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1-31	Massey to start expanding surface mines; Official says new increased demand creating opportunity
1-31	Agency gets transcripts of hearing on power plant
1-31	Proposed Mercury Rules Bear Industry Mark; EPA Language Similar to That in Memos From Law Firm Representing Utilities
1-31	Democrats Increase Pressure on Scalia
1-31	Mine board merger not needed, chairman says
1-31	UMW endorses Manchin
1-31	Democrats say longer-term solution needed for miners
1-31	Washed-up Wise free to be himself (Too bad he lost his backbone during the rest of his term.)
1-31	TENN. ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT FINES ZEB MOUNTAIN MINING COMPANY - Campbell County mine fined for stream damage - State Environment Dept. Fines Mountain Mining Comp. Again
1-31	Has global oil production peaked?
1-31	How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age... - Environmentalism no threat to growth: panelists
1-30	Byzantine: The After Party
1-30	Board won't support changes; Industries back changes to water quality standards
1-30	Official urges emission monitoring
1-30	Former Mining Lobbyist Set for Judicial Nomination Hearing
1-30	Water bill receives minor changes (Funny how the coal industry cares about monitoring water quantity usage, but doesn't seem to mind at all to heavily pollute or completely annihilate streams.)
1-30	Coal companies continue fight over slurry dumping - Board rejects motion to dismiss complaint; Terry Eagle Coal wants state to alter slurry injection rule
1-30	Voters should remain in control of judicial selection; Clean Elections financing
1-30	Consol, Arch Coal report losses for 2003 - Massey Energy posts wider quarterly loss (Nature's Economic Report: Southern West Virginia sustains massive, irreplaceable losses as coal companies seek profits uber alles.) - Massey reports quarterly loss, expects better 2004
1-30	UMW receives federal funds for benefits program - Bush Extends Miners' Prescription Drugs
1-30	Panel of Experts Finds That Anti-Pollution Laws Are Outdated, Not Good Enough
1-30	Depleted oil wells a global warming tool? Wyoming field could test idea of carbon dioxide sequestration
1-30	What Just One Company Can Do To the World - Study says five pct of greenhouse gas came from Exxon
1-30	3 PEOPLE DIED WHEN AUGER FELL FROM RIG
1-30	Bush reputation on environment mixed; Conservationists cite 'worst' record; others see 'progress'
1-29	Western Anglers, Hunters Criticize Bush-Cheney Energy Bill
1-29	Coal firms lock down future contracts; Long-term contracts likely to forecast steady employment
1-29	Capito to announce plan to fix UMW health care; Byrd decries Republican move as no solution at all - Byrd criticizes UMW drug plan; Capito, union set to announce details of program
1-29	Tomblin supports water bill - Native trout streams must be protected
1-29	Ky. AG calls for review of mining spills; Number of accidents is disturbing, he says - Blackwater-spill investigations sought; Attorney general asks for reports on fouled streams - Attorney general seeks broader review of blackwater spills
1-29	Yet another major reason to make certain W. Va.'s water isn't exploited like coal: TROUBLING NEW FLOWS OF ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES
1-29	Global Chilling - EU Links Russia's WTO Entry to Kyoto
1-29	CONSOL, Arch show losses - Coal miners disappoint, driving sector stocks down - Arch Coal, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter Results - Arch Coal Profit Up, Core Earnings Short - Higher Prices Fuel Energy Co. Earnings
1-29	Government Sues Kentucky Power Plants - EPA sues E. Kentucky Power
1-29	Demand for Oil Outstripping Supply
1-29	Don't Look to the Moon to Meet U.S. Energy Needs Just Yet
1-29	New Form of Matter Created By Scientists
1-29	Coalbed methane: Wyoming takes up coal's conflict bill, again - Feds roll out conflict fix
1-28	Feds to study coal combustion ash disposal
1-28	Coal-waste spills: Panel should go beyond plugging leaks
1-28	Fortune Magazine--CLIMATE COLLAPSE: The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare ("The climate could change radically, and fast. That would be the mother of all national security issues.")
1-28	High Court Duck Blind
1-28	U.S. Begins Work on CO2 Storage Project
1-28	Senate aims to investigate West Virginia's water use
1-28	House panel backs Ky. mine safety bill
1-28	Falling coal auger just an accident
1-28	Bill calls for new Va. power plant
1-28	World's Largest Solar Power Station Set for Summer
1-27	Ignorance Is Strength?
1-27	Massey spill sends blackwater into Logan stream--again - Frozen line bursts, spills slurry into Guyandotte
1-27	Stiff fines for sludge spills urged
1-27	Expert review of DEP mine permits proposed
1-27	Legislators to look closer at Senate water-usage bill
1-27	Jackson unveils major land preservation plan; Gubernatorial candidate would ‘use every power’ to protect Blackwater Canyon
1-27	Solar Power Industry Slowed by Pricey Silicon - How Green Is My Hydro
1-26	Rule Change May Alter Strip-Mine Fight (OVEC members quoted and OVEC photo published with this New York Times article)
1-26	Solar power plan for new homes in London
1-26	Global warming will plunge Britain into new ice age 'within decades'
1-26	Largest waste coal plant in world sprouts from Pa. coal region
1-26	Kerry lands key environmental endorsement - Veteran environmental leader gives Kerry the green light
1-26	EPA seeks information about Westar coal-fired plants
1-26	Changes Possible in Truck Legislation
1-26	Appeal of Wind Energy Picks Up - Race Heats up for Wind Energy - Woking shines in providing renewable energy
1-26	Renewable energy backed - Don't Bet on Fuel Cells, Manufacturer Says - Skyscraper Owner Becomes N.Y.'s Largest Green-Power Buyer To Date - Forum focus: Agri-energy
1-26	Wyoming coal workers cope with uncertainty of mine mergers
1-26	More Democrats switching to GOP in wake of Fletcher's win
1-26	Consol Energy names board member
1-26	Shell, ChevTex to benefit from UK emissions proposal
1-26	Soaring energy prices could hurt economy
1-26	20 years on, have we really learned the lesson?
1-25	Competing bills would outlaw or expand payday lending (OVEC is a co-founder of the People’s Election Reform Coalition)
1-25	Synfuel tax brings nearly $9 million to counties, state
1-25	Incredible harm to environment draws puny fine
1-25	Slurry spill casualties: justice, safety; Company and MSHA evade responsibility, punishment again
1-25	Justice Scalia's Misjudgment
1-25	Kentucky battles U.S. over regulating utilities; State PSC opposes regional control of transmission lines
1-25	Miner injured by roof bolter
1-25	'Extreme concern' for future of US Sierra Club
1-25	Russia says pressure over Kyoto delay 'unfair'
1-25	Candidate envisions conservation program
1-25	Exploiting the planet (scroll down to last letter)
1-25	Coal's recent resurgence is leading to optimism (Optimism for the fat cats, danger for the all of us...)
1-24	Kentucky death added to 2003 coal mining fatality list
1-24	Suit over miner's death reinstated
1-24	EPA to reduce monitoring of smokestack emissions
1-24	Mars: Bush's flight of fancy or detachment from reality?
1-24	Western lawmakers fight for energy bill
1-24	Oregon Gov. Plans for Renewable Energy - WORKING TOWARD WIND ENERGY - Democrats present similar energy policies - Expiration of Tax Credit Cripples Wind Energy - Renewable energy supporters win "EU target" - Wind farm firm sets sights on Indiana
1-24	Coal Is Hot Again
1-24	BLM speeds up coal-bed methane permitting
1-24	'No cosmic ray climate effects'
1-24	Energy regulators dismiss PG&E case
1-23	Agency worried cuts may cost grant dollars; Department must match federal funds
1-23	Price increase could remain, drive production increases
1-23	Mine reclamation fund will run short, report says
1-23	Huge disaster, puny fine
1-23	Judge slashes fine in largest slurry spill; Coal company to pay $5,600, not $55,000
1-23	EPA lists aging Gallagher as major polluter; emissions anger Louisville
1-23	Greenpeace-Archaic law used vengefully
1-23	Bush Administration Plan to Give Western Arctic to Oil Industry Will Industrialize Largest Remaining Wilderness Area in Nation
1-23	Interior finishes plan to open nearly 9 million acres in Alaska to drilling - Alaska Oil Exploration Approved - Companies Apply for Permits for Alaska Gas - Consortium Submits Plan for Gas Pipeline
1-23	BLM plan offer a compromise between coal, methane producers - Drilling boom in Rockies breeds open range conflict
1-22	OU to pull out of Dysart Woods appeal
1-22	Coal industry is fired up, but how long will it last?
1-22	Glaciers and Sea Ice Endangered by Rising Temperature
1-22	Ruling's impact is unclear; State groups still analyzing verdict in power plant case
1-22	Boone residents, coal company reach deal on road
1-22	Board says claim must be taken to court
1-22	Fine for sludge spill is reduced by 90% - Judge cuts federal fine against Martin County Coal for 2000 slurry spill (Unreal!) - $3.25 million: penalties and damages to Kentucky - Judge Slashes Federal Fine on Coal Co.
1-22	Bush State of the Union Ignores Environment - Bush stops pretending that he cares about the environment - Energy lobby cheers Bush speech
1-22	In Reversal, EPA to Push Cleanup of Power Plants (Is this more BushCo double speak, meant to provide cover as they gut the New Source Review rule? EPA should back up the word with action by reversing course on the rule change.)
1-22	Authority to enforce Clean Air Act boosted - Justices Decide EPA Can Overrule States - Justices side with EPA in clean air battle
1-22	Officers innocent of fraud, CONSOL probe panel says
1-22	Regional economic growth to be focus of Elkins forum
1-22	Floods pose more trouble than terrorists (Studies by several state and federal agencies show mountaintop removal worsens flooding.)
1-22	Norton Wants Wy. Gas-Drill Permits Tripled
1-22	Europe Struggles to Set Renewables Target for 2020 - 'India must find alternate energy sources'
1-22	N. America, Europe to cool as world warms?
1-22	Spin Cycle: Industry flaks learn how to snooker the public with their not-so-eco-friendly messages
1-22	Michigan Gov. offers first-ever plan to limit water withdrawals
1-22	Acid rain linked to N.S. coal burning
1-22	Canadian Liberals begin to phase out coal plants
1-22	Environmental groups say Maryalnad could save $144M, increase environmental protection
1-22	Environmentalists Get Citigroup Pledge
1-22	Innovative programs make medical center the heart of a Pennsylvania community once driven by coal
1-21	Group defends buffer rule anew; ‘No wiggle room’ in mining limits
1-21	Expert says mines hurting forestry
1-21	White House Seeks to Control What Public Learns About Health, Environmental Emergencies
1-21	Earth 'entering uncharted waters'
1-21	Energy case pending, Scalia-Cheney ties criticized - Trip With Cheney Puts Ethics Spotlight on Scalia - Dick Cheney, Out From the Shadows
1-21	A free-market-embracing, green-power-supporting alternative to the Bush energy plan
1-21	Thousands of jobs to be sustained by renewable energy - Shell to build world's largest solar plant - Fuel Cell Technology Has Combat Uses - Calif. Gov. Pushes for 'Hydrogen Highways'
1-21	U.S. Uses 1800s Law to Target Greenpeace
1-21	Coal needs protection in EU emissions scheme-Germany (And the people need protection from the myth of "clean" coal. Coal's dirty when you dig it, dirty when you haul it, dirty when you burn it and dirty when you dispose of the ash.)
1-21	Coal-mining critics say they're getting shaft
1-21	Drive to recall state Sen. Ogan underway; Petition organizers say senator's ties to coal-bed methane posed ethical conflict - Wyoming bill addresses coal-bed methane, land concerns
1-21	Arch Coal Earns West Virginia's Top Environmental Award for Third Consecutive Year (Well, that only leaves close to 400,000 acres of biological desert to try to return to even a paltry semblance of their former biologically diverse splendor.)
1-20	Energy Can Remain a Key Economic Force
1-20	Group seeks to halt mine permit; Lawyer argues against operation in southern W.Va.
1-20	Area Activists Host Slideshow Tour on the Hidden Destruction of the Appalachian Mountains
1-20	Feds urge state to take closer look at selenium, mines
1-20	Carrying on King’s legacy (Abe Mwaura is an OVEC staffer) - King's Message Rings True Today, Say Activists - Martin Luther King: Terrorist?
1-20	Not So Minimal Effects
1-20	The Earth's life-support system is in peril - Bushwhacking Mother Nature: US Environmental Destruction Abroad
1-20	Europeans 'can save climate pact' - UK government in drive to cut CO2 emissions - U.K. plans ambitious CO2 cuts, industry protests - Scientists use creativity to fight global warming - Spotlight falls on 'big emitters' - Industry warns over 'suicidal' increase in emissions target
1-20	Clean energy and efficiency investments would create 3.3 million jobs, says study
1-20	Coal industry sees better days ahead
1-20	China Seeks to Reduce Industrial Deaths
1-19	New coal industry investment vehicle making strides
1-19	Critics battle mountaintop mining; THEY SAY RULES BEING CHANGED ON THE FLY
1-19	Massey PR Guy: Impoundment critics show bias against Massey Energy
1-19	The Battle for Appalachia
1-19	TXU research program aims to cut mercury emissions (If you take the mercury out of the smokestack, where does it eventually end up? The water!)
1-19	Parched, burnt Australia facing even hotter future, new study finds
1-18	Janet Fout and Julie Archer: W.Va. campaign finance reform needs comprehensive approach
1-18	Los Angeles Times: Damage in Appalachia Trickles From Top
1-18	Blasting problems on rise, DEP says
1-18	Environmentally friendly: John Blair 'can't sit on sideline' if he feels public's health at stake
1-18	Coal company pays for violations
1-18	UK government Steps Up Fight to Curb Global Warming
1-18	Removing toxic waste from mine risky, state says
1-18	Mine Fire Status Still Unknown
1-18	Court puts election laws in question: Kentucky's campaigning, fund-raising curbs at issue
1-18	A coal mining camp called Little Italy - Coal Mining Strong in Belmont County
1-17	Timmermeyer plugs water-use bill
1-17	Now, Air-Conditioners
1-17	Investors demand action on climate change - World's temperature sizzled during 2003
1-17	Official report backs green power
1-17	Suggestions for sludge problem - Recycling, other proposals, could reduce coal waste in Appalachia
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