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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 2016-2017 Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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

Climate, Coal, Fact, Facts, Gas, Natural

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.

America, Save, Too Late, Virginia

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.

Air, Aquifers, Cousin, Left, Top, View

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

Coal, Energy, Events, Politics, Unprecedented, Vanishing

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

Danger, Judged, Obama, President, Radical

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.

America, Effort, Efforts, Global, Infrastructure, Party

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

Average, Freaky, Temperature, Things, Three, Warmed

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower. '

America, Emerge, Land, Like, Regions, Wildlife

Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.

America, Clear, Corporate, Healthy, Pipeline, Sky

You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.

Cast, Dog, Iowa, Texas

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

Cheap, Cost, Energy, Everybody, Everything, Want

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.

Foreign, Oil, Planet, Political, President, Show

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.

Amount, Australian, Coal, Economy, Political

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

Clean, Climate, Consumerist, Energy, View, Views

With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

Australia, Fall, Look, Project, Water

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

Coal, Global, Gorilla, Gorillas, Room, Rooms

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Air, Maybe, Streets, Thinking, War

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

Frackers, Hugely, Issues, Mean, Sexy

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

Behaved, Climate, Environmental, Global Warming

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Air, Biggest, Cost, Effects, External, Water

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