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5-31
The Impact of Mountaintop Mining 
5-31
Massey subsidiary allowed to operate
5-31
Foul water flows in homes; Harlan residents blame coal mine
5-31
Mining study lacks guidance, DEP says
5-31
'Obliterated' is 'Tainted' at WSJ
5-31
Study Faults Mountaintop Mining Oversight
5-31
Mountaintop mining report issued; U.S. complies with lawsuit, but environmentalists not satisfied
5-31
Study Shows Metals in Air Aggravate Asthma and Allergies 
5-31
Tighter Regulations Needed in Mountaintop Mining
5-31
US aims to streamline mountaintop mining permits
5-31
Only minor changes sought on mountaintop mining
5-31
U.S. seeks to continue mountaintop mining
5-31
Federal report calls for new regulation of mountaintop mining; environmentalists critical
5-31
'Groundhog' Robot Could Make Mining Safer
5-31
Pa. utility, Jersey cut deal to shut 2 coal-fired plants
5-30
MTR EIS  Windows Media (WV Public Radio)
5-30
Environmentalists dismayed by mining study --  Mountaintop Removal Study Criticized
5-30
Groups blast mining study's findings; Activists say real purpose is helping coal companies
5-30
Mountaintop removal damage proved; Bush administration proposes no concrete limits on new mining permits
5-30
Mining report draws fire, praise; Environmentalist call it 'a new low'
5-30
Mining Damage in Appalachia Extensive, U.S. Finds
5-30
U.S. Aims to Streamline Mountaintop Mining Permits
5-30
U.S. proposes new rules on mountaintop mining 
5-30
Charleston and Beckley TV News Coverage: Strip Mining Study Environmentalists dismayed by mining study Strip mining study released 
5-30
Report Seeks Mountaintop Mining Changes (More Destruction!)
5-30
Federal report calls for new regulation of mountaintop mining (NOT!)
5-30
In Kentucky Governors' campaign: Energy secretary campaigns for Fletcher  Fletcher touts state energy plan
5-30
Power plant promoters still scrape for funding
5-30
Arch Coal to Buy Vulcan Coal for $364M
5-30
Rescued Quecreek miners hope to aid coal towns
5-30
Media giants circle  Rotten, Old-Fashioned Corruption at the FCC
5-30
Logger to buy chunk of Cheat River Canyon; Wise miffed land was not sold to state for wildlife refuge
5-29
Mountaintop Removal Mining Leads to Substantial and Irreversible Harm, Studies Show  
5-29
Study underlines citizens' calls for a ban on mountaintop removal; Groups say Bush administration ignores science to reward political cronies
5-29
Study backs mining; Report focuses on lessening impact of removal process (If you believe the press release of the Army Corps of Engineers--see the link below. And, no Bill Raney, the Environmental Impact Statement is NOT about jobs!) 
5-29
Link to the 5,000 page Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Mountaintop Removal 
5-29
Agencies Release Draft Environmental Impact Statement to Improve Environmental Protection from Coal Mining Impacts ("Further enhance protection"?! Plu-eeze! The EIS allows coal companies to go from getting away with destruction to getting away with even greater destruction! This press release is one of the bigger loads of doublespeak to come out of the Bush Administration yet.)
5-29
Report on strip mines expected to be released 
5-29
Mining study due for release today; Report will push to 'streamline' permits  
5-29
Key U.S. House member opposes coal-dust plan; W.Va. Democrat tries to block funds
5-29
Massey slurry spills in Logan; Company blames worn-out pipe
5-29
Unwise Use: Gale Norton's New Environmentalism 
5-29
5-29
Timber firm to get Cheat Canyon; Company has been criticized for Blackwater logging
5-29
Half U.S. Climate Warming Due to Land Use Changes
5-28
Logan mine (Massey again!) reports slurry spill; System that leaked must be shut down, agency says
5-28
FCC Plan to Alter Media Rules Spurs Growing Debate FCC plan a danger to democracy  Ideologically Broad Coalition Assails F.C.C. Media Plan  Big Media, Big Trouble  FCC Ruling -- Public Be Damned  Bill Moyers NOW on Media Consolidation   TAKE ACTION!
5-28
Jay slams new coal-dust regs as dangerous 
5-28
U.S. Steel to sell state mining properties
5-28
Wind power sees 12 pct world market share in 2020
5-28
Clean Water Act Diluted by Obsolete Data System
5-27
VanKirk Readies For Coal Hauling System
5-27
Not King Coal - Forbes on Blankenship
5-27
U.S. Report Faults Efforts to Track Water Pollution
5-27
China Coal Mine Accidents Kill 25, Trap 15
5-26
Appalachian Erin Brockovich  (follow link, scroll down) Real Audio Audio story by NPR's Marketplace
5-26
Washington has failed again on better mine dust testing
5-26
Color-Coded Choices for New E.P.A. Nominee  Whitman - Bush 'hurt' by environmental decisions
5-26
UK's choice: Teach the poor ... Or preserve protected land   Special legal status shields UK forest 
5-25
Group protests rally’s agenda
5-25
Massey report points out several potential problems
5-25
Voice of America: Coal Miner's Daughter Wins Goldman Environmental Prize 
5-25
Senate prepares to weigh plan that could boost coal industry (No matter how means times 'officials' repeat the phrase, there is no such thing as 'clean coal'!) (KRC supports research in wind, hydrogen fuel cell and other technologies offering the promise of more closed-loop, lower impact energy production, including conversion of waste to hydrogen, but does not support burning of municipal wastes for power, as was suggested in the article.)
5-25
Mine panel's expenses lopsided; One member charged the state over six times more than the other
5-25
The Senator Votes Nay; Robert Byrd Opposed the Iraq War, and He's Not About to Yield
5-25
Inevitably, The Politics Of Terror; Fear Has Become Part Of Washington's Power Struggle
5-25
Negligence major cause of coal mine disasters in China
5-25
Global warming, local action; Lack of national effort spurs states
5-25
High expectations were not met
5-24
Outgoing EPA chief sees fault in key Bush policies 
5-24
Future climate change to be more rapid
5-24
Court upholds DEP on blasting records
5-23
Blankenship Says New Law Will Cost Jobs
5-23
DEP denies extension on dust-control dome; Coal company's cover ruptured first in February
5-23
Trout testimony sways mining board
5-23
McDowell proposal aims to phase out towns 
5-23
Longwall mine under trout stream gets OK 
5-23
Company with mine convictions gets award
5-23
Communities come alive in PBS series 
5-23
$2 million awarded to researchers (One project will study drying coal slurry)
5-23
Air-quality study alarms Louisvillians; Residents call for action to fight pollution  Mayor plans effort to reduce pollutants
5-23
Do wind turbines hurt birds?  US wind power, with tax help, could grow faster
5-23
Whitman's troubled tenure  EPA Administrator Resigns  Leaving the EPA - Don't Cry for Christie
5-23
Whitman couldn’t put moderate face on Bush’s extreme agenda 
5-23
FCC Travel Routinely Funded by Industry; Watchdog Group Documents Regulators' Trips on the Regulated's Nickel
5-22
Voting machines still up for debate  Doubt cast on paperless, computerized voting machines 
5-22
Towns' futures on table; State disaster board weighs fates of many flood-prone areas
5-22
Coal company making its third attempt for permit; Official says trout stream deserves special attention
5-22
Activist (Rick Eades) raises concerns about future water quantity & quality
5-22
Mine workers protest CBS's Appalachian 'hick hunt'  Miners Have A Pickax To Grind With CBS  Mine workers travel to New York to protest hillbilly show
5-22
Ginseng poaching decried (Yet coal companies can annihilate ginseng and huge swaths of its habitat!)
5-22
Wind power costs could equal traditional generation  Wind turbines studied for avian impact  Harnessing the wind
5-22
The Great Media Gulp   
5-22
Sen. Robert Byrd: Americans deserve to know what government is doing  The Truth Will Emerge
5-22
Kentucky mining firm may be fined millions  Mining company, 4 employees convicted of safety violations
5-22
Air tests show cancer risks; Unsafe level of pollutants found in Louisville  Fighting pollution: A proposal offers strategies for action
5-22
Whitman Quits as E.P.A. Chief  EPA Chief Whitman to Resign  Help Wanted  Why not name Cheney to head EPA? 
5-22
Papers Show Drive for Campaign Money  
5-21
Whitman Resigns From EPA (Was she pushed...or was she tired of lying to the American people?) 
5-21
Board caps Massey executives' severance
5-21
Bush turns back the mine safety clock on coal dust rules
5-21
Protest of 'Hillbillies' to greet Viacom folks 
5-21
Can coal fuel shift to hydrogen? Industry is told mineral needs a 'new face' (From extraction, to transportation, to burning, to disposal of the ash, their is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
5-21
Flood recovery plan will be implemented if funds exist
5-21
Official: Synfuel program could boost W.Va. economy
5-21
US wind power, with tax help, could grow faster
5-21
Watershed group cleans up Morris Creek 
5-20
Massey chief defends operations (Go Mary! Go Judy! Go Carolyn!) Hear the meeting
5-20
The New Yorker: What Makes Public Television Valuable (Scroll down for a different review of Razing Appalachia)
5-20
Special gives biased look at state's coal mining; Documentary skips details regarding modern practices (Biased reviewer skips details of the reality of living near mountaintop removal.) 
5-20
Lifting the Lid on a Streamlining Idea for Mines
5-20
Proposed coal dust rules would endanger miners
5-20
Mine operators join dust-test plan foes: Industry, union fight a federal safety takeover
5-20
Court Restores Finance Law
5-20
Campaign finance law reinstated -- for now
5-19
INDEPENDENT LENS Digs Into the Mountaintop Coal Mining Issue:  Web Site Launch for RAZING APPALACHIA
5-19
Coalfield citizens push for tougher fly ash regulations
5-19
Pa. Farmers Contend With Mine Damage
5-19
Out of Energy
5-19
Choosing wind power or climate hell
5-18
UMW chief plans to query Massey  An Earlier Press Release
5-18
U.S. Energy Policy Misses Huge Gains From Improved Efficiency
5-18
Humans (Deforestation) Are Driving Birds to Extinction, Group Warns; We Preside Over Mass Extinction (Mountaintop removal is deforestation on warp speed)
5-17
Old Memos Detail Link of Money to Influence
5-17
In Kentucky: Pollution threat rouses students to seek action
5-17
Critical letter taken off mining Web site; Union had posted objections to new coal-dust test plan
5-17
MSHA chief won't drop dust-test plan 
5-17
Alaska: State is touted as the canary in the global warming coal mine 
5-17
In Alaska: Coal-bed gas law trumps local rules
5-16
Group wants state to get more data from lobbyists
5-16
Out of limelight, environment resonates as an issue
5-16
Miners criticize coal-dust proposal
5-16
GE has high expectations for wind
5-15
Three States Aim to Outlaw Eco-Protests
5-15
Study cites mine effects in storms; Survey says strip mining contributes to water runoff
5-15
Study examines lobbying W.Va. received a failing grade
5-15
Miners at risk; Labor Dept. should bury coal-dust proposal
5-15
Death Toll from China Coal Mine Blast Rises to 81
5-15
Ky. Coal Miner Rescued After Entrapment
5-15
Rahall vows to stop looser coal dust rules
5-15
Documentary series about rural America starts on PBS
5-15
Chafin: Synfuel plan could yield W.Va. windfall (Yeah, that's the ticket...expand a known taxpayer mega-rip-off and take suggestions from Blankenship, the CEO that even Forbes Magazine criticizes!)  
5-14
Businessman not digging coal company protest arrest
5-14
Clear Creek residents patiently await new system
5-14
63 Killed in China Coal Mine Blast, 23 Missing 
5-14
Clean elections our only hope (Scroll down)
5-14
Ohio coal firm takes training in Beckley
5-13
Massey may be 'on thin ice,' Forbes says
5-13
Interior Dept. Ethics Program Probed  IG Probes Interior's Record on Ethics Rules  Griles has got to go!
5-13
Take Action!  Stop the FCC!  F.C.C. Prepares to Loosen Rules on Media Ownership  FCC Close to Easing Media Caps; Giant firms want to own more outlets  
5-13
The oil-consumption party is over, author warns
5-13
UMW says MSHA absent on 'dangerous' rules hearings
5-13
Rhodell system faces rust, leak problems
5-12
Official: Coal key to W.Va. future (Bill Raney says, "We must nurture our wonderful natural resources." His form of nurturing? Blast the tops off forested mountains, bury the streams, annihilate towns and leave the wasteland for our children.)
5-12
Denise Giardina: Bush should be impeached and tried for war crimes 
5-12
An Empty Energy Bill
5-12
NRG adds gas to cut emissions at Massachusetts power plant
5-11
Runoff 'roars' into Rhodell; flooding hits farther north (The "slate" is slag, or gob, coal waste.)
5-11
Wise: Weight limits make roads safer (Wise sucks up to his big campaign donors.) 
5-11
Environmentalists = Terrorists
5-11
Give-and-Take F.C.C. Aims to Redraw Media Map
5-11
Congressman Rahall: Bush-backed plans would rob miners of vital protections
5-11
Bird studies needed before windmills built, agency says
5-11
Plan to Harness Power of Manure Draws Interest
5-10
C-8 exposure  Windows Media  (WV Public Radio)
5-10
Miners Fight New Federal Proposal on Coal Dust
5-10
Anti-smog measures rejected: Proposal targeted plant emissions
5-10 Tall Tales of Appalachia
5-9
Analyst says plan would mean more carcinogens
5-9
Federal official: False information has circulated 
5-9
Storm over coal dust: Miners protest while MSHA ponders changes to dust regulations  
5-9
Miners assail dust-test plan; MSHA holds hearing on proposed changes  Mi