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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
admitted biggest coal fast hard industry
Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.
coal electric inspiring million power
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.
coal facts climate
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
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.
coal world vanishing
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
coal half fuel
Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.
political coal economy
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
gorillas rooms coal
When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.
coal china wells
Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
america coal employ engine fraction job left mines number open people pit plenty running tiny
The end of coal in Appalachia doesn't mean that America is running out of coal (there's plenty left in Wyoming). But it should end the fantasy that coal can be an engine of job creation - the big open pit mines in Wyoming employ a tiny fraction of the number of people in an underground mine in Appalachia.
beyond bring coal dependent fields jobs lives miners move people relevant whose work
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?
fleeing rising since
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.
australia carbon cut deserts designed empty expect forefront might
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.
almost barrier country likely limitless natural vanish
What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.