The Fifteen-Year Transition presents a practical path for reducing fossil-fuel dependence while protecting workers, producing communities, taxpayers, and reliable energy service. It examines how lobbying, campaign spending, trade associations, litigation, and weak enforcement can delay reforms that serve the public interest.
The book proposes stronger transparency, fair taxation, cleanup obligations, worker protections, collective bargaining, domestic manufacturing, and public investment. It calls for batteries, wind, solar power, a modern electrical grid, hybrid and electric machinery, cleaner trucks and cars, and research into lower-emission aviation and heavy equipment.
This final volume argues for reducing fossil-fuel consumption by roughly 60 to 70 percent over fifteen years through an orderly emergency transition. Its goal is a cleaner, safer economy that preserves dependable energy, creates union jobs, protects affected communities, and holds corporations and government accountable.