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11-30	Dangerous Dinosaurs
11-30	Delving into the Coalfields...
11-30	The Bush Betrayal
11-30	Poor World 'Cuts Climate Gases'
11-30	Improved mine safety in Kentucky under Patton
11-29	Coal caught in energy bill's delay; $6 billion in programs must wait as Senate fails to act on measure (No matter how many billions of taxpayer dollars are used to subsidize the coal industry, there is no such thing as "clean" coal! Coal's dirty when you dig it, dirty when you haul, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you dispose of the ash--and the industry pours dirty money into politics.)
11-29	FBI's protest watch
11-29	Atrocities being inflicted upon coal, gas foes (scroll down)
11-29	Better Energy Legislation - Stubborn Issues Unresolved for Congress - D.C. crew put their energy in right place
11-29	Speculation Mounts Bush May Give Way on Steel
11-29	Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Miami Police Conduct During FTAA Ministerial Meeting Protests
11-29	All eyes on Russia as U.N. climate talks begin
11-29	Dutch energy giant to supply solar energy in remote regions of China
11-29	Coal exploitation causes sinking of earth surface in Jiangxi - Coal mining town sinking
11-29	Germany's RAG may sell coal mines
11-29	Natural Resource snaps up more Kentucky coal
11-28	Research Accountability Sought; Rules to Prevent Financial Conflict of Interest Needed, GAO Says
11-28	Militarization in Miami: Threatening the Right to Protest - Group Wants Investigation of Police Tactics at Miami Trade Talks
11-28	Hogtied and Abused at Fort Benning
11-28	CHEMICAL INDUSTRY'S SECRET PLAN TO ATTACK CALIFORNIA'S ANTI-TOXICS TREND; Memo Calls for Phony Front Groups, Spying on Activists
11-28	Nehlen report prompts question (scroll down to final letter)
11-28	Dow reconstructing two old dams
11-28	Energy bill was full of junk and deserved to die - At Least, Strengthen the Grid - Congress Wraps Up Mixed-Bag Session
11-28	Billions Face Water Shortages as Glaciers Melt The gathering storms
11-28	Pollution-control units at power plants clean the air after providing thousands of jobs across Kentucky
11-28	Clean Coal Power Initiative Draft Solicitation Available for Comment (The government continues to promote the myth of "clean" coal--at your expense.) Congressional Budget Conferees Back President's Coal, FutureGen Initiatives; DOE's FY2004 Fossil Energy Funding Increased to $380 million for Coal R&D Program
11-27	States quarrel over federal air pollution rules
11-27	Judge rejects industry challenge to government wetlands rules - Court Throws Out Industry's Challenge to Clean Water Act Permits; Attempt to Further Weaken Protections for Streams, Wetlands Fails
11-27	Tell the Bush Administration to Protect our Water! - Wetlands proposal stirs House pot
11-27	Flood Litigation Remains in Legal Limbo; Southern West Virginia Still Cleaning Up From 2001 Floods; Causes Being Debated
11-27	Tapping into Voter Anger
11-27	Broad Bills Stuffed With Lawmakers' Pet Items - Temporary blackout on energy giveaway
11-27	Without Energy Legislation, Grid, Power Policy in Limbo
11-27	Citizens Trade Campaign Condemns Police Repression Against Political Expression During the Negotiations on a Free Trade Area of the Americas
11-27	EU carbon scheme may be good for air and investors
11-27	Wind Power Tax Credit Expires in December
11-27	W.Va. disaster book now available from Beckley Newspapers
11-27	Saving Energy Pays
11-26	Robert Kennedy, Jr.: The White House Plays Dirty With the Environment - Bobby Kennedy, Jr. Fights for the Environment—and For His Kids’ Future
11-26	Massey Energy CEO to Speak in New York
11-26	Changes in Water Policy Opposed - House members urge Bush to retain Clean Water Act protections
11-26	Losing hope in Appalachia; As the mines shut down, an area's health, and future, declined
11-26	Government by Juggernaut
11-26	Heavy-handed Police and Propaganda Tactics Brought Baghdad to Miami - Fragments of the Future: The FTAA in Miami - Diverse Coalition Denounces Unprecedented Militarization of Miami, Brutal Police Tactics Applied Against Activists, Residents
11-26	Global Warming is Likely to Cause Huge Climatic Changes -- and Possibly a New Ice Age - Climate changes to have more negative effects on mankind - Whale births linked with climate
11-26	Even With Bush's Support, Wide-Ranging Legislation May Have Been Sunk by Excess - Energy Bill Gives Special Focus to a Fuel Additive - Wanted: a pork-free energy bill - Next time, guard our lands
11-26	Widow sues mine for husband’s death
11-26	Bill Moyers' Essay on the Media and Democracy - It’s the Media, Stupid - Media Silence on 9/11 - BBC's Dyke attacks US war reports
11-25	VICTORY! G.O.P. Leaders Dropping Push for an Energy Bill This Year - Senate Gives Up on Energy Bill for 2003 - Energy Bill Collapses, May Be Revived in 2004 - Energy Bill Dead for This Year - No Deal on Energy Bill; Will Try Again Next Year - Frist expected to delay energy bill vote
11-25	Only full mine-spill report will end suspicion
11-25	Mini-turbine brings 'green power for all' - First major UK offshore wind farm switches on - U.S. Corporate Renewable-Energy Purchase Breaks Records
11-25	California Tells Counties to Establish Paper Trail on Electronic Voting
11-25	Gas Blast at China Coal Mine Kills 14
11-25	Plan Gives Farmers a Role in Fighting Global Warming
11-24	White House Pushes Energy Bill Compromise
11-24	From the "big "duh" department: Longwall mines damaging structures, report says
11-24	Bush's 'fuel of choice': Group says coal industry thriving with Bush's help
11-24	Frist Says Energy Bill 'Two Votes Short' - Nursing a Fragile Energy Bill - Rays of Hope on Energy - GOP Considers Eliminating MTBE Provision - Senate Set to Act on Blocked Energy Bill Mon.
11-24	Alarms Sounded On Cost of GOP Bills; Lawmakers Increase Spending to Win Votes
11-24	Power plants' pollution blights W.Va. air quality
11-24	Investors at UN Summit: Disclose Climate Costs - Global warming blamed, in part, for fierce wildfires - Canada and Dupont Reach Agreement to Address Climate Change
11-24	From Nov. 19: Slurry ponds make floods worse in Lawrence County, Kentucky
11-24	Nehlen not friend of the truth
11-24	UNION OFFICIALS PRAISE ACTION, CITING POTENTIAL RISK TO OTHERS
11-24	Gas Blast at China Coal Mine Kills 14 - 10 Turkish miners feared dead in coal mine explosion
11-24	Massey CEO Don Blankenship: Using natural gas hurts nation (Amazing! The CEO of Massey attempts to speak about reality. What about the reality of global warming, Donnie? The need for conservation, advances in energy efficiency? The need for clean air and clean water? The needs of future generations?)
11-24	National Mining Association President: Energy Bill (Oink! Could it be that what Gerard really means is that the coal industry really, really wants the billions in subsidies and tax breaks this bill would dole out? What about the free market, boys? And just how does destroying forests, water and communities make the homeland more secure?)
11-24	Kentucky Coal Association President: Editorial distorted coal-slurry testimony (Amazing! Toxic sludge is good for you! Apparent negligence is actually just an accident!)
11-23	A Disgusting Energy Bill - U.S. Senate set to act on blocked energy bill Monday - This energy bill is a lump of coal - Streamlining, coal prices all part of energy bill
11-23	F.B.I. Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies
11-23	FTAA Protests: Activists Say Many Arrests Were Unlawful; Public defenders and activists raise civil rights concerns for dozens of free-trade protesters
11-23	Synfuel gets new twist; Mobile unit to process coal aboard barges
11-23	At 1,200 Pages, the Energy Plan Weighs Itself Down - Democrats and Republicans Hold Firm Against Anti-Environmental Energy Bill - Senate Blocks Bush-Backed Energy Bill; Supporters, who fall two votes short of ending a filibuster, say they won't relent
11-23	Devastation in Davis Creek: Was there more to it than just the rain?
11-23	For first time, state pulls mine foreman's license
11-23	Convoluted, contradictory case in state Supreme Court - EPA studying whether Teflon poses health risks
11-23	Pension Funds Plan to Press Global Warming as an Issue - After 200 Years of Growth, Level of Methane Stabilizes
11-23	A higher authority on energy
11-23	Explosion Kills Three Miners in Turkey
11-22	Senators vote against broad energy bill; Byrd, Rockefeller feel bad aspects outweigh good
11-22	Energy Bill Blocked in Senate on Close Vote - Energy Bill Blocked in Senate, But Not Dead - Senate blocks energy bill; GOP vows continued push - Senate Energy Bill Is Blocked - Leaving lobbyists behind - Senate Fails to End Energy Bill Filibuster - Senate Blocks Energy Bill; Backers Vow to Try Again
11-22	2 Bills Would Benefit Top Bush Fundraisers; Executives' Companies Could Get Billions - Energy Bill Would Welcome Back Diesels - Pushing Energy Conservation Into the Back Seat of the S.U.V. - A look at where the money in the energy bill would go
11-22	Kucinich Leads Effort To Obtain Documents On Ethics Probe Of Controversial Interior Deputy Secretary
11-22	Liquidation of the Commons
11-22	Arresting The Future - Steel And The Politics Of Free Trade
11-22	Marmet landowner hopes to lure Wal-Mart by removing the mountaintop on his property
11-22	Fletcher urged to push energy resources (So-called "clean" coal technologies may keep some pollutants from going out the smokestack, but what about carbon dioxide? What happens to the polluted ash after coal is burned? What about mountaintop removal? What about the coal industry's puppet-politicians? There is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
11-22	$300m in loans for Polish coal mines
11-21	Robert Kennedy, Jr. in Rolling Stone: Crimes Against Nature; Bush is sabotaging the laws that have protected America's environment for more than thirty years
11-21	The Politics of Energy: How did coal become the Bush administration's fuel of choice?
11-21	Final Vote on Energy Bill Blocked; Senate Filibuster on Measure Continues - Energy bill setback hits Senate Republicans - Energy Department Secretary Abraham Statement on Senate Energy Bill Cloture Vote (Oh plu-eeze...ho stupid does he think we are?)
11-21	Filibuster Might Derail Energy Bill
11-21	Senator Robert C. Byrd: Energy bill is another empty promise from Bush - Votes on Energy Bill Split Along Regional Lines - Energy Bill Faces Make - Or - Break Senate Vote - Energy bill could nullify MTBE lawsuits
11-21	2 Major Unions Oppose Energy Bill on Eve of Senate Vote - Tired of Plain Greed And Subsidies - Group Asks Senate to Kill Energy Bill - A No-Solution Energy Bill - Senate in Nip-and-Tuck Struggle on Energy
11-22	Global Warming-Related Risk: The Next Big Hurdle for Electricity Companies
11-21	Interior Dept. to Open Alaska North Slope U.S. to open Alaskan area for oil drilling - Alaskan area to be opened to drilling
11-21	Methane ruling might mean millions for owners - Some questions remain in methane case; Who owns gas in coal mines is at center of debate
11-21	Police Gas Miami Trade Protesters - Miami Vice - Americas move on giant trade zone - U.S. and Brazil End Talks Free-Trade Bloc Framework OK'd in Miami -Protesters, Police Clash in Miami - Hemisphere-wide trade framework approved (scroll down) - Police clash with protesters at trade talks
11-21	Globalization's catch: Shrimp industry threatens communities and ecosystems worldwide
11-21	Residents air fears of electronic voting
11-20	World Bank advised to pull out of oil and coal financing
11-20	WASHINGTON senators lean against energy bill - Democrats Say Energy Bill for 'Hooters, Polluters'
11-20	Global Warming Gas Seen Increasing Dramatically
11-20	National Group Targets Swing Senators on Energy Bill's Payoffs for Polluters
11-20	Pollution fight pits South vs. Northeast; Reaction to EPA's move to weaken clean air rules points up regional divide
11-20	Scotland heads for 'hottest year'
11-20	Bush Hydrogen Plan Pushes Dirty Fossil and Nuclear Power; America Deserves a Green Hydrogen Future
11-20	Wetland's End: Bush administration floats new plan that would gut wetland protections
11-20	Senators From Both Parties Criticize Energy Legislation - Senate opens energy bill debate - Senate Starts Energy Debate Under Threat of Filibuster - Daschle backs energy proposal
11-20	The Myth of "CLEAN COAL" TRUMPS ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUSH-SUPPORTED ENERGY PLAN
11-20	Paper Outlines Future for Renewable Energy
11-20	DEP surprised building could go to WCC
11-20	Ordinary People Join in Protests -Textile Towns Appeal for Help, but Tariffs May Not Suffice - WTO battle is not just about steel
11-20	Arch Coal buys W. Va. coal reserve for $17.6 million
11-20	Lawmakers Defy Bush on Media Rules; Negotiators Back Move to Stop FCC From Easing Ownership Limits
11-20	EPA plans more testing for contaminants at Chauncey - Agency continues Logan probe; Environmental agency to collect more samples
11-20	Where it stinks, there are coal fires
11-20	Blackout Report Blames Ohio Utility - Probers Say Blackout in August Was Avoidable - Origins of a Blackout
11-20	Two towns yet to see gains from aid programs; E. Kentucky communities still struggling
11-20	Clear conflicts
11-20	Digging Up Dirt On Mystery Ash In Alexandria; Activists Link Soot to Power Plant - For More on the Matter
11-19	Robert Kennedy, Jr: Save the Earth--Dump Bush (On www.salon.com today--if you don't subscribe, you can watch an ad and get a free day pass.)
11-19	Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could devastate sea life - US DOE Carbon Sequestration R&D - CSiTE (carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems)
11-19	Prosecutors say safety plan ignored in mine roof collapse
11-19	Port authority sees future in ethanol; Fuel typically made from corn, but also from waste coal
11-19	Energy bill generates controversy; Capito votes for it; Rahall, Mollohan oppose measure
11-19	Contractor death state’s 10th mine fatality, feds say
11-19	China's Message on Energy - GM Wants China to Help Promote New Car
11-19	House Approves Energy Measure - Consensus on Energy Bill Arose One Project at a Time - Senate May Slow Energy Bill But Not Stop It, Backers Say - Energy Bill's Ethanol Compromise in Jeopardy - Panel OKs Energy Bill; Democrats on Board
11-19	Pollution Concerns May Snag Energy Bill
11-19	Size of Proposed Tax Breaks in Energy Bill Startles Experts
11-19	Raney, Rahall differ on energy bill
11-19	Workers' Comp may get DEP site - Official was left in dark; DEP chief unaware another agency wants new building
11-19	Retroactive suit might coast Workers' Comp $1.1 billion
11-19	DEP wants EPA to act on anti-degradation water rule
11-19	Judge Decries Pro-Industry Mining Rules
11-19	Kentucky Gov.-elect's transition team includes 15 lobbyists
11-19	Report to Pin Blackout On Lax Midwest Rules
11-19	Scientists: Patagonian Glaciers Melting - Climate change: The human connection - Weather patterns alter plant, tree cycles
11-19	Environmental, Consumer, And Public Policy Organizations To Challenge President Bush's Launch Of The International Partnership For The Hydrogen Economy (IPHE)
11-18	Proposed Energy Bill Favors Oil, Coal, and Nuclear Industries With Little Regard for Consumers and the Environment - The Energy Bill is a Disaster for America - Statement of Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club On the Energy Bill
11-18	Coal firm told to pay subsidence damages
11-18	Nehlen: Coal industry is good for W.Va. (Oh those dratted regulations..oh those dratted twelve whackos...If it weren't for them, Nehlen could have his stated dream of WV being more like China.) 49 miners dead in coal mine blast in China
11-18	Mine rules OK, official says; Reforms have fixed permit problems, secretary tells panel
11-18	Water users may have to fill out survey; Those consuming 25,000 gallons a day target of bill
11-18	Spadaro: Congress probe needed?
11-18	Energy industries that have invested millions of dollars in lawmakers... (The Energy Bill is the plus-perfect example of why we need campaign finance reform on the state and federal level.)
11-18	Senator Rockefeller: Bush Avoiding A Critical Inquiry on 9-11
11-18	Energy bill has Western focus - Depleted Energy
11-18	Negotiators Make Deal on $30 Billion Energy Bill - Democratic Candidates Assail Bills; Energy, Medicare Deals Loom Large - Energy Bill May Challenge Some Sectors - Congress Weighs Extended Deadlines on Smog Reduction
11-18	Democrats criticize huge energy bill - A Shortage of Energy - Energy Bill Fails to End SUV Tax Loophole - Energy bill has $23 billion in tax breaks, mostly for energy companies - Both sides say energy bill lacks power to solve major problems - Energy bill full of pork
11-18	14 state attorneys general ask courts to block EPA rule change
11-18	Longwall mining companies get a big bill
11-18	Report lists ways to improve Appalachia (One of the ways to improve Appalachia mentioned in the report is to ban mountaintop removal!)
11-18	Sen. Alexander: Clean Energy, Clean Air And Jobs In Tennessee
11-18	New View of Data Supports Human Link to Global Warming
11-18	Md. company appeals mining permit denial, requests meeting
11-18	Feds to investigate fatal mine blast
11-18	Officials begin enforcement of coal route
11-18	Trade without borders - Miami Girds for Protests at Trade Talks - Steel decision is key
11-18	Moore: Amazing arrogance
11-18	China Set to Act on Fuel Economy; Tougher Standards Than in U.S.
11-18	Germany's Retreat from Nuclear Energy Begins
11-17	Details of coal measures in US energy bill - With Energy Bill, Industries to Cash In - US energy bill would protect MTBE makers from lawsuits
11-17	Abandoned mine provision stripped from energy bill - Mine issue apparently left out of energy bill
11-17	In a rush, Republicans push votes on energy and Medicare bills - US Congress Panel Set to Vote on Energy Bill - Resource development freeze not included in energy bill
11-17	Researchers see problems, possibilities in mine pools
11-17	Federal prosecutors start investigating mine in fatal blast
11-17	Alaska governor considers buyback of coal bed methane leases
11-17	Global warming 'detected' in the US - Save LDCs from consequences of climate change
11-17	Switch to cleaner fuel could create W.Va. jobs
11-17	Dumping into Coal River threatens community’s health (This fellow mistakenly seems to think coal companies are forced to obey the laws and that there are adequate laws to regulate the timber industry.)
11-17	RAG May Sell U.S. Coal Mines to Peabody Energy, Focus Reports
11-17	Threat to industry, says UK Coal as government faces sulphur dilemma
11-17	BHP Billiton Adds Coal Export Capacity as Chinese Demand Soars
11-17	Making light work of energy efficient illumination
11-17	Remembering Farmington 35 Years Later
11-16	Coal firms cited repeatedly since sentencing
11-16	Energy Bill Could Upend Suits Filed Over a Gas Additive - Energy Bill Would Let Electric Industry Set Rules for Grid - Energy bill may derail state’s suit against oil firms
11-16	Republicans Detail Aid For Energy Producers - No Home Runs in Energy Bill; Little Impact Expected for Imported Oil, Pollution, Power Grid - Utilities, oil companies stand to benefit from GOP energy bill
11-16	Arch Coal, Furniture Brands deal with mutual fund scandal
11-16	The first decade of free trade; West Virginia’s main exporting industries have cut jobs under NAFTA - Seniors to Join in Protest During Free Trade Area of the Americas
11-16	Court to hear arguments this week in Moore case
11-16	A new dig (Both ginseng and black cohosh are forest understory plants with market values that are destroyed by mountaintop removal.)
11-16	Critics say Kentucky neglects coal industry (Eastern Kentucky is trashed by mountaintop removal--perhaps it's the coal industry that neglects Kentucky. As long as there is mountaintop removal, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
11-16	Manchin sells interest in hydro power project
11-16	Real Estate Trends Show Urbanites Picking W.Va. as Their Second Home
11-16	Whitehall deadlock as coal faces the end
11-15	Vote danger: Electronic fraud risk
11-15	Cheney's Energy Gave Impetus to Energy Bill - Accord Reached by Republicans for Energy Bill - Bingaman: Energy Bill Tax Breaks Rise to $20 - 22 Bln GOP Hails Deal on Energy Bill - Republicans Set to Release 1, 700 - Page Energy Bill - The New Energy Bill - Massive energy bill clears hurdle; Billions in tax breaks for fossil fuel; ethanol also boosted
11-15	Legislation Would Set Rules for Grid
11-15	20/20 In Parkersburg: Can Non-Stick Make You Sick? EPA Studying Whether Teflon Poses Health Risk
11-15	Feds evaluating wind energy - Energy Efficiency Can Help Manufacturers Boost Business Performance, Says Study - Robert Redford gets heated up about the Bush environmental agenda, clean energy, and more
11-15	The Brink's Company Completes Sale of Coal Properties in West Virginia
11-15	Rescuers Seek Cause of China Mine Blast
11-15	Temperature rise in North America due to 'human activity' - Antartic ice's decline to hurt ecosystem
11-15	U.S. takes hard line on Greenpeace; Bush critics say use of obscure law smacks of retribution
11-14	Whistleblower faces the ax
11-14	Republicans say energy accord reached - Path cleared for U.S. energy policy overhaul - Energy bill includes $800 million for Iron Range project
11-14	Backdoor Assaults
11-14	NAFTA On Steroids - God Of Free Trade
11-14	Democrats may need "weeks" on energy bill - Daschle - Energy Talks Mired Over Tax Credit Debate - Lands Worth Leaving Alone
11-14	Mask makers face suit; Agency wants firms to pay costs of treating miners
11-14	Antarctic sea ice declines 20pc
11-14	Power giant to start on long-delayed line
11-14	California's Energy Crisis Declared Over
11-14	Explosion at China coal mine kills 48
11-14	Check That Oil
11-14	Clean-Air Rules for Parks - GOP lawmakers on environment tear: Republicans say they want balance, Democrats see rollbacks
11-14	'Green' electricity option
11-14	Lincoln County residents work together after flood - Flooded counties begin cleanup -
11-13	Agency backs off from valley fill enforcement
11-13	Clean Water Act jurisdiction may face change; State agencies, private groups opposing change - Government considers re-defining Clean Water Act jurisdiction
11-13	Dirty business: How Bush and his coal industry cronies are covering up one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history - Environmental groups riled over MHSA mining official's ouster
11-13	They Blinded Me with Pseudo Science: The Bush administration is jettisoning real scientists in favor of yes-men
11-13	GOP Seeking to Delay Environmental Bills ; Senators Say They Are Balancing Industry Needs; Critics Worry About Air Quality - Senate panel relaxes environmental protections in highway bill
11-13	Climate Change Is Next Big Hurdle for Utilities, Says Study
11-13	Experts say California wildfires could worsen with global warming - Climate Linked to Extinction of Alaskan Horses
11-13	WRI Report Warns of Increased Risks From Mining in Vulnerable Ecosystems
11-13	Critics are fuming over Voinovich emissions plan
11-13	FTAA Agreement Would Bring More Poverty
11-13	A Building So Green, It's Platinum - There's Green Stuff in the Kitchen and Laundry - A Penny-Wise Guide to 'Buttoning Up Your House' - Biomass plant to recycle zoo's animal waste now a dung deal
11-13	America Recycles Day coming up Saturday
11-12	Clean air laws go up in smoke
11-12	Coal, nukes now slow US energy bill - Senate tax chief - Daschle says there's less than a 50-50 chance of U.S. energy bill passing (Keep up the calls to Congress against the bill!) - New Snags Emerge to Slow Energy Bill
11-12	Environmentalists upset over mining official's firing
11-12	Studs Terkel On Hope and Activism
11-12	Ohio Town Empties as Utility Buys It; Few Residents Remain After Emissions Dispute
11-12	Administration Behind Weakening of Mercury Standards in Clear Skies Bill
11-12	Researchers study burying carbon dioxide (...talk about the money pit)
11-12	New power plant proposal attacked
11-12	Will Hydrogen Clear the Air? Maybe Not, Say Some
11-12	Global Warming May Spur More Wildfires
11-12	Report on Blackout Is Said to Describe Failure to React
11-12	Clean coal program keeps coal in picture (Coal's dirty when you blast it out of the earth, dirty when you haul, dirty when you burn it and dirty when you "dispose" of the ash. There is no such thing as "clean" coal! That research money could be much better spent on truly clean energy alternatives.)
11-12	W.Va. earns poor marks on economic report card
11-12	Water-use study logical first step to address issue
11-11	Delay on Energy Bill Vote Threatens Adjournment Plan
11-11	A troubling firing
11-11	Pennsylvania agency backs plan to dump river muck and coal ash into abandoned mines
11-11	Coal truck law hurts mobile home movers
11-11	Pollution kills Juárez children, study says; Report calls NAFTA traffic likely source - NAFTA group calls for stricter Mexican pollution regulations
11-11	US goods set to double in price as Europe plans huge trade war - WTO rules against U.S. steel tariffs - U.S. Tariffs on Steel Are Illegal, World Trade Organization Says -
11-11	Protesters: Hear Message, Don't Fear the Messengers
11-11	Clinton Calls on U.S., China to Trade
11-11	Climate change threatens butterflies - GreenBiz and BSR Launch New Online Business Resource on Climate Management
11-11	Opponents Vow to Keep Fighting Coal-Burning Generator Plant in Wisconsin
11-11	Conditional approval given for Clark plant
11-11	Mine safety agency says it is firing academy superintendent
11-10	Gorge completes 25th year as a National River; Recreation has revived Fayetteville’s economy
11-10	Republicans delay release of US energy bill
11-10	Democrats Want Probe on Bush Admin Clean Air Policy
11-10	Clean power sources catch on locally; Technology helps bypass fossil fuels
11-10	GETTING WARMER - A regional solution to climate change - New estimate doubles shipping emissions; Tankers and trawlers may release as much nitrogen oxide into atmosphere as US - India warns against new commitments on climate change
11-10	Mine academy official to be fired, report says
11-10	AGs in three states considering suing coal power plants
11-10	Congress should take proper time to air pending energy bill
11-10	Time for a Green Geneva Convention
11-10	Untamed Media Vital to America
11-9	Mine Safety Official Critical of Policies Faces Firing
11-9	States Planning Their Own Suits on Power Plants - Pollution fight brewing in Northeast
11-9	Delay says House to get energy bill soon - Pristine Wilderness Can Become Toxic Swamp - Critics Fear Energy Plan Will Tame a Wild Land
11-9	Environmental Amendments Ride Big-Bill Coattails
11-9	Peabody alleges coal price manipulation
11-9	Kentucky puts hopes in natural-products sector
11-9	Lula renews call for fairer trade
11-9	Pipeline opponents rejoice over project pause
11-9	Cronkite Fears Media Mergers Threaten Democracy
11-9	Farming wind on Backbone Mountain
11-8	Sen. Byrd: "The GOP Energy Bill: An Infinite Mirage and a Boundless Facade"
11-8	Bush takes quiet aim at 'green' laws; Methods range from easing regulations to siding with industry in lawsuits
11-8	Written in Private, Energy Bill to Go Public - The Fruits of Secrecy
11-8	New WVU centers to focus on power grids, East’s water supply
11-8	People should come before coal profits (scroll down)
11-8	Naming Names
11-8	Study: Global warming to could 'substantially affect' Calif. in 20 years
11-8	Hop in an SUV; Take a tax cut
11-8	Chinese Villagers Sentenced for Protest (Wonder if Friend of Coal Don Nehlen wants to further imitate China by arresting people who protest the coal industry's abuses of human rights and the environment?)
11-8	German carmakers look past gasoline
11-8	Leavitt plunges right into his new job
11-7	AEP pollution lawsuit to proceed, EPA says
11-7	GOP candidates weren’t invited to Bush event
11-7	US House to vote on energy bill next week-DeLay - Goosing FERC over energy charade
11-7	Groups praise DEP's block of Mettiki coal mine permit
11-7	Wetland fight may be felt; Illinois dispute may remove protection for state streams
11-7	Greenpeace Urges Renewables Instead of Coal - Grants to Deploy Emerging Renewable Energy
11-7	Energy bill declared environmental disaster - Democrats: Ethanol Alone Won't Save Energy Bill - White House seeks to break energy bill deadlock
11-7	Unions rally for health benefits; Mining company is asking for cuts - Union coal miners set to hold protest
11-7	Retreat on air and water
11-7	Senators and Attorneys General Seek Investigation Into E.P.A. Rules Change - Democrats want probe into Bush administration clean air policy
11-7	Europe needs enormous energy investments - World energy needs US$16 trillion in investment by 2030
11-7	Trout stream designation makes guidelines more stringent; It isn't that anyone is against mining - it's that they are for trout
11-7	Leavitt asks BLM to delay drilling - Rockies' energy role to grow
11-7	Should enviros embrace liquefied natural gas?
11-7	Rule Drafted That Would Dilute the Clean Water Act
11-7	Business groups object to wage case
11-7	Greenbrier Pipeline project placed on hold
11-6	Winners may write the histories
11-6	Candidate won't take PAC money
11-6	Democrats Threaten to Block Energy Bill
11-6	UMW official says benefits are assured
11-6	New stream studies carry high cost
11-6	Environmentalists call energy bill a disaster no matter how negotiations go
11-6	Negotiators Resolve Dispute That Jeopardized Energy Bill - House, Senate Agree on Plan for Use of Ethanol Fuel
11-6	Mercury Rules Work, Study Finds YET Lawyers at E.P.A. Say It Will Drop Pollution Cases - EPA likely to halt actions against power plants - EPA abandons air pollution cases - EPA reviews air pollution investigations after loosening requirements on older plants - EPA Reviews Air Pollution Investigations - White House to End Power Plant Probes - Bush administration is said to be backing off pollution cases
11-6	Ohio's power plants dirtiest
11-6	Sierra Club event to feature 'The Appalachians' producer
11-6	ACTIVISTS MOVING EASTWARD TO PROTECT TIMBER FROM LOGGING
11-6	The climate bill lost out, but the environment may yet prove the winner
11-6	Manitoba site eyed for Canada's biggest wind farm
11-6	They ban textbooks, don't they?
11-5	Senate Rejects Energy Regulation Plan - Senate energy panel leader blocks sludge legislation
11-5	A Short Sighted Energy Policy: Halliburton, Oil, and the Need for a New Energy and Jobs Strategy
11-5	Grant application calls for big plans for coal refuse piles
11-5	Group fights permit; Appeal says mine will violate 'buffer zone' rules
11-5	Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed
11-5	Ex-Wise staffer lobbies for mine permit
11-5	Pollution whistleblowers to get bonuses; Judge orders Massey subsidiary to give a day’s pay to employees who report spills
11-5	Environmentalists Dislike Energy Bill -US Ethanol Tax 'Fix' Sure, Timing Not - Lawmakers -
11-5	Environmentalists lose bid to join landfill case
11-5	Coal company fined, 4 workers sentenced
11-5	Warm Oceans Eroding Antarctic Ice, Study Finds - Global warming boosting tropical reefs? - Global Warming Means Snow for Great Lakes - Storm cuts world's biggest iceberg - Vintage years ahead for English wines (The people not killed in increasingly violent storms should be able to enjoy these wines!) - Climate Change In The Vineyards: The Taste Of Global Warming
11-5	Experts count the real cost of oil
11-5	Australian Premier's warning to coal industry
11-5	Industry Funding of University Research Has Sharply Increased, New Data Shows; Concern That Lure Of Profit Corrupts Integrity Of Research
11-5	MSHA Launches Second Sweep of U.S. Coal Mines; Agency Urges Constant Vigilance in Prevention of Fatal Accidents ("Wink, wink, know what I mean," MSHA added)
11-5	Report Sees Vast Needs for Energy Capital (Decentralization anyone?)
11-5	Environmental group challenges Red Desert gas drilling
11-5	Grievances That Can Bring Globalization to Grief
11-4	Magistrate orders Massey to pay bonuses for reporting spills
11-4	Judge urges Massey subsidiary to clean up environmental record
11-4	Groups ready agendas (PERC is a project of OVEC and West Virginia Citizen Action Group)
11-4	Old Mining Problems Resurface; Another Mountaintop Lawsuit Creates New Dilemmas for Coal Industry
11-4	Strip-mined acreage up again in W.Va. - OSM's Annual State Oversight Report
11-4	As Earth Warms, the Hottest Issue Is Energy - Deep in the Amazon Forest, Vast Questions About Global Climate Change - Ways to Save the Planet and Get Healthy, Too
11-4	EPA should stick to facts
11-4	Talk of Gas Drilling Splits Pro-Bush Factions in West - Hunters worry about new drilling - Pipeline boss urges US - Canada Arctic gas review
11-4	Energy Without Visibility - Abraham Seeking Energy Bill This Year
11-4	Effects of coal spill from train wreck unknown
11-4	Voting machine giant Diebold waging war on free speech
11-3	When House energy post opens, Barton will be there
11-3	Dethroning King Coal: A miner’s daughter stands up for Appalachia’s mountains
11-3	Byrd laments climate
11-3	Contractor catches up on DEP office
11-3	Dozens speak out on water use bill
11-3	Potpourri (scroll down to fourth paragraph)
11-3	A bleak outlook for Australia's climate England's weather records continue to tumble in year of the sun
11-3	Energy Benchmark Puts Greener Buildings Within Easy Reach
11-3	China wants to lower coal mine deaths by 30 percent by 2007
11-3	Schwarzenegger plans to revamp energy sector; Critics argue deregulation is a major risk Schwarzenegger is a bud of Enron operatives and he seems to have forgotten about this: Energy firm to pay up
11-3	Energy officials target `American Serengeti' - Guest Opinion: Public lands can help answer energy wake-up call - Guest Opinion: Federal energy bill tramples conservation values
11-3	One man is leading the fight against a proposal to build a manure-to-energy plant in northwestern Pennsylvania
11-2	The many faces of Massey
11-2	Mountaintop removal opponent to speak
11-2	Clean Energy Brings Windfall to Village
11-2	Wind farms take toll on bats
11-2	W.Va. writer picked for $35,000 prize (Go Ann! Ann is an OVEC member)
11-2	Pa. drilling company cited in triple mining fatality
11-2	Judge rejects request to stop Tennessee coal mine
11-2	Hazy skies: Roundup coal plant could foul Yellowstone's air, enviros say
11-2	Civic Center has more to offer than a name
11-1	In Montana, the Next Arctic Refuge Debate - Utah sets up wilderness vs. oil debate; Gov. Leavitt, now EPA chief, struck deal opening area to drills
11-1	The Public Revolt Against Monopoly Media
11-1	Water-use legislation's scope narrowed - Flood of lawsuits
11-1	Energy Bill Snagged On Pipeline, Aid to Oil; Tax Incentives Are at Issue in Hill Negotiations - Pull Pork
11-1	New plants turn wasted energy into electricity
11-1	Warm seas melting ice shelf the size of Scotland
11-1	Promising Vote on Global Warming - Bill on Greenhouse Gases Gets a Warmer Reception - Gov't: U.S. greenhouse gases on rise - About A Nickle A Day Helps Keep Global Warming Away
11-1	Worker killed in fall at Amos plant
11-1	Russian Recounts Week Trapped in Icy Mine
11-1	Ky. Governor Tries to Salvage His Legacy
11-1	'Clear Skies' means more pollution; Experts say kids deserve better
11-1	Grid Wars

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