World's biggest mine: Inside US coal

World's biggest mine: Inside US coal

Barack Obama’s pledge to cut carbon emissions has not stopped North Antelope Rochelle mine in Wyoming. In fact, production is booming – and climate change is off the agenda. The Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg gets a rare look inside the biggest coal mine in the world.

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50 Comments

  1. sidhu prakash on October 23, 2021 at 8:42 pm

    3:20 TRUE.

  2. G R on October 23, 2021 at 8:44 pm

    Just 1 ton of this coal produces 3700lbs or carbon dyoxide???

  3. Edward on October 23, 2021 at 8:46 pm

    How do you calculate CO2 emissions from coal?
    Carbon dioxide emissions per ton of coal were determined by multiplying heat content times the carbon coefficient times the fraction oxidized times the ratio of the molecular weight of carbon dioxide to that of carbon (44/12).

  4. Doctor Kankle on October 23, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    exijithz – 3:34

  5. GoneBamboo on October 23, 2021 at 8:49 pm

    Global warming is a Boogeyman invented by global elites in the letters of Rome. Since the Grand Solar Minimum is now on progress, it has been changed to ‘climate change’. People will be freezing to death on the mini ice-age, few cultures have existed long enough to remember. Why is China buying food like it’s going out of style?

  6. sdm115 on October 23, 2021 at 8:49 pm

    Climate change huh
    I wanted to see coal mining not ur climate change bs

  7. StereoSpace on October 23, 2021 at 8:50 pm

    Who didn’t know this "news" piece was gonna be a hit piece on the coal industry?

  8. Kody Oakenshield on October 23, 2021 at 8:50 pm

    Trash video

  9. SoulTaken on October 23, 2021 at 8:51 pm

    3:30 why is the moon so big

  10. Juliusz Kociński on October 23, 2021 at 8:52 pm

    Trying to be eco-friendly myself… This is just misleading, when I seek info about emission I get it, but I came here to see operation of a biggest coal mine… And there’s none of it :v

  11. Nieve Rainmaker on October 23, 2021 at 8:52 pm

    Scrawly today fellas, sleekone’s on a yacht detail with submarines

  12. Commander Doom on October 23, 2021 at 8:53 pm

    The planets gonna change. We are still coming to the end of this ice age

  13. Paul Hayden on October 23, 2021 at 8:53 pm

    questions
    1: Do you care if your children and grandchildren have a livable world and have energy, too?
    2: Are you willing to live Without air conditioning – for your children and grandchildren?

  14. SwissExcavators on October 23, 2021 at 8:57 pm

    If we are the problem, why we are not in the ice age anymore?

  15. Stan Keebler on October 23, 2021 at 8:58 pm

    Climate change? You mean chem. Trails… To thaw south pole….

  16. Dynamic Solution on October 23, 2021 at 8:59 pm

    So 1 ton of coal produces 3,700 lbs of waste/carbon gas..sounds like liberal logic.

  17. WAL_DC-6B on October 23, 2021 at 8:59 pm

    The real enemy of coal mining in the U.S. are not the politicians or elites that speak out against it. Instead, it’s the economic use of natural gas to generate electricity. Wonder how this "world’s biggest mine: Inside US coal" is doing now. Nobody seems to know!

  18. sidhu prakash on October 23, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    1:30 LOL

  19. Burnt Coils on October 23, 2021 at 9:05 pm

    Jeffery Sachs is such a scumbag… makes me want to puke

  20. flyin polack on October 23, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    1:42 complete BS

  21. Tau1s on October 23, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    here i com to see some cool machines not some old had speak about how coal is bad and so on (also if they wherent mining it it someone else would)

  22. Scott MMAFan on October 23, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    "They’re just doing it for their bottom line." Sort of like every other company in this country. There’s no other industry that would be told not to make money, or to lose money because their product damages the environment.

  23. Brandon Dobschutz on October 23, 2021 at 9:07 pm

    Bait and switch journalism

  24. TIM BO on October 23, 2021 at 9:09 pm

    Coal keeps the lights on

  25. John Ross on October 23, 2021 at 9:10 pm

    well seen the yanks are not taking global warming too seriously.

  26. Tom Ondulich on October 23, 2021 at 9:10 pm

    this was just a climate change pr stunt

  27. Tulsa Town on October 23, 2021 at 9:11 pm

    Keep the coal going

  28. W W on October 23, 2021 at 9:12 pm

    When the tough questions get asked, turn off the camera 🤣🤣 coal is only one problem that causes pollution. You could stop coal use tomorrow and the effect stopping coal use and mining would be very negligible.

  29. Danny Deshler on October 23, 2021 at 9:12 pm

    They cry and whine about coal but have no answer on what to use to replace it…And don’t say wind and solar, they aren’t even remotely close to being able to keep up with the power output of coal. Technology has not advanced to the point of eliminating coal, we need to work on cleaning up the emissions from the coal boilers, that will be a way to keep what we need and help the environment.

  30. Tom Keppler on October 23, 2021 at 9:13 pm

    Climate change is the biggest joke ever

  31. Meat Chief on October 23, 2021 at 9:14 pm

    tree hugging report

  32. Bull Miller on October 23, 2021 at 9:14 pm

    How exactly does 2000 lbs of coal produce 3700 lbs of emissions?

  33. Goran Svraka on October 23, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    3:42 "I dont think climate change is real" and you can see her balding lol

  34. Jim Bo on October 23, 2021 at 9:19 pm

    The sky is falling…..

  35. STARMAN on October 23, 2021 at 9:23 pm

    Wow I come to see the mine and what do I get? Politics.
    So you want to shut down coal use, but you also don’t want to put the money and effort into alternatives. Pointless!

  36. CELESTINE KHASATSILI on October 23, 2021 at 9:24 pm

    Don’t destroy other peoples jobs

  37. Brandon Carter on October 23, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    Don’t they have to mine rare earth minerals for all the EV batteries?

  38. D S on October 23, 2021 at 9:29 pm

    stop with the climate change BS – one volcano eruption puts out more carbon then man has produced since the beginning of our existence. Get a new pyramid scheme – climate change is BS!

  39. Martin Ulig on October 23, 2021 at 9:32 pm

    This is a quarry, why do they keep calling it “a mine”?

  40. Tyler Jones on October 23, 2021 at 9:33 pm

    Still powers the country as well as built this country and gives hard working men jobs and they make great money doing it….. I hate government bs

  41. Deploracle on October 23, 2021 at 9:33 pm

    Stop burning the coal and most of the plants and trees on Earth will suffocate.

  42. J w on October 23, 2021 at 9:35 pm

    What a hack job

  43. Tridib Baruah on October 23, 2021 at 9:36 pm

    👍👈👌,carbon coal shouldn’t be banned because coal is useful for filtration of water useful for peoples….

  44. Sean Watts on October 23, 2021 at 9:37 pm

    Obama was the easiest politician to buy in world history.

  45. Life is a Beach on October 23, 2021 at 9:37 pm

    Climate change is going to happen regardless of coal mines.
    The sun is getting bigger and hotter so the earth will eventually turn into a hot charcoal.
    Wanna save nature? Uhmmm don’t have kids. Humans create pollution to the planet but like I said, humans or no humans, earth is not going to last forever.
    Look at China, they pollute and populate more than any other country in the world, but not a single word is said 😶

  46. Noah Fain on October 23, 2021 at 9:38 pm

    What a rude lady. Not the video I was looking for…

  47. Russ mt on October 23, 2021 at 9:39 pm

    1:35 " just1 ton of this coal releases 3700 lbs of carbon dioxide emissions " how does that work.

  48. Joshua 1212 on October 23, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO SEE THE MINE NOT A CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT?! ANYWAYS WE DON’T NEED FOSSIL FUELS, GAS ,OIL ,COAL, YES WE MAY NEED COAL TO MAKE STEEL BUT WE DON’T NEED IT IN OUR POWER PLANTS WE CAN DESIGN EVERYTHING TO RUN ON HHO TWO PARTS HYDROGEN ONE PART OXYGEN IT’S SO EASY TO SPLIT THE ATOMS TO MAKE HYDROGEN OR OXYGEN AND IT’S ALL MADE WITH JUST WATER YOU CAN DO IT AT HOME WITH COMMON HOUSEHOLD ITEMS CHECK OUT THE STAN MEYER VIDEO HE WAS MURDERED BECAUSE HE MADE A CAR THAT RUNS ON WATER

  49. Kurt Pochert on October 23, 2021 at 9:41 pm

    When Mt. St. Hellen erupted it negated any reduction of CO2 produced by man. Volcanos, earthquakes, and the Sun itself are by far the greatest contributors to Climate Change. There were glaciers over Michigan 10,000 yr ago and Man had nothing to do with their retreat. Yes, responsible use of our Earth’s resources is in order, but major contributors by Man toward climate change is not based on any sound science.

  50. BigBusiness on October 23, 2021 at 9:42 pm

    Al Gore said we’d be dead by 2013 from climate change lol…What a sham!

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