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. Scott MMAFan on July 27, 2021 at 11:13 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.

  2. Kody Oakenshield on July 27, 2021 at 11:17 pm

    Trash video

  3. Danny Deshler on July 27, 2021 at 11:19 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.

  4. Noah Fain on July 27, 2021 at 11:23 pm

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

  5. memyselfand ifarmer on July 27, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    😢😢😢😝😝😝😜😜

  6. flyin polack on July 27, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    1:42 complete BS

  7. TIM BO on July 27, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    Coal keeps the lights on

  8. Life is a Beach on July 27, 2021 at 11:24 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 😶

  9. Dynamic Solution on July 27, 2021 at 11:24 pm

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

  10. MrMinnesota99 on July 27, 2021 at 11:25 pm

    Also, increased atmospheric co2 encourages plant and forest growth making the earth more green

  11. Tau1s on July 27, 2021 at 11:26 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)

  12. MrMinnesota99 on July 27, 2021 at 11:27 pm

    2000 lbs of coal contains 3700 lbs of carbon? Must be using common core math…

  13. Kurt Pochert on July 27, 2021 at 11:29 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.

  14. STAR on July 27, 2021 at 11:30 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!

  15. C0ZMO on July 27, 2021 at 11:30 pm

    World will be over by the time we can even make the slightest difference in climate change. 🤦‍♂️

  16. Lester Gillis on July 27, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    This presumes that "climate change" is caused by man made industry.
    What if it’s caused more by variable solar output ? ?

  17. sidhu prakash on July 27, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    1:30 LOL

  18. T S on July 27, 2021 at 11:32 pm

    Keep the coal going

  19. GoneBamboo on July 27, 2021 at 11:35 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?

  20. Novah Olive on July 27, 2021 at 11:36 pm

    I recently just started investing in bitcoin when I learnt it was $60000 through the help of Luiz and just an hour ago I got a profit of $9000 into my wallet

  21. sidhu prakash on July 27, 2021 at 11:37 pm

    3:20 TRUE.

  22. StereoSpace on July 27, 2021 at 11:40 pm

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

  23. WAL_DC-6B on July 27, 2021 at 11:43 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!

  24. D S on July 27, 2021 at 11:44 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!

  25. Stan Keebler on July 27, 2021 at 11:44 pm

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

  26. Russ mt on July 27, 2021 at 11:44 pm

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

  27. Janet M M on July 27, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    Americas carbon footprint is small compared to other countries.
    Coal isnt just used for burning.

  28. K Earl Long Jr on July 27, 2021 at 11:46 pm

    Climate change is normal you people are nuts

  29. Cf Henriksen on July 27, 2021 at 11:47 pm

    There is no such thing as "Green" Energy.
    Only the emotionally fragile Climate Loons think otherwise.

  30. Martin Ulig on July 27, 2021 at 11:48 pm

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

  31. ZanyBlakeSpeed on July 27, 2021 at 11:49 pm

    Humans, the only species arrogant enough to believe we are ruining the earth! Zero proof! Zero facts! No model to base the theory off of since there is only been one earth. Just hypothetical bull…t. So America goes totally green, so what! The rest of the world does not. China, India and many third world countries signed the Paris Climate change and then do not even come close to meeting their goals. All in the single digits compared to where they are supposed to be. What a joke. A green country means hyperinflation, a week economy and the end of this great country!

  32. Paul Hayden on July 27, 2021 at 11:49 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?

  33. Burnt Coils on July 27, 2021 at 11:51 pm

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

  34. Bull Miller on July 27, 2021 at 11:51 pm

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

  35. Meat Chief on July 27, 2021 at 11:53 pm

    tree hugging report

  36. Brandon Dobschutz on July 27, 2021 at 11:53 pm

    Bait and switch journalism

  37. SwissExcavators on July 27, 2021 at 11:53 pm

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

  38. CELESTINE KHASATSILI on July 27, 2021 at 11:55 pm

    Don’t destroy other peoples jobs

  39. Muhammad Pack on July 27, 2021 at 11:55 pm

    They don’t care that 80 percent of coal country is coal miners shut down the mines and America will go broke

  40. Joshua 1212 on July 27, 2021 at 11:56 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

  41. Jim Bo on July 27, 2021 at 11:57 pm

    The sky is falling…..

  42. sdm115 on July 27, 2021 at 11:58 pm

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

  43. Chris Dreiling on July 28, 2021 at 12:00 am

    There is a volcano erupting in Hawaii that they say has been erupting for 300 years every single day but there worried about burning a little coal. We are still warming from the last ice age. When it gets time it will start getting colder tell there’s another ice age. It’s called history

  44. G R on July 28, 2021 at 12:02 am

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

  45. Sean Watts on July 28, 2021 at 12:05 am

    Obama was the easiest politician to buy in world history.

  46. BigBusiness on July 28, 2021 at 12:06 am

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

  47. W W on July 28, 2021 at 12:06 am

    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.

  48. Commander Doom on July 28, 2021 at 12:08 am

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

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  50. Deploracle on July 28, 2021 at 12:11 am

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

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