(Jan)  Archive - February, 2005  (Mar)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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2-28	Power plant a part of Capito agenda
2-28	Blocking roads hurts the state (Does the Daily Mail think that coal companies completely blocking roads forever for mountaintop removal is bad? )
2-28	Energy bill shortsighted (Letters to the editor are great tools! Please use them.) - Mascot designs show ignorance (scroll down)
2-28	Mount Sinai Study Shows Impacts of Mercury Pollution on the Health of our Children and the American Economy - New Study Shows Impact of Mercury Pollution: $8.7 Billion Lost Annually Due to Poisoning in the Womb
2-28	IN THE HOT SEAT: OBAMA TO CAST KEY VOTE ON FUTURE OF COAL - Opponents see intimidation tactics over Clear Skies bill - 'Clear Skies' Plan: The Battle Heats Up
2-28	It's Time To Save Tennessee's Mountains and Streams from the National Coal Corporation
2-28	New Pa. law likely to increase drilling for coal-bed methane gas - New state law promotes methane gas well drilling
2-28	2004 Natural Disasters Death Toll Doubles - Insurer
2-28	Vanishing Islands
2-28	Asia Pushes Ahead on Biofuel, Despite Cost
2-28	Wind farms dealt a blow by energy study
2-28	Green lobby launches manifesto to create jobs from renewable energy
2-27	Massey renews CEO’s contract for 8 months; Don Blankenship likely to earn more than $14 million
2-27	Open for business: What role will Workforce Investment Division play in state’s economy?
2-27	Lake, range key Wallback plan
2-27	Air Quality Officials' Group Protests Senator's Actions
2-27	Tangled alliances behind Kentucky truck bill; Conflict pits court against legislature
2-27	Mining the future through the past
2-27	World market could be hurt as severe coal shortfall worsens in China
2-27	Experts show official wind power claims are hot air
2-26	Improving a Good Bill: Clean Elections Bill Being Cleaned Up - WV Environmental Council Legislative Update - WV Citizen Action Group Capitol Eye
2-26	Behemoths: Coal truck dilemma
2-26	A formerly polluted parcel of land, off grounds to traditional development, will soon become New England's largest solar PV project
2-26	US blocks plans on UN environment body and mercury ban talks - Pact to curb mercury is rejected - Binding Treaty Plan on Mercury Rejected - More stories...
2-26	EPA chief promotes Clear Skies initiative; Environmentalists say it will provide the opposite - Dirty Politics, Foul Air
2-26	ILLINOIS "CLEAN" COAL POWER PLANT ON HOLD: ENVIRONMENTAL, PUBLIC HEALTH GROUPS OBJECT TO AIR POLLUTION PERMIT - Power plant on hold after appeal filed - Coal plant gets put on hold
2-26	Carbon rush at World Bank - The carbon spin doctors: How the World Bank explains emissions trading to journalists - Emissions Trading Up In Smoke
2-26	China's growing presence on the international energy stage could ultimately bring it into confrontation with the world's largest energy consumer, the US
2-26	Canadian Government Wins Kudos for New 'Climate Change' Budget
2-26	Ski Resorts Celebrate Winter, Fight Global Warming - Aspen Looks To 'Canary Initiative' In Global Warming Effort - Middle School Kids Hold Global Warming Protest
2-26	Face facts on global warming - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise in 2003 Despite Industry Cuts
2-26	Coming in from the cold over global warming?
2-26	Plans to harness the wind divide the moors
2-26	Study says renewable energy could create jobs and revenue -  Renewable energy bodies publish action plan to increase output - Promoting renewable energy
2-26	Va. mine fire appears to be dying
2-26	Judge said BLM study on coal-bed methane development inadequate
2-26	Anthracite Coal Shortage Causes Scramble
2-25	Rush Creek mine hearing attracts 150; Residents, miners debate proposed mine
2-25	Miners arrested near Massey plant; UMW protests loss of pensions, health care and union jobs - Union Miners Arrested During W.Va. Protest - Union President Arrested at Massey Protest - Union Continues Battle Against Massey
2-25	Loaded coal truck overturns in Nicholas
2-25	Randy Boyd: Putting houses on New River Gorge rim a mistake
2-25	Great Lakes o' Sludge!
2-25	Fayette students who are 18 can register to vote in high schools
2-25	Secret: The public's ballpark
2-25	'Clear Skies' plan: the battle heats up; Ten state attorneys general are accusing the Bush administration of diluting air-pollution standards
2-25	Pennsylvania admits mistake for allowing mine under stream - PennFuture Reaches Settlement with DEP to Guarantee Citizens' Rights to Participate in Longwall Decisions
2-25	Does coal now grow on trees? We should not use the limited funds for renewable energy on nonrenewable energy - RENEWABLE ENERGY: Best way to reduce the high cost of oil, decrease dependence on imports - There are energy alternatives out there, but governments have to get behind them
2-25	Ice Melting Everywhere - Kelpie Wilson Interviews Ross Gelbspan
2-25	The Kyoto Protocol, and beyond - Ottawa to spend billions on Kyoto
2-25	Heavy Metal Madness
2-25	Air quality officials scratch their heads over rejected plan
2-25	Pennsylvania: PPL plans to clear the air around 2 coal-fired plants - Utilities consider $1 billion coal-fired plant; Virginia's coal reserves, deregulation law prompt interest - Power-plant study planned- Appeals court upholds ruling for 4th Arizona coal-fired plant
2-25	Local groups find offshore wind project will provide energy, economic, environmental benefits
2-25	Hydropower can be as harmful as coal burning
2-25	Arch Coal Declares Quarterly Dividends
2-24	25 billion gallons of fuel could be saved with a few simple steps (Letters to the editors are great tools; use them!)
2-24	Manchin seeks coal, steel protection (Manchin ignores protection for coalfield residents!)
2-24	Coal truck solution sought
2-24	RFK, Jr.: For the Sake of Our Children
2-24	DEP names water division head
2-24	School failure: Takeovers not working (Nor our mountaintop removal sites stables places to build schools)
2-24	Ireland Says November Vote Included Fraud
2-24	Kentucky: Legislative road kill--Price of increased truck weights too high - Heavier loads, heavier costs
2-24	Pennsylvania: DEP ready to issue air quality permit for power plant - Decision on power plant permit rests with DEP
2-24	No injuries in Virginia mine fire near Pike
2-24	Solar Industry Joins Rep. Oberstar’s Call for Solar Panels on the Capitol Campus
2-24	Commission wants federal involvement as B.C. eyes coal potential
2-24	New Zealand: Marsden activists arrested
2-24	RWE Expects Profit Growth to Slow in 2005 on Coal
2-24	World environmental officials weigh proposals to cut mercury emissions
2-24	Retreat of Antarctic Ice Shelves Is Not New, Report Says - Ski Areas Lead in Addressing Global Warming - Climate Science Keeps on Ticking
2-24	Black water spill fouls portion of eastern Kentucky stream
2-23	Man says he has a right to mine property
2-23	Many fail to realize how much the coal industry helps West Virginia (Please write in response to this tripe! This LTE is from the same fellow who admitted to Mingo Co. residents that mountaintop removal had a role in most recent he flooding. We know he has already sent the same letter to at least the Huntington and Williamson papers. This LTE ignores the huge costs the coal industry passes on to current and future generations.)
2-23	Caputo offers bill to provide funds for campaigning (OVEC coordinates Citizens for Clean Elections)
2-23	‘Imminent danger’ cited in shutdown of coal mine; Roberts pins problem on lack of union precautions
2-23	Utility to pay $1.25 million for ballpark name
2-23	Housing developers pull gorge zoning request for now - Roaring River silenced for now
2-23	Injured miners get poor treatment (letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
2-23	Coal Mine Black Water Release Fouls East Kentucky Creek
2-23	Kentucky: House votes to exempt more overweight trucks - From $385 million to zero in less than a week - Your Call Needed To Put The Brakes On HB 8 In Ky. Senate; e-mail vivian@ohvec.org for details
2-23	Kentucky: Learn about mountaintop removal (scroll down)
2-23	Inhofe's Idiocy
2-23	AEP to be partner in higher ed center
2-23	Anthracite coal shortage leaves homeowners scrambling
2-23	Wind Power Growth Boosts German Green Energy Share - Bluff and bluster: The campaign against wind power
2-23	Warming Globally, Acting Locally: With no end in sight for the Bush administration's do-nothing environment policy, northeast states take the lead in the global warming fight
2-23	Prof warns of global warming health impacts
2-23	Economist warns of global warming
2-23	New Zealand: Forest & Bird backs Greenpeace against Marsden B -Toxic discharge pipe highlighted
2-23	Coal town's daughter
2-22	Black water spill fouls portion of eastern Kentucky stream
2-22	Power tie-in: Utility buys naming rights to new East End stadium
2-22	Legislators send first bills to Manchin
2-22	Bill to protect volunteer groups on abandoned mine sites passed
2-22	Gorge proposal violates land plan, report says - Gorge housing hearing today
2-22	Up to 11 wilderness areas could join national forest
2-22	Ky. coal truck law creating problems
2-22	Panelists Decry Bush Science Policies
2-22	Industry experts look to nuclear and green power
2-22	U.N. to Debate How Best to Curb Mercury; U.S. opposes a binding treaty
2-22	Court Rejects Government Plan to Improve Air Quality in Parks
2-22	Bush Disappoints Europe With Climate Change Ideas - Many reasons for U.S. to back Kyoto - Mayor Is on a Mission to Warm U.S. Cities to the Kyoto Protocol
2-22	Scientists Looking at Ways to Trap Greenhouse Gases
2-22	Climate change will bring new health risks - Global warming can affect your health: Expert
2-21	Jack Spadaro: Mountaintop removal: Mining practices must change or ecosystem will be destroyed (Jack is an OVEC member)
2-21	Coal facility near school shocking (scroll down; letters to the Editors are excellent tools--use them!)
2-21	Name change could bolster mining fight
2-21	Sacred responsibility to steward Earth (scroll down; letters to the Editors are excellent tools--use them!)
2-21	Kentucky: Bill allows more trucks to haul 60 tons
2-21	It's hard to swallow this mercury report
2-21	Threat of warming is real, menacing
2-21	Kentucky: Setting books straight on coal
2-21	New Zealand: Power station activists stay put
2-20	A Corrupted Election: Despite what you may have heard, the exit polls were right
2-20	State shuts down part of Massey mine
2-20	Flooding documentary - ACTS OF GOD? How Natural Are Natural Disasters?
2-20	Comp benefits concern workers; Many might not be able to find jobs, attorney says
2-20	Gorge isn’t a first for firm; Company also had controversial project in Ga.
2-20	Officials say plans for plant running on schedule
2-20	Room for Crops, Trees On Wind Farms (letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
2-20	Virginia: New mining laws in effect on signing
2-20	Kentucky: Trucking bill raises road questions; Measure would allow more heavy loads
2-20	Pennsylvania: Mining Under Local Homes Leads To Criminal Charges - Ex-Maple Creek engineer may have altered records
2-20	Pennsylvania: Allegheny Energy faces suit over power plant emissions - Another advocacy group targets Hatfields Ferry
2-20	Pennsylvania plant security: Chicken or egg
2-20	Opponents of 'Clear Skies' Bill Examined; GOP sponsor of Bush bill asks two groups to turn over financial records
2-20	The Final Proof: Global Warming is a Man-Made Disaster - New global warming evidence presented; Scientists say their observations prove industry is to blame
2-20	Blair asked to help Bush see the light - Shame on us for snubbing global warming treaty - Carbon emissions trading is new weapon to battle global warming
2-20	Global Warming Could Worsen U.S. Pollution: Report - Warming world could worsen pollution in Northeast, Midwest
2-20	Taiwan to accommodate Kyoto Protocol with special energy-saving measures - Chile Poised to Take Full Advantage of Kyoto
2-20	Nebraska: No Drought Relief This Year
2-20	Conference to discuss renewable energy issues
2-20	Peabody Energy CEO: Not Concerned About New Mines In China
2-19	Timmermeyer touts faster mine permitting - ‘Reclamation' is not at all what it seems - Citizens Fed Up With WV DEP
2-19	Take Action: Clean Elections Pilot Project Heads to Full House - Clean Elections Passes Judiciary Committee (OVEC coordinates the Clean Elections Coalition)
2-19	Take Action: Toxic Lakes of Goo and You (OVEC coordinates the Sludge Safety Project with Coal River Mountain Watch and concerned citizens in Mingo County)
2-19	Take Action: EQB Public Hearing on Manganese
2-19	DEP Should Pursue Reporting of Greenhouse Gas
2-19	Fayette gets look at plans for gorge - Hearing seeks public input on housing plan
2-19	Court Finds Fault With EPA Haze Program
2-19	New data point to man-made global warming, severe climate change - Greenhouse gases 'do warm oceans' - Ocean warming, fossil fuel gases linked - Ocean, Arctic Studies Show Global Warming Is Real - Study Predicts Boston Flood Threat Due to Warming - ‘Global warming real’ say new studies
2-19	Seattle dreams of 'green' team; Mayor urging other U.S. cities to enact Kyoto Protocol - Activist touts local initiative to cut pollution - Russian firms turn Kyoto pioneers
2-19	Pressure on Bush to address global warming - Sins of omission cast shadow over Kyoto - Canada to earmark more money to fight global warming
2-19	Digging their own graves - Take Tough Action To End China's Mining Tragedies
2-19	Competition attracts machines; Coal mining is theme this year
2-19	Peabody makes changes to legal, government relations staff
2-19	Toxic mercury lurking in Great Salt Lake
2-19	Biodiesel: Pumped up about cleaner fuel
2-18	Citizens decry Gov. Manchin efforts to promote coal as vital to homeland security; Beleaguered coalfield residents say mountaintop removal destroying their homeland
2-18	Citizens for Clean Elections launches WV website
2-18	Public campaign financing pilot project goes to House (OVEC coordinates the Clean Elections Coalition) Clean elections: Noble undertaking
2-18	Coal sludge spills into Pines Creek; 40,000 gallons blacken miles of water; resident wants stiffer fines  -  Cleanup Begins on Raleigh County Sludge Spill
2-18	Manchin Welcomed At Coal Gathering - Manchin lauds coal at symposium - Manchin Speaks to Coal Industry; Says Wants to Streamline Mine Permitting
2-18	Power unveils mascots: 5 energy-related characters to lead the cheering; Friends of Coal out as band name (The WV Coal Assoc. is pulling out all the stops in its PR efforts. Why?  Because we are making a difference by speaking truth to power (no pun intended). Use your voice! Write letters to the editor; talk to your neighbors; tell legislators and regulators you want an end to mountaintop removal! See above link too--with a coal-related business owning governor like Manchin, we all have to insist that our voices be heard!)
2-18	Jobs fair to provide data on plant plans (eco-park?!)
2-18	Kentucky Groups Sue Army Corps of Engineers for Permitting Coal Companies to Destroy Streams; Blanket Permit Violates Clean Water Act, Groups Say
2-18	End the carnage: Limit coal truck weights to save on road costs
2-18	Developer may back off part of gorge plan; Company would drop plan to build within park
2-18	E.P.A. Agrees to Deadline in Emissions Case - EPA to rule on interstate air pollution from coal-fired power plants
2-18	President Picks Your Poison
2-18	Bush Says Will Tell Europe 'We Care About Climate' - Christians lobby Bush to sign Kyoto Protocol
2-18	Maathai Addresses Kyoto Conference
2-18	Sign Here to Save the Planet - Join a People's Campaign to Ratify the Kyoto Protocol
2-18	Global Mercury Reduction Action Urged at Upcoming U.N. Meeting by Environmental NGOs and Indigenous Nations
2-18	Death toll in Liaoning coal mine blast rises to 213 - b
2-18	New Minnesota coal plant given renewable energy grant
2-18	Feds probe both railroads serving Powder River Basin
2-17	Senate GOP Delays Action on Pollution Plan - Clear Skies plan suffers setback - Senate Panel Delays a Vote on Air Bill
2-17	Bill would curb influence of election contributors (OVEC coordinates the Clean Elections Coalition)
2-17	Sludge Spills Into Raleigh Stream
2-18	New Zealand: Greenpeace outlines toxic ash legacy of Marsden B
2-17	Feb. 24 in Beckley: Flooding movie to screen in series
2-17	Workers are meaningless to Massey operations (scroll down; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
2-17	Workers’ comp relief kicks in with bill signing - Workers’ comp debt bill signed
2-17	McDowell landfill plan resurrected
2-17	Consol seals coal mine to extinguish fire
2-17	Historic Kyoto Treaty Inked Without the World's Biggest Polluter the US - Proponents Want U.S. to Join Kyoto Pact
2-17	California tries to cut emissions on its own
2-17	Families Grieve, ID Dead After China Blast - Hazardous China Taps US Coal Sector Safety Ideas
2-17	The town that said ‘no’ to dirty energy celebrates Kyoto pact’s enforcement
2-17	Kyoto protests disrupt oil trading
2-16	W.Va. school board seizes control of Mingo County schools
2-16	Mason hopes for new plant (As long as there is global warming, mercury, acid rain, mountaintop removal, abuse of workers' rights, coal $ influence over politicians, massive tax breaks and subsidies for huge corporations, etc, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
2-16	Bill McKibben: Tilting at Windmills
2-16	UNEP chief warns of “planet spinning out of control” as Kyoto takes effect - The reality of climate change is that the engines of progress have merely accelerated our rush to the brink - Global warming as bad as terrorism
2-16	Mixed Feelings as Kyoto Pact Takes Effect - Unfolding Story of Warming Planet - Greenpeace celebrates Kyoto and highlights more must be done - Giant leaps needed post-Kyoto - Protestors occupy New Zealand power plant on Kyoto Treaty day - Kyoto Global Warming Pact Takes Effect - Kyoto Treaty Takes Effect Today - Feted and hated, Kyoto enters into force - EU leads Kyoto 'carbon revolution' - 1997 Kyoto pact takes effect today
2-16	Some more talk from bleeding-heart liberal (scroll down; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
2-16	Consol sends all safety teams to site of Virginia cave-in - Large rock fall closes Virginia coal mine
2-16	Emission bill may come up 1 vote shy ; Democrats claim committee votes to block Bush plan - Bush plan would let polluters breathe easier
2-16	Mingo takeover on track - In West Virginia and across the country, rural communities are fighting the supersizing of public schools
2-16	Ex-police chief gets lesson in civics
2-16	DEP rejects calls to test Perry Township water
2-16	A new source of electricity for Pennsylvanians
2-16	Energy efficiency: from marginalized to mainstream
2-16	China Miners: Losing Jobs Biggest Worry
2-16	UK Coal's problems pile up
2-15	New governor drops DEP greenhouse reporting bill
2-15	Bill would take parties off ballots in high-court races - Non-partisan high court pushed as tort reform
2-15