
Asking for it
It’s been a month since the release of Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship and Free Speech—and there’s been virtually no hostile response or uncivil discourse. The folks with power and money have been eerily silent, despite my having made public presentations in Casper, Gillette, Lander, Laramie, Rawlins, and Sheridan to nearly 400 people. At the University of Wyoming, my presentation was hosted by the Sierra Club (not the university), althou

Wyoming is the State that Keeps on Giving (at least when it comes to censorship)
When I was pitching my proposal for Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship and Free Speech, one of the concerns raised by publishers was that the book was too local or regional. Presumably the oppression of public discourse by corporations was unique to Wyoming (really?!). Although it is abundantly evident that corporations are busy funding right-wing think tanks to undermine the science of climate change (having succeeded in confusing the publ