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Jeff Goodell
The author of Big Coal offers a primer on the world's dependence on coal, the challenges in cleaning it up, and what we confront in developing clean, carbon-free energy for the future.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Sen. John Warner
Co-sponsors of the 2008 Climate Security Act - Congress' first serious attempt to regulate industrial carbon emissions through a cap-and-trade system.
Dr. Ling Wen
CEO of Shenhua Energy, China's largest coal company and the second largest coal company in the world. He believes China is being blamed unfairly for its CO2 emissions.
Jeffrey Ball
Environmental editor for The Wall Street Journal, he spells outthe challenges for the auto, oil and coal industries who long-term decisions on capital investments, much of it requiring massive new infrastructure to cut carbon emissions.
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