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4-30	Environmental groups meet new cabinet secretary; Representatives say agency must be more responsive
4-30	Federal agency plans hearings on coal dust
4-30	US Senate panel to finish energy bill this week U.S. lawmakers reject higher fuel standard for SUVs
4-30	Elk Run may use plant ; Agreement similar to one made after first dome rupture
4-30	Reclamations run behind schedule; Mine project didn't account for hiring, training, official says
4-30	Power Play
4-30	Black lung's persistence
4-30	Wisconsin Utility Reaches Pollution Accord
4-30	Compact II: Trees, not moonscapes
4-29	Social compact: Develop strip mine
4-29	The nation's coal production slipped by 33.9 million short tons last year, or 3 percent
4-29	Black lung study casts cloud over coal-dust limits
4-29	Trial to begin today for KenAmerican mining company
4-28	Longwall subsidence: your cost of their doing business
4-28	The ugly truth behind mountaintop coal mining
4-28	Heavy coal trucks targeted in Marion; Agency says area used to by-pass weigh station
4-28	Board considering looser limits on carcinogens
4-28	A Change in Surface Mining is on the Horizon
4-28	White House busy gutting environmental rules while closing public out of say
4-28	Environmentalists are not terrorists
4-28	Study links heart attacks to rise in air pollution
4-28	Expanded mining in forest debated
4-27	Mountaintop removal study delayed again
4-27	Study finds black lung despite rules on coal dust
4-27	Cleanup draws 100
4-27	Northeast States Urge Coal Controls
4-27	McDowell County students recount devastating flood waters McDowell County Flood Atlas
4-27	Blasting the neighbors
4-27	Criminal Agents Diverted to Drive EPA Boss
4-27	Ohio wants coal prep plant owners to clean up or face fines, jail
4-27	'Last Man Out': The Price of Coal
4-27	Is Natural Gas A Natural?
4-27	Electricity Grid Debate to Face Spotlight
4-27	Mine discharge flows into Cabin Creek (scroll down)
4-27	Coal-rich Kentucky again has lowest U.S. electrical rates
4-27	Clean air illusions
4-27	Unions, fishermen back wind farm for Nantucket Sound
4-27	Czech govt to cover environmental damages at mines
4-26	Julian Martin: Protesters and terrorists: Majority approval doesn’t justify war
4-26	Power plant funding delay worries official
4-26	FPL Energy to add 135 MW U.S. wind energy capacity
4-26	Trout stocking part of Blackwater River revival
4-26	Critics Bash Bush on Earth Day
4-26	Cabin Creek miners hold suspect until police arrive
4-26	Shareholders Worried About Global Warming
4-25	Earth Day -- A Time for Action on Global Warming
4-25	Please Attack Appalachia
4-24	Wise doles out grants, answers
4-24	Northeast States Urge Coal Controls
4-24	Earth Day founder calls for 'sustainability' dialogue
4-24	Wind tears dome at coal mine
4-23	OSM chief tours state mine: Mine projects test reforestation methods
4-23	Invasive species harming state economy: Scientists group wants funding for eradication program
4-23	Administration Has Declared War on the Environment
4-22	Here’s a chance to tell Gov. Wise what you think
4-22	Massey trims CEO’s bonus
4-22	Crackdown Urged On Coal Pollution ; Panel Criticizes Administration on Clean Air Rules
4-22	Congress Urged to Tighten Rules on Coal Plants
4-22	Vowing to Enforce, and Change, the Clean Air Act
4-22	EPA should require state-of-art pollution controls on all power plants, managers' group says
4-22	Arch Coal Loss Widens on Soft Demand Arch Coal reports losses in first quarter
4-21	Wise sets high bar in campaign fund raising
4-21	New Anti-Environment Tack By Bush?
4-21	Smaller differences left in House-Senate energy bills; $18 billion tax break slated for non-renewables Energy Bill Offers Billions for N-Power
4-21	Give Us Back Our Democracy
4-21	Local Officials Rise Up to Defy The Patriot Act
4-20	OneWorld: Seven Environmental Activists Honored With 'Green Nobels'
4-20	WVAH TV: Julia Bonds (scroll down)
4-20	Africa OnLine: Goldman Prize honours environmental activists
4-20	American Communication Foundation on Judy: Personal Perseverance
4-20	Faith Groups Join Secular Environmental Groups to Address Common Goals
4-20	The War at Home
4-20	Cheat Gorge: Species haven?
4-20	Does pipeline have enough customers?
4-19	Coal ash being marketed as a ‘green' product; Officials worry that waste may contain harmful pollutants
4-19	Reshaping environmental policy: Critics say Bush gets his way by settling lawsuits
4-19	Utility to Spend $1.2 Billion to Cut Pollution Dominion agrees to pollution controls; Utility agrees to fine, new equipment for plants in Va., W.Va.
4-19	DuPont must test residents; Judge’s C8 ruling a big victory for plant neighbors Judge rules DuPont has to pay for blood testing
4-19	Hinton celebrates environmental contract for hydroelectric plant
4-19	Coal companies say utilities are lowering demand
4-18	Coal firms cite lower demand
4-18	Judges Question U.S. Move in Cheney Suit Judges Question Bid to Halt Lawsuit on Cheney Judge scolds Cheney lawyers in energy case appeal
4-18	On Earth Day, the water news is bad
4-18	Environmental Quality Board to vote on permit changes
4-18	Workers' comp: 'Culture of disability'
4-18	Rejecting the World
4-18	Ashes to Green Products: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource (This company's press release fails to mention the toxic heavy metals in coal ash!)
4-18	U.S. Renewable Energy Fueled By Local Efforts
4-18	Renewable sources could power most of Illinois
4-18	Pedro Arrojo-Agudo has started a new water culture in the Old World (Winner of the Goldman Prize for Europe)
4-18	Coalminer's Daughter Wins World's Largest Environmental Award - The Julia Bonds Story
4-18	Friends of the Earth nominees win environmental prize (FOE asked OVEC to help provide MUCH background information on Judy Bonds and MTR.)
4-18	New Zealand: Right to fight acknowledged
4-18	Voice of America: Goldman Prize Honors Environmental Activists
4-18	CBS Radio: FOE OF COAL MINING WINS GOLDMAN PRIZE (scroll down)
4-18	Seeing the Forest blog--scroll down...the writer hopes Judy runs for Senate!
4-18	African Wildlife Foundation: 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Announced
4-18	Argentina: SIETE ACTIVISTAS GANAN EL PREMIO MÁS IMPORTANTE DEL ECOLOGISMO
4-18	UN Wire: Seven activists receive prize (scroll down)
4-18	WCHS TV: Julia Bonds (scroll down)
4-18	France: Prix Goldman pour l’environnement (scroll down)
4-18	German website, Brazil-based: Goldman-Preis an sieben Umweltschützer verliehen
4-18	Coal Trade links to Hoover's On-Line with two stories about Judy Bonds (one from the Charleston Gazette story, and one from the Wall St. Journal.)
4-18	Wall Street Journal: Coal miner's daughter wins highest environmental award
4-17	A Celebration of Global Environmentalism (Go Judy, winner of the Goldman Prize for North America!)
4-17	Whitman Nabs Luntzie! - Read the memo that created LuntzSpeak - pdf
4-17	Coal miners may go to N.Y. to protest hillbilly show
4-17	Corps of Engineers opposes coal prospecting: Company seeking to take drillings at East Lynn Lake
4-17	Coal Miners Plan Hillbilly Show Protest
4-17	Coalfields exodus abates
4-16	Ballots Can Keep Bullets From Flying A Call To Register For Peace -- TomPaine.com’s Register For Peace page!
4-16	U.S. 119 accident kills man
4-16	Eight schools in McDowell closer to closing (Clearing the schools off the mountaintop removal flood plains?)
4-15	DEP allows 'fish and wildlife' mine permit
4-15	Blast supervisor wins $142,500 in suit; Man cited danger, refused to set off explosives at mine Miner who resigned settles suit
4-15	Wise war chest has more than $1 million
4-15	Capito vote supports western coal bill
4-15	E.P.A. Orders Companies to Examine Effects of Chemicals Feds continue to look at C8 Group says DuPont withheld risk of C8
4-15	Solar cells dropping in cost, increasing efficiency
4-14	WV Public Radio: Nobel for the Environment
4-14	Grist Magazine: West Virginia activist Julia Bonds takes on mountaintop-removal mining Prize Fighters
4-14	Environment News Service: Environmental Awards Celebrate Grassroots Action
4-14	Charleston Gazette: Raleigh woman to get environmental award GO JUDY!
4-14	Goldman Prize Website: Coalminer’s Daughter in West Virginia, Australian Aboriginal Grandmothers Among Winners of 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize Profile of Judy Bonds Photos of Judy
4-14	San Francisco Chronicle: Goldman Prize honors environmental crusaders Same article, great picture also on Common Dreams
4-14	BBC: Award for US coalmine activist
4-14	Reuters: Seven activists win top environmental prize Same article posted on ENN and Planet Ark
4-14	KTVU (AP): Grandmothers Lead List Of Goldman Prize Winners
4-14	San Jose Mercury News (AP): International grass roots activists honored with Goldman prize
4-14	Sarasota Herald Tribune (AP): International grass roots activists honored with Goldman prize
4-14	(California) The Press Enterprise (AP): International grass roots activists honored with Goldman prize
4-14	San Francisco Examiner: Activists honored with green award
4-14	Oakland Tribune: Green Nobel Prizes to be given at S.F. ceremony
4-14	Environment is a priority for Wise, says new DEP chief
4-14	More Energy Follies
4-14	‘Final Assault’ an engaging drama
4-13	Hatch Leading Charge to '1984,' Critics Warn
4-13	Kentucky coal towns face tough times as populations fall
4-13	Owners grow workers' comp debt with multiple businesses
4-13	Callaghan seeks person to run against Capito; GOP fundraiser
4-12	Defeated measure could have hurt retired miners
4-12	In Wyoming: Coalbed water ruled a pollutant
4-12	House Passes Broad Incentives for Oil and Gas Production Advocates of Arctic Drilling Buoyed as House Passes Bill House Passes Pro - Development Energy Bill
4-12	Environment and Human Rights Linked Before UN Commission
4-11	The economic heresy of Herman Daly (See related articles from 4-10 posting)
4-11	House Backs Oil Drilling in Arctic Refuge US Senate panel approves renewable fuels earmark
4-11	Byrd questions Labor secretary on mine safety
4-11	Hoosier tells others to oppose coal plant; Western Kentucky plan endangers air, Sierra Club is told
4-11	Cecil Roberts: Workers need to protect benefits from corporations
4-11	In New York State: Proposed wind power project stirs up a lawsuit
4-10	In Kentucky: Federal land swap prompts challenge Four groups file suit to block forest land swap
4-10	Energy Matters Return to Fore on Capitol Hill House to Vote on Bill for Arctic Oil Drilling
4-10	Monthly mine reports bill clears hurdle
4-10	Miners' lives matter
4-10	Greenbrier gas pipeline approved Feds give green light to pipeline project
4-10	Coal, nuclear power take aim at expensive natgas
4-10	U.S. Foreign Policy Shaped by Energy Supply
4-10	Alternative fusion machine limbers up
4-10	Let It Be Me
4-10	Ecological economist Robert Costanza puts a price tag on nature The Wealth of Nature The Skeptical Economist
4-10	Plan to undo power rules: Lawmakers say California made epic mistake on deregulation
4-9	People vs. people
4-9	State could be terror target, official says (An official with of the state Department of Emergency Services says potential domestic terrorist groups include religious organizations and environmental activists! Of course, coal companies that destroy lives, water, landscapes are exempt from any such labeling. )
4-9	War sharpens energy debate (The debate should be about what extent and amount of death and destruction we are willing to allow in the name of "cheap" energy.)
4-9	The war against Byrd is wrong
4-9	Patriot Act may endanger students Patriot Act resolution moves on
4-9	Power grid plans stalled by Virginia decision
4-9	Full US House, Senate panel to weigh energy bills
4-9	Energy bill threatens UMW health-care benefits
4-9	Dems Eye Probe of Cheney's Ex - Company
4-9	Massey defenders need facts
4-9	Lobbyists spend $165,000 during session
4-9	Arch Coal Sees a Wider - Than - Expected Loss
4-9	Vermont: Senate passes renewable energy bill
4-8	Running 'Clean': In Maine and Arizona, campaign finance reform starts at the grass roots (West Virginia's Clean Elections bill is modeled on Maine and Arizona's laws.)
4-8	Leaders of a global civil society chart an alternative to globalization (Scroll down to "From Brazilian Wetlands to Appalachian Mountain Tops" for an OVEC story)
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