Natural Risk: How Texas and Permian Basin Oil Transformed American Capitalism
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- Wednesday, November 11, 202612:30 PM – 1:45 PM MSTAdd to calendarGoogle Calendar
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About
The longest-running oil-producing region in Texas, the Permian Basin fueled the state’s transformation from agricultural backwater to extractive powerhouse in the middle of the twentieth century. During the same period, Texas was also a crucial outlier in a national trend that placed risk management and environmental safety in the hands of state regulators. This book shows how Permian Basin oil production reshaped Texas’s environment, economy, and political culture, with major consequences for American understandings of health, wealth, and the social safety net.
Biography:
Sarah Stanford-McIntyre is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering, Ethics & Society Program in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. An historian of energy, technology, and the environment, she has published articles on the labor and environmental history of the American energy industries as well as the edited volume American Energy Cinema (West Virginia University Press, 2023). She is currently working on a history of renewable energy in the Rocky Mountain West.