Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal

According to recent polls, more than three-quarters of Americans believe the U.S. should be energy-independent, and more than 70 percent believe the government should do more to help arrest climate change. Yet Congress and the White House take only tiny steps toward these goals, and large-scale investment in clean energy lags far behind the urgent demand. Michael Brune, executive director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), shows how motivated citizens can engage in promoting solutions and collectively pressure policymakers and corporations to change their energy priorities. His vivid reports depict the economic, environmental, moral, and public-health costs of fossil-fuel dependence, and how government and financial institutions are complicit. Brune also describes the most promising developments in renewables, biofuels, and efficient design, and outlines an inspiring vision of the clean energy future within reach. Offering well-tested action strategies, Coming Clean is rooted in the author's faith that Americans acting together can create profound change.

In this timely book, the executive director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), shows how motivated American citizens can engage in promoting solutions and collectively pressure policymakers and corporations to change their energy priorities.