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Jeff Goodell
Jeff Goodell
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The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East. Jeff Goodell
Country Keystone Project Wildly Alive Claims East Jobs Reliance Would Thousands Exaggerated Tens Tens Of Thousands Industry Making Pipeline America Middle Oil Oil Industry Middle East Infrastructure Create Decrease Hard Fought Keep Largest
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. Jeff Goodell
Business Nasty Tar Oil Polluting Sands
If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil. Jeff Goodell
Good You Big Think Looked Big Oil Wall Wall Street Closely Oil Street
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. Jeff Goodell
Health Water Air Tab Costs Picks Economists Like Call Up Effects Pollution Biggest Public Fuels Fossil Fossil Fuels External
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them. Jeff Goodell
You World Profit Days Know Look Make Around Built How Just Want Them Billion Whole
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. Jeff Goodell
Change Earth Point Point Of View Global Climate Climate Change Issue Same CO2 View Molecule Sydney
The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea. Jeff Goodell
You Few Control Strike Earth Bad Bad Idea Taken Idea Toward Steps Over Likely Climate Closer Human Human Beings Really Beings Asserting
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. Jeff Goodell
People Job Big Creation Mine Mines Job Creation Plenty Out Running Open Employ Underground Left End America Pit Tiny Mean Fantasy Should Coal Engine Number Fraction
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs. Jeff Goodell
Better Gone Worse Jobs Industry Bulk Coal
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. Jeff Goodell
Too Late Big Too Virginia Late West West Virginia Itself America May Coal Save
But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia. Jeff Goodell
Has-Been Obama Kindly Record Devastating He Environment Putting Overall Been Up Blowing Stopped Regions Uninspired Coal Companies Large
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. Jeff Goodell
Will National Keystone Our Approve Obama Gulf Faces Question Mexico National Interest Canada Pipeline Oil Deciding Whether Interest Planet Barrels Bring
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. Jeff Goodell
War Change Problem Will Think Resolved Guerilla Meeting About More Hall Climate Climate Change Maybe International Activists Fought Streets
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