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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 - Ohios 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 states 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 nations 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 Enrons 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	States 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 LADWPs 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)
10-19	Chaunceys lead, dioxin levels high, EPA finds
10-19	Fire Griles: Morissette, Mike D Declare Eco War
10-19	Campaigns warped by more than time
10-18	Backward energy bill - Republicans plan U.S. energy bill vote next week
10-18	The Most Radical Act: Do It Today
10-18	Presidential Ecospeak - Clinton Officials Attack Bush on Environment - Gadfly in the Ointment - Electoral Collage
10-18	GOP Near Agreement On Energy Legislation
10-18	EcoDwell plans East End energy-saving home
10-18	South American glaciers' big melt - Scientists Urge Congress to Pass Climate Stewardship Act - Kyoto veto will hurt Russia, says UN climate chief
10-18	UMW backs McGraw; GOP cries foul over nod
10-18	Oil fouls E. Kentucky water wells; Some residents also find natural gas, blame drilling - Some blame seepage from drilling in region
10-18	Report on Blackout Is Promised Within Weeks
10-18	Patriot Act is Woefully Out of Tune
10-18	EPA Allows Sludge Despite Cancer Risks EPA eases dioxin curbs on farmers (Toxic sludge is good for you!)
10-18	Arch Coal Earns National Awards for Environmental Stewardship, Outreach (Gag! The eco-plunderers pat themselves on the back. The Ragland coal waste impoundment is seeping mercury, nickel and other heavy metals into area streams and groundwater; Catenary Coal's efforts are cheap lipstick on a corpse!)
10-18	South Carolina must begin working to ensure it has enough water, lawmaker says
10-17	The Empire Strikes Out
10-17	Mine company seeks to block stream order
10-17	Tax Break for Gas Drilling May Be Restored - Republicans Hope to Finish Energy Bill This Week - Republicans say they are a hair's-breadth from U.S. energy plan
10-17	Comp crooks fail to pay; Debts to workers' fund for past fraud go unpaid
10-17	DEP denies Mettiki mine permit for Grant County
10-17	Miners asked for givebacks Union says Horizon trying to trim contract
10-17	In Races With One Deep Pocket, the Law Tries to Tailor a Second
10-17	Problem not mine-related, official tells citizens
10-17	Autopsy finds painkiller in body of miner killed in blast
10-17	Regional power group to focus on reliability of Kentucky grid - Caldwell Energy holds power
10-17	States to unveil stricter air pollution rules - EPA scuttled comparison of clean air studies - Smoggy skies persist despite decade of work - EPA defends ads for Bush proposal, despite Democrats' charges
10-17	New Analysis Finds Lure of Profits Corrupting Integrity of University Scientific Research
10-17	Study finds glaciers are melting at a faster pace in South American region - Going Out on a Limb to Combat Global Warming
10-17	Economic development group approves 3 loans
10-16	Alternative Energy Technology master's degree debuts at WSU
10-16	GOP Leaders Push to Finish Energy Bill
10-16	Liquid Assets: Lawmakers Want to Regulate West Virginia Water Supply
10-16	Value of Impoundment Web Site Questioned Technical Experts Not Involved in Project, Coal Industry Officials Say (Their "experts" designed the things in the first place...but the coal industry has called failures "acts of God"!)
10-16	Moving to a coal free future
10-16	Agency denies another Mettiki mine permit; Official says plan would create acid mine drainage
10-16	Hechler will run for office
10-16	Soil samples negative ; No hazardous waste found in Logan town (Residents say as far they can tell, the EPA didn't take any soil samples up the hollow where the dumping occurred.)
10-16	Big US transmission projects bank on wind power
10-16	Deadline Is Set for Energy Bill - US energy bill tax breaks to be finished this week
10-16	CONSOL to investigate officers - Anker Coal emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy
10-16	Unnatural disasters: Global warming could create 150 million environmental refugees - Alaska's not-so-permanent frost--With winters warming eight degrees in three decades, Alaskans face a strange new landscape
10-16	Pipeline project status is uncertain
10-16	Beams arriving for Coalfields Expressway span in Sophia
10-16	Democrats Decry EPA Ads on Bill - EPA Radio Ads for Bush's 'Clear Skies' Initiative May Be Illegal
10-16	Committee Approves E.P.A. Nominee, Setting Up Floor Fight - The Leavitt Nomination: An Opportunity to Get Some Answers - Bushs pick to head EPA advances
10-16	Shell goes green in Qatar - Big Projects to Develop Natural Gas in Qatar
10-16	Breathing rust - and new life into bug science - Hawaiian legislator makes waves for renewable energy
10-16	UK wind power industry warns of funding crisis
10-16	Judge says logging needs federal pollution permits
10-16	Coal mine blast kills another six in NE China; 28 dead in a week
10-16	Alaska coal-bed methane leasing halted - Coal bed gas potential uncertain
10-15	We're Melting ...
10-15	U.S. Senate panel will approve EPA nominee, says Jeffords - EPA Backroom Deal with Factory Farms Presented to Congress
10-15	Gas pipeline project not on hold, company says
10-15	Pet Projects Flood Energy Bill Before Crucial Wednesday Session - No Alaska pipeline gas subsidy in U.S. energy bill
10-15	The Atlantic Oil Boom Proves Slow in Coming - GOP Proposal May End Coastal Drilling Ban
10-15	Natural gas pipeline explodes near French Lick, closing highway
10-15	West Virginian among Bush's "most influential'' campaign donors - Volunteers Bring in Millions for Bush
10-15	Debate over forests is a difference in priorities
10-14	Four coal trucks collide on dangerous Tolsia Highway
10-14	Longtime UMW organizer dies
10-14	Lack of customers delays natural gas pipeline plan
10-14	Drivers Prepare to Haul Heavy -- Legally
10-14	Sludgy aftermath: Massey gets its way; residents get cold shoulder
10-14	Fractured Republicans Hope for Deal to Pass Energy Bill - U.S. energy bill thin on conservation, critics say
10-14	Earthjustice Opposed EPA Nominee
10-14	EPA official misled Congress on air rules, says report - Record Does Not Support EPA Officials Denials That He Made Untrue Statements When Testifying to Congress About New Pollution Rule
10-14	Water use: Plan now or suffer later
10-14	Interfaith campaign focuses on climate
10-14	Mine inspectors find marijuana
10-14	Environmental pioneers reunited
10-13	$18 Billion For Polluters - Energy Bill Compendium
10-13	Coal truck driver killed in accident - Coal Truck Wreck Closes Busy Highway
10-13	Energy Bill Thin on Conservation, Critics Say - Provisions Benefiting Energy Industry Are Folded into Bill - EPA Official Misled Congress on Air Rules - Report - Energy Industry to Win Big on Energy Bill
10-13	Outrage, Dismay: Retired Coal Miners' Benefits Could Be In Jeopardy
10-13	New Program Encourages Cleaner Energy
10-13	Federal mine safety record is poor and getting worse
10-13	State cites mine after pot is found
10-13	Why ignore solar powers potential? (scroll down)
10-12	Bush Appointees Gut Air Quality Rule and Give Congress False Information About the Consequences
10-12	Energy industry to win big with energy bil - G.O.P. Leadership Interceding in Energy Talks
10-12	Tale of sludge spill still untold - Floods and failures in the coalfields
10-12	Massey avoids major financial hit for spill: Most damage claims covered by insurance
10-12	'Environmental Terrorism' Is a Matter of Definition - Win or Not, Its Time to Fight the Right Fight
10-11	Energy Industry to Win Big on Energy Bill - G.O.P. Leadership Interceding in Energy Talks - U.S. energy bill may be delayed until January
10-11	EPA official is accused of misleading Congress on effects of new rules - Ex-EPA officials question lawsuits: Assistant administrator disputes duping Congress on rules
10-11	Earth Charter Seeks to Provide Blueprint for Sustainable Future
10-11	New definition of waste sets precedent in Western water policy
10-11	German company RWE sells more CONSOL stock
10-11	Group threatens lawsuit against U.S. Park Service: Animal-rights activists oppose New River Gorge hunting rule
10-10	Some impoundment information on Web site inaccurate: Companies don't update information, director says
10-10	Commission helping coal haulers apply for permits
10-10	Groups suing over power plant tax break
10-10	W.Va. Project Details Potential Threats For Those Downstream - But New Web Site For 25 W.Va. Coal Slurry Sites Has Some Inaccuracies
10-10	Energy Bill Could Be Delayed Until January - Energy Bill May Be Delayed Until January - Energy Bill May Be Delayed Until January
10-10	Ex-EPA officials question lawsuits: Assistant administrator disputes duping Congress on rules - EPA official is accused of misleading Congress on effects of new rules
10-10	MSHA comes under fire in federal report: Agency criticized for not pursuing safety violations
10-9	Web site publicizes coal impoundment emergency plans - Coal Impoundment Pilot Project Web Site Outlining Evacuation Plans for Keeping West Virginia Citizens Safe
10-9	Coal is the state's OxyContin
10-9	Firm sells most mine properties: Brinks, formerly Pittston, does'nt identify buyer
10-9	MSHA comes under fire in federal report: Agency criticized for not pursuing safety violations
10-9	DEP may settle suit on small slurry spill
10-9	Bush pushes Congress to pass U.S. energy bill
10-9	Senior U.S. official questions ability of E.U. countries to implement climate change targets
10-9	China orders stepped-up emissions controls at coal-fired power plants - China bans coal-fire power plants in major cities
10-8	EPA Rule Revisions Roil U.S. Case Against Power Plant
10-8	State settles with coal company - State settles with Massey: DEP couldn't win slurry case, chief says - W. Va. Settles Over Coal Company Spill - Martin Co. Coal settles W.Va. suit over slurry spill - Ky. Coal Company Settles Slurry Case - West Virginia settles with coal company over slurry spill into river
10-8	Massey treated like royalty
10-8	Water-use compromise hits major snag
10-8	Lights Out
10-7	Court officer alleges Massey subsidiary may have violated probation
10-7	W.Va. DEP settles with coal company over slurry spill
10-7	MSHA lacks follow-up procedures, GAO says
10-7	Boone County spills may have violated Massey probation
10-7	Monster trucks: Making the illegal legal
10-7	Bush sacrifices national forests (scroll down)
10-6	Democrats' Duty on Energy - Renewables left out of energy bill: 53 Senators want them in, but deal makers dont - Stevens, Murkowski threaten 'no' vote on energy bill
10-6	High court hears pivotal case on election finances
10-6	As Carbon Dioxide Levels Double, Data Suggest U.S. Will See Major Climate Changes
10-6	Dan Moore: Moore serves on Massey board to help workers, communities (sort of a reply to United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts)
10-6	Environmental lawsuit awaiting power line permit: Sierra Club claims line will affect animals, air quality
10-5	The Great Energy Scam: How a plan to cut oil imports turned into a corporate giveaway
10-5	Critics not buying energy bill debates Energy bill overlooks Maine's concerns Energy bill stalled by Senate break
10-5	Legislative candidates given $6 million, research shows (OVEC is a lead organizer of PERC.)
10-5	At the end of our weather
10-5	Massey chief shares blame (Scroll down.)
10-5	Energy Bill Slowed by Dispute Over Who Pays for Power Grid
10-5	More refugees flee from environmental problems than war, says report
10-5	'The Discovery of Global Warming': Living in the Greenhouse
10-5	Climate talks end without result
10-5	Fletcher: Clean-coal technology will help preserve industry, environment (What a load of BS from Kentucky gubernatorial candidate Fletcher. As long as there is mountaintop removal, there is no such thing as "clean" coal!)
10-5	Chandler: I'll rein in mining's ill effects, fight to keep electric costs low
10-5	EU unlikely to meet renewable energy target
10-4	Invading and Occupying Iraq: The Impact on Your State
10-4	Company appeals taxing coal-bed methane
10-4	Measure Would Alter Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy; Energy Bill Provision Backed by Two Firms Would Ease Constraints on Exports of Bomb-Grade Uranium (Export potential weapons of mass destruction?!) Energy bill insert could relax limits on uranium trade Bush pushes Congress to pass U.S. energy bill
10-4	Please, no warmed-over energy bill
10-4	How economics may reshape green policy
10-4	States Plan Suit to Prod U.S. on Global Warming Calif. to sue EPA on carbon dioxide
10-4	Southern Exposure: Seeing The Light With Solar Energy Owners Look for Environment-Friendly Ways to Reduce Rising Costs of Energy How to Save Energy: There's a Lot to Absorb Douglas pedals and peddles energy conservation to Vermonters
10-4	Message in a Bottle: Despite the Hype, Bottled Water is Neither CLEANER nor GREENER Than Tap Water All Bottled Up
10-3	West Virginia should protect water resources, officials say
10-3	World oil and gas 'running out' Oil and gas running out much faster than expected, says study Global warming to run out of gas Importing Natural Gas Malaysia opens seven new deepwater oil blocks
10-3	Lights Out: The Bush administration lets a profitable energy-efficiency program lapse
10-3	Critical US Energy Bill Crafted in Secrecy A Porker of an Energy Plan 'Subsidizing' An Alaskan Gas Pipeline Crafting the energy bill
10-3	3 have project as Rockefeller fellows at UK; Study puts Appalachian activists, other regional scholars in touch
10-3	Rahall shores up $10 million for UMWA's Combined Benefit Fund
10-3	Chemical spill sends 19 workers to hospital
10-3	Kentucky police officer rear-ends coal truck, dies
10-3	Energy trader facing $50 million penalty
10-3	Scientists say warming could cut Russian crops
10-3	Hybrids Can Be Cheap to Make, Toyota Says
10-3	Chipmaker sees solar cell revolution
10-3	B.C. described as the 'Saudi Arabia of green energy'; Topography of the province lends itself to the setting up of small power companies
10-2	Stand up to Bush on Clean Water Act (scroll down)
10-2	Ithaca Environmental Film Fest aims to raise awareness (The documentary about mountaintop removal, Razing Appalachia, will be shown)
10-2	Pipeline delays energy measure
10-2	Plug Power and Honda demonstrate Home Energy Station
10-2	Coal gasification plant: worth the tradeoff? (There is no such thing as "clean" coal...)
10-2	Heavier trucks on roads Wayne routes on coal network Coal haulers quick to get new weight permits State must sort out coal truck problems soon West Virginia unveils new 1,996-mile coal transportation route
10-2	UMW health bill by Rahall advances House panel passes bill to fund miners' health care
10-2	Mine foreman jailed for lying to MSHA investigators
10-2	Final hurdle crossed for power plant organizers
10-2	Mine reuse money is in flux; States prepare to battle for reclamation funds
10-2	Deep Trouble--Industrial devolution; Heavy industry and lax regulation combine for a toxic mix
10-2	China's Energy Hopes Blowing Under Its Nose?
10-2	Alaska Pipeline Route Agreed in Draft Energy Bill Democrats Warn ANWR Drilling Will Kill Energy Bill
10-2	Senate Democrats Boycott Hearing on E.P.A. Nominee Senate Dems force two-week delay on Leavitt nomination
10-2	Sponsors Ease Bill on Gases That Warm the Climate Food prices could rise with climate change, experts predict Alaska's climate: Too hot to handle Carbon Dioxide Emission Allowances - Now for Sale
10-2	Blackouts? Edison Might Say, 'I Told You So'
10-1	Enforcement of new weight limits delayed
10-1	Electricity Deal in Energy Bill 'Close'
10-1	Wisc. coal company rolls out dust busters
10-1	Permits, signs stall coal route
10-1	Is there hope for WV?
10-1	"Black Box Voting" by Beverly Harris released in free electronic format!
10-1	Final Greenbrier pipeline statement issued
10-1	Study Finds Environmental Regulations to be Profoundly Effective
10-1	Scientists report global warming kills 160,000 annually
10-1	Enforcement of new weight limits delayed
10-1	Energy: Little vision for future
10-1	Plant permit not tough enough, EPA says
10-1	Interfaith service promotes tolerance, Gandhis message
10-1	U.S. Trading of Emissions Starts Slowly
10-1	Rules That Work
10-1	EPA to begin air-quality alerts (They'll tell us when the air is bad, but gut the rules to make the air better.)

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