Jeff Goodell Quotes

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

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

Jeff Goodell

Tags: alone

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 moves to promote renewable...

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 moves to promote renewable...

Jeff Goodell

Tags: power, war

About Author

Jeff Goodell is an American author of seven non-fiction books and a longtime contributing writer to Rolling Stone. Goodell's writings are known for a focus on energy and environmental issues. He is Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.

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

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

Jeff Goodell

Tags: power

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

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

Jeff Goodell

Tags: politics

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

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

Jeff Goodell

Tags: politics

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

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

Jeff Goodell

Tags: power

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect pre...

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect pre...

Jeff Goodell

Tags: government

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 h...

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 h...

Jeff Goodell

Tags: food

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak ha...

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak ha...

Jeff Goodell

Tags: food

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

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

Jeff Goodell

Tags: environmental, global warming, slow

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 as a superhero in the hottest movie of the m...

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 as a superhero in the hottest movie of the m...

Jeff Goodell

Tags: environmental, health, power, moment

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 anybod...

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 anybod...

Jeff Goodell

Tags: environmental, work, sexy, plants

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.

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.

Jeff Goodell

Tags: 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.

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.

Jeff Goodell

Tags: power

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.

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.

Jeff Goodell

Tags: power

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

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

Jeff Goodell

Tags: respect

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

Jeff Goodell

Tags: science

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

Tags: success

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Jeff Goodell

Tags: change, failure, climate change

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

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

Jeff Goodell

Tags: change