In separate actions over the last two years, New York's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, and Carol Browner, Mrs. Whitman's predecessor at the E.P.A., sued more than 30 coal-fired power plants for expanding their operations without taking the anti-pollution steps required by law.
Such a non-violent revolution could secularise the state, separating it from religion, and revolutionise religion itself by redefining Islam as a discourse of freedom and a method not for obtaining and managing power, but for expanding freedom.
In recent years, India's government has set ambitious goals for expanding power generation capacity, and while new plants have come online, many more have faced delays, whether because of bureaucratic entanglements, environmental concerns or other problems.
"It has this power of expanding something.
When Mr Clinton proposed universal health care in 1993, he was resented for expanding government power.
In this view, fishing boats become Trojan horses for expanding international power.
But he said that India was stepping up its efforts to deal with climate change, and was increasing its targets for expanding solar power and energy efficiency.
In past economic crises, populist fervor has been for expanding the power of the national government to address America's pressing needs.
The Obama administration's big payouts to the nuclear industry will be essential for expanding nuclear power; the industry has made it clear that there will be no nuclear renaissance unless the US taxpayer foots the bill.
The statist's technique for expanding the power of government consists of using an actual or alleged economic disaster to evaluate all businessmen as criminals or as potential criminals.
