8-31
 
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Wind:
Not quite free as a breeze, it could still be a valuable part
of the nation's energy supply
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8-31
 
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Steward
of a Department He Once Sought to Scrap
|
8-31
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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energy lines are outdated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
|
|
|
Blackout
shows the need for conservation
|
|
|
DOH
ignores coal-haul road (scroll
down)
|
|
|
Mass.
Wind Farm Foes Face Legal Setback
|
|
|
Critics:
FCC Should Delay Ownership Rules
|
|
|
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 |
