The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth, by Eric Pooley, Hyperion, 481 pp., $27.99
Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Stategies for Protecting the Planet, by David G. Victor, Cambridge University Press, 392 pp., $40
There's a tense scene in Eric Pooley's The Climate War when Jim Rogers, CEO of coal utility Duke Energy and leader of a shaky coalition of power companies, faces a moment of truth. Ten Fortune 500 companies and four major environmental groups are at the table. They've got a statement of legislative principles they can agree on and are ready to throw their collective weight behind a long-overdue comprehensive climate-change bill in the United States.
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