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.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

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.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

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.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

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.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

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

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.'

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.

Money is a product of time

Never lie to the one who wants you safe.

There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.

You know, I was not an attractive child - I never had a cute face.

The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.