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91 items by Jeff Goodell
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Supermodel Elle MacPherson Body-Slams Big Coal | BLOG ENTRY
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. And hotties are...
June 19, 2012 4:52 PM ET -
Big Coal’s Sleazy War | BLOG ENTRY
This is "End Mountaintop Removal Week Washington DC," an attempt by activists to draw attention to the rape and pillage of Appalachia by Big Coal. Yesterday, 22 activists were arrested during a sit-in at congressional...
June 7, 2012 11:55 AM ET -
Mark Ruffalo on the Fracking Fight | BLOG ENTRY
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 moment to draw...
May 16, 2012 10:29 AM ET -
Fracker Aubrey McClendon Booted From Chesapeake Board | BLOG ENTRY
Aubrey McClendon, the self-proclaimed "World’s biggest fracker," has been booted as Chairman of Chesapeake Energy, the company he co-founded in 1989. Not exactly a surprise, given the depth of the shithole he’d dug for himself...
May 1, 2012 4:27 PM ET -
'World's Biggest Fracker' Aubrey McClendon Should Walk the Plank | BLOG ENTRY
Tough times for Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, the self-styled "world's biggest fracker." In the days since the story broke about McClendon’s shady billion-dollar loan, his company’s stock price has dropped by 10 percent, hedge...
April 24, 2012 3:14 PM ET -
'World's Biggest Fracker' Pockets $1 Billion in Shady Deal | BLOG ENTRY
In March, I wrote a long article about the fracking boom for Rolling Stone, focusing on Chesapeake Energy, whose CEO, Aubrey McClendon proudly boasted to me, "We’re the biggest frackers in the world." The story raised...
April 18, 2012 8:55 PM ET -
Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher Out of 'Isolated Confinement' | BLOG ENTRY
I wrote yesterday that the jailed climate activist Tim DeChristopher, who's serving a two-year sentence in the Herlong prison in California, had recently been moved to "isolated confinement" at the behest of an unidentified ...
March 29, 2012 11:39 AM ET -
Jailed Climate Hero Tim DeChristopher Thrown in the Hole | BLOG ENTRY
"Have you ever read Franz Kafka’s The Trial?" That is the first thing that Patrick Shea, a member of jailed climate activist Tim DeChristopher’s legal defense team, says to me when I call him this morning to ask...
March 28, 2012 2:20 PM ET -
EPA Power Plant Rule Drives a Stake Through the Heart of Big Coal | BLOG ENTRY
Shed a tear for Mr. Coal. This is a historic moment. For most of the past century, coal-fired power plants generated the electricity that lit our cities and powered our factories. And corrupted our politics. But...
March 28, 2012 9:48 AM ET -
Lessons from Obama's Keystone Cave-In | BLOG ENTRY
Yesterday, President Obama stood in front of a pile of big green pipes – yes, green pipes – in Cushing, Oklahoma, and promised to expedite approval of federal permits for the southern leg of the controversial Keystone...
March 23, 2012 3:40 PM ET -
What to Look for in Obama's 'Keystone Lite' Energy Speech | BLOG ENTRY
President Obama is set to make a big speech about energy tomorrow in Oklahoma. If advance press reports are correct, he will use his visit to the town of Cushing – a major hub in the...
March 21, 2012 12:17 PM ET -
Has Big Coal Lost Its Power? | BLOG ENTRY
Right now, energy geeks around the country are debating the economic and political consequences of high gasoline prices, but here’s one thing you can say for sure: Pain at the pump is inspiring President Obama to make...
March 16, 2012 1:55 PM ET -
Why We'll Miss Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and Climate Warrior | BLOG ENTRY
This morning, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the spiritual head of the Anglican Church, announced that he is stepping down. This is not normally the kind of news that would be of much...
March 16, 2012 10:31 AM ET -
Rolling Stone Responds to Chesapeake Energy on 'The Fracking Bubble' | BLOG ENTRY
Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, has a reputation for being a tough street-fighter, so his company’s response to my article in Rolling Stone is no surprise. (You can view the entire response here.)...
March 6, 2012 10:22 AM ET -
Why Obama Is Wrong About Natural Gas | BLOG ENTRY
Speaking in New Hampshire yesterday, President Obama signaled that he will not go wobbly on energy during the upcoming campaign (climate is another story). He made a strong case for his commitment to the clean-power revolution,...
March 2, 2012 11:00 AM ET -
The Big Fracking Bubble: The Scam Behind Aubrey McClendon's Gas Boom | ARTICLE
Aubrey McClendon, America's second-largest producer of natural gas, has never been afraid of a fight. He has become a billionaire by directing his company, Chesapeake Energy, to blast apart gas-soaked rocks a mile underground and pump the...
March 1, 2012 8:00 AM ET -
Big Oil to Obama: Okay the Pipeline Or Pay the Price | BLOG ENTRY
During the payroll tax cut fight just before the holidays, I wrote a quick post suggesting that the Keystone XL pipeline fight was far from over, and that one plausible scenario – laid out for me...
January 6, 2012 5:30 PM ET -
Keystone Pipeline Endgame: Three Scenarios | BLOG ENTRY
The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline may not be the most important environmental or energy story of 2011. But it is certainly one of the most dramatic, with climate scientists hauled off...
December 23, 2011 1:35 PM ET -
Keystone XL: The Pipeline That Won't Die | BLOG ENTRY
The zombie pipeline lives! You might think that the Obama administration's decision last month to delay the construction of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline pending further review would have put an end to Big Oil's pipeline dreams....
December 13, 2011 10:00 AM ET -
$200 Million Settlement Reached Over Massey Mine Disaster | BLOG ENTRY
Life is not cheap in the coal fields of West Virginia after all. The owner of Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia where 29 miners died last year in a violent explosion, is ready to...
December 6, 2011 3:55 PM ET
