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Behind the Carbon Curtain: Th e Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech. By Jeffrey A. Lockwood. Foreword by Brianna Jones. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. ix + 270 pp. Figures, notes, index. $29.95 paper.
Jeffrey Lockwood's book on the energy industry's takeover of politics, education, and culture on the High Plains of Wyoming should serve as a model for similar inquiries in other fossil fuel states, including in my own state down the Plains, Oklahoma. For reference, "energy" in Wyoming is oil and natural gas, and significantly, coal.
Lockwood sets the stage for the book on pages 8-9 of his introduction:
While we often think of censorship as an act of the government, in contemporary society the distinction between business and state actions is increasingly blurred. . . . When corporations use their...