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Gaslight is the story of an epic, six-year battle between one of the country's most powerful energy companies and the everyday people who stood in the path of its massive fossil gas pipeline. On one side, an archetypal Goliath: a corporation that commands billions of dollars and unparalleled influence over state politicians and federal government agencies alike. On the other, a diverse band of Davids: lawyers and farmers, conservationists and conservatives, innkeepers and lobbyists, scientists, and nurses.
Their struggle took them all the way to the Supreme Court, but their larger fight was in the court of public opinion. Would the nation swallow the industry's narrative that gas was "a bridge fuel" to a clean, green future? Or would the public recognize it as a methane bomb, capable of not only wrecking local communities but imperiling the planet? Vivid and suspenseful,
Gaslight is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the urgent stakes of the energy choices we face today.
About the author
Jonathan Mingle is an independent journalist. He has written about the science and politics of climate change, energy, technology, public health, and other subjects for
The New York Review of Books,
The New York Times,
Undark Magazine,
Yale Environment 360,
Slate,
The Boston Globe, and other outlets. He is a recipient of the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism and the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship. As a 2020 APF fellow, he reported on the political, legal, and grassroots battles over new natural gas (aka methane) infrastructure, and its local impacts and global climate consequences. His first book is
Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World.
Summary
Journalist Jonathan Mingle tells the vivid and inspirational story of everyday people standing up against America'smost powerful energy companies-essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the urgent stakes of the energychoices we face today.
