The Guilford Energy Committee is hosting an 'environmental victory' event with journalist and author Jonathan Mingle on Tuesday, July 9, at 7 pm at the Broad Brook Community Center.

 Mingle’s new book, Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future, tells the story of the coalition of rural Virginians who fought for six years to stop the largest fossil gas pipeline ever planned to come out of Appalachia – and won.

Mingle says, "Around that core narrative, I have woven the long and sordid tale of how natural gas (aka methane, aka fossil gas) was sold by the gas and power industries to the American public as a form of "clean energy"and a climate "solution." GASLIGHT is that rarest kind of climate tale: a hope-filled one in which David beats Goliath.”

This will be a fascinating conversation about a key and often overlooked environmental issue: that ordinary citizens hold great power to change the course of climate disaster when they work in solidarity with one another.

Jonathan lives in Lincoln VT with his wife Liza Cochran, who grew up in Guilford, and their two children. Gaslight came out in May of this year.