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Power Corrupts explains the recent rise of racketeering and bribery by utilities seeking billion-dollar bailouts for dirty and uneconomic power plants. This corruption within America’s utility industry has become the biggest barrier to tackling global warming and advancing greener solutions.

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9781538199398

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""We desperately need utilities playing a serious role in the clean energy transition; instead, as this richly reported book makes clear, we have too many players pursuing their own interest instead of the public's. Read it, and then, join us in the fight to seriously regulate these behemoths."" --Bill McKibben, founder, Third Act ""Power Corrupts shreds the country club camouflage that masks unscrupulous, often illegal, activities in the C-Suites of many of America's leading electric utilities. It also describes how utility regulatory commissions evolved from guard dogs into lapdogs. If you are curious about why your utility bills are skyrocketing, read this book!"" --Denis Hayes, CEO, Bullitt Foundation ""Power Corrupts documents how for-profit electric utilities have infected government with deceit, fraud, and graft. It is essential reading to understand why our energy system is failing to deliver for American consumers."" --Ari Peskoe, director, Harvard Electricity Law Initiative

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Richard Munson is the author of eight books, including biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, and Jacques Cousteau. He has written extensively about electric utilities as well as an expose of congressional appropriations. Munson also has worked on clean energy and environmental issues for nonprofits, in the private sector, at universities, and on Capitol Hill. He has received public-service awards from Smart Grid Today, Great Lakes Commission, U.S. Clean Heat and Power Association, and American Small Manufacturers Coalition. He now sits on the boards of the Hinsdale Public Library and Greenleaf Advisors.

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