All Jeff Goodell Quotes
- When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room. Coal
- 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… All
- Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? Activist
- Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change. Change
- Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially… Burn
- Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. Bill
- In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. Alone
- 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… Change
- Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. Business
- One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in… Any
- 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,… Almost Half
- If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil. Big
- In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal. Boost
- When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power. Cheap
- In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state… Attacked
- 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… Activist
- 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… American
- 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… Big
- 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. America
- Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East. American
- Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. All
- Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up. Anything Done
- Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China. Anymore
- Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper. Burn
- For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs. Appalachia