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8-31	Wind: Not quite free as a breeze, it could still be a valuable part of the nation's energy supply
8-31	Steward of a Department He Once Sought to Scrap
8-31	Who's Losing Iraq?
8-31	Visualize a Fair Election in 2004
8-31	Clean Air Rules Are Clear
8-31	DEP gives Morgantown plant preliminary OK
8-31	Utility warns investors of synfuel credit woes
8-31	Former governor who was imprisoned for actions in office (Rep. Captio's father) uses political ties as consultant
8-31	Paying for the blackout Consumers May Pay for Better Power Grid
8-31	Letter to the Editor from WV Coal Assoc. VP: Mining critics lack knowledge
8-31	Mine cited for 'reckless' operation; 53 safety violations found after death
8-31	Rehnquist May Be Key for Campaign Finance; Chief Justice's Past Votes Leave Outcome of Challenges to McCain-Feingold Law Uncertain
8-30	Hastert says coal still vital to U.S. (From extraction, to transportation, to burning, to disposal of the ash, to dirty politics, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
8-30	GAO's Final Energy Task Force Report Reveals that the Vice President Made A False Statement to Congress
8-30	Judge throws out stream protection rule; Bush-approved anti-degradation policy is too weak, Goodwin says
8-30	Kansas environmental groups sue EPA over state's water quality standards
8-30	Most streams, many wetlands could lose protection Interior Department ditches Fish & Wildlife Service’s comments
8-30	Bush Would Add Review Layer for Rules ; Industry Cheers Science Peer-Appraisal Plan; Critics Say It Will Discourage Regulation
8-30	Jim Hightower: A Labor Day Call to Arms
8-30	GM Sees Future in Fuel Cell Maine to use alternative fuels to heat office buildings
8-29	Cronkite urges full review of wind farm proposal
8-29	Production drop blamed for less coal tax revenue
8-29	Maverick Award for Class Clown
8-29	Why energy lines are outdated
8-29	Change in Clean Air Act brings Pa. into suit
8-29	States to Fight Relaxation of Power-Plant Pollution Standards
8-29	E.P.A. Says It Lacks Power to Regulate Some Gases (Such as the foul air wafting out of the Whitehouse?) EPA Backs Away From Issue of Auto Emissions Bush Under Fire for CO2 Climate Threat Downgrade EPA won’t list carbon dioxide as air pollutant (Meanwhile...see below...)
8-29	Modern global warming more damaging: Study Autumn comes early this year to Europe's trees European trees get early autumn due to rapid climate changes 'Marie Antoinette's oak' dies in heat As Sea Level Rises, Beaches Shrink Japanese Environment panel calls for carbon tax in 2005
8-29	White House Proposes Reviews for Studies on New Regulations (Scary in light of Bush Misuses Science, Report Says)
8-29	Talking trash: Fletcher's clean coal technology a bust in Clark No zoning approval, no hearing on plant permit
8-29	Capito speaking at event
8-29	Labor Day 2003: Nothing to Celebrate Maybe we should just scrap Labor Day and rename it "Capital Day A.F.L.-C.I.O. Begins Group for Workers Not in Unions
8-29	Researchers Say They've Identified the Kind of Mercury in Fish (Waddaya bet Bush will seize on this and tell us it's good for us. Eat up kids!) Many Unaware Of Mercury Warnings
8-29	The death of China's rivers Peasants bear the brunt of China's energy plans China in an energy quandary China awakens to its devastated environment
8-29	Lessons from Blackout 2003 Energy Bill About More Than Power Blackout Fix
8-29	Utility wants to replace coal-burner with wood-fueled generator
8-29	Reclamation coal tax short by $4.5 million
8-28	Coal tax revenues below estimate; A $5.2 million deficit expected by September 2005
8-28	No answers in Crum firing; Mining chief’s ouster a ‘done deal,’ Timmermeyer says
8-28	RECORD TEMPERATURES SHRINKING WORLD GRAIN HARVEST
8-28	EPA Eases Clean Air Rule on Power Plants; Utilities, Businesses Hail Action; New York Plans to Challenge Move in Court Air rules eased for utilities, factories; Move will increase pollution critics say Administration Adopts Rule on Antipollution Exemption E.P.A. Exempts Old Plants From Using Anti-Pollution Devices
8-28	Politics and Pollution 'Clean air' rules flawed, unproductive
8-28	Kentucky coal co. files bankruptcy
8-28	Wind Power's New Current
8-28	TVA's electric rates going up
8-28	Granny D: A Small Group of Dedicated People Might Actually Do Something
8-27	State official doesn't meet with protesters: Protesters sought to talk about firing
8-27	Massey Energy revises earnings forecast downward
8-27	EPA to trim fines for buried streams
8-27	Marsh Fork, Liberty cope with merger
8-27	Human Error Likely Cause of Blackout, Timeline Says 90 Seconds That Left Tens of Millions of People in the Dark
8-27	European Heat Wave Kills 12,000
8-27	No Clear Skies New law may test Leavitt
8-26	DEP's Crum leaves post immediately
8-26	Environmentalists Angry over Crum Dismissal
8-26	Bill Moyers speaks his mind on Bush-brand environmental destruction and more
8-26	Mining study elicits comments; Some question motives of those on other side Public comment so far on the mountaintop removal mining study
8-26	Residents want mining director Crum reinstated
8-27	Environmentalists Angry over Crum Dismissal (scroll down and listen to the audio!)
8-26	DEP Secretary Explains Decision
8-26	DEP's Crum leaves post immediately , director says
8-26	J. Stephen Griles, Mr. MTR: Son of James Watt
8-26	West Virginia Becomes Center of Mountaintop Mining Debate
8-26	GAO Cites Corporate Shaping of Energy Plan Study Confirms 'Stakeholders' Gave Advice to Energy Panel Cheney Stifled Energy Probe, GAO Investigators Say
8-26	GOP Renews Hopes for Alaska Oil Drilling; Blackout Boosts Energy Bill's Prospects, but Democrats Stand Firm on Keeping Refuge Off-Limits
8-25	Bush Environmental Record No Longer 'Under the Radar' Thanks to Mother Jones and TomPaine.com
8-25	Dirty Secrets
8-25	Behind The Curtain Rollback Reader
8-25	Electrical Storm
8-25	Blackout: Repeating Energy History
8-25	A Natural Selection
8-24	Industries still trying to bully E. Kentuckians (Go Patty and Ruth!)
8-24	Bush's pollution charter: Republican supporting energy firms set to escape controls on emissions
8-24	Clean air massacre Bush gives power plants a get-out on pollution control
8-24	The Latest Bogus Blackout; This Grid Should Not Exist
8-24	The blackout is getting Michigan to think green
8-24	Changes would keep wolf from UMW's door, Roberts says
8-24	Synfuel business steadily growing
8-24	New Kind of Electricity Market Strains Old Wires Beyond Limits Calif.'s Davis Lacked Legal Ability to Solve Energy Crisis Battle Brews Over Regional Power Plan
8-24	Major wildlife survey detects quiet changes in ecosystems Dead Plankton Could Harm Other Marine Life The European heatwave could be a sign that global warming has accelerated
8-23	State's mining director resigns; Man says he wasn't told why he had to leave post
8-23	DEP's Crum forced out; Reclamation chief didn't run division in 'appropriate way,' superior claims Crum Forced To Leave DEP
8-23	Clean Air Rules To Be Relaxed; EPA Will Ease Power Plants' Requirements
8-23	Fouling the Air
8-23	Power Not Fully Restored, Ontario Re-examines Policy
8-23	Bush's Energy Policy Stalled Energy Bill Draws a Deeply Split Utilities Lobby
8-23	Power Firm Points Finger at Rival
8-23	ROCK FALL CAUSED DEATH OF MINER, OFFICIALS SAY
8-23	KENTUCKY PIONEER ENERGY STILL NEEDS ZONING OK
8-22	News Flash: DEP mining director Matt Crum resigns
8-22	Labor board says union violated decrees
8-22	UPDATE on Katuah Earth First! action at Zeb Mtn - a Great Success!
8-22	Mountaintop mining puts everything out of balance
8-22	Fuel cells spark energy optimism
8-22	Jim Hightower: Living In a Kleptocrat Nation
8-22	States Renew Their Bid To Block Weaker Clean Air Rules
8-22	Draft of Air Rule Is Said to Exempt Many Old Plants Bush & Co. diddle while the planet burns....(see below)
8-22	American mountain rabbit is the first climate change victim, say scientists Feast and famine in Europe as global warming scorches farms Don't brush off the weird weather Holocaust of the elderly: death toll in French heatwave rises to 10,000 Europe's largest glacier shrivels under global warming Heatwave Caused 1,300 Deaths in Portugal Wild climate swings play havoc with crops Record Droughts Raise Concerns Over Future of Drylands
8-22	Energy bill needed, but without the pork
8-22	Blackout Is Just Latest Woe for a Troubled Ohio Utility Utilities Divided Over Managing Power Flow
8-22	Do-It-Yourself Power Catching On
8-22	The White House distorts science for political ends
8-22	EPA Nominee Criticized for Public Lands Policies
8-21	Blackout shows the need for conservation
8-21	DOH ignores coal-haul road (scroll down)
8-21	Mass. Wind Farm Foes Face Legal Setback
8-21	Critics: FCC Should Delay Ownership Rules
8-21	Oversight Group Warned Utilities on Power Flows Blackouts highlight market weaknesses Bush sees energy bill work within 20 days
8-20	Mine Your Own Business: The Coal Industry and Government Oversight
8-20	Europe's killer heatwave a sign of blistering times to come African Lake Loses Third of Its Fish to Climate Warming
8-20	Activists blast Bush's Clear Skies plan
8-20	Dennis Kucinich: Power to the People
8-20	Jeremy Rifkin: Powering the People
8-20	Wind energy growing briskly; But technology may be threatened by end to subsidies
8-20	Selling the Public on More Lines (What about decentralization?)
8-20	Energy Dept. Will Take Control of Blackout Investigation Bush Wants Reliability Rules in Energy Bill Humbled by Blackout, Congress Girds for Beyond-the-Beltway Energy Fight Utility Act's Critics Point To Blackout
8-20	U.S., Canada Gathering Info on Blackout U.S., Canada to Control Blackout Probe Series of Failures Linked to Blackout
8-19	Three protesters arrested at Elk Valley coal mine (scroll down)
8-19	Lawsuit challenges coal truck weight limits
8-19	Agencies: Mine-pond guide needs update
8-19	UMW proposal would end district independence
8-19	Environmentalists worry North American blackout will provide ammunition for their industry adversaries
8-19	Out of the darkness: Congress should put energy into good bill
8-19	Utility Officers Gave to Bush
8-19	Charity begins in Washington (scroll down)
8-19	Arnold S., Ken Lay, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Gray Davis
8-19	Forget Arnold, "Blackout Pete" Wilson is the Electric Terminator
8-19	Passage Unlikely for Separate Bill on Electrical Grid First Stop in Search for Answers: 7 Ohio Power Lines Will Kentucky help upgrade the grids? Ohio Utility Cited in Blackout Has Had a Troubled Summer FirstEnergy Faced String Of Difficulties
8-19	Wind Power Stakes Claim in Texas Energy Market
8-18	Katuah Earth First! Blockades Mountain Top Removal Site on Zeb Mountain in Campbell County, TN
8-18	'Trashed'--Strip mine ravages
8-18	Abraham Mwaura: Clear lies--Coal carries heavy costs
8-18	Bush blamed for chaos which led to blackouts
8-18	Energy Secretary Warns of $ 50 Billion Cost of Upgrading Power Grid
8-18	Alternative Energy Stocks Post Gains
8-18	Ontario Warns Against 'Frivolous' Use of Power System kept blackout away Midwest Utilities Were Warned About Pushing Limits of System Controllers couldn’t stop huge voltage swings, then power fell Canadanian Companies Cut Power Useage
8-18	Highway-wetlands dispute could be clue to EPA nominee's views on environment
8-17	Wise to return $1.21M in '04 campaign funds (OVEC is a co-founder of PERC) Wise will return most campaign cash to business groups
8-17	Firm’s synfuel credits suspended
8-17	EPA Nominee Plays to the Middle
8-17	For Governors, Energy Upstages Economy Governors See Obstacles to a Unified Energy Stand Bush to Back Delay Of Power Grid Plan
8-17	Cities Return To Normal; Officials Urge Conservation Its Coils Tighten, and the Grid Bites Back Power Grid More Vulnerable Daily
8-17	After Trading Blame, U.S., Canada Plan a Joint Probe Ohio May Be Source Of Failure, NERC Says
8-16	Power outage predictable; A decentralized energy grid needed
8-16	The Joseph Strategy
8-16	Ex-miners turning to health care
8-16	OSM, MSHA reject call for new coal sludge impoundment safety rules
8-16	Flood Cases Wait for High Court
8-16	E. Ky. losing land; Destroying Mountains (scroll down for these two letters)
8-16	Clean air ruling hailed as 1st victory
8-16	Power Outage Traced To Dim Bulb In White House National Grid denies US responsibility
8-16	After 2 Years, Energy Bill Is Getting New Urgency in Congress
8-16	Secretary Abraham, Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Dhaliwal to Co-chair Task Force on North American Power Outage (Oink! Time to amp up the More, More, More National Energy Policy!)
8-16	Drunk on Power
8-16	Without the Grid, Modern Man Is Totally in the Dark Power Outages Hit Major U.S., Canadian Cities -- What Energy Efficiency Can Do
8-16	America still in the dark over power disaster Experts Asking Why Problems Spread So Far Normalcy Days Away as Electricity Returns Slowly No Simple Switch to Restore Electricity Flow Incident Shines Light on Stalled Energy Upgrade Which Party Gets the Blame? They Agree: It's the Other One Shutdown Domino Triggered by a Mystery Warnings Long Ignored on Aging Electric System (So...how about decentralized alternative energy power systems?)
8-15	Mountaintop mining comments due Jan. 6
8-15	Coal rules ready by Oct. 1?
8-15	AEP fears deal would raise coal prices Coal Mine Merger Raises Concerns in Ohio
8-15	Arctic ice cap will melt completely in 100 years
8-15	Power Failure Reveals a Creaky System, Energy Experts Believe
8-14	Ravages: Harming nature
8-14	'No bugs, no anything’ Watershed group tries to get cleanup funds
8-14	Real experts state cause of flooding
8-14	Nominee for E.P.A. Defends His Job as Utah Governor EPA appointment criticized by environmentalists Leavitt a hit with state environmental officials
8-14	Court Upholds Alaska Limits on Soft Money in State Races
8-14	Area air laden with PCBs
8-14	Ceremony Marks Upcoming Test of World's Largest Clean Coal-Powered Fuel Cell (Sigh...What a way to make hydrogen. As activist Patty Wallace says, Coal: It's dirty when you dig it, dirty when you haul it and dirty when you burn it.)
8-14	Heat Wave Kills About 3,000 in France Europe's summer of infernos Report: Arctic Ice Shrinking Due to Global Warming Global warming blamed for fish harvest drop from African lake Canada: $1b to battling climate change France faces nuclear power crisis
8-13	Company still wants to mine under stream; Firm contends trout face no threat in new site
8-13	"We're Enemies Now": Mine runoff has Boone countians opposing Big Coal
8-13	Use of Old Maps Is Faulted in Pennsylvania Mine Drama
8-13	An anti-EPA chief EPA Out of Balance Bush Choice to Head E.P.A. Asks Clinton Administrator for Reference EPA Nominee in Line With Bush's Ideas
8-13	Pond at Pike park is declared safe; Slurry in no danger of spilling, U.S. mine agency says
8-13	Too much safety?
8-13	Power and Water...DOE Selects Five Projects to Address the Close Link Between Power Plants and Fresh Water
8-13	EU drive to fight global warming
8-13	Insurers Face Global Warming Global warming threatens Great Barrier Reef
8-12	Companies with synfuel credits worried, SEC reports show Book details questionable tax credits used by Marriott, others
8-12	Sludge pond is park's chief lure
8-12	Climate change threatens the future of humanity, but we refuse to respond rationally
8-12	Bush Tries to Boost Environment Image
8-12	Take Action: Wind farm public comment period extended to Friday
8-12	Celebrities protest vast wind farm proposed off Mass. coast
8-12	Down the Road, Portable Power: Hydrogen hailed as fuel source of the future Fuel Cells to Reduce Energy Costs at Two New Jersey Hotels
8-12	Bush Nominates Utah Governor to Lead E.P.A. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts said, "While none of us should be surprised that President Bush has chosen someone who has a record of working to undermine national environmental protections, the truth is that we aren't going to have a real commitment to the environment until we have a new president."
8-12	Utah Gov. Named As Chief Of EPA; Nominee Wants Power Moved Out Of Washington Leavitt spoke briefly after he was introduced by Bush and made it clear that he plans to stand up to environmentalists, singling out the financial cost of regulations as a key criterion. "There is an inherent human responsibility to care for the earth," Leavitt said. "But there's also an economic imperative that we're dealing with in a global economy to do it less expensively."
8-12	Utilities in Europe Seek Relief From the Heat EdF shuts coal power plant, warns of heatwave impact
8-12	Why the Great Smog of London Was Anything but Great "We're still killing thousands of people, unfortunately, with fine particle pollution in this country."
8-12	Some DC Area Businesses Goin' With the Wind ; Renewable Power Source Explored as Way to Reduce Use of Fossil Fuels
8-12	Coal Mine Explosion Kills 33 in China
8-11	State must find way to make coal haul legislation work (Hey...anyone ready to start planning for the post-coal economy? Even if the entire state can't face reality, maybe global climate change will give the rest of the world a clue.)
8-11	Heavy weight on DOH's shoulders (Correction--Dave was an organizer at OVEC. OVEC was organized in 1987 by Dianne Bady and others.)
8-11	Coal truck safety weighs on minds of area residents Third-generation trucker supports 120,000 pound limit
8-11	Kennedy opposes wind farm
8-11	Arch Coal to Respond to FTC Request on Triton Coal Deal
8-11	Synfuel as Sideline; Tax Credits, Like Those Used by Marriott, Scrutinized by IRS Synthetic-fuel firms under review by IRS
8-11	Zuni Side Up: Zuni tribe member Pablo Padilla talks about beating back a strip mine Zunis celebrate end of SRP coal mine bid
8-11	Hot Europe Grows Hotter 100ºF: Britain's hottest day Heatwave Kills 30,000 Eels in Europe's River Rhine Pope Prays for Rain to End Europe Fires, Heat Wave Birds and Sealife at Risk from European Heatwave
8-11	Drilling push ordered on federal land In Utah, a public-land fight on an epic scale Rockies targeted for drilling
8-10	Injury suit filed over 2000 slurry spill
8-10	IRS review threatens fuel maker tax credits
8-10	Killing the land (scroll down)
8-10	Enough hot air: governments must give global warming the attention it deserves
8-10	Climate change threatens Britain's crumbling transport system with chaos, ministers warned
8-10	Americans Pay Price for Speaking Out: Dissenters Face Job Loss, Arrest, Threats But Activists not Stopped by Backlash
8-10	Media firm chief says he does not need Cabela’s studio
8-9	Massey claims endangered species study delayed permit, force layoffs
8-9	Plaintiffs say cancer cases up since slurry spill
8-9	Ruling Dims Outlook for Coal-Fired Power Firms ; Aging Plants Face Big Expense To Comply With Clean Air Act
8-9	Reports See Major Growth in Store for Renewable Energy
8-9	Extreme weather consistent with climate change predictions, says scientist
8-9	Bush Team Makes Federal Lands More Open to Oil, Gas Drilling Federal Land Managers Ordered to Ease Limits on Gas and Oil
8-9	Bush Misuses Science, Report Says
8-9	A mighty wind
8-8	Pa. agency seeking information on abandoned mines
8-8	Massey Energy subsidiary spills slurry: Citizen reports spill into Boone creek
8-8	Leaking slurry raises concern
8-8	Slurry spills into Boone creek from coal yard
8-8	Judge says plant violated federal law: Ruling says utility was required to add pollution controls
8-8	Clean-Air Ruling Puts Blame on Ohio Utility
8-8	3 Northeast States Win Verdict Against a Utility
8-8	Global Warming May be Speeding Up, Fears Scientist
8-8	Salt of the Earth
8-8	W.Va. wants payment from firm: State Paid For Mine Reclamation
8-8	Road contractor fine took two years: Greer Cited In 2001 For Illegal Mining
8-8	Massey chief not entire problem (scroll down)
8-8	Church volunteers to make flood victims feel at home
8-7	Coal haulers, residents discuss truck routes at meeting
8-7	Smallest bridges omitted from coal-haul road study: As with first three public hearings, few attend final DOT weight-limit meeting
8-7	James Inhofe: Damn lies and global warming From a speech by the Republican Senator for Oklahoma to the US Congress, in Washington. This one made it into OVEC's Outrageous Quotes
8-6	Coal haulers look at route maps
8-6	Raleigh coal manager wins his court claim
8-6	We Don't Need a National Energy Bill
8-6	Democrats, environmentalists rip Bush’s clean-air proposal Yet the EPA issues this press release: Clear Skies Act Receives State and Local Government Support; State and Local Officials Call for Immediate Passage
8-6 ?	Funding a TV station (What is really going on here? Why is the Governor's team cozying up to WV Media Holdings? At least one of WVMH investors is a coal baron--Buck Harless.)
8-6	Judge Is Accused Of Stake In Ruling Judge Who Ruled on Forests Is Faulted for Energy Holdings
8-6	Europe Sizzles and Suffers in a Summer of Merciless Heat
8-6	Stealing The Internet With Blessings from the FCC and Congress, the High-tech Industry Wants to Privatize the Internet. What Happens When you Have to Pay to Join the Information Revolution?
8-6	Innovative Mercury Removal Technique Shows Early Promise (Removed from the smokestacks to...where? We need to know that answer! And, as long as there is MTR, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
8-6	Kempthorne admits he was asked about EPA chief position
8-5	Expert touts election finance plan (OVEC's Janet Fout is coordinator for Citizens for Clean Elections, a non-partisan coalition of 25 groups that support the establishment of Clean Elections in West Virginia.)
8-5	Water issues could confront lawmakers; Use regulations could become a contentious issue
8-5	Panel hears water options Who owns Ohio River? Can we exploit it? Meanwhile, elsewhere: Interstate water deal draws fire from critics
8-5	Firm to sell Big Sandy coal dock, other assets
8-5	On the national level: Campaign Financing Reshaped; Bush Edge Making Public Funds Moot
8-5	Development of land after mining important to state (So before we permit another acre of MTR, let's get the 300,000 plus scalped acres that are just waiting to help with the next flood--let's go those acres "developed." West Virginia has all the flat land it can possibly handle.)
8-5	In Pollution Debates, Bush's Man Seeks Harmony Amid the Storm
8-5	Politics Reasserts Itself in the Debate Over Climate Change and Its Hazards
8-5	Heatwave Sweeps Europe, Portugal Declares Disaster Heatwave causes rail disruption Britain bakes, Europe burns. Is this proof of global warming? Fires, drought and pollution as Europe's heat wave breaks records
8-5	Ariz. Power Co. Pulls Out of Coal Effort
8-4	How can we make friends with coal?
8-4	Speaker says politics a club for all to join Election activist to discuss campaign finance reform at democracy forum tonight (OVEC's Janet Fout is coordinator for Citizens for Clean Elections, a non-partisan coalition of 25 groups that support the establishment of Clean Elections in West Virginia.)
8-4	FDA Mercury Meetings to Discuss Fish Warnings for Women and Children
8-4	Bush Urges Lawmakers to Finalize Energy Package
8-4	Warming Climate Challenges Alaska Oil Drillers
8-4	In Illinois: Plant's pollution spurs showdown
8-3	EIS Mining study: Blasts not 'significant'
8-3	Advocate for clean elections speaking throughout area (OVEC's Janet Fout is coordinator for Citizens for Clean Elections, a non-partisan coalition of 25 groups that support the establishment of Clean Elections in West Virginia.)
8-3	Campaign urges mine safety in 3 states with high fatalities
8-3	Wasted Energy
8-3	A Soft Touch -- for Voter Fraud?
8-3	Warming Trends Europe swelters and burns
8-3	In Wisconsin: Agencies caution against 3 coal plants: Costs, health concerns, natural gas should be considered in Oak Creek, state says
8-2	Energy bill nightmare for activists; Republicans happy after approving Democratic legislation
8-2	Senate Looks Back to Move Forward on Energy
8-2	Northeast Governors to Create CO2 Emissions Trading System
8-1	Miners want dust rules scrapped; UMW leaders testify in front of Senate panel
8-1	MSHA pressed by lawmaker on coal dust rule
8-1	Coal industry abuses this state (scroll down)
8-1	PSC gearing up for truck law enforcement hearings
8-1	Senate Breaks Deadlock, Passes 2002 Energy Bill Senate passes sweeping energy bill Bush Panel Aims to Speed Energy Drilling in West
8-1	Senate rivals tackle Bush on climate
8-1	Looking for leadership on climate change
8-1	Melting Alaska opens floodgate of problems; Expert: State's woes a preview of what rest of world can expect
8-1	Africa sweats in global warming, air pollution protects industrialised continents
8-1	Europe's Heat Wave Raises Global Warming Concerns
8-1	Global warming threatens Queensland rainforest plant and animal species

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