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5-31
The population bomb keeps on ticking; Too many people may kill us all, say the Ehrlichs
5-31
Feds set to probe mystery of missing mercury - EPA seeks chemical plants' missing mercury
5-31
Critics Say Clean-Air Plan May Be a Setback for Parks
5-31
Catching the green wave: Investment in environmental technology gaining momentum
5-31
Solar energy brings delight but also frustrations for rural Morocco
5-31
A movie on climate change is a warning
5-30
Arch Coal strikes at researcher; Virginia scientist helped write tough W.Va. strip mining rules
5-30
Substance Abuse High Among Coal Miners
5-30
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. - Global warming: The world is skating on thin ice
5-30
Kerry favors better fuel efficiency; Bush prefers more domestic oil drilling - Maybe it's time to panic about gas; Not that $2 a gallon is pricey, but production peak is nearly here
5-30
Firm looking to get people to talk sustainable energy - Renewables poised for `takeoff' - African irony: Plenty of sunshine, but little solar power
5-30
Mercury found in cicadas
5-30
China becoming an increasingly important player in global coal market
5-30
Poll boost for eco-firms 
5-29
Doom watch: The Earth is under attack ... and it may respond 
5-29
A Different Era for the Alternative Energy Business - Sky-high prices spark renewable energy
5-29
Hispaniola's forest tragedy  (Deforestation makes flooding worse. Period. Mountaintop removal operations create huge swaths of deforested land here in West Virginia.)
5-29
Residents of Green Valley, Finney Hollow lay blame for flooding on loggers
5-29
Opponents Predict Defeat for Central American Trade Deal
5-29
Hollywood, Russia spur climate cost feuding - Could warming cool Europe, maybe start an ice age - The science, and fiction, of 'Day After Tomorrow' - Poll: 2/3 of Americans call global warming a big problem - Group Uses Film to Oppose Global Warming - Global warming a formidable challenge to health
5-29
Light Reflected From Earth May Be Tied to Global Warming - Shades of global warming on moon
5-29
HOBY teaches value of leadership, service
5-29
Mammoth threat: Pollution endangering park, cave critters
5-29
DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE IN COAL MINES TO BE DISCUSSED AT 2 MEETINGS
5-29
School Land Sale Restricted
5-29
Canada cuts coal mine plan
5-29
Greenpeace Germany Protests Brown Coal Power Stations 
5-28
The movie aside, threat of global warming is real
5-28
Taxes on coal exports upheld by judge
5-28
UMW sues over Bush mine ventilation rule
5-28
Free speech: Basic right upheld
5-28
Horizon restructuring involves new leadership
5-28
Buckeye Rural to open Linnville office by fall
5-28
Oil Money and Smart Energy Policy Don't Mix
5-28
Putin promise to ratify Kyoto
5-28
EU must become 100% renewable-energy economy -   Renewables can meet 50 per cent of energy needs by 2040, claims report - New energy diet needed, say researchers - Energy bind, but no cardigan-sweater ethic
5-28
Emphasizing efficiency is key to easing our energy woes
5-28
High U.S. fuel costs put focus on renewable energy - Army Shows Off Alternative Energy Vehicles - Renewable Energy Targets Derailed in Europe
5-28
Pa. State House won't stop sludge plan - New Bill Allows Dredge Dumping In Strip Mines; Lobbyists: Public Vote Would Destroy Pa. Economy
5-28
Minnesota family fishing tradition threatened by mercury pollution
5-27

Can sci-fi scenario foster serious debate?; Environmental, industry groups differ on impact

5-27
Massey found liable for dozens of dry wells Firm negligent for not protecting water source, jury found  -  Jury finds Massey at fault in Mingo well damage
5-27
Wear red on Friday
5-27
A modest proposal to save the planet
5-27
Newsweek: Could a tidal wave really swamp New York? One expert says that some of the scary climate changes envisioned in The Day After Tomorrow, aren't as far-fetched as they may seem
5-27
Climate change impact on human health acknowledged by the Australian Medical Association
5-27
'Global warming is as big a threat to the world as terrorism'
5-27
Mine board members asked to recuse themselves
5-27
Timber official to discuss flooding
5-27
Mass. sets new limits on mercury emissions; State power plants face firm deadline
5-27
Coal Mining To Resume In Fallowfield Township
5-27
Wind Energy Choice Brought to Pennsylvania Customers by PECO
5-27
Tribes request hearing on coal mine expansion
5-27
UK Government wants to double energy efficiency commitment
5-27
Germany Gears Up for Renewables Conference
5-26
New Report Finds Unprecedented Special Interest Access Under Bush
5-26
GenPower moves on W.Va. coal plant despite appeal
5-26
Building the Countermovement
5-26
Renewable energy savings predicted
5-26
Kerry Pushes Plan for Energy Independence
5-26
From Uranium and Coal to Wind - A Renewable Future for the Seventh Generation
5-26
Scientists will referee dispute over new power plant pollution rules
5-26
Power plant in Kentucky would burn waste coal
5-26
RAG to sell U.S. coal ops for $1 billion
5-26
Scotland windfarms to get swift green light - India for national hydrogen energy road map
5-26
Man, Nature Mix Things Up in 'Day After Tomorrow'
5-26
Better Motors Could Save 100 Million Tons of CO2, Study Finds
5-26
Missed conservation opportunities prove costly 
5-25
Environmental Battle Rages Over Power Plants
5-25
Low-carb Energy Diet, Using 33 Percent Less Hydrocarbons, Would Trim U.S. Consumer Fuel Costs By $438 Billion, Cornell Ecologists Claim
5-25
Roberts to run for third term as UMW president
5-25
Environmentalist says nuclear energy the answer to global warming - Scientist's plea to use nuclear energy starts new climate change debate by green groups
5-25
CBM water may be leaking into Wyoming groundwater
5-25
Fast Arctic thaw is a sign of global warming, says report - Largest Companies Taking Climate Change Into Account - Global warming: The big fight rages on - Effects of global warming - Global warming brings bad tidings - Global Warming Could Lead to Fast Freeze, Warns UU Scientist
5-25
Economist: While deficit is big problem, global warming bigger
5-25
Disaster Movie Sparks US Political Debate Over Global Warming - Scientists Welcome Boost of Interest in Global Warming
5-25
Conference opens in Beijing to explore hydrogen energy alternatives
5-25
Blackstone Group Buying Coal Assets
5-25
Mushroom Growers and Researchers Use Coal and Quarry Waste to Save Rare Peat Bogs (Mmmmm...mercury and aresnic as a base for growing mushrooms)
5-25
Deputy Energy Secretary Kyle McSlarrow to Address Ohio Coal Association
5-24
BAD AIR DAYS: CLEARING EAST TN'S AIR WILL REQUIRE BOLD LEADERSHIP
5-24
Banks, coal companies report strong first quarter
5-24
Trade Groups Sign on to Flood Lawsuit; Plaintiffs allege 'disturbed' land made flooding worse, damaged property
5-24
When Advocates Become Regulators: President Bush has installed more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee 
5-24
The Great Privatization Grab
5-24
Appalachian Regional Commission failure?
5-24
Coal Stokes Wall Street Furnaces
5-24
S&P issues report on UK wind power sector
5-24
Lovelock: only nuclear energy can save the planet
5-23
Demand Grows to Require Paper Trails for Electronic Votes
5-23
EPA mercury proposal moves nation in the wrong direction
5-23
40 years later, War on Poverty still being waged in McDowell - Progress bypasses parts of Kentucky - Soldiers in Poverty War say fight not over  - Forty years on, some places still recovering from War on Poverty
5-23
Cabinet pushes KY mining official out (scroll down)
5-23
Foreign or domestic coal? It all depends on cost
5-23
California solar energy bill targets new homes 
5-22
Regional forum focuses on carbon management;' Wise discusses potential impact of climate change 
5-22
Kerry ahead in 'battleground states,' such as W.Va.
5-22
Spiritual, Scientific Leaders Unite in Global Warming Action Plea
5-22
Global Climate More Sensitive Now Than Ever Before - Putin off the fence, backs warming treaty - Putin throws the planet a Kyoto lifeline
5-22
States pick up EPA dropped case, sue coal plants
5-22
Air Pollution Suit Seeks Clarity for Montana, Wyoming Parks
5-22
Tuna Meltdown 
5-22
Soaring gasoline prices revives interest in other sources of energy
5-22
Knox County coal miner killed when crushed by machine 
5-21
Patriot Act debated at Kanawha Bar meeting 
5-21
Massey mining emptied water wells, jury told; Company lawyer warns Mingo tribunal to ignore sensationalism
5-21
Level the Energy Playing Field
5-21
States to Sue W.Va. Over Coal Plants - States Suing Allegheny Over Clean Air
5-21
Company ordered to restore stream
5-21
China's energy supply 'dwindling' - Booming China devouring raw materials - Canada expects hydrogen energy cooperation with China
5-21
Climate change 'disaster for rivers' - Climate Change Boom or Bust for Biodiversity? - Climate change heralds thirsty times ahead
5-20
Bush Invokes 'War on Terror' in Energy Debate (meanwhile, Bush does all he can to let coal companies unleash more explosive power on our coal-bearing mountains...)
5-20
Union group blocked from power plant permit appeal
5-20
Berger could replace Haden
5-20
Judge Dismisses Greenpeace Charges - Greenpeace Cleared in U.S. Ship-Boarding Case
5-20
Ky. Power to cede control of its lines
5-20
EPA, critics at odds over hazy view at national parks
5-20
Thaw of icy gas may worsen global warming, says report - Satellite data confirms global warming - What is Global Warming? - Climate change will have catastrophic effect on key rivers: study
5-19
NEWSFLASH: Greenpeace Joy as Judge Throws Out Case - Judge Throws Out Charges Vs. Greenpeace
5-19
Protestors Call for End to Mountaintop Mining
5-19
Court turns back challenge to Pittston retiree payments
5-19
Clean coal technology incentives included in bill (From mountaintop removal mining, to transportation, to burning, to disposal of the ash, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
5-19
Massey shareholders fail to stop executive bonuses - Massey stockholders reject executive bonus proposal - Massey shareholders fail to block bonuses for execs - Massey stockholders reject executive bonus proposal
5-19
COAL PLANTS GETTING FREE PASS ON MERCURY POLLUTION
5-19
U.S. Park Views Still in Haze; EPA Criticized for Not Doing Enough to Clear the Air
5-19
USDA: Cattle Brains May Be Turned Into Biofuels
5-19
Bank of America Maps New Climate Change, Forest Policies 
5-18
Severance package limits fail; Shareholders were trying to limit Massey payouts  -  Roberts Speaks At Massey Meeting
5-18
Mining equipment resumes operation
5-18
Water lawsuits against Massey going to trial
5-18
One-stop shopping: Coal group chief calls for greater cooperation among permitting agencies (Ecocidal greed wants no limitations)
5-18
AEP contractor fined after death of worker at John Amos
5-18
Arctic temperatures warming rapidly-polar explorer - Artic ice said to be breaking up - Russia holds veto on Kyoto treaty - Corporates warm to climate change - The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change
5-18
Stoking energy debate 
5-17
UMW planning rally at annual Massey meeting
5-17
Clean coal council has yet to meet, lawmakers learn (Maybe that's because there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)  Coal is back, cleaning up its act
5-17
Fundraiser Denies Link Between Money, Access ; EPA Rule on Hazardous Waste Favored Ohio Businessman Who Is a Big GOP Donor
5-17
Threats
5-16
Granny D: Soil of Good Democracy
5-16
Pioneers Fill War Chest, Then Capitalize (Massey Energy director Buck Harless is a Bush Pioneer)
5-16
Caught in the coal crunch; Prices are rising, but production and employment are going down
5-16
U.S. is caught in energy time loop
5-16
Rendell sees new uses for coal under clean energy initiatives
5-16
Wind energy maybe a key to solve China's energy issue
5-16
Global warming giving Northwest's weather that California feel
5-15
Input sought on aluminum limits; Environmental panel seeking comments on water issue
5-15
State agency releases new valley fill inspection policy; Changes made after seven months of negotiations
5-15
DEP issues permit for controversial Mettiki mine - Environmental agency approves Mettiki permit; Company agrees to control acidic mine drainage
5-15
Barbara Freese: The push for coal depends upon denial
5-15
Ashcroft Fishes Out 1872 Law in a Bid to Scuttle Protester Rights
5-15
'Carbon-neutral' is new lifestyle option
5-15
Bush doesn't warm to new disaster movie - Fighting global warming, the First Nations way
5-15
EU warns WTO action imminent unless China lifts coke restrictions
5-14
Fun for Saturday: ARTISTS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT - Environmental group plans fund-raiser
5-14
Clearer rules needed on coal ash dumping
5-14
Navajo water rights at risk?
5-14
US Takes Greenpeace to Court in Unusual Trial
5-14
Arch Coal upgraded to "buy" (The same people have downgraded our mountains, streams and culture to "disposable.")
5-14
Efficiency can help meet EPA smog rules while saving companies money, says report
5-14
Straw urges U.S. to join global warming fight - Global warming: is it already too late? - Film on climate change is not exactly factual - A quarter of China's population at risk as glaciers start melting - Never Mind the Weather Overkill: Scientists Praise Hollywood's Global Warning 
5-14
Wind energy picks up steam
5-14
$400M earmarked for tar ponds
5-13
Diesel rule will have minimal impact; Mining official says off-road regulations will not hurt industry
5-13
Kurt Vonnegut: Cold Turkey
5-13
Board cuts Massey flood fine to minimum allowed by law - State reduces Massey fine in 2002 Logan flood case
5-13
Protect coalfield roads
5-13
Ohio residents sue AEP; Group wants to stop acid emissions from Gavin plant
5-13
Next generation of miners will need specialized skills
5-13
Get energy from coal without digging (or blasting) it out?
5-13
West Penn Power commits $1.3 million through sustainable energy fund - Waste Heat recovery makes green energy greener - Europe could ride the wave of Ocean Energy 
5-13
Inuit 'Poisoned from Afar' Due to Climate Change Global Warming Ignites Tempers, Even in a Movie
5-13
Protests in Plain States may stop coal-fired plants
5-12
Environmentalist: To get a better environment, ask for it
5-12
Criminal probe ongoing in Massey dam failure
5-12
Environmental group seeks quick ruling in mining case (Not posted to on-line version of Charleston Gazette, therefore no link) 
5-12
New measures dont bring numbers up
5-12
Dysart Woods advocates fear mining will destroy one of Ohio's old-growth forests 
5-12
Sierra Club sues to block power line; Planned path would cut into 291 acres of national forest
5-12
Senate Passes Energy Tax Package
5-12
Coal mines leave legacy
5-12
McGuinty to fight Bush plans for coal stations
5-12
Climate Change Gets a Hollywood Makeover - Earth gets wetter to fight global warming
5-12
Potholes on the hydrogen highway
5-11
Dan Moore is on Massey board
5-11
Efforts to reach youngest voters may be working 
5-11
New DEP policy at odds with current handbook; Coordinator tells workers to stop recommendations
5-11
Coal industry sees better times ahead (Hold onto to your mountains, defend your streams, shore up your homes, and let out your screams!)
5-11
Green gurus row over wind farms
5-11
Let's look at total impact of mining
5-11
Effects of climate warming are here and now - US Says Misunderstood on Climate Change Policy - Australia targets climate change - Global Warming Linked to Wildlife Population Shifts - Indian Ocean Could Lose Coral Islands in 50 Years - China and global warming
5-11
UK 'lagging on biomass potential' 
5-11
B.C. coal-related projects raise questions in neighbouring Montana
5-11
Africa urged to increase renewable energy use
5-10
DEP stops staff permit recommendations
5-10
Primary race for governor tops spending record
5-10
Governors race hasnt been very exciting (OVEC gave "60 Minutes" the People's Election Reform Coalition data mentioned here! Dan Moore is a Massey Energy board member.)
5-10
American Energy Policy (Change is up to us!)
5-10
West withers, wonders about warming; Is mankind contributing to drought and beetles? 
5-10
World's hydrogen fuel stations up by 33 pct to 87 - Ontario's call for renewable energy production expected to be first of many
5-10
Mountains and their folk 
5-10
Dirtiest Power Plant Owners Flood Bush with Cash
5-10
BUSH SAYS RULES UNFAIR TO ILLINOIS COAL (Coal industry's health more important than human health?)
5-10
Massey CEO spin: Coal can end our growing dependence on foreign energy (While increasing mountaintop massacre/stream burial; surface and groundwater contamination and ruination; global warming; health problems related to heavy metal poisoning and particulate matter; acid rain; and while delaying the alternative energy revolution.)
5-10
Ive tried to live a clean life 
5-9
AP survey: W.Va. voters dont know, dont care 
5-9
Kilowatts and killed bats; Researchers alarmed at large number of dead bats at Tucker wind turbine site
5-9
In Britain: MILLIONS ARE SUNK INTO SEARCH TO FIND KING COAL'S SUCCESSOR
5-9
Solar energy left in the shadows - Inventors in drive to save energy
5-8
Court blocks forced sale of Lincoln familys land (The Millers are members of OVEC.)
5-8
Mercury limits criticized
5-8
Manchin plan could hurt state parks
5-8
King Coal Hwy. ground cut
5-8
New Evidence Of Global Warming Stumps Sceptics - Global warming increases asthma - States move ahead of feds to counter global warming - These homes are built for climate change - Thaw could spell doom for wildlife boom - The Weather Channel Announces Position on Global Warming
5-8
Coal stocks at US power plants spark blackout fear (Alternative energy anyone?) 
5-8
An ill wind?
5-8
Emera's tough task: weaning Nova Scotia off coal
5-7
Mothers Press Bush for Stronger Mercury Controls
5-7
Environmentalists left out of water rule review
5-7
Utilities Have Helped Bush, GOP; Industry has donated $6.6 million since 1999; It also got relief from costly pollution laws - Bush easy on utilities, group says
5-7
Scientists claim final proof of global warming - New Group Battling to Beat Climate Change
5-7
Food Crunch in 2005 Now Likely - Environmental Neglect Shrinking Harvests in Key Countries
5-7
European Air Pollution Laws Shown Not to Harm Competitiveness
5-7
Energy on the crest of a wave
5-7
Justices unseal DuPont C8 documents
5-6
Study Finds Top Air Polluters Closely Tied to Bush Administration
5-6
Coal vendors get ready for Las Vegas exposition
5-6
Coal industry offers to help explain new manganese rule
5-6
Utilities pour out pollution, campaign cash; Environmental groups report more foul gases emitted than last year, millions given to Bush
5-6
Satellite data confirms climate change - The dry, dry West could get even worse
5-6
Grain harvest predicted to fall short of world demand
5-6
'Spotlight on Tourism in Southern West Virginia' (So will there be a spotlight on mountaintop removal coal mining? Eco-disaster tours?)
5-6
Navajos win key victory in coal royalty fight
5-6
As windmills spread, some Germans balk at 'asparagus fields'
5-6
$1.8M pollution settlement to fund solar projects 
5-6
NIOSH Unveils New Dust Monitor to American Society of Safety Engineers
5-6
Alaska House OKs coal bed gas reforms; with public outcry over process, Legislature looks at changes
5-5
Ground Score: Mountaintop Removal
5-5
Massey Controversy (Go Coal River Mountain Watch!) 
5-5
Arrogance: Moore's endless demands
5-5
Lehigh Coal seeks permit change; Schuylkill company needs DEP OK to use controversial mine fill.
5-5
Once-king coal returns to the Midwest
5-5
Debate over causes aside, warm climate's effects are striking in the West  -  Scientists warm up to climate film; Researchers hope new movie will turn global warning into the new hot topic.
5-5
Three More Companies Address Climate Risk, So Shareowners Withdraw Resolutions  -  Climate: Global warming's dollar effects
5-5
E-Voting Oversight Overwhelms U.S. Agency
5-4
UMW criticizes Bush on mercury rules
5-4
Commerce secretary visits state (More coal = more campaign contributions to BushCo; more mountaintop removal; more mercury; more global warming; more suppression of cleaner, alternative energy; more denial of ecological reality.)
5-4
US high court won't rule on TVA utility emissions
5-4
Development May Threaten National Park - U.S. commission asks international review before Cdn coal mining begins
5-4
Louisville wants to sue Cinergy
5-4
Climate Changes; Forests Struggle - Global warming threatens isle species
5-4
Fairchild Air Force base buys all renewable energy
5-3
Wendell Berry: People can't survive if land is dead
5-3
Mountain Party picks filmmaker - Manchin is willing to embrace any cause to snag a vote
5-3
Switch to hydrogen presents challenges; Coal-mining states could reap benefits (We go do the wrong road if we use fossil-fuel-derived energy to split hydrogen away from oxygen) 
5-3
The Warming West: UCSC researchers forecast global warming effects - Australia told to expect refugees from global warming
5-3
Argentina launches plan to cut energy consumption
5-2
Hard to get: Increased prices, demand are good for the industry, but West Virginia's easily accessible coal is gone
5-2
Coal mining job growth could outweigh environmental issues in W. Virginia race (The Millers and Maria Gunnoe are OVEC members)
5-2
Vanishing Votes
5-2
Great fishing ... but theres a catch; Trout plentiful in troubled McDowell County creek
5-2
That close community we had; Desegregation in McDowell coal camps - In the 50s: Individuals made a difference
5-2
Global warming linked to high asthma rates
5-2
To stay out of the red, China needs to go green 
5-1
California U. to gauge effects of underground coal mining - Henderson wants mine owner, not his 'people'
5-1
Coal mine fatalities mar China's labour day celebrations

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