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(Nov) Archive - December, 2004 (Jan)

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12-31	2004: The Year Global Warming Got Respect
12-31	Collision with coal truck leaves woman dead
12-31	Conyers to Object to Ohio Electors, Requests Senate Allies - Jesse Jackson on why he thinks John Kerry really won the election
12-31	Peabody Energy to Acquire 324 Million Tons of Ultra-Low-Sulfur Powder River Basin Coal Reserves - Peabody wins bid for 324 million tons of coal reserves - Coal goes for record price
12-31	Foot-dragging puts U.S. behind on energy
12-30	Benjamin Says Only Commitment is to the Law
12-30	A role for US firms in energy cleanup
12-30	Report backing clean coal could shape energy bills (At least ten of the commission members have financial ties to the energy industry and, apparently, all members buy into the myth that coal can be "clean.")
12-30	Ignore the global warming critics
12-30	Coal industry deaths down - Ky. on track to tie mining record
12-30	Coal mine fire still burning near Pikeville
12-30	Police investigating coal truck-pedestrian fatal in Pa.
12-30	On Nov. 2, GOP Got More Bang For Its Billion, Analysis Shows
12-30	Chief justice refuses to remove himself from vote challenge - New Mexico Recount Goes Back to Court - In Washington, Call for a Second Election
12-30	How Environmentalists Can Matter Again
12-30	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
12-29	Massey Refutes Claims of Non-Hiring
12-29	End mountaintop removal in ’05 (New Year's Resolution idea--more letters to the editor calling for an end to mountaintop removal!)
12-29	Massey reopens former Cannelton mine - Bankruptcy with industry in good health raises questions
12-29	Wind firm delays Pendleton project - N.J. Offshore Windmills Tap energy that's blowing in the wind
12-29	Cleaning up coal might fuel debate; New report suggests energy future in which coal plays important role (At least ten of the commission members have financial ties to the energy industry and, apparently, all members buy into the myth that coal can be "clean.")
12-29	Meeting planned over proposed coal mine near school
12-29	How Mercury-Tainted Tuna Damages Fetal Brains
12-29	Bill reshapes future of renewable energy
12-29	Ohio Official Refuses Interview Over Vote - Ohio GOP election officials ducking subpoenas as Kerry enters stolen vote fray - Kerry Files Motion to Protect Ohio Vote Evidence - Protesters say presidential vote flawed - Making Elections Better, and Stopping Divisiveness, Too - Recount in Ohio Narrows Bush's Victory Margin - Rule One: Count Every Vote
12-29	Coal mine fire burning out of control near Pikeville - Stubborn fire shuts coal mine for days
12-29	Chinese labor activist runs radio protest
12-29	Alaska regulators want authority to grant own water discharge permits
12-29	Iceland to Spread Green Energy Mantra in Europe
12-29	The price we pay for the crimes of the rich
12-28	Global warming, pollution add to coastal threats
12-28	Greenhouse gasbags - Enough Is Enough - Most Scientists Say Earth Warming Up - NASA Study Finds Tiny Particles In Air May Influence Carbon Sinks - Science Shows That Temperatures Rising - ONLY 'A MATTER OF TIME' UNTIL SCOTLAND IS HIT - Insurers warned on global warming
12-28	GCIDA leader challenges environmental report
12-28	Ohio Official Refuses Interview Over Vote - Senator will propose end of Electoral College
12-28	Coal firm fears planning change will end opencast mining works
12-28	Wind-power gurus harness vent exhaust
12-28	Warning on carbon trading - Kyoto, coming ready or not
12-28	EU 'must end love affair with nuclear power'
12-28	Michael Crichton's State of Confusion - Fiction that’s as strange as the truth - Realclimate vs. Crichton
12-27	Margaret Janes and Joe Lovett: Put common good above political pull - Advisories won't stop polluters
12-27	Clear Skies Act not enough for environmentalists
12-27	Abandoned again
12-27	Grass flourishes in warmer Antarctic
12-27	On This Freedom Ride, Fuel Comes From the Fryer
12-26	Undeniable Global Warming - U.S. and Global Warming: We dally as Earth sweats - Bush left in the cold by climate allies
12-26	Wangari Maathai's Plan For Cultivating Peace Is Taking Root in Africa
12-26	Natural home: Two women build their dream house with neighbors' help
12-26	The equivalent of mountaintop removal: Scottish Coal accused of ‘environmental rape’
12-26	U.S. carmakers talking green, strides smaller
12-26	Animal fat helps cook up electricity
12-26	New Jersey regulators approve $745 million to increase renewable energy
12-25	How to recycle debris from holiday presents
12-25	Ranchers Seek Negotiating Clout for Land
12-25	Kerry conceded too soon, Jackson asserts
12-25	Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Photos and Web Chat
12-25	Moratorium imposed on windmills off Jersey shore
12-25	The Change You Wish to See - Donate to OVEC
12-25	Web site's agenda can be veiled by name: An industry sponsor might be behind that reassuring message
12-24	Energy Companies Help Lift Inaugural Fund to $8 Million - Inaugural Donors Add $3.3 Million in 6 Days
12-24	PLAN B -- NOW! Spending the planet into eco-bankruptcy
12-24	Voting Problems in Ohio Spur Call for Overhaul - Electors Call for National Voting Reforms - Video Supporting Ohio Vote Fraud Claim Revealed - In Ohio, almost 1 in 50 votes for president don't count - Kerry to Enter Ohio Recount Fray - Leading Democrat Asking for Exit Poll Data
12-24	We must turn away from fossil fuels (Scroll down; hey folks, letters to the editor are a great tool! Please use them.)
12-24	What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN Have in Common? - Bush Blamed for 'Devastating Consequences of Global Warming'
12-24	Birds are losing ground - 'Zimbabwe Undergoing Gradual Warming'
12-24	Warming may melt away state's caribou - Global warming/Web of wildlife strained - Early lilac, cherry tree blooms show global warming trend
12-24	Methane - A Greenhouse Gas Becomes Star of the Market
12-24	Fresh efforts to tap solar energy - New law promoting use of renewable energy in China
12-24	Groups seek cleaner design for power plant
12-24	Senator asks TVA for commitment to put scrubbers on coal-fired plants - Director says TVA already meeting senator's call for smog plans
12-23	New coal plants bury 'Kyoto'
12-23	Global Storming: Having Nixed Kyoto, Bush Stifles Discussion - Bush Administration's Refusal to Sign Kyoto Must Not Stand
12-23	America's War with Itself
12-23	Union wants public bids for road contract
12-23	Warming May Be Taking Toll on Pikas, Study Reveals - Oregon's Global Warming Plan - Global Warming: Five Studies and Five Actions - Surprising Side Effects of Global Warming
12-23	Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed - Ohio Electoral Fight Becomes 'Biggest Deal Since Selma' as GOP Stonewalls - Vote Recount for Washington Governor Tips to Democrat
12-23	12 Man-Made Disasters
12-23	Minnesota waits for federal rules to help make fish safe to eat (Waiting on the Bush administration to curb pollution? Dream on!) - Mercury's dangers (Bush's "Clear Skies" revision of the Clean Air Act would allow a seven-fold increase in mercury emissions and extend, in some cases indefinitely, the time polluters would have to reduce their emissions to the new standard.)
12-23	DC Renewable Energy Standard Passes - Dispelling Common Myths About Wind Power - Without Wind Farms, Bird Populations Headed For Crash
12-23	Energy crunch: Windmills won't get it done
12-23	Competition has Room for Renewable Energy Ideas
12-23	Energy-efficient electronics on way - Avocado Oil, Taco Grease Fuel Eco-Bus in Mexico - Alternative Energy Gets Real; Pricey oil and gas are heating up industrial interest in renewable sources
12-23	Pa. new energy law makes it a leader in harnessing (some faux) clean sources (Here the Secretary of the Pennsylvania DEP takes much of the environmental community to task for opposing an environmental "cleanup"--subsidies to burn waste coal. Why would anyone be against turning 100 tons of unsightly gob into 75 tons of toxic ash and 25 tons of air pollution--and a little power for someone far away?)
12-22	Final report released on child's death - Va. DMME calls for tougher strip mining rules - Report calls for mining rules; It says A&G Coal was negligent after boy, 3, was killed by boulder
12-22	Cries for Electoral Standards Mount - Part Two: Will Your Vote Count? - The Ohio Recount: Reluctant Officials and Few Rules - Another Stolen Election
12-22	Energy Prices Not Spurring Conservation - On Energy-Saving Standards, States Lead, DOE Lags - China to Remain Major Engine of Growth
12-22	World feels bullied by Washington - World coming together on global warming - International Kyoto Targets Met Through Renewable Energy - Control emissions locally
12-22	Key Energy Report Scant on Renewables; Renewable Energy Industry Reacts to Report by National Commission on Energy Policy
12-22	Spain's Gamesa Agrees 200 Million Euro Wind Park Sale - Washoe Tribe reaps benefits of solar energy - Germany shines a beam on the future of energy; Nation gambles on amped-up push for renewable power - GE Energy buys wind turbines
12-22	Energy-efficient House A Wish Come True For Santa
12-22	EU Gives Upbeat Assessment on CO2 Emissions Cuts - As the Seas Warm, Algae Help Some Coral Stand Up to the Heat
12-22	Program connects teenagers, seniors
12-22	A nation demands the right to exist
12-22	A new push to clean up the Great Lakes
12-22	China to boost power output in Shanxi
12-21	Miners die as China barons profit
12-21	Ohio Recount Stirs Trouble - What Counts in Ohio Recount
12-21	Va. agency responds to charges it doesn't enforce mining laws
12-21	Pa. mine fill clears another hurdle
12-21	Britain's equivalent of mountaintop removal: How coal turned into a dirty word
12-21	Road to hydrogen cars may not be so clean : Environmental peril in making, containing fuel
12-21	Shenhua and Dow Chemical to cooperate on large-scale coal chemical project in Shaanxi - Shenhua and Dow Chemical Agree to Study Coal-to-Olefins Opportunity in China
12-21	Saudis to sign up to Kyoto - Joint efforts against global warming obstructed by US refusal to cooperate - Australia draws line with United States on global warming
12-21	Warming of Lake Tahoe fits in with global trend
12-21	Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias; Creating controversy where science finds consensus
12-21	Loss of Health Coverage for Miners, Other Workers, Los Angeles Times Examines
12-21	Protecting all of God's creation
12-21	Mercury on the horizon
12-20	Bad news for West Virginia's air-breathers
12-20	Monsanto polluted Nitro with dioxin, lawsuit says
12-20	Hidden Cost Of China's Growth: Mercury Migration; Turning to Coal, Nation Sends Toxic Metal Around Globe; Buildup in the Great Lakes (In the Wall Street Journal, Page A1, Dec. 17, 2004; not available online without subscription.)
12-20	Lowland stream areas in danger (scroll to last LTE on the page)
12-20	'60 Minutes' looks at coal-bed methane - BLM approves coal-bed methane project
12-20	Aiming for Earth-friendly development - Maverick US States Prove Popular at Climate Talks
12-20	Analysis of Election 2004 Finds Reason for Concern; Margin of Victory Covered Faults, But Did Not Diminish Problems
12-20	World powers focus on coal’s rising importance (World powers ignore ecological reality.)
12-20	CU explores cleaner coal-burning plant; Federal money may help test gasification technology (That's right, the only part of the use-of-coal cycle talked about here is the combustion part; from longwall and mountaintop removal extraction, to transportation of the coal, to disposing of the post-combustion ash, to political corruption, there's so much that's dirty!)
12-19	Energy Firms Lavish Funds on BushCo Inauguration - President to focus on natural resources; Environmentalists see trouble for land, air and wildlife in Bush's second term
12-19	Dartmouth academician named to Massey board
12-19	State issues fish consumption advisory for mercury
12-19	Bob Kiss: State's water resources to be safeguarded by diverse group
12-19	Taming the deadly wind farm: Key source of renewable energy often lethal for birds - Wind Rivaling Ethanol's Renewable Energy Growth in Illinois - NW panel urges more wind power, conserving of energy - Tide waves produce endless supply of clean, renewable energy - National Security to Lead Renewable Energy Deployment - Cape wind farm hearing attracts 'yachter' mock protesters
12-19	Cleaning up coal; Cinergy puts a new spin on an old technology (From extraction, to transportation, to burning --which is the part they are talking about cleaning up--to disposal of the ash--which will have more contaminants from this process and the disposal of which is unregulated--there is no such thing as "clean" coal.) - Utilities want the cash up front for coal power - Utility customers shouldn't have to finance new plants
12-19	Ranchers, landowners seek greater negotiating clout to protect land - Methane leases to be reviewed for environmental impacts - Coalbed leases to face new scrutiny
12-19	Huntington NAACP chapter chooses new leader
12-19	U.S. Waters Down Global Commitment to Curb Greenhouse Gases - Climate talks set for May 2005 - As U.S. resists, crack opens in door to new talks on global warming - Global warming talks are planned for May -- barely - Green groups unhappy with climate change talks - Summit fails to progress on climate change - Compromise seals climate meeting
12-18	Another BushCo 'Friday afternoon environmental bad news' news dump: 15 West Virginia counties breathe bad air; Cabell, Kanawha, Putnam on list for small-particle pollution - EPA Says 224 Counties Fail Air Standards - EPA'S Fine Particle (PM 2.5) Air Quality Designations - Many Counties Failing Fine-Particle Air Rules - Ohio ranks with worst for bad air - Nine Ky. counties violate clean-air standards, EPA says
12-18	Plan to privatize MSHA library nixed
12-18	Officials call for federal funds to restore abandoned coal mines
12-18	Activists Say New Trees No Justification for Missing Mountains
12-18	The Path to Florida - Ohio Voters Refile Election Challenge - Judge Blocks Count of Some Wash. Ballots
12-18	Bill Moyers Gets In the Last Word
12-18	Colorado approves first new coal-fired power plant in 23 years
12-18	Air issues hinder power potential - 'Conservation' group pushes gasification
12-18	Arch Coal's Black Thunder Becomes World's First Coal Mine to Ship 1 Billion Tons - Mine produces 1 billion tons of coal
12-18	US set to block new talks on Kyoto treaty - U.S. tops the agenda at U.N. conference on global warming - Future climate talks deal agreed - US is accused of undermining Kyoto principles on emissions - Talks End With No U.S. Climate Deal - Global warming and Bush’s second term
12-18	Climate change: Uncharted waters? - Flooded future looms for Bangladesh - Bad Weather, Climate Change Cost World Record $90 Bln
12-18	With Leavitt on the way out, who'll be next to head up the EPA?
12-18	Apology to the World for U.S. Policies
12-17	MSHA library will not be privatized!
12-17	Rush Creek mine plan moves neighbor to act
12-17	Environmentalists wary of industry pledge to replant mine sites - More Papers Run AP Coverage - OSM Spearheads “Reforestation Initiative” For Appalachia’s Strip-Mined Lands; Top Regional Environmental Groups Refuse Sign-On, Have Questions - Mining reforestation initiative (scroll to 12/16 entry)
12-17	Development authority forced to reapprove bond issue plan
12-17	Flood Litigation (scroll down)
12-17	Bendy Solar Panels Provide Portable Energy Supply - Japan moving toward more efficient solar power - A victory for green power
12-17	Regulators Want Energy Efficient Products
12-17	Bush’s Pick for Energy Secretary Has Polluted Record
12-17	The Bush solution to global warming: It does not exist; Reality-based community understands differently - Flouting scientific opinion, Stossel promoted Michael Crichton's global warming skepticism
12-17	Sea Levels to Rise Faster - NASA - Global warming causes melting glaciers and ice caps - Tiniest creatures may reveal health of oceans - No doubt Earth's ice is melting - Global warming is No. 1 story for 2004, according to Discover
12-17	Officials say soybean rust came to U.S. as a result of Hurricane Ivan - Half of migratory birds in Chicago may disappear - Cons outweigh pros for China's warm winters
12-17	A nation demands the right to exist
12-17	U.S. states group seeks global-warming action; Despite administration opposition, nine states in the Northeast press ahead at a U.N. meeting - States buck Bush on global warming
12-17	'Time is running out' - Climate change hits bottom line
12-17	EU Wants More Mandatory Emissions Cuts, US Opposed - Laggard Countries Wake Up to Tough Kyoto Targets - Argentina scolds 'two-faced' rich
12-17	N.C. Officials Resign Over Voting Problems - Libertarian observer questions recount policy - Ohio Justice Throws Out Election Challenge
12-17	Excelsior Energy receives federal grant for coal-fueled power plant on iron range (From extraction, to transportation, to burning --which is the part they are talking about cleaning up--to disposal of the ash--which will have more contaminants from this process and the disposal of which is unregulated--there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
12-17	New life for coal tailings
12-17	Harlan County A.T.V.
12-17	Crook boss uses bribes to fuel dirty coal business
12-17	Mining Companies Ignore Greens at Own Risk (Doesn't mention coal, but...)
12-16	Nobel laureate rings energy alarm bell
12-16	American Democracy Hangs by a Thread in Ohio
12-16	Union push at Cannelton; Health benefits at stake; coalition wants Massey to continue contract - Report from area activists about Horizon being released Wednesday
12-16	Mountaintop mining chat transcript
12-16	Mercury: Wild and polluted?
12-16	Massey gifts are cheap tokens (Come on folks, get in your own letters to the editors--a holiday gift to the mountains!)
12-16	Mine Academy: Government can't meet its own criteria to outsource federal jobs
12-16	Yushchenko’s blood contains more than 6,000 times normal dioxin concentration (Not that there is any "normal" level; rather we all have dioxin in our bodies from pollution, such as the emissions from burning coal.)
12-16	2004 among hottest years; Warming trend began in 1990, meteorologists say - Insurers to Pay Record Disaster Damages in 2004 - 2004 Signals More Global Warming, Extreme Weather
12-16	US Resists Changing Stance Amid Climate Warnings -- Weather Warnings Hang Over Tense Climate Talks - Italy Calls To End Kyoto Climate Limits After 2012
12-16	All Earth Wants For Christmas? A Sock For Its Coal - The True Cost of Flying - Global Warming Is A Human Rights Violation, Activists Say
12-16	Poison Coal Ash: Miss. Power disposal site size reduced
12-16	Ahead of the curve
12-16	US Plant to Make Clean Power from Turkey Droppings
12-16	California Seeks to Create More Solar Homes
12-16	Agency support fuels hopes for coal-to-gasoline process
12-16	AEP, Peabody Energy Settle Outstanding Litigation; Companies Reach Agreements on New Coal Supply Pacts
12-15