Jeff Goodell
Jeff Goodell
Jeff Goodell is an American author and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. Goodell's writings are known for a focus on energy and environmental issues. He is a 2016 Fellow at the New America Foundation...
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coal facts climate
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
looks world want
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
president danger radical
President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.
air water cost
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
new-york fighting cities
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.
oil political president
Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
oil long mexico
Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
gasoline ethanol cleaners
Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.
jobs coal gone
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
believe needs done
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
president tests firsts
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
party america effort
It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.
environmental climate global-warming
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
earth manipulation climate
Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.