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This chapter is a prelude to chapters that explore the unfolding transformations in the sources of American energy, together with the politics, and policy challenges emerging with this transformation. Institutions, actors, and themes inherent to energy policymaking, which constitute this prelude, will reappear in different combinations throughout these succeeding chapters.

The design of the succeeding chapters, each involving a different energy source, is similar. Each discussion includes these sections:

 The Energy Source: Its Significance and Changing Status

 Policy Prologue: Currently Important Resource Policies

 Contending Issues: The Flashpoints of Current ControversyPolicy AlternativesThe Play of Politics: Issue ActivistsVenues: National, State, Global

In two of the following chapters, the discussion focuses upon the nation’s primary sources of carbon fuels, petroleum, and natural gas (chapter 3) and coal (chapter 4). The subsequent narrative (chapter 5) concerns the continuing policy controversy over the future of domestic nuclear power. The final chapters concern electric power, renewables, and conservation (chapter 6) and the global policy arena (chapter 7).