Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
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.
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there's one thing that even climate denialists don't dispute, dry things burn.