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SUMMARY:Natural Risk: How Texas and Permian Basin Oil Transformed American
  Capitalism
LOCATION:McKenna Languages Rose Room 103\, 1505 Pleasant Street\, Boulder\
 , CO 80309
DESCRIPTION:The longest-running oil-producing region in Texas\, the Permia
 n 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 p
 laced risk management and environmental safety in the hands of state regu
 lators. 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 ne
 t.\n\nBiography:\n\nSarah 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 o
 f 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 Univer
 sity Press\, 2023). She is currently working on a history of renewable en
 ergy in the Rocky Mountain West.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/d87057a2-
 bf64-4dde-852a-3bbeb5b226ad
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