--- title: Why Big Coal Companies Want a Climate Deal description: Why big coal wants a climate deal, how Russia saved Lebanon from ISIS, the hidden power of ninth grade and more. canonical: https://time.com/4076321/coal-companies-want-climate-deal/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-16T16:01:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:14.731Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Big Coal Companies Want a Climate Deal og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4076321/coal-companies-want-climate-deal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Big Coal Companies Want a Climate Deal twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Big Coal Companies Want a Climate Deal by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 16, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 16, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Even coal-mining companies want a climate deal.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-14/even-coal-mining-giants-now-want-a-climate-change-deal-this-year) By Alex Nussbaum in Bloomberg Business **2\.** [**Did Russia save Lebanon from ISIS?**](http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/12/has-russia-saved-lebanon-from-isil.html) By Nicholas Blanford in Al Jazeera America **3\.** [**Is the secret to high school success hidden in ninth grade?**](http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/surprising-power-ninth-grade) By Amy Scott at Marketplace **4\.** [**We should judge candidates on how they plan to accomplish, well, anything.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/upshot/democrats-avoid-a-hard-question-how-to-pass-their-proposals.html) By Brendan Nyhan in the Upshot **5\.** [**This software makes cyber-bullies think twice.**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/new-software-makes-cyberbullies-think-twice-180956948/) By Emily Matchar in Smithsonian Magazine  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4076321/coal-companies-want-climate-deal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4076321/coal-companies-want-climate-deal/"},"headline":"Why Big Coal Companies Want a Climate Deal","datePublished":"2015-10-16T16:01:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:14.731Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4076321/coal-companies-want-climate-deal/","keywords":["Innovation","russia","climate","coal","High School","ISIS","cyberbullying"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4076321/coal-companies-want-climate-deal/","name":"Why Big Coal Companies Want a Climate Deal"}}]}] ```