of regional industrial clusters; localist alternatives to the mainstream tradition; green transition coalitions and geographical unevenness; and after 2010—continued unevenness in the green transition. Hess is Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of the Institute for Energy and Environment, and Director of the Program on Environmental and Sustainability Studies at Vanderbilt University.

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