Jeff Goodell Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
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From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.
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Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
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Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
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President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.
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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.
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In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity batteries to machines that can scrub carbon dioxide out of the air. With a personal fortune of $50 billion, Gates has the resources to give his favorite solutions a major boost.
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With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.
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To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.
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Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
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Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
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Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.
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The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.
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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
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Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.
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It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
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The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
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The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.
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The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?
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In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
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Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.
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Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.