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12-31
Coal companies clash over slurry; Firm says another company's permit creates liabilities 
12-31
U.S. Energy Bill Could Lead to Lower Natgas Prices
12-31
As worries about future grow, so do trends on a warming planet
12-31
US$20 Million to Boost Asian Renewable Energy
12-30
Permit for Lincoln Co. mine sought; Three miles of streams targeted for fill from Hobet mountaintop removal - Arch subsidiary applies for Lincoln Co. mountaintop removal permit
12-30
EPA Led Mercury Policy Shift; Agency Scuttled Task Force That Advised Tough Approach
12-30
Global Warming Insurance Claims Grew to $60 Billion in 2003 (Global warming claims more lives than terrorism, yet our government ignores it, indeed promotes it.) River Indicates Warmer Climate And Earlier Spring In Central Maine
12-30
Time may be right for solar - With power of magic, fuel cells win believers - Green Energy
12-30
Officials want to take death off roadway
12-30
Feds Pick Up Legal Bills for Contractors
12-30
Epic trip for 'alternative' car
12-30
FERC Orders FirstEnergy to Study Grid Reliability
12-30
B.C. coal industry gets a big boost from China
12-29
Coal giant a success — and a target; Massey among largest employers in West Virginia
12-29
Residents trying to revive town bought by utility
12-29
2003: Claim Vs. Fact
12-29
Limits for Bush
12-29
Reclaimed mine sites less than meets the eye
12-29
Longwall Mining Under Historic House Is Causing The Interior To Break Apart
12-29
Leases could net Wyoming millions (and people of the future could inherit astronomical clean up costs)
12-29
Gas Industry Covets a Colorado Plateau - Energy, recreation vie for West's resources
12-29
Outside View: The scramble for energy - Japan Shrinks: Energy options
12-28
SPADARO SACRIFICED FOR HIS DEDICATION TO E. KY. RESIDENTS
12-28
Overweight ticketing down since October coal truck change
12-28
BLM releases coal-mining lease proposal
12-28
The New Republicans
12-28
McConnell's lost battle bears name, memory
12-28
NAFTA: North American Deal Dismal After a Decade
12-28
Climate change in 'ordinary' Kiwis' hands
12-28
Slide Threat Will Persist, Experts Warn (Denuded mountains don't hold back torrents) 
12-27
Third of planet's population will fall victims to Nature's catastrophes
12-27
Free Trade Accord at 10: Growing Pains Are Clear
12-27
Corn Stove Marketed for Green Energy Demand - Green Power Helps U.S. Army Exceed Energy Goals
12-27
Mudslides kill 7 in California mountains (Denuded mountains don't hold back torrents) 
12-27
Fire in Chinese Coal Mine Kills 26
12-27
U.S. Carmakers Slow To Join Hybrid Parade
12-26
New Year's Revolutions
12-26
Man Indifferent to Ecological Risks
12-26
The chilly health impact of global warming
12-26
Route inching along
12-26
Coal company, farmer are at odds over fixing collapse
12-26
Protecting Yellowstone
12-26
Blast at Gas Well Is Reported to Kill 191 in China - China Wants Slow Growth in Some Sectors
12-26
Vast energy reserves lie beneath a wildlife haven - West less welcoming of this energy boom
12-25
Court Blocks U.S. Effort to Relax Pollution Rule - Court Blocks Clean-Air Change - Court Blocks E.P.A. Rule Changes on Industrial Pollution - Court Suspends Bush Pollution Rules - Federal Court Blocks Bush Administration Plan to Cripple Key Clean Air Act Provision: Court to Review Changes to New Source Review
12-25
White House for Sale
12-25
Maps of old mines to be indexed, put on computers
12-25
A dirty industry (scroll down)
12-25
Coal bed methane drilling opponents appeal decision
12-24
Mountaintop Removal EIS Deadline Approaches - What's At Stake! - Comments Due on the Mountaintop Removal Study - Some of what the Environmental Impact Statement on mountaintop removal tells us
12-24
Debate in Tow on H2O
12-24
Peril in the Wind Industry: Turbines That Produce Clean Energy Also Kill Migrating Birds - Wind energy investment options are starting to fly
12-24
Soot 'makes global warming worse' - EU Environment Ministers fail to live up to their Kyoto promises - A dirty secret is out on glacial meltdown
12-24
Fishing for a low-mercury dinner - High mercury found in loon eggs; Data contradicts Bush policy
12-24
Fuel cell research touted for New Mexico - Germans turn waste to energy
12-24
Arctic Power makes plans for 2004; Lobby group pushing for ANWR drilling works for changes in energy bill
12-23
Under Bush, Expanding Secrecy
12-23
MSHA Announces $3.9 Million in Grants to Digitize Abandoned Mine Maps, Improve Miner Safety - $1 million grant will help map abandoned mines in Kentucky
12-23
Bush Administration Trade Deal Puts Communities at Risk
12-23
Man's hunger strike protests mine subsidence
12-23
Nun: Mountaintop removal is 'moral issue'
12-23
Hydrogen-Fueled Three-Wheelers Could Make Impact on Developing Nations, U.S.
12-23
Diesel Soot Seen As Global Warming Factor
12-23
Creating New Wetlands Not So Easy to Do
12-23
No decision on huge fusion project
12-23
Reps. Rahall, Mollohan endorse Dean
12-23
530 Ky. miners notified of possible layoffs (scroll down)
12-23
Arch Coal, Inc. Sells a Portion of Its Investment in NRP for $115 Million - Peabody to buy RAG Venezuela, Colorado coal assets
12-22
Recycle your holiday  
12-22
Proposal concerns official; State ranks fifth in mercury amount released into air
12-22
Kentucky considers eliminating coal traffic law; Industry wants to remove policy requiring road permits for trucks
12-22
Protect mountain streams 
12-22
Voting: Secret software, lack of paper trail a recipe for trouble
12-22
Bush-Cheney energy policy needs sun
12-22
Democrats Forced To Work on Margins
12-22
German government adopts new legislation for renewable energy
12-22
Silently harnessing the wind - Bird kills at power plant rile activists
12-22
Customers to pay for bulk of settlement
12-21
Bright Light Must Shine on Energy Policymaking
12-21
'Rewiring' the world's energy
12-21
Britain can start dreaming of a green Christmas with swallows; As temperatures rise, spring is earlier and snow will become only a memory - Climate change and civilization
12-21
Worst Technology of 2003: Paperless Voting
12-21
Judge: I Saw Police Commit Felonies at FTAA protests
12-21
Routine Miami Beach Greenpeace protest results in case said to test free speech
12-21
American Geophysical Union Takes Strong Stand on Global Warming
12-21
A flawed Kyoto better than nothing
12-21
Japan Vows to Pursue Nuclear Fusion Bid - Decision Delayed on Site of Nuclear Fusion Plant
12-21
A New Pathway to the Stars
12-21
Huge mudslide renews concerns about logging
12-20
Public financing cleans up elections
12-20
A Mercury Non-Policy - Bush offers proposal to cut mercury levels; Market-based plan would give plants 15 years to upgrade - Hold the Tuna Charlie: Pres. Bush's Mercury Moves Gift Industry
12-20
Coal-fired power plants: An unclear future
12-20
Wanted: Records Related To Lobbying Blitz Hatched By Bush Administration and Energy Industry Officials
12-20
DEP transcript missing
12-20
Coal washeries research clean ups process
12-20
Venture capitalists are betting on fuel-cell and solar-cell technologies
12-20
Linux catches on at coal power plants
12-20
Japan Hopes to Build Nuclear Fusion Plant  
12-20
Alliant Energy Dumps Plan for Iowa Coal Plant
12-19
Appalachian coal mines: Mining mountaintops -  Bush has said his environmental strategies won't harm nature or man--a claim some doubt
12-19
An Interview with Robert F Kennedy Jr.
12-19
Citizens comment on synfuel plant (Winnie Fox is an OVEC board member) 
12-19
US energy bill offers credits, access to producers - Leaders should avoid sneaky tactics
12-19
On climate change, other nations get cracking while the U.S. is slacking - Warmer Climate Accelerating Planet's Fresh Water Cycle
12-19
US Energy Demand to Grow 1.5 Pct Annually
12-19
Earth Warming at Faster Pace, Say Top Science Group's Leaders; Statement by American Geophysical Union's council warns temperature change is real and human-caused
12-19
Nehlen unfair with ‘whacko’ comment (scroll down)
12-19
White-Collar Anger - Amnesty says Miami police may have broken UN laws
12-19
Workers' Comp reform has come 'a long way'
12-19
Saltier Atlantic may help decipher global warming - As seas rise, Tuvalu calls for emission cuts - Atlantic's salt balance poses threat, study says - More time needed to decide on Kyoto Protocol - Study finds evidence for global methane release about 600 million years ago
12-19
Bush Team Announces Last Phase of Pollution Control Plan
12-19
County OKs agenda for Legislature
12-19
Capital Spending at North American Coal-Fired Power Plants Strong with Over $14 Billion Scheduled to Kick-Off in 2004
12-19
Solar Comes to (Part Of) The Earth
12-19
Big boost for offshore wind power - British Plan Major 'Wind Farm' to Generate Power Along Coasts
12-18
W.Va. donors come mostly from richest zip codes
12-18
Here's to clean elections for W.Va.   
12-18
EPA chief unveils air pollution proposal; Plants would have to cut emissions of certain chemicals
12-18
The Supreme Court may alleviate Cheney's energy task force troubles
12-18
Permit does not include emission reductions; Draft would let Morgantown power plant emit more than 19 million pounds of pollutants yearly
12-18
A Pact on Central America Trade Zone, Minus One - Accord Reached On Free Trade
12-18
Selling of the rain, covenant broken at Hopi; Water sold for coal slurry
12-18
Study probes air pollution, heart disease
12-18
What's Wrong With This Picture? - Critics: Convicted Felons Worked for Electronic Voting Companies
12-18
Kyoto a good start, but emphasis needs to be long term, say researchers - Illarionov Makes His Case On Kyoto - EU Insists Its Support for Kyoto Policy Unwavering - Study: Global Warming Changing Ocean Salinity
12-18
PM urged to help Ontario scrap coal-fired plants
12-18
Administration Backs Off Clean Water Act
12-18
EPA pulls its officers off homeland security
12-17
Wrongful termination for coal-mining official? A congressional committee wants to know if mining safety official Jack Spadaro is being fired for his whistle-blowing activities.
12-17
Catholic leaders see effects of mountaintop removal
12-17
Federal, state regulators block mine re-entry
12-17
Power-plant mercury controls might take 15 years
12-17
N.D. Groups Challenge U.S. Mercury Rule  -  Bush Mercury Proposal Angers Ohio Company
12-17
Asthma Reaching Epidemic Level in N.J.
12-17
Bush abandons effort to rewrite wetlands regulations - U.S. Won't Narrow Wetlands Protection
12-17
Chemical, Nuclear Arms Still 'Major Threat,' Cheney Says (says "People don't check the facts" - he should know about not checking facts)
12-17
Hot Spot in 2003? The Earth, U.N. Says
12-17
Behind Closed Doors
12-17
Electric Industry Is Urged to Be More Tightly Linked
12-17
DEP wants inventory of greenhouse emissions
12-17
Corn is new coal for energy producer
12-17
Russia's Delay Prompts E.U. to Review Kyoto Policy - EU President Says Russia Ready to Ratify Climate Protocol
12-17
State has plenty of green space (scroll down for this coal co. propaganda)
12-16
High Court to Hear Cheney - Energy Dispute - Cheney faces energy policy suit - High Court Will Review Ruling On Cheney Task Force Records; Decision a Blow to Groups Seeking Information on Energy Policy - Supreme Court Takes Cheney Energy Task Force Case - Justices Will Hear Appeal on Cheney's Energy Panel
12-16
EPA Announces 'Cap and Trade' Plan to Cut Mercury Pollution; Agency Bowed to Utility Industry Pressure, Critics Charge
12-16
Dark skies ahead if Clean Air Act weakened
12-16
Danger: Global warming reports - Listening to the Climate Models, and Trying to Wake Up the World - Kyoto Fate Unclear as UN Climate Talks End - Arctic parasites a sign of climate change - Climate: A warming-induced Ice Age?
12-16
Change in the Weather - Bet on It
12-16
Energy firms, activists team up for green power
12-16
Peabody Energy named coal company of the year
12-15
E.P.A. Plans to Expand Pollution Markets
12-15
Environment needs protection (scroll down)
12-15
Global Trade and Climate Change
12-15
Oil platform buries global warming gas; Carbon dioxide trapped, but will it work long term?
12-15
Catholic leaders to tour mine-scarred mountains
12-15
Corn beats coal in Springfield 
12-14
The Bush administration is doing the public's business out of the public eye
12-14
IRS bowed to lobbies on synfuel, lawyer says
12-14
Synfuel river barge hearing to be held
12-14
Air data at CONSOL shaft ‘suspect,’ feds say
12-14
Bush's Energy Policy Lives Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
12-14
The Use and Abuse of a Woman Soldier: Jessica Lynch, Plural
12-14
Criticism of Electronic Voting Machines’ Security is Mounting
12-14
Getting heated over mercury: Regulation rollback is boon for utilities, bad for kids
12-14
Fighting gloom of addiction gloom; Drug company, mining industry should help invest in treatment
12-14
Dry, With a Chance of a Grain Shortage
12-14
Sinking islands battle for climate aid cash - Kyoto Protocol has a better chance of survival than would seem - Risking it all for the reefs
12-14
Coal Mine Fire in China Kills Nine
12-14
Energy bill delay may deflate wind power
12-14
Kid Power
12-14
W.Va. pipeline project first to use new permit process
12-14
Turning Garbage Into Oil
12-14
Bringing art to the people --via truck
12-13
Proposed Kentucky park threatened; Virginia coal waste spill rolling down Levisa Fork - Virginia coal waste reaches state
12-13
Chemical Companies Targeted in Suits
12-13
Court refuses to restore Moore’s law license
12-13
Inuit blame Bush for impending extinction - New Book Demonstrates How Climate Change Impacts on Health
12-13
OPEC wants aid if world shifts to renewable energies - OPEC Row Clouds Last Day of U.N. Climate Talks - Russia