Don Grant is professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is also a fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute and director of the Social Innovation and Care, Health, and Resilience programs.Andrew Jorgenson is professor and chair of sociology and professor of environmental studies at Boston College. He is the 2020 recipient of the American Sociological Association Section on Environmental Sociology's Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award. Wesley Longhofer is associate professor of organization and management and academic director of social enterprise in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

• List of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgments1. Who Is Responsible for This Mess?: The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants3. Recipes for Disaster: How Social Structures Interact to Make Environmentally Destructive Plants Even More So4. A Win-Win Solution?: The Paradoxical Effects of Efficiency on Plants’ CO2 Emissions5. Bottom-Up Strategies: The Effectiveness of Local Policies and Activism (with Ion Bogdan Vasi)6. Next Steps: Future Research and Action on Society’s Super PollutersAppendixesNotesReferences

A fascinating reminder that relatively few plants account for vast percentages of the carbon flowing into the atmosphere. That means that concentrating on them could pay huge dividends, but only if careful thinking like this undergirds the approach.

Don Grant is professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is also a fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute and director of the Social Innovation and Care, Health, and Resilience programs.Andrew Jorgenson is professor and chair of sociology and professor of environmental studies at Boston College. He is the 2020 recipient of the American Sociological Association Section on Environmental Sociology's Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award. Wesley Longhofer is associate professor of organization and management and academic director of social enterprise in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

• List of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgments1. Who Is Responsible for This Mess?: The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants3. Recipes for Disaster: How Social Structures Interact to Make Environmentally Destructive Plants Even More So4. A Win-Win Solution?: The Paradoxical Effects of Efficiency on Plants’ CO2 Emissions5. Bottom-Up Strategies: The Effectiveness of Local Policies and Activism (with Ion Bogdan Vasi)6. Next Steps: Future Research and Action on Society’s Super PollutersAppendixesNotesReferences

A fascinating reminder that relatively few plants account for vast percentages of the carbon flowing into the atmosphere. That means that concentrating on them could pay huge dividends, but only if careful thinking like this undergirds the approach.

Don Grant is professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is also a fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute and director of the Social Innovation and Care, Health, and Resilience programs.Andrew Jorgenson is professor and chair of sociology and professor of environmental studies at Boston College. He is the 2020 recipient of the American Sociological Association Section on Environmental Sociology's Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award. Wesley Longhofer is associate professor of organization and management and academic director of social enterprise in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

• List of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgments1. Who Is Responsible for This Mess?: The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants3. Recipes for Disaster: How Social Structures Interact to Make Environmentally Destructive Plants Even More So4. A Win-Win Solution?: The Paradoxical Effects of Efficiency on Plants’ CO2 Emissions5. Bottom-Up Strategies: The Effectiveness of Local Policies and Activism (with Ion Bogdan Vasi)6. Next Steps: Future Research and Action on Society’s Super PollutersAppendixesNotesReferences

A fascinating reminder that relatively few plants account for vast percentages of the carbon flowing into the atmosphere. That means that concentrating on them could pay huge dividends, but only if careful thinking like this undergirds the approach.