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10-31	In Alabama: Lock 17 Road coal truck ban set
10-31	In Alaska: Legislation on coal-bed methane drilling in the works - Coalbed methane wells a bust
10-31	In Tennessee: Judge Refuses to Block Campbell Co. Coal Mine
10-31	Consent of the Governed: The reign of corporations and the fight for democracy
10-31	Election contributions up, report says
10-31	Analysis counts 2002 races as W.Va.'s costliest
10-31	Special interests donate most when their issues come up; Study also shows campaigns getting more money now
10-31	Ann Pancake, OVEC member and spirited defender of the mountains, wins prestigious literary award: Ten Writers Win Annual Whiting Awards
10-31	Parent company reviewing utility
10-31	Climate change rejected; Byrd votes against plan, preferring his own legislation
10-31	US Senate Turns Down Legislation Targeting Greenhouse Gases
10-31	Massey CEO Don Blankenship and Cindy Rank of the Highlands Conservancy debate mountaintop removal
10-31	IRS focuses on coal synfuels ; "Significant chemical change’ key to past, future tax credits - Coal-to-synthetic fuel process valid, IRS says - I.R.S. Clears Way for Fuel Tax Credits, Amid Doubts
10-31	Coal-fired plants not in utility plans; company expects sharp dip in use as fuel
10-31	Byrd, Jay split on measure to cap greenhouse gases - Senate Defeats Climate Bill, but Proponents See Silver Lining - Senate rejects measure aimed at curbing global warming - Senate Rejects Mandatory Cap On Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Senate rejects modest measure aimed at curbing global warming
10-31	Scientists, others trying to make sense of Arctic changes - Warm oceans are eroding Antarctic ice
10-31	Water board members push for looser rules
10-31	Bush Says Jobs Depend on End to Energy Bill Fight Of course, he doesn't mean these kinds of jobs: 90 jobs on way at new solar energy plant - UK energy minister boosts manufacturing - Bush Administration Steps Up Energy Bill Efforts
10-31	Energy Debate Needs Fresh Air
10-31	Energy-efficient lighting comes of age
10-31	Ignoring mining's danger
10-31	Damage Estimate in Ecuador Lawsuit Mounts to $6 Billion - U.S. government to auction off oil and gas leases in scenic parts of Utah
10-31	A look behind the Senate's thumbs-up on Leavitt - An agenda for Leavitt
10-30	Bush plan allows excess W.Va. air pollution, report says - Georgia PIRG says state has dirtiest power plants - Report: Florida air among worst
10-30	IRS Agrees To Resume Credits for Synfuels
10-30	Energy, Medicare Bills Caught in Republican Spat - Senate Democrats Attempting to Close 'Enron Loophole'
10-30	Calculations illustrate fossil-fuel crisis
10-30	Climate change in the Senate - Changing the Climate Signs of radical change in Arctic ecosystem - Global warming puts tropic's animals at risk - Arctic life is treading on thin ice - Ozone counters carbon storage
10-30	11 miners rescued after six days trapped underground
10-30	Beijing to replace coal with natural gas as major energy source
10-29	Consol Energy says SEC launched inquiry
10-29	US Energy Official Testifies On US Oil And Gas Imports
10-29	Bush tries to break energy bill logjam - Bush to talk energy in Ohio - Russia, China helping shape world's energy future
10-29	Utility won't build conventional coal plants (Coal will never be clean as long as their is mountaintop removal...and then there's the issue of disposing of the fly ash...)
10-29	Utility seeing changes
10-29	Group protests plans for coal plant - Ohio’s air is rated worst for coal-fired plant emissions
10-29	Executive, activist debate merits of coal - Massey president, environmentalist spar on mountaintop mining - Environmentalist, Massey executive debate mountaintop removal - Environmentalist, Massey executive debate mountaintop removal
10-29	EPA undecided on water appeal
10-29	State key to global warming debate, ecologists told - The Warming Is Global but the Legislating, in the U.S., Is All Local - Life Will Be Grim in 2020, Beckett Predicts - The Perfect Firestorm - Arctic getting hotter faster - New evidence of global warming in Earth's past supports current models for how climate responds to greenhouse gases
10-29	After Long Delay, Senate Confirms Utah Governor as Head of E.P.A. - Senate Confirms Leavitt as EPA Chief - Senate easily approves Leavitt as EPA chief
10-29	Upshur mine fatality state’s ninth this year
10-29	Russian Miners Found and Most Are Alive - Coal mine disaster in China kills 13 - Rescued miners paid in coal
10-29	UK Ofgem mulls financing green power grid upgrade
10-29	Mountain residents find bubbling crude in their well and they're not happy
10-29	State legal chiefs team up to influence policy
10-28	AEP executive talks about future of coal and the environment
10-28	League of Women Voters makes clean election presentation (OVEC's Janet Fout co-leads Citizens for Clean Elections)
10-28	Report supports coal tax; Advisory council says funds needed for reclamation
10-28	Agency files suit against Massey firms ; Officials say deal wasn't reached on violations
10-28	Religious leaders seek cleaner fleet
10-28	The axis of oil: how a plan for the world's biggest pipeline threatens to wreak havoc
10-28	U.S. energy bill dupes the public Barton draws criticism for energy bill amendment
10-28	DEP takes Massey to court over repeated spills Moody's cuts Massey Energy senior implied rating
10-28	Judge named to hear latest coal mining suit
10-28	Revocation of Tax Credits for Synfuel Is Seen as Unlikely
10-28	Mine cleanup fund to run short in '06
10-28	MHSA finds inspector ‘deficiencies’
10-28	Coalbed Methane: Wyoming Checks Mines for West Nile Source
10-28	Interfaith group calls for greener W.Va. fleet
10-28	Anti-war rally fee standard, officer says
10-28	Kentucky Democrats stand to lose more than office
10-28	States, cities sue EPA on clean air
10-28	Senate vote first ever on greenhouse gases proposal - The once proud breadfruit humbled by Spam - Ford Giving New Thought to Its Plan to Discontinue an S.U.V.
10-28	Companies Buy Largest Colo. Wind Farm
10-27	Miami or bust : When Latin America's leaders gather in the US next month, they must oppose rampant free trade
10-27	Religious campaign backing fuel economy for state vehicle fleet
10-27	Bush chopping away at nation’s still-wild forests
10-27	Energy Bill Again Sinks on Ethanol Tax Fight - Action on Energy, Medicare Critical to GOP Scorecard - Energy bill delays fuel speculation
10-27	Ala. Jury Awards $20M in Overloaded Coal Truck Crash
10-27	Testing the Senate's Mettle
10-27	Water in Russian Mine Has Left 13 Trapped - Hope Fades for Rescue of Trapped Russian Miners
10-27	Fletcher won't protect us
10-27	Coal power/Go slow on Hoyt Lakes project
10-26	Mountaintop-removal report avoids details, Fish and Wildlife says
10-26	War foes rally at Capitol A New Battle Front: Pro-Warrior but Antiwar - Anti-War Rallies on Both Coasts
10-26	City conference to focus on global warming threat
10-26	Congress Moves Toward Mandating Rules for Electricity
10-26	Alarm over melting ice - Cutting Greenhouse Gases, or Not - Carbon `sinks' in doubt
10-26	Hope Fades for Rescue of Trapped Russian Miners
10-25	Lawsuits could slow permits, official says; Projects studied on case-by-case basis, man says
10-25	New lawsuit filed to stop mountaintop mining
10-25	Road to Ruin: How America is Ravaging the Planet - Recent Warming Of Arctic May Affect Worldwide Climate - Global warming, the quadrillion dollar question
10-25	Lockyer rips EPA on Clean Air Act - Mass. joins bid to force greenhouse gas curbs - Reilly, other AGs challenge EPA to take aim at pollutants - Global warming gases spur suits
10-25	Ashcroft's War on Greenpeace
10-25	A Brief History of Computerized Election Fraud in America
10-25	Report Says E.P.A. Aide Knew Rule Change Could Hurt Lawsuits - Pollution rules investigation sought
10-25	Energy Bill Negotiators May Miss Deadline
10-25	GOP plans to use 'nuclear option' to end Leavitt holds
10-25	Safer Lamps Can Also Cut Energy Costs
10-25	3 Russian Miners Rescued; 43 Others Alive
10-25	Navajo Get Opening to Revive Suit
10-25	In Ontario: Fate of coal-fired plants up in the air
10-25	World's First Coal Mine Methane Fuel Cell Powers Up in Ohio
10-24	Shareholders file CONSOL lawsuit
10-24	Lawsuit would require Corps to do on-site work for permits
10-24	Groups sue Army Corps of Engineers over mountaintop removal permits
10-24	Lawsuit challenges coal mining permits
10-24	Suit challenges permits for mountaintop removal
10-24	ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SUE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS FOR PERMITTING COAL COMPANIES TO BURY STREAMS IN APPALACHIA
10-24	Massey announces plan to close 3 mines; Company will focus on coal for steam, chief says
10-24	Civil talk on mining forum goal; Environmentalist, mining president set for discourse
10-24	Conference to offer opinions about global warming
10-24	Massey Energy reports loss of $3.8 million
10-24	Enviros raise dollars, and dazzle, for the 2004 presidential elections
10-24	More stuff found in Chauncey (EPA lied in a press release!)
10-24	Suzuki aims to launch fuel cell cars by 2010 Energy Savings Help Solar Laundromat Owner Clean Up
10-24	The Politics of Media Filtration
10-24	Arctic ice cap melting at worrisome rate: NASA - States Try to Force EPA to Regulate CO2 - Climate Challenge: Poorer Nations Must Hang Together - UK Joins Global Warming Challenge to US and Russia - US states sue federal gov't over greenhouse gases
10-24	Studies, Senators Knock EPA on Air Rules
10-24	Republicans set showdown on stalled EPA nominee
10-24	Safety agency issues 71 violations against Floyd County mine
10-24	Russia Trying to Save 46 Trapped Miners
10-23	IRS upholds credit for synthetic fuel science; Officials reject field auditor's challenge to validity of claim
10-23	U.S. energy bill vote called, tax items not ready
10-23	Presidential Ecospeak
10-23	Most gas companies raise prices: Agency approves increase for 13 of 18 utilities
10-23	Greenbrier County commissioners have voted 2-1 to loan $50,000 to a group planning to build a power plant in Rainelle
10-23	Coal trucks hauling lighter loads, PSC says - Coal truck weights drop, state official says
10-23	Senator seeks compromise on state water-use proposal: Chamber of Commerce, industry oppose bill
10-23	China's Boom Adds to Global Warming Problem - 11, 449 Die in 2003 China Work Accidents
10-22	I.R.S. Drops Inquiry Into Fuel Tax Credit
10-22	NEPA & Bush: If It Ain't Broke, Break It - This Land Is Your Land
10-22	When Facts Don't Matter
10-22	Agitating for a Change: Investor Activism Gains Momentum in Enron’s Wake
10-22	Bill Conserves Mostly Pork - Balance energy, environment - Energy Bill On Hold ENERGY RUT: Proposed new strategy stuck in nonsustainable past - Uncivil Society - Congressional Standoff Delays Energy Bill Vote
10-22	Conference to examine global climate change (scroll down) - China's Boom Adds to Global Warming Problem - Drowned albatross colony is a dire omen for the future
10-22	Muhlenberg power-plant construction delayed
10-22	Makers of pollutant could win protection
10-22	Lawmakers question stream rule updates
10-22	DEP removing buried drums from Chauncey
10-22	Some safety convictions against mine dismissed
10-21	Panel studies whether to regulate payday lenders (The data cited is from PERC, which OVEC co-founded and co-leads.)
10-21	Formal US energy bill negotiations to resume next week
10-21	Agency discovers buried waste dump in Chauncey
10-21	Coal seeks sweeping rules changes; Regulation, permits best done by other office, group says (Must be that once you get a taste of destroying mountains and streams, you want more, more, more with no one and no laws to keep you from it.)
10-21	West Virginia mountains get flattened
10-21	Unknown peril: Residents need facts about coal waste disposal - Find out more on the web
10-21	Energy Bill Held Up by Tax Package Dispute No Deal on Energy Bill, Monday Vote Canceled
10-21	Scientists find new way to make electricity
10-21	U.S. Nears Decision on Tax Credits for Producers of Synthetic Fuels
10-21	State’s water needs protection of law
10-21	Arch Coal 3rd-quarter profit rises
10-21	Utility can't bill customers for its defense - Both sides claim win in water poll
10-21	Audit urges end to energy board
10-21	Interest growing in wind farms - Fueled by Garbage - Crop waste seen as new resource - Solar energy to light up Indian villages
10-21	Commission asked to push forests
10-21	Push to Boost LADWP’s Green Energy Clashes with Cash Crunch, Cheap Coal - Deregulation Did In Davis
10-21	Behind the Blackout
10-21	Former EPA boss sizes up Leavitt's task
10-20	Pit water from mine flowed into Little Coal River tributary
10-20	Bush Undoes a Century of Environmental Progress - The Greening of the Beat-Bush Movement
10-20	Electronic Voting: What You Need To Know
10-20	Energy Bill Held Up by Tax Package Dispute - Snags Delay Final Version of Energy Bill
10-20	Massey: Coal company leader proud of W.Va. heritage (Oh, I feel all warm and fuzzy...)
10-20	Sierra snow pack shrinking, study says - Global warming withers S. Africa's desert plants - Polluters Rally to Ratify Kyoto Pact - Patagonian Glaciers Thinning at Torrid Pace
10-20	COAL opponents make their case in Madison
10-20	Metro testing biodiesel fuel for buses Canada warms to alternative energy - Tapping Cow Output to Lower Car Output - China to Put Corn Into Gas Tanks to Clean Up
10-20	Coalbed Methane: Gas development controversy spreads to Homer - Coal-bed Cautions
10-19	A Costly Prison: Construction project prime case for not building on strip mines
10-19	New life for dead mines
10-19	Halliburton, Again
10-19	Don't Let GOP Leadership Bailout MTBE Polluters Energy Bill's Effect on Consumers Unknown - Democrats Push GOP for Greater Inclusion - Questions remain about power of energy bill
10-19	At age 89, Hechler wants his old job back
10-19	TOO EASY ON MASSEY ENERGY
10-19	Massey Energy is anti-union (scroll down)