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9-30	Renewable Energy Provision Stalls Emerging energy blueprint reflects industry, White House priorities Tough Going as Negotiators Hammer Out Energy Bill Disputes Complicate Energy Negotiations Republicans Reject Bid to Narrow Energy Bill
9-30	UMW reorganization approved by union convention
9-30	Rhodell under boil water advisory after 3 days without service
9-30	Climate change: The big emitters Our Summer Vacation: 20,000 Dead Kyoto treaty in the balance Russian Stance Leaves Fate of Global Warming Pact in Doubt
9-30	Power plant may have operations suspended
9-30	Illinois joins power plant pollution fight
9-29	Sandy Wells: Innerviews: ‘The fight is just starting’
9-29	Utility offers options
9-29	Coal Route Designation Not Ready
9-29	Final Greenbrier pipeline statement issued
9-29	Longwall mining documentary debuts to packed house with promise of activism
9-29	The Energy Bill Gets Worse GOP Lawmakers Put Together Energy Bill
9-29	Energy bill talks leaning for industry Lawmakers spar over energy bill
9-29	Rising natural-gas prices give businesses a chill
9-29	Schools elsewhere look to save money through energy efficiency: Sampson BOE approves plan that will save on energy costs KSU looks to boost energy efficiency
9-29	Town in La Mancha Battles Against Windmills
9-29	EU Says Heat Wave Will Hit Cereals Crop
9-28	Coddling coal's outlaws
9-28	Uneasy breezes--Future still unclear for W.Va. windmills
9-28	In Tennessee: Coal firm allowed to join lawsuit
9-28	Energy Bill Add-Ons Make It Hard to Say No
9-28	The Alternative Alternative Fuel
9-27	Coal-haul rules face delays Heavier trucks may be delayed
9-27	Study Finds Net Gain From Pollution Rules
9-27	Allegheny Energy Outlines Efforts to Avoid Bankruptcy
9-27	Automakers showcase latest eco-friendly car technology Automakers tout latest fuel-cell cars at auto show
9-27	Few utilities offer green energy options
9-27	White House Panel Easing Developers' Way
9-27	Pa. plant to combat mine drainage
9-26	Utility's survival doubted
9-26	Pennsylvania seeks to bring state in line with federal mining rules
9-26	Cheney's Ties to Halliburton
9-26	Healthy coal industry is solution, Massey chief says
9-26	Coal roads picked, but their signage may have to wait
9-26	Energy Bill Is Likely to Have Protection on Gasoline Additives
9-26	Study backs mining in Boone National Forest Study: Boone coal doable
9-26	Bush Climate Change Effort Underwhelms Scientists Carbon dioxide poisoning the oceans; Study suggests rising acidity in seawater could be irreversible Scientists call fossil fuel-burning a threat to oceans France Heat Wave Death Toll Set at 14,802
9-26	Coal Companies Target of Chemical Suits
9-26	Molly Ivins: Clear Skies is a dirty plan
9-26	U.S. report seeks more natural gas drilling on government land
9-26	Fuel from foul
9-25	State flunks in campaign finance study
9-25	Environmental Group Wants Cheney Task Force Records
9-25	New Voting Technology Questioned Report Raises Electronic Vote Security Issues
9-25	Panel Backs Faster Environment Review Panel urges environmental fast track Green Groups Fear Environmental Review Changes
9-25	Thinning Ice Ice Shelf Break in Arctic Attributed to Climate Warming Climate change blamed as largest Arctic ice shelf breaks in two after 3,000 years Scientist: Drought, West Nile related Mount Kilimanjaro's Glacier Is Crumbling
9-25	Effort to Reach Agreement on Energy Legislation Questioned
9-25	Bush air pollution proposal may put energy bill at risk
9-25	Bush's pass for polluters
9-25	Petroleum Industry Urges Conservation Study Calls for More Natural Gas Sources; Much Higher Prices Are Inevitable Without Major Policy Changes, Group Warns GOAL IS TO KEEP PRICE DOWN IN FACE OF LIMITED SUPPLY, REPORT SAYS
9-25	Granny D: Worthy Dreams
9-25	Report: Regulation Is the Mother of Innovation
9-24	Corps of Engineers Chief Drafts Plan to Reorganize Agency
9-24	Eastern Forest Defense Camp Leads to Actions Against Mountaintop Removal (Watch out! Clicking this link will lead you to a group that the FBI has labeled as "eco terrorist." Of course, the real eco-terrorists, the mountaintop removers, are welcomed in the Bush administration.)
	Energy Conversion Devices Drives Realization of Fuel Cell Powered Vehicles
9-24	EPA choice defends power-plant rule; At confirmation hearing, Dems blast Bush policies
9-24	Who owns coal-bed methane? Court will have to decide
9-24	PSC ready for new coal truck weight law
9-24	Wyoming County woman thinks it's 'time for a new face'
9-24	Hearing on E.P.A. Nominee Takes an Ideological Turn
9-24	Study: Lighting makes coal mines safer than NYC subway
9-24	GOP Wants Alaska Drilling in Energy Bill Environmental safeguards on drilling in wildlife refuges is spotty, GAO report says GOP Puts Arctic Oil in Draft Energy Bill Republicans Seek Offshore Energy Inventory U.S. energy bill skips raising fuel standards
9-24	Coal to remain largest source of fuel for power plants
9-24	Elsewhere: Groups urge state to set rules to save energy, $3 billion Clean energy for all is the aim of community group Norway tries underwater ‘windmills’
9-24	Governors unite on global warming
9-23	Peak Oil Blues Getting Tough On Oil
9-23	Trucking firm criticized in fatal accident Truck company fined $11,160 for Pike crash that killed 3
9-23	Democrats' Wrath Awaits EPA Nominee Senators consider Utah governor for EPA chief, fueling debate on Bush environment record
9-23	Largest Arctic ice shelf breaks up, says report
9-23	Fighting The Feds For Clean Air
9-23	Upcoming Gas Reports Will Exaggerate West's Energy Potential, Ignore Facts, and Reach Pre-Determined Conclusions
9-23	SolWest
9-23	Power plants an unjust burden on surrounding neighborhoods
9-23	Energy of Africa Draws the Eyes of Houston
9-23	Elusive Force May Lie at Root of Blackout
9-23	Southern governors leery of federal energy policy
9-22	States won't subsidize grid
9-22	Coal Under the Gun: Charleston Firm Suing On Behalf of Residents Who Say Coal Trucks are a Nuisance
9-22	Numbers Tell Coal's Story Well (But the State Journal's editorial conveniently leaves out the huge costs of coal that we all pay--from black lung disease, to decimated forests, to water lost forever, to lost ecosystem services (the list goes on and on)...the toll is massive!)
9-22	COALBED METHANE Artesian well problems create rift
9-22	Water purchase would nurture public trust
9-22	California Set to Sue EPA on CO2 Emissions, Source Says
9-22	Republicans Set to Spell Out Plan for Oil Drilling in Refuge Fletcher's energy votes are bad for state
9-22	Pollution's Federal Friends
9-21	Coalbed methane debate intensifies
9-21	Coal truck weight fight heading north
9-21	Morgantown debates third coal-fired power plant
9-21	Energy Bill's Tax Breaks Weighed on Hill; Benefits to Industries Could Add $19 Billion to Budget Deficit in Next Decade
9-21	Deadly mine blast in Floyd retraced
9-21	Bush covers up climate research; White House officials play down its own scientists' evidence of global warming
9-21	Melting permafrost raises questions of global warming
9-21	Energy inefficiency costs €35m a year
9-21	Gas projects to highlight energy talks
9-21	Nice try, Mr. Suzuki, but we're addicted to energy
9-20	W.Va. has highest respiratory death rates ; Study shows 63.2 deaths per 100,000 residents
9-20	Germans to sell quarter of CONSOL shares
9-20	Kentucky lawmakers hear from electricity industry Middle ground sought in electricity policy
9-20	Vermont groups win federal grant to turn farm waste into fuel
9-20	Coal-fired plants subject of inquiry
9-19	Horizon plans to auction off state mining properties
9-19	Reclamation council seeking more details; Study findings could have effect on coal tax
9-19	Massey ordered to pay Sylvester residents' lawyers
9-19	Cecil Roberts: Moore's comment was like pot calling the kettle black
9-19	No Charges to Be Filed in Mine Accident
9-19	China Coal Mine Accidents Kill 4,150 in Eight Months (Oh, Friend of Coal Don Nehlen, are you still wanting WV's coal industry to compete with China?)
9-19	Lethal mix in mines
9-19	Leavitt for Head of EPA? Much Worse Than You Thought Love It Or Leavitt Leavitt EPA hearing put on hold
9-19	Bush Meets with Lawmakers to Push for Energy Bill
9-19	Maine refocuses on energy usage FPL Energy opens California's largest wind farm 100% Green Energy Reduces WRI's Carbon Emissions Coalition of twelve major US corporations and WRI announce largest corporate green power purchases in US India to exceed its wind power target
9-19	Lois Gibbs' campaign urges caution on toxic chemicals
9-19	Many faiths meet in belief on environment
9-18	Two men killed in collision at Massey mine Two miners killed when 190-ton truck hits van ‘A hard working coal miner, with two super sons' Miscommunication may have caused fatalities
9-18 ?	Logan airport grant garners FAA interest (The airport is built on part of an MTR site, and you guessed it, taxpayers paid for it. Kirkendoll and other Logan County politicians are heavily invested in the coal industry.)
9-18	Right decision on forest
9-18	Shifting the Burden
9-18	Clear Skies Initiative Clouds the Issue Bush Pushes Stalled Pollution Proposal Monroe Spin Doctorin'
9-18	A Sugar Cube, Please: I Need to Charge My Cellphone
9-18	Going Green: Building a New Economy from the Grassroots Up Vt. Groups Win Manure to Methane Grant
9-18	Ties could bite Leavitt Questions on fish, air, wetlands likely to face Leavitt in confirmation
9-18	Arctic Drilling May Get Dumped From Bill Alaska drilling would doom energy bill, say Democrats
9-18	Pollution policy drives technological innovation
9-17	WV 'will get hit'
9-17	Where's Your Electricity Come From? The Tragedy Of Mountaintop Mining (scroll down...for complete article, you'll have to subscribe)
9-17	Collision at mine kills two; Accident at Boone facility also left one person injured
9-17	Power plant could harm wilderness air, feds say; National Park Service, Forest Service object to state permit
9-17	UK won't mine more in forest; Scholarship funds to be sought in other ways UK won't mine Robinson Forest
9-17	Russian company secures loan to buy W.Va. mining equipment
9-17	Some Companies Attracted to 'Green' Power
9-17	Cody miner alleges drug use
9-17	Cheney Seeking Supreme Court Review of Energy Panel Case Democrats question Cheney's Halliburton payments
9-17	Bush Links Pollution Measure to His Effort to Create Jobs Bush promotes clean-air initiatives for a second straight day
9-17	F.C.C. Plan to Ease Curbs on Big Media Hits Senate Snag The Senate Says No West Virginia: TV executives urge caution on media mergers Senate Votes to Block FCC Media Rules
9-16	Cheney focuses on terrorism in fund-raising speech; Vice president tells attendees Capito is a friend of Bush
9-16	University appeals permit for mining beneath 400-year-old forest
9-16	Senator Edwards Seeks to Block EPA Nominee
9-16	N.E. states gird for Clean Air rule battle with EPA
9-16	Team Bush polishes its Green credentials U.S., State Clash Over Environment
9-16	Trans-Alaska Gas Pipeline Gets Backing Alaska Pipeline Route Agreed in Draft Energy Bill GOP Produces Draft Energy Legislation Provision in Energy Bill Brings Unease in G.O.P.
9-16	Bush Defends New Environmental Rules Bush Defends Plan to Ease Pollution Rules Bush highlights initiative at Michigan power plant Bush Lauds Mich. Power Plant As Model of Clean Air Policy; But Opponents Say It's a Polluter Excused by 'Clear Skies' Plan Bush Trying to Keep 'Clear Skies' Alive Bush sees green in power plant rules
9-16	Cheney appears at Capito event Cheney keynotes Capito event
9-16	Senate Vote Could Kill FCC's New Media Rules
9-16	MTR cartoon
9-15	Cheney appears at Capito event
9-15	Protestors Welcome Vice-President
9-15	Vice-President Visits Charleston
9-15	Coal-bed methane proposals raise a certain stink in the Valley Group: Methane tax break could cost $2.5 billion
9-15	Cleaning up coal; In the face of a global environmental crisis, coal's days appear to be numbered
9-15	Clean coal debate heated (Coal is dirty when you dig it, dirty when you haul it, dirty when you burn it and dirty when you try to "dispose" of the ash. Coal has a dirty influence on politics too. There is no such thing as "clean" coal!)
9-15	Bush Touting Energy Plan at Mich. Plant
9-15	A forest and its fate
9-15	Home-grown alternative
9-15	Energy towers touted as future source of electricity
9-15	Vast Canadian expanses fuel wind-power push
9-14	Penn. DEP backs plan to dump river muck, coal ash into abandoned mines
9-14	Ong: Rise against coal-fired plants
9-14	DM&E could broaden sale of coal
9-13	Coal tax suit could prove costly; Companies say exported coal not subject to taxation
9-13	Misplacing the blame
9-13	'Oil War' Questions Surround Cheney Energy Group Protest Cheney Monday
9-13	Coal State Senators Question Tax Audits; IRS Reviews Use of Synthetic Fuel Credits (Cheney will be stumping for Capito in the Charleston Marriott on Monday--seems the oil and coal cartels stick together.)
9-13	Deregulation: A Tragedy In Three Acts
9-13	Baked Alaska on the Menu?
9-13	Flourishing Class of Lobbyists Capitalizing on Privileges
9-13	Overseers Missed Big Picture as Failures Led to Blackout Timeline Maps Grid's Outage Momentum
9-12	Pirates of the Potomac (Takes a while to load...Flash movie)
9-12	Coal dust monitors get OK
9-12	Court agrees to hear DEP appeal of decision
9-12	Europe: Gearing Up for a Move to the 'Hydrogen Economy'
9-12	Coal-fired plants need pollution curbs: premiers, governors; Meeting sends tough motion on upholding clean air pact to Bush administration
9-12	Huge Climate Experiment Starts today - All Welcome
9-12	Cheney coming for Capito fund-raiser Court says Cheney must provide documents Energy Task Force Appeal Refused; U.S. Court Rebuffs White House Bid to Avoid Releasing Files
9-12	New coal dust plan approved by Senate
9-12	Democrats Complain of Exclusion From Talks on Energy Bill
9-12	Unions' efforts improve life for all U.S. workers Labor Fights for Rights
9-12	5 COAL MINE MANAGERS INDICTED OVER SAFETY
9-12	Senate Debates Repeal of F.C.C. Media Ownership Rules
9-11	Another businessman candidate
9-11	Department of Energy official stresses need to get the word out about coal (and talks about the oxymoron, "clean coal")
9-11	Board upholds permit decision: Concerns valid, but state followed law, officials say
9-11	Federal commission's report criticizes agencies' commitment to environmental justice
9-11	White House Backs Most Items in Emerging Energy Package Lobbyist Discord Muddies Energy Bill Talks on Hill Killer Sheep Disease Heads North as Climate Warms Climate change: new, big threat to protected areas
9-11	White House won't back down on Arctic oil drilling
9-11	Bush won't change his 'obstinate' views, scientists warn European heatwave brought record levels of ozone
9-11	Northeast leaders oppose relaxed air rules
9-11	Bush attempting to gut Clean Air Act
9-11	Money owed Gable's firm is doubled
9-11	Scots power ahead on green energy
9-11	Bluefield Coal Show opens today
9-11	Coal Association Would Back Kiss
9-10	Experts rate W.Va. infrastructure low: Report says billions needed to repair roads, bridges
9-10	Another Republican joins governor’s race (A Massey Energy board member!)
9-10	Power to pollute
9-10	Developers see gobs of potential in 40-acre pile
9-10	Officials look into problems at Pinnacle Mine in Wyoming
9-10	`At what expense'? and `Wholesale destruction' (scroll down)
9-10	Judge drops one Martin Coal citation for 2000 slurry spill
9-10	Miner dies in Johnson accident
9-9	State wants to lure new fuel plant ; W.Va., Ky. most logical places for facility, officials say
9-9	Major citation tossed in Ky. slurry spill case
9-9	Green for Greenbacks? Bush's Record Under Fire
9-9	Pineville mine rocked by second explosion in less than a week
9-9	Chinese experts call for more clean energies to curb pollution
9-9	Study Suggests Conservation
9-9	Bill exempts disputed drilling process; Despite water-pollution fears, technique would not be regulated by feds After big blackout, will energy bill keep US lights on?
9-8	Lincoln family wants land sale overturned; Coal company made purchase through ‘partition sale’ (The Millers are members of OVEC)
9-8	Critics get ready to challenge president
9-8	Supreme Court may look to Arizona's `clean' elections in campaign finance ruling Clout Shifts With the Change in Campaign Finance Rules
9-8	Curb CO2 emissions
9-8	Melting glaciers spell water crisis
9-8	Fungi Find May Alter View of Global Warming
9-8	All set for Russia to ratify Kyoto pact - minister
9-8	Sen. Clinton to Stop Bush EPA Nominee
9-8	Coal ash plan no Penn. precedent, foe says
9-7	Mission Accomplished: Bush Administration Fulfills Wish List for Corporate America
9-7	Run Your Car on Veggie Oil
9-7	From the EPA, a breath of dirty air
9-7	Clinton to Block EPA Chief Nominee
9-7	Two lawmakers hope to pass energy bill with help of blackout
9-7	Energy bill conference panel named; No Democrats selected threaten ANWR filibuster
9-7	Mining accident claims 1
9-6	EPA still not talking about stream ruling
9-6	Business wins big on environment
9-6	Climate Change Is Really Bugging Our Forests
9-6	Leavitt concludes closed-door talks with Senate panel
9-6	G.O.P. Makes Clear It Will Guide Energy Bill Conferees House, Senate Seek to Reconcile Energy Bills Republicans Reject Bid to Narrow U.S. Energy Bill
9-6	Coalfield teens talk politics at Labor Day celebration
9-5	EPA Report Opposes Easing of Water Rules
9-5	Tennessee groups sue to block mine
9-5	Manchin supports campaign funding; Perdue won't run because he didn't raise $1 million (OVEC is leading the WV Clean Elections coaltion)
9-5	Not Many Comments On Coal Roads: ACT NOW! Today (Sept. 5) last day to comment
9-5	EPA review finds 274 valley fill violations
9-5	The Rollback Machine: Keeping tabs on the Bush administration's environmental record
9-5	Multicultural Festival set for Saturday Come on out! OVEC will be there--and so will the sun!
9-5	As homes slide. mines are blamed
9-5	Cleaning up coal? Energy bill will add $2 billion to program that has record of troubles
9-5	Reviving Federal Regulation
9-5	Plan to bury CO 2 under North sea DOE Creates Regional Partnerships to Develop Carbon-Sequestration Options Digging deep for an answer to global warming
9-5	Big Rivers opposes Peabody proposal
9-5	Senior EPA Official to Become Lobbyist
9-5	Power plants ready to use methane from 3 landfills
9-5	Blackout caused by multiple events, says official
9-5	Canary Coalition Calls for Mobilization to Stop EPA's "Routine Maintenance" Ruling
9-5	Arch Coal Wins CIO 100 Award for Resourcefulness (Well it sure is resourceful at displacing people from their homeplaces...)
9-5	SEIA Urges a 10 Percent Solar Energy Solution Former adversaries combine forces in energy crisis
9-4	Agencies seek to salvage stream protection rule West Virginia environmental groups win Clean Water Act case
9-4	What will the state's policy be now? Will W.Va. live with coal or be ruined by it?
9-4	Down Upon the Suwannee River; It was only a small environmental rule change by Bush's EPA. But it's threatening Florida's Suwannee River -- and the nation's wetlands
9-4	Bright spots in solar's future?
9-4	Speakers to focus on issues; UC forum program seeks to address controversial topics
9-4	Mine explosion under investigation
9-4	Shooting the Energy Star
9-4	2 EPA officials take jobs with firms benefiting from rule change EPA Air Official Leaving Bush Administration to Join Southern Co., a Major Beneficiary of Last Week's Clean Air Rollback
9-4	Utility opposes power plant's application
9-4	Bush Administration 'In the Dark' Over Blackout - Democrats Blackout Brings Abraham Out of Shadows
9-4	Hundreds of Rule Violations Tied to Possible Blackouts (So hey, let's deregulate. That way the violations won't be violations. Problem Solved!) Before Blackout, Confusion In Midwest
9-4	Foes of clean air: Kentucky Senators favor contributors over public health
9-4	Bush to New Yorkers: Drop Dead
9-4	U.S. Court Blocks Plan to Ease Rule on Media Owners Court Blocks Media Rules; FCC's Ownership Caps Were Slated To Change Today
9-3	Timmermeyer downplays stream plan ruling
9-3	Mining's continuing toll
9-3	Company cited in Harrison mine fire
9-3	Earth hits '2,000-year warming peak' Global warmings before the storm Hungary's Shrinking Lake Fuels Climate Change Fears
9-3	Utilities Point Their Fingers at Each Other Over Blackout Congress to begin hearings today on power blackout
9-3	‘Great Wall’ of natural gas for U.S.?
9-2	Politicians brave rain at UMW rally Democrats the stars at this rally; Labor Day event draws several political hopefuls Pocahontas honors miners
9-2	Backward on Energy
9-2	Crisis may stir action; Blackouts may refocus action on energy legislation
9-2	Small Thoughts for a Global Grid
9-2	Another Friday Outrage
9-2	Not Just Warmer: It's the Hottest for 2,000 Years; Widest study yet backs fears over carbon dioxide
9-2	Aiming for the Moon
9-2	Backers of Power-Grid Upgrade See an Opening
9-1	Saving Forests Best Way to Cheap, Clean Water - Study (Save our water! Stop mountaintop removal!)
9-1	More danger in the air
9-1	Hundreds of miners tragically lost in coalfield disasters over last century
9-1	EPA issues license to pollute
9-1	Relaxed Air Rules Choke an Industry; The pollution-control business, once booming, sees lean years ahead under new Bush policy
9-1	US says CO2 is not a pollutant
9-1	Hot Summer Sparks Global Food Crisis France Reports Over 11,000 Extra Deaths in Heat Pollution Cited as Factor in French Heat Deaths Sympathy for the Environment at Stones' UK Shows Chile, Argentina urges rich countries to cut greenhouse emissions
9-1	Alaska called 'the melting tip of the iceberg;' GLOBAL WARNING: State's rising temperatures are only a taste of what's coming
9-1	U.S. should shift to clean, renewable energy sources Using the Sun to Stop Blackouts
9-1	Home Alone A Summer to Remember
9-1	Energy, War Seen Topping Congressional Agenda A Change of Air EPA Quietly Cut Budget of Energy Star Soaked at the Pump
9-1	Corporate lobbyists must stop stalling on regulation Corporate America - Too Lean, Too Mean
9-1	Unions to Push to Make Organizing Easier Hard Talk On Labor Day Ky. workers drowning in tide of free-trade pacts
9-1	Crum must get job back at DEP (scroll down)
9-1	Clean water act is important to state
9-1	Cody Mining cited for 53 violations Inspectors' findings
9-1	Kentucky gubernatorial candidate's event will feature Cheney
9-1	Peabody is world's largest coal company
9-1	Controversy for US Firms' Energy Plants in Mexico
9-1	From strip mines to fine wines (Nary a mention of lost biological diversity.)

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