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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	Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed - Several Factors Contributed to 'Lost' Voters in Ohio - Lawmaker Seeks Inquiry Into Ohio Vote
12-15	Senator denies benefiting from pro golf tournament; Ross voted funds for golf club owned by business associates (Clean Elections anyone?)
12-15	Wind farms still better than coal (Come on folks! Get in your own letters to the editors!)
12-15	China Colliery Accidents Kill 5, 286 Miners This Year (Hey F.O.C. Don Nehlen, you still praise China because it doesn't have those pesky coal mining laws?) - For better or worse, China is stuck on coal: Economy drives demand, even though coal is deadly and dirty
12-15	Eskimos Seek to Recast Global Warming as a Rights Issue
12-15	Global Warming Negotiations Must Move Forward Without the United States - Greenhouse disagreements cloud climate conference - Leaving America Behind - Cuts in Carbon Dioxide Emissions Urged - EU should sanction US over climate change policy: campaigners
12-15	Climate Change Affecting Species, Study Shows - Scientists Warn of Global Warming Results - L. America, Caribbean heavily hit by global warming - Lilacs bolster evidence of global warming - Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White Christmas, Study Alleges - Climate change impacts on nature worse than thought - Climate change threatens China food production - Scientists Discover Warning Signs of Coral Bleaching on Great Barrier Reef - Climate Change Impact? Look in Your Backyard
12-15	Coal mine project in jeopardy after company misses payments to county
12-15	Reform Institute Releases Values-Based Campaign Finance
12-14	Join Tonight's Appalachia and Mountaintop Removal Chat
12-14	Fish mercury poisoning warning goes statewide; W.Va. residents advised to limit eating of sport fish - Don’t eat the fish: State issues mercury warning - Some Kids May Have Autism Risk From Mercury - W.Va. Residents Warned Of Local Fish Pollution
12-14	White House to Push 'Clear Skies' Legislation; EPA Rule Put on Hold as Bush Seeks Bill - Air pollution remains pressing issue at EPA
12-14	Jones objects to Sadd as judge; Mayor vehemently opposes rumored federal nomination - Big shoes: Wise judge needed
12-14	UMW, Massey presidents to appear in TV debate
12-14	Merit selection, not elections, must be how we choose justices - Election by state circuit judges better than voting by citizens - Scapegoating trial lawyers hurts W.Va. consumers and workers - Jail or public shame not answer to hunger problem
12-14	Miners sue, say safety devices defective
12-14	Ten Percent of Bird Species to Disappear (One cause of extinction? Habitat loss, around here a.k.a. mountaintop removal. This article talks about ecosystem services, about which W.Va. politicians and regulators seem ignorant.) - Bird extinctions may impact environment
12-14	Board to discuss pulled Mingo school project
12-14	Group seeks keys to attraction of rural tourism
12-14	China's pollution now second only to that of the US
12-14	Developing Giants Under Pressure on Climate Change - EU Emissions Scheme to Start Without Four States - Cheers, and concern, for Kyoto Protocol - Coral Peril - Udall's challenge: NATO-style alliance needed on global warming - China defends economic growth at climate conference
12-14	Shutdown of circulation pattern could be disastrous, researchers say - Global warming could hurt food production (scroll down to mid-story) - Scientists Link Greenhouse Gases to Insects and Trees
12-14	Researchers Develop Efficient Organic Solar Cell
12-14	Rivals Join To Develop Hybrid-Car Technology
12-13	Bush nominates EPA head Michael Leavitt to head Health and Human Services - Bush Nominates EPA's Leavitt for HHS Position - Bush Picks E.P.A. Chief to Take Over Health Cabinet Post
12-13	Clinton, late convert to climate-change cause, now preaching up a storm
12-13	His money defeated McGraw, now he must help miners
12-13	Bush stays course on environment
12-13	U.S. Seen as Laggard at U.N. Climate Change Meeting
12-13	Scroll to middle and end of article to find: Is Charleston City Councilman Mark Sadd President Bush's choice to replace deceased U.S. District Judge Charles Haden? - Gov. Wise hosts coal barons and DEP chief at Christmas party - Is Mingo County coal industry lawyer Terry Sammons going to be DEP secretary under Gov. Manchin?
12-13	New US Energy Chief Likely to Keep Low Profile
12-13	20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA - Kerry Lawyer Seeks Ohio Ballot Inspection - Congressman accuses Ohio of stonewalling, obstructing state’s recount - For Some, the Race Remains Far From Over
12-13	Flood lawsuit proceeds; both sides happy with court ruling (scroll to 12-10 entry)
12-13	Farmers switching to solar energy
12-13	We Are All Tuvalu
12-13	Brown to Press Bush over Poverty and Global Warming - Coral reefs may grow with global warming - Women more at risk from climate change - Global Warming Negotiations Heat Up - 'After Kyoto' Takes Centre Stage at Climate Talks - Cheers, and Concern, for New Climate Pact
12-13	Flood traps 36 Chinese miners in coal mine - Safety Equipment, Oversight Issues in China Coal Mine Disasters - Over-production leads to Chinese mine deaths
12-12	Bush has own pollution plan; Existing rule on power plant pollutants on hold until his hearings are concluded (Well, he didn't come up with the plan--the coal and electric power plant industries did. And their profits trump your health and your grandchildren's' health.) - Bush Will Make Air Pollution Priority
12-12	Appalachia and its woes focus of chat on Tuesday; Environment, quality of life, jobs in debate
12-12	Massey chief not alone in selling stock
12-12	Global Warming May Be Affecting Lake Tahoe's Clarity - Warming world evident in our own backyards - Global warming has thawed the length of the ice-fishing season on northern lakes - Jurassic Park author pours cold water on global warming - Why the birds and bees think spring is here - 'Greenhouse effect' climate changes hitting Latin America hard: report
12-12	Something special about our W.Va. hills (scroll down)
12-12	Free trade does not mean free people
12-12	Company, law abandon ill miners
12-12	COAL OFFICIALS HOPE NEW SECRETARY HELPS ENERGY PLAN
12-12	Coal mine accident in Utah caused by bosses’ speed-up
12-12	Leadership key for economic gains; Col no longer cuts it
12-11	Nobel Winner Maathai Sounds Alarm Over Planet - To the Beat of Drums, African Woman Receives Nobel Peace Prize
12-11	EPA proposes new selenium standards; The metal and nutrient would be measured in fish rather than water
12-11	Our Debt to Bill Moyers
12-11	Bush Dubs Energy Pick a 'Problem Solver' - Bush Surprises Energy Industry with DOE Nominee - Bush Selects a New Secretary of Energy - Ohio Coal Association Response to Nomination of Samuel Bodman for U.S. Energy Secretary - Bush taps deputy Treasury chief Sam Bodman to serve as Energy secretary - Bush Picks Treasury Deputy to Lead Energy
12-11	Professors at MIT do not know W.Va. (Join the fun! Write a letter to the editor about mountaintop removal and/or the poisonous ways of the coal industry!)
12-11	Doubts Persist about Election Results - Silencing the Vote
12-11	Massey Event To Host 5,000 Needy Kids (A recent letter to the editor on this: Instead of toys and candy, give back the mountains you’ve (Massey energy) taken, blasted, and desolated. Give back the trees you’ve clearcut, buried, and burned. Give back the babbling streams and rivers that you’ve polluted, flooded, or buried. Give back the peace and quiet that you’ve destroyed with three million pounds of explosives per day. Give back the fresh air that you’ve filled with coal dust and toxins. Give back the hollows that you’ve filled with rock, kiln dust, and billions of gallons of toxic sludge. Give back the lives, land, and homes that you’ve destroyed with floods. If you can’t give back all these things that you’ve taken from the children in your terrorist campaign of mountain range removal, your little party is merely exploiting the kids for your selfish public image. --Vernon Haltom)
12-11	Billboards to educate public
12-11	Firm's advanced technology to recover coal from waste
12-11	Compost breaks fresh ground on emissions - China, Brazil reveal climate plan - UN wants climate cooperation - Global Warming Fight Looks Beyond Kyoto - 'Climate Witnesses' Testify About Warming - Using 'Spin' to Flip the Kyoto Debate - Britain's Secret Plan For New Global Climate Pact
12-11	Kids Making A Difference
12-10	Goodwin won’t hold corps in contempt of permit ruling - Judge won't hold Corps in contempt of court
12-10	Rockefeller hails U.S. energy report on coal, natural gas - A matter of time: Demand growing for stronger pollution controls - Effort to Seek Solutions Finds Broad Agreement, Yields Mix of Good and Bad in the Details - US energy proposal pushes toward center
12-10	Running Clean: Maine and Arizona voters reaped the benefits of their public funded clean election systems on Nov. 2
12-10	Lawsuit mulled to test water in Greene County
12-10	Pendleton wind project hits snags - Tilting at windmills
12-10	If Bush Really Wants a Legacy
12-10	A Disappointing Start for the Clean Development Mechanism - Blair pressures US on global warming - Europeans push to move against global warming - OPEC Thwarts Climate Aid For Poor Nations - Global warming 'helps coral reefs grow' - Brazil Rain Forest Burning A Major Greenhouse Gas Cause - Carbon Sink or Carbon Source? Aerosols Play Significant Role in Shifts - Climate Change Legal Action Heats Up - Blair Said To Seek New Climate Pact With Bush
12-10	Mountains have nothing for ex-mountaineers (Come on folks! Get in your own letters to the editor about mountaintop removal!)
12-10	Coal Mine Blast in China Kills 33
12-10	Striking miner thanks residents
12-10	Foundation Coal Raises $519 Million
12-10	Rev. Jesse Jackson: In Cleveland as in Kiev
12-9	Power plant course draws dozens of applicants
12-9	West Virginians do not realize the huge price they pay for coal (Come on folks! Get in your own letters to the editor about mountaintop removal!)
12-9	System keeps coal trucks in line; 125 bridges can’t handle vehicles’ weight, however - Study turns up 125 inadequate bridges on coal haul roads
12-9	Justices limit liability for flooding
12-9	Lawmakers must address flood problem
12-9	Report urges clean-coal funds, restriction on emissions (Cleaning up coal emissions is a grand idea and sorely needed (but what happens to the coal ash?). However, as long as there is mountaintop removal, there is so no such thing as "clean" coal!) - Feds reject Basin application for clean coal money
12-9	Commission That Produced “Bipartisan” Energy Report Dominated by Industry Interests, Produced Wish List for Energy Companies - Bipartisan Commission Issues Strategy to Address Long-Term U.S. Energy Challenges - Details of $36 Billion Bipartisan US Energy Plan
12-9	Cleaner burning fuel is their dream
12-9	No Escape from Dependency: Looming Energy Crisis Overshadows Bush's Second Term
12-9	Poor countries seek compensation for climatic disasters - The heat is turned on Third World air polluters
12-9	Coal industry trying to get a grip on drug abuse in mines - Data lacking on drug use by miners
12-9	Has Nobel Peace Prize Lost Way With Environmentalist Winner?
12-9	Activists Hold Forum Spotlighting Voting Issues in Presidential Election - From Selma to Ohio: A Report from the Conyers Hearing
12-9	Fatal results of fuel fury
12-9	Arch Coal swings to 2Q profit, vows to press ahead on Triton deal
12-8	Good Riddance Griles!: No. 2 DOI Official Resigns - Interior Department official quits post - Interior deputy is stepping down - Interior Department's No. 2 Resigns After Controversial Tenure - TENURE MARKED BY CONTROVERSY - Bad Boy Griles
12-8	Panel Examines Funds for Energy Security (Global Warming, Acid Rain, Mountaintop Removal, Contaminated Water, Early Deaths and Rising Sickness Rates from Fossil-Fuel-Related Pollution -- All and More Must Be Included in Any Energy Security Assessment) - Report on Energy Impasse, With Some Improbable Views
12-8	Army Corps of Engineers Violating Court Order by Allowing Coal Companies to Bury Streams With Mining Waste, Environmentalists Charge - Green groups file contempt motion vs. Army Corps in mine waste dispute
12-8	Over 10,000 Tons of PVC Land-filled in West Virginia; National Report on PVC, The Poison Plastic, Describes Looming Waste Crisis and Pervasive Hazards
12-8	Running Clean: Maine and Arizona voters reaped the benefits of their public funded clean election systems on Nov. 2
12-8	Floods: Plan for prevention (Left out of the plan: Army Corps stop issuing valley fill permits!)
12-8	Raleigh senator's environmental bill clears panel
12-8	Southeast Kentucky to get new coal jobs; Company plans 5 blue-gem mines
12-8	Philippi miner injured on the job
12-8	Pa. law is for dirty energy, not clean! - Waste coal on display as part of Pa. energy law - Rendell touts clean energy legislation - PA Governor Rendell Signs Measure Mandating Clean-Energy Portfolio Standard for PA - Gov. Rendell wants 'clean' power - Energy law may aid waste coal - Rendell signs bill to spur cleaner energy
12-8	Coal Cleaning Technology to Be Used to Recover Coal From Waste
12-8	Greene County a Real World Example of the Consequences of Government Inaction
12-8	Blair could feel the heat as he launches climate change policy review - Climate change policy review reflects failure on emissions - UK 'failing on greenhouse gases' - EU steps up pressure in Argentina
12-8	U.S. Defends Global Warming Strategy - U.S. Firmly Anti-Kyoto as U.N. Climate Talks Start - US rejects climate policy attacks - US rules out joining Kyoto treaty - Kyoto Revitalizes U.S. Climate Bill - Lieberman - US resists Kyoto talks at international climate conference
12-8	Environmentalists Hit US Mutual Funds' Green Votes
12-8	A First Look At Data From Election Day
12-7	Legislators discuss campaign 'loophole' - Lawmakers eye campaign finance reforms - Lawmakers call for limits on so-called 527 donations (OVEC leads Citizens for Clean Elections, a broad-based nonpartisan coalition comprised of environmental, labor, faith-based, community and good government groups.)
12-7	Army corps delivers flood plan; West Virginia must control development runoff, report affirms (But the army says have at the flood-exacerbating practice of blasting off mountain tops and filling in streams!) - Proposed system would warn when flood waters are rising - Lawmakers receive flood protection study; Report advises spending $2.8 million to minimize property damage
12-7	Battle brews over Pendleton wind project; Group to confront commission on transmission line deal
12-7	Coal-waste technology may hold dual promise; Va. Tech researchers hope tests yield new fuel source that cleans up slurry ponds - Making use of coal waste
12-7	EPA seeks new penalties over DuPont blood tests
12-7	State finishes cleanup of one of Kentucky's largest coal waste sites - Cleanup erases all signs of coal dump; $3.6 MILLION PROJECT TOOK 2 YEARS TO RESTORE GREENERY
12-7	Global Warming Is Mankind’s Greatest Threat - Global warming: 'Millions at risk' - A Man-Made Heat Wave - Global Warming Fast Facts - Global Warming Killing Oceans' Life Centres - Climate: The tropospheric data do conform - Most Coral Reefs Under Threat, Some Resilient
12-7	Thousands gather in Buenos Aires for global warming conference - US Firmly Anti-Kyoto as UN Climate Talks Start - Australia to Meet Kyoto Target But Refuses to Sign - Australia on target to slash emissions - Maine a leader in dealing with global warming - U.N. hopeful as climate talks begin - U.S. Companies See Advantages in Carbon Emissions Market
12-7	Clinton Urges Effort To Address Energy; He Sees Voter Backing for New Sources
12-7	Bill Moyers On Receiving Harvard Medical School's Global Environment Citizen Award
12-7	Deal struck to hold off drilling of coal-bed methane
12-7	Utilities to see profit in coal, nuclear
12-7	Democrats Launch Investigation of Voting Problems in Ohio - DNC to Investigate Ohio Voting Irregularities
12-7	US Giant's Defense on Bhopal Could Be Undermined by Company Papers
12-7	Xcel swaps environmental concessions for power plant
12-7	Methane Blowout May Have Caused Mine Blast
12-7	Green energy cheap as chips: lobbyist
12-7	E. Java flooding continues, loggers blamed (But, strangely, here in West Virginia, if you believe the WV Coal Association, mountaintop removal and valley fills actually lessen flooding! Right!) - Arroyo wants log ban in effect immediately
12-7	Power-Starved China Inks Energy Conservation Plan
12-7	Bush says open season for environmental abuse
12-6	Dianne Bady: Moving Mountains
12-6	Army Corps of Engineers Violating Court Order by Allowing Coal Companies to Bury Streams With Mining Waste, Environmentalists Charge
12-6	Miners spread message
12-6	Challenges Planned to Ohio's Presidential Vote Totals
12-6	Massey CEO doesn’t care (Scroll down. Folks, write your own letters to the editors to help counter coal's propaganda campaigns.)
12-6	Massey and the Supreme Court - Massey to re-open Mammoth mine
12-6	Bhopal Marks Anniversary With Candlelight Vigil (Near Charleston, WV, Union Carbide stores 95 percent of all the Bhopal chemical in the U.S.)
12-6	America's birds face longer odds
12-6	MERCURY LEVELS: Michigan may need its own limits
12-6	Meeting set on cleanup of former coal gasification plant
12-6	World needs more than Kyoto: minister - How Global Warming Can Lead To A Big Chill - Slowing global warming
12-6	Hong Kong's CLP To Boost Its Generation of Green Energy
12-6	China: Coal mine accidents cause severe concerns - China landslide survivors blame disaster on coal mining - China Landslip Toll 32 as Survivors Blame Mines
12-6	Rising Energy Costs Could Fuel Initial Public Offerings
12-6	Rich Louv: Death of the environmental movement?
12-5	Bush sets out plan to dismantle 30 years of environmental laws
12-5	Goodwin asked to enforce rule on valley fills - Group wants Corps of Engineers found in contempt of court ruling
12-5	Tri-State area offers many options for gifts with local flavor: ‘Moving Mountains’ CD (scroll down) (You can pick up the CD for $15 from the OVEC office. Give us a call at 304-522-0246.)
12-5	Election Critics Protest at Ohio Statehouse
12-5	Climate Talks Bring Bush's Policy to Fore - Big battles loom between White House and environmentalists - The Senator, the President and the Environment - Blair relaunches climate strategy
12-5	Stereotype: Mountain image unfair
12-5	Miners' woes show problems with contracts - What happens when coal miners lose long-promised health care coverage?
12-5	McConnell, Rogers lead money chase; HOW MUCH SWAY DOES $3.5 MILLION GIVE TO KENTUCKY'S RAINMAKERS?
12-5	Railroads try to meet demand; Coal-transport needs exceed expectations
12-5	Fly Me to the Moon - Reborn: nuclear energy prepares for a second chance
12-5	Catch me if you can: Biologists are conducting a study of rare northern flying squirrels . . . if they can find them
12-5	Power struggle: Let’s address issue - Is TVA's smog fouling our air?
12-5	China battles power crunch
12-4	Bill Moyers: Battlefield Earth
12-4	Millions spent to defeat Warren McGraw
12-4	Bush admin isn't putting money where its mouth is on "clean coal" (Cleaning up emissions is a swell idea, but what happens to the heavy metals and other pollutants that do go up the smokestack? They end up in the ash, and the dumping of that is not regulated. Besides, cleaning up the emissions doesn't clean up the mining!) - Energy Remains Challenge for Bush - Environmentalists Lose on Spending Bill
12-4	Bush's Ohio Win Was Closer Than Thought
12-4	Cinergy clean air efforts praised - Power giant endorses greenhouse gas curbs; Cinergy's stand at odds with President Bush
12-4	Global warming may cause big chill
12-4	UN Talks to Review Where 'Dangerous' Warming Starts
12-4	Bhopal story another fumble for BBC - BBC Falls Prey to Hoax on Anniversary of Bhopal Disaster - A toxic shadow still lurking
12-4	Kentucky enjoys upsurge in market for specialty coal
12-4	Cool water may be a rainbow of opportunity
12-4	Officials Lay Groundwork for Cleanup of Great Lakes - Pact to protect, restore Great Lakes signed
12-4	"State of the Birds" finds hundreds of U.S. species in peril
12-4	Philippines, Floods, Logging: 25-year commercial log ban pushed (Meanwhile, regulators and coal barons insist that the deforestation of mountaintop removal has nothing to do with logging!) - Philippine storm deaths blamed on logging; Forests that prevented slides have been cleared
12-3	Serious holiday humor (scroll down)
12-3	Mining fills continue, despite judge’s order
12-3	National Coal Company Hires Nashville Law Firm to Harass Katuah Earth First!
12-3	Massey to reopen former Horizon mine in Kanawha County
12-3	Court says lawsuit can't be tried as class action; Ruling in case over coal preparation plants also defines medical monitoring
12-3	McGraw files attack-ad libel suit
12-3	Blankenship’s evil rooted in money
12-3	Byrd wants facts from MSHA; Feds plan to privatize national mine safety library in Beckley
12-3	Man crushed by tree at Catenary Coal mine
12-3	Manchin raised nearly $4.9 million in campaign
12-3	US Says No Plans To Sign New Climate Change Pacts
12-3	Agency living up to its mission in new digs
12-3	Smog Clouds Beijing's Pre-Olympic Clean-Air Target
12-3	Bhopal: A Living Legacy of Corporate Greed
12-3	Chinese economy's appetite for coal pays a human price; More than 4,500 miners died in 2004 (And, central Appalachians pay for America's gargantuan appetite for coal!)
12-3	Coal miners and operators to discuss drug abuse on job
12-2	PSC Goes On The Road
12-2	Coal Fuels State Revenues
12-2	North American birds on the decline
12-2	Dehumanizing Appalachians makes it easy to dump on them
12-2	Chemical concerns: Institute still home to MIC stockpile - World Shame of Living Dead of Bhopal Gas Disaster
12-2	ACLU seeking FBI files on investigations of activist groups
12-2	Quiet Protest, Roaring Response: National Coal sues Katuah Earth First for harassment
12-2	Carbon To Blame For Pollution Heart Damage
12-2	Toughest limits on mercury left out, activists say - Mercury Damaging Wisconsinites' Brains, Fertility - News 3 Investigation Find Dangerous Levels Of Mercury In Fish - Mercury Contamination Poisoning Louisiana Anglers - US environmentalists ready to fight
12-2	2004 Global Environmental Citizen Award Goes to Bill Moyers; Meryl Streep to Present Award From Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment
12-2	Death remains a partner in China's coal mines
12-2	Acid rain scalds Chinese economy
12-2	Brazil Garbage Dump Could Be Climate Trailblazer
12-2	Humans Raise Risk of Europe Heatwaves - Global Warming Tied to Heat Wave; Lawsuits Loom - Global Warming Has Doubled Risk of Fatal Heat Waves, Study Says - Deadly hot summers 'to become the norm' - Heat wave risk rising with emissions - Melting Arctic Bogs May Hasten Warming, Study Says - Meteorologist Likens Fear of Global Warming to 'Religious Belief' - Heatwave Study May Fuel Global Warming Lawsuits - Global warming seen as ending long winter night in Canadian North
12-2	Cinergy Releases Report on Potential Impact of Greenhouse Gas Regulation - What are the most effective company global warming response strategies?
12-1	Moving mountains to get very little coal (scroll down)
12-1	Justice won't step aside in case
12-1	Memorial for Sue Daniels: Many express concern about violence against women - Protective orders not a cure-all for abused
12-1	White House sees expanded market share for coal (Why is the White House in the coal industry? Coal industry demands paybacks for campaign contributions to BushCo.)- Environmentalists Gird For Battle Over Pollution, Wildlife In Bush's Second Term - Environmentalists See Trouble Ahead, With Worst Fears Possibly Playing Out in Bush's Second Term
12-1	Coal case creates recusal issue; Massey CEO at center of another controversy
12-1	Judge upholds halt to longwall mining under Pa. stream - State denies company's request to resume longwall mining - Environmental hearing board nixes longwall mine beneath creek
12-1	DEP trying to stabilize Shinnston homes
12-1	Mercury pollution, acid rain not same (Folks, write your own letters to the editors to help counter coal's propaganda campaigns.)
12-1	EPA Releases Notice of Data Availability for Clean Air Mercury Rule
12-1	Something's Fishy in Ohio - Validate the Vote - Voters to challenge US election
12-1	Silent Night, Deadly Night (Charleston, WV has 95 percent of all the Bhopal chemical stored in the U.S.)
12-1	Logging blamed as Philippines flood toll rises - Illegal logging a major factor in flood devastation of Philippines (But logging on steroids--mountaintop removal--has nothing to do with flooding in West Virginia? Right!)
12-1	Raising truck-weight limit would add to burden
12-1	World's Power Firms 'Failing over Clean Energy Plans'

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