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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fighting bills shifting
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
views issues molecules
Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.
wall thinking oil
If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
stars aka worst-nightmares
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
fighting electric-power inspiring-others
Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
giving-up believe america
One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
average three temperature
In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
jobs ocean views
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
coal world vanishing
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
fall australia water
With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.
war thinking air
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.
issues climate records
Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.
sky america healthy
Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.
presidential political campaigns
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.