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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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.
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.