The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power

From two environmental journalists, "the improbable story of how the oil and gas state became the nation's wind-power leader" (The Texas Observer).

In the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has become Texas's latest boom. How did this dramatic transformation happen in a state that fights federal environmental p...