I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

In 2006 Turner received the Bower Award for Business Leadership from The Franklin Institute. Purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System. In 1976 the FCC allowed Turner’s WTCG to use a satellite to transmit content to local cable TV providers around the nation.

He was the largest private landowner in the United States until John C. Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19 1938) is an American media mogul. As a businessman he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN the first 24-hour cable news channel.