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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1-30	Panel of Experts Finds That Anti-Pollution Laws Are Outdated, Not Good Enough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
1-16	Official worries about fill stability
1-16	943 permits sold for heavier trucks; Fees raise about $416,000, PSC director estimates
1-16	Wise urges state coal industry to drop push for weaker rules
1-16	New Energy...New Jobs
1-16	Gore Burns Bush on Environment - Masters of Deception - Gore Calls Bush a 'Moral Coward'; Environmental Policies Decried as Driven by Campaign Funds - Gore Blasts Bush Space Plan, Says Earth Neglected - Gore Gets Green, Rough and Righteous
1-16	White House: Give Industry Greater Voice - Industry Hopes Soar With Space Plan; Energy and Aerospace Firms Have Long Lobbied NASA - Earth to George
1-16	Renewable electricity: accession countries set to lose out on multibillion investments
1-16	Climate control stalled by chilly Russian feet - Global warming affecting salmon - 2003 tied for world's second hottest year since 1880
1-16	Plan to peer-review rules draws criticism
1-16	Meeting focuses on coal plant landfill
1-15	Wise seeks to preserve regulations
1-15	Environmentalists tepid to Wise speech; Groups happy to hear mention, but expected more
1-15	‘Too little, too late’ on environment, activist says - Text of Gov. Bob Wise’s State of the State Address - Wise proposes own water-use bill
1-15	State led nation in natural disasters; Only 3 counties were spared from flooding, snow (Global warming and mountaintop removal make floods worse--and it's only going to get worse if we don't rein in both. We all pay, sometimes with lives!)
1-15	Firm plans Logan County coal-to-diesel plant
1-15	Clear skies? Suffer little children
1-15	Clean Energy and Efficiency Investments Would Create 3.3 Million High-Wage Jobs, Says Study
1-15	The Green Elephant in the Room - EPA Sued For Illegally Taking Direction from Chemical Industry Group
1-15	With jobs heading overseas, trade emerges as major political issue
1-14	Coal firm wants to keep permits: Agency says Gauley Eagle failed to follow order
1-14	Water use bill blocked; Issue isn’t dead, lawmakers promise
1-14	Committee moves weakened water quality rules; amend coal truck weight limit rule to eliminate requirement that coal haulers report shipping information to PSC
1-14	Court Voids a Bush Move on Energy - Bush Air Conditioner Standard Is Rejected - Administration's Action on Energy Efficiency Rejected
1-14	Lawyer: Black lung law unfair
1-14	UN Aims to Study Link Between Environment, Wars
1-14	White House seeks control on health, safety
1-14	Wind farms sued to protect birds; Group wants owners to make turbines less deadly - Burden for the birds
1-14	Bush Meets Skepticism on Free Trade at Americas Conference
1-13	Agency doesn't appeal ruling on water increase - Lawmakers discuss state water use study: Proponents of bill urge plan for future consumption - Water use panel to regroup after contentious meeting
1-13	Protestors Fear Another Martin Co.
1-13	Decapitating Appalachia
1-13	Mass extinction - Scorching world of climate politics - Unfrozen North May Face a Navy Blue Future - Kyoto scorn paints a bleak future - Alaska Thaws, Complicating the Hunt for Oil - Ditching scheme 'will cost jobs'
1-13	Water use hearing attracts supporters - Water firm may fight state in court
1-13	Environmental-law reform plans greeted with distrust at forum; Feds deny accusations of weakening NEPA
1-13	Don't leave coal out of future, consultant says (Guess he wants to keep global warming, increased mass extinctions in the future, too)
1-13	Kentucky Attorney General Visits Fishtrap Lake After "Black" Water Spills - Closed Va. mine allowed to reopen
1-13	Mercury high near Fort Wayne; Group's study says area has largest U.S. concentration
1-13	Environmentalists Sue Wind Energy Company
1-13	China and the United States agree to jointly develop clean energy
1-13	Forget about usefulness, beauty alone is reason enough to justify conservation
1-13	How Many Windmills Would $87 Billion Buy?
1-12	An interview with Interior's Lynn Scarlett, one of the architects of Bush's "new environmentalism"
1-12	State processing coal permits faster, DEP says
1-12	Outlook bright for coal; Increase in demand expected to boost production in W.Va.
1-12	Bush's Industrial Policy a Key Issue for W.Va. Voters
1-12	Only insurance industry will benefit from tort reform
1-12	Action delayed on water rule changes
1-12	Beef business--Another mad industry
1-12	Deadly heatwaves 'likely to become common in Europe' - Extreme heat on the rise - Australia: Key Kyoto emissions plan cast off - Australian states slam greenhouse shift - Climate change's tropical storms threaten future of Pacific isles - Scotland in 2003 - hotter, drier and sunnier
1-11	Doom warnings sound more loudly
1-11	It's the Earth, Stupid; Why would Bush spend billions to get to Mars when our own planet is so sick?
1-11	Who Bankrolls Bush and his Democratic Rivals?
1-11	King Coal's return
1-11	Bush policies endanger health, environment
1-11	Jumping ship at the EPA
1-11	Water-use plan takes W. Va. ‘back a step’
1-11	First step to a vibrant tourist economy: West Virginians should know their own worth
1-11	Scientists urge fuel quota scheme - UK moves on carbon emission targets - Blair presses Bush to act on global warming
1-11	A slice of Pa. wilderness, now open to the public
1-11	As coal industry rebounds, doubts linger about future
1-11	UMWA wants Peabody to clean up 'toxic soup'
1-11	Annapolis Demonstrators Push for Energy Bill - On Energy, Maryland Counts
1-11	Presidential Candidates on the Issues
1-10	Union members, activists to hand out leaflets on Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment - UMW, other activists, to leaflet neighbors about coal dam
1-10	Surface mining committee wants permanent status; Issue will be group's only request before Legislature this year
1-10	Janet Fout and Julie Archer: Clean Elections Act would ensure citizens’ voices heard
1-10	State seeks to block mine plan; Order needed to stop ‘disaster,’ agency says
1-10	Higher prices spur modest coal industry boost
1-10	State should look to future in considering development
1-10	Suit claims utility tainted Porter County town's water
1-10	US under fire over threat of warming - Rising sea levels 'a matter of life and death'
1-10	Alexandria as Mercury Warning
1-10	OSHA files ‘serious’ citations after worker dies
1-10	Suit Alleges Merck Cheated Coal Workers
1-10	Solar Power Gift Brings Ray of Sunshine to India's Rural Poor
1-10	Calif. May Build 'Hydrogen Highway'
1-9	Tennessee Activists Host Program On "Hidden Destruction Of Appalachians"
1-9	Bush Administration to Loosen Mountaintop Removal Protections
1-9	Green energy saves greenbacks
1-9	EPA Administrator Promises to Go Forward With Lawsuits Against Coal Polluters--Even as his Agency Seeks to Weaken the Clean-Air Standards that Produced the Litigation - Read Leavitt's speech (pandering) to the Edison Electric Institute lobbying group
1-9	U.S. will need Bush energy bill, panel declares - FERC chair urges Energy Bill passage
1-9	Split estate, divided views: coalbed methane creates a stir above ground and below - Powder River Basin sets coal production record
1-9	Massey impoundment worries mining union
1-9	Mining study comment period extended
1-9	Bush unethically manipulates EPA mercury regulations
1-9	GOP Lawmakers Pull Out of Junket After Media Scrutiny
1-9	1 dead in Mingo traffic accident
1-9	Kentucky mine safety--Don't let state reorganization put workers at risk
1-9	Mine Every Mountain, Fill Every Stream
1-9	Schools get OK on solar panels
1-9	Climate change is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism - 'US climate policy bigger threat to world than terrorism' (Hey, OVEC said that--in yesterday's Action Alert!) - Top scientist attacks US over global warming
1-9	Finding that Global Warming Threatens Over One Million Species Underscores Urgent Need for Action - A third of animal, plant species could face extinction - New report highlights importance of cutting greenhouse gases, UN official says - 'Phenomenal' temperature rises threaten India- SA feeling the heat of global warming - Dire warming warning for Earth's species - Climate fears after hottest year
1-8	Free Speech Radio report on plan to change buffer zone rule (mp3 audio format) - Click here for entire broadcast
1-8	EPA Considers Revising Mining Rules (NPR - scroll down to story)
1-8	Fill rule removes stream protections
1-8	Environmentalists fear increased mountaintop mining; Interior Department wants to change ‘buffer zone' rule
1-8	Environmentalists cry foul on Bush mining proposal - Mountaintop mining rule eased - Environmentalists Fear Mountaintop Mining
1-8	Warming May Threaten 37% of Species by 2050 - Global Warming Threatens Mass Extinctions, Study Says - An unnatural disaster - Revealed: how global warming will cause extinction of a million species - By 2050 Warming to Doom Million Species, Study Says - Climate threat: What species are at risk? - Global warming threatens to kill off a quarter of all life on land by 2050
1-8	Climate change 'bolsters diseases' - International 2003 in review: Year of water offers no respite from soaring temperatures
1-8	For a Price, Writing Congress's 'To-Do' List - Execs Pay to Play with GOP
1-8	Industry-Sponsored Congressional Junket in Phoenix to Focus On Carving Up West for Timber, Oil and Mining Industries
1-8	Kentucky mine-safety agencies reorganized; Ousted head fears impact on enforcement - Mine safety official forced to resign; 'I guess I wasn't Republican enough'
1-8	COAL-WASTE SPILL FOURTH IN A MONTH (scroll down)
1-8	Following busy year, Wyoming tries to cope with coalbed growing pains
1-8	Workers’ Comp sues four employers (scroll down)
1-7	Feds, industry praise overall drop in mine deaths
1-7	Energy firms paying tab for GOP trip
1-7	Federal Coal-Mining Policy Comes Under Fire; Fish and Wildlife Service says the administration ignored its protection plan
1-7	Bush Administration Proposes Rewriting of Stream Protection Rule In Favor of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
1-7	Reasons to Hope: Bush catalyzes a nascent progressive movement
1-7	EPA drops appeal of water-quality rule decision
1-7	Permit likely to advance; DEP wants full hearing on Mettiki mining application
1-7	Bush Makes Time for 'Hook and Bullet' Set
1-7	Business leaders pay to wine and dine Bush environmental policymakers (Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, a former energy industry lobbyist, was to give the keynote address at a Thursday luncheon after sessions on the Clean Air Act and federal energy policy!)
1-7	The ugly reality (scroll down)
1-7	Blue-sky thinking about climate
1-7	Hydrogen's Dirty Details
1-7	State-of-art wind farm powers up in California; Turbines rotate, minimize danger to birds
1-7	Wave power energy this year
1-7	The Tri-State does not need more coal-burning plants
1-6	Ignite political leadership to act on global warming
1-6	Rains cause slides in several counties (Van residents are reporting that the landslides are MTR-related)
1-6	Bush campaign names state team (Buck Harless is a coal baron) - Bush views W.Va. as 'crucial' to re-election - Capito heading up President Bush's re-election effort in state
1-6	Coal industry seeks only profits
1-6	Limiting government would harm Americans
1-6	Lobbyists continue to narrow state water-use bill - Chamber urges state to let water issue dry out for now
1-6	3 Top Enforcement Officials Say They Will Leave E.P.A.
1-6	Bush environmental record is ammo for Democrats
1-6	Forest fires fuel climate change variations - That sinking feeling
1-6	Automakers Unveil Plans for More Hybrid Models - Honda to sell Accord hybrids in US this year - Volkswagen, ADM team up to develop biodiesel fuel - Hybrids Hip at North American International Auto Show
1-5	EPA Plans to Loosen Mountaintop Removal Rules
1-5	Regulation change fuels split ; Proposal to alter definition of mine ownership
1-5	Poop, the other energy source
1-5	Ashcroft’s Offensive
1-5	Cheney Is a Quiet Force Behind Bush Presidency
1-5	If It's January, It's Time to Lobby: Businesses Ready to Resume Campaigns For More Help and Money From Congress
1-5	Coal impoundments data may cover Kentucky - Groups want Ky. to join system; Web site designed to track coal impoundments
1-5	Water rights interest lawmakers
1-5	Is 'burying' carbon dioxide the cure for global warming?
1-5	Who will union back?
1-5	China's Dark Days and Darker Nights
1-5	Report Reveals Significant Annual Growth in Green Power
1-5	Tight times might limit initiatives
1-5	Weakening rules on mercury pollution; Bush action would put Kentuckians' health at great risk
1-5	Cutting climate change through cutting waste
1-5	Opponents see Greenpeace indictment as threat to dissent
1-4	Calif. governor's energy plan boasts of 'hydrogen highways' by 2010
1-4	Speaker to address coal removal's effects (scroll down)
1-4	New W.Va. project tracks slurry sites
1-4	Paralysis on Clean Air
1-4	Patagonian Icefields Melting at Accelerating Rate
1-4	Soft-spoken Democrat will now have control of which Ky. bills get heard
1-4	Unfair assault on Greenpeace
1-4	Delays in switch to ‘clean’ technology to worsen emissions
1-4	Residents' Lawsuit Attempts To Stop Wind Farm
1-3	New Farm Seen As Model for Wind Energy
1-3	Energy panel set to assert authority
1-3	State leads U.S. in miner deaths; 10 in W.Va. coal industry died last year, an increase from 6 in 2002 - Mine Deaths Fall to Historic Low in 2003 - 29 IN COAL OPERATIONS, WITH 8 IN KENTUCKY; PRELIMINARY COUNT COULD CHANGE - Coal mining deaths in Pa. remain low
1-3	Review of 2003 illustrates W.Va.’s stormy politics well
1-3	A missed chance on warming - Australia 'facing hotter future'
1-3	Building on Our Victories
1-3	'Biodiesel' good for Georgia, official says - Renewable Energy A Smart Choice For Farmers And Ranchers
1-2	The coal miners' mother
1-1	Graffiti’s ‘Eer of the year: Jack Spadaro
1-1	Hechler seeks old job back at Statehouse
1-1	Board denies effort to stop slurry project; Company says plan would subject it to liabilities
1-1	10 Good Things About a Bad Year
1-1	Threats to Democracy at Code-Red Level - Electronic Voting Firm Hacked
1-1	Bush Bros. Wrecking Company
1-1	Inside the mercurial Bush policy on mercury pollution; Nearly 2 years of work by EPA panel dumped
1-1	Bush Plans On Global Warming Alter Little; Voluntary Programs Attract Few Firms
1-1	Third hottest year on record - As climate changes, plants, animals struggle to keep up - A new wave of flood protection for London, but countryside may have to pay the price - Philippines minister cites global warming as reason for disasters - Arctic explorers raise awarness of climate change - Climate change and transatlantic winds bring the exotic North American birds - Global warming caused killer landslides, floods
1-1	New Year's Wishes, Revised
1-1	Ploy Against Clean Waters
1-1	Drip, Drip, Zap: Electrical Current From Flowing Water - Spain green energy co to invest 500mln euros in UK
1-1	Tree Canopy Saves Millions in Air Pollution Control, Storm Water Runoff Expenses

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