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Author Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan, 1960- author.

Title Behind the carbon curtain : the energy industry, political censorship, and free speech / Jeffrey A. Lockwood ; foreword by Brianna Jones
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 280 pages)
Contents Introduction -- The art of making people think, and industries mad -- Destroying art to preserve political privilege -- Paying the price for free speech -- Science fails to mind its own business -- Reloaded and fired again -- Silencing dissent in coal country -- Corporate coercion and public courage -- A picture is worth a thousand words, or a million bucks -- Give us liberty or give us oil -- Where the skies are smoggy all day -- The calculated absence of evidence -- The death of free speech: finding the killer -- For sale: free speech -- Epilogue
Summary Exploring censorship imposed by corporate wealth and power, this book focuses on the energy industry in Wyoming, where coal, oil, and gas are pillars of the economy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 04, 2017)
Subject Energy industries -- Political aspects -- Wyoming
Business and politics -- Wyoming
Arts -- Censorship -- Wyoming
Intellectual freedom -- Wyoming
Freedom of speech -- Wyoming
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Arts -- Censorship
Business and politics
Energy industries -- Political aspects
Freedom of speech
Intellectual freedom
Politics and government
SUBJECT Wyoming -- Politics and government
Subject Wyoming
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016037660
ISBN 9780826358080
082635808X