Jeff Goodell

Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.

— Jeff Goodell

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

— Jeff Goodell

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

— Jeff Goodell

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

— Jeff Goodell

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

— Jeff Goodell

Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.

— Jeff Goodell

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

— Jeff Goodell

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

— Jeff Goodell

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health…

— Jeff Goodell

When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just…

— Jeff Goodell

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no…

— Jeff Goodell

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America…

— Jeff Goodell

To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.

— Jeff Goodell

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

— Jeff Goodell

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late…

— Jeff Goodell

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole…

— Jeff Goodell

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use…

— Jeff Goodell

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean…

— Jeff Goodell

Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and…

— Jeff Goodell

Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as…

— Jeff Goodell

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I…

— Jeff Goodell

In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity…

— Jeff Goodell

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…

— Jeff Goodell

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the…

— Jeff Goodell

“Geuze compared sea-level rise to other transformative catastrophes, such as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, a partly man-made natural disaster that…

— Jeff Goodell

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

— Jeff Goodell

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

— Jeff Goodell

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

— Jeff Goodell

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

— Jeff Goodell

“Will we welcome people who flee submerged coastlines and sinking islands—or will we imprison them?”

— Jeff Goodell

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

— Jeff Goodell

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

— Jeff Goodell

Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy…

— Jeff Goodell

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

— Jeff Goodell

In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.

— Jeff Goodell

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

— Jeff Goodell

The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike…

— Jeff Goodell

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an…

— Jeff Goodell

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never…

— Jeff Goodell

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

— Jeff Goodell