OVEC News Links Archive, March 2005

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3-31	Experts Warn Ecosystem Changes Will Continue to Worsen, Putting Global Development Goals At Risk - INTERNATIONAL STUDY HIGHLIGHTS NRDC CALL FOR U.S. COMMISSION ON GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS - Earth is being over-exploited to the point of collapse, study finds
3-31	Manchin should heed his uncle (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
3-31	Rewards: Pork barrel bonanza
3-31	In bid to cut mercury, US lets other toxins through
3-31	Nine US States File Suit Challenging Federal Mercury Emissions Rules, Say Policy Does Not Protect Fetuses, Children
3-31	Ohio agency proposes fees for developers, coal mines
3-31	Avoid Oil Crisis with Renewables, Security Leaders Advise
3-31	Hopi Tribe explores alternative energy sources
3-31	Drug tests have up, down sides for mines
3-31	Carbon dioxide continues its rise
3-31	Kyoto Protocol spurs race to develop fuel cells - Deals to Develop Fuel Cell Vehicle - GM, Daimlerchrysler in Fuel Cell Deals with US
3-31	Japan Government Panel Approves Proposal to Cut Emissions under Kyoto Protocol - Tough Steps Urged to Cut CO2 Emissions in Japan
3-31	Global Warming of Atlantic Could Hit Fish - Fish stocks down due to warmer seas
3-30	Capitol rallies to reflect divergent opinions on coal
3-30	The state of the world? It is on the brink of disaster - Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' - Scientists warn of Earth's declining environmental health - Study highlights global decline - What on Earth are we doing to our planet? - Human damage to earth worsening fast: report
3-30	Future of energy should steer away from coal
3-30	Senators stand up for Alaska but not W.Va. (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
3-30	Wilderness resolutions make outlandish claims
3-30	States Sue EPA Over Mercury Emissions - 9 states sue, say new rules on mercury fall short - N.J. leads nine-state challenge of EPA mercury pollution rules
3-30	Australians More Concerned With Global Warming Than Terrorism
3-30	No movement in Ky. lawsuit that sparked debate on overweight trucks
3-30	Utilities Move Toward Cleaner Coal Processing (As long as there is global warming, mountaintop removal, longwall mining, 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.)
3-30	A New Era for Oil? - China Fuel Tax its Best Weapon to Check Oil Demand
3-30	Kyoto pact plan avoids carbon tax; buying of emissions credits expected
3-29	EPA’s mercury allowance is a joke - Maine to sue EPA over mercury emissions - Senators request probe of charges that EPA withheld info on mercury rule - Breathe in
3-29	DEP stays out of dispute over stream protection
3-29	Coal gasification could solve power plant efficiency and emissions problems (As long as there is global warming, mercury, acid rain, mountaintop removal, longwall mining, 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.)
3-29	Kyoto Protocol Tough For Emerging Economies - UK and Brussels clash over emissions - Pa. adds to global warming
3-29	Cloud people run for the rain
3-29	Unlikely Bedfellows Lobby Against US Gas-Guzzlers
3-29	Peabody Coal Illinois Plant permit tossed out by judge
3-29	EKU's coal-fired boilers emitting too much soot, state tests show
3-29	Industrial pollution on the rise
3-28	Environmental activists plan summer mining protests
3-28	Coal cure: ‘Bridge technology’ (A multi-billion dollar bridge to what kind of future? How about a leap to a better future--invest those billions in a no-holds-barred effort to conserve, improve efficiency, localize economies and develop truly cleaner, renewable energies?)
3-28	Fishing for New Environmentalists
3-28	Proposed Power Plant Challenges Great Lakes Ecosystem, Sovereignty; Opponents Maneuver to Thwart New Coal-Burning Efforts in Wisconsin
3-28	Indigenous communities fight Irish coal mining co. over ancestral lands
3-28	Global warming is a human rights issue - Call for action on climate change
3-28	Wildlife winces at early spring
3-28	Blair 'fails to lead on global warming' - MPs chastise Blair over climate change - Sparring officials to delay Kyoto proposals
3-28	Higher and higher: ski resorts in fight to survive global warming
3-28	Asian pollution linked to polar climate change; NASA reports the soot emissions seem to contribute to global warming
3-28	Whistling up millions from trucks and fly ash
3-28	Carbon boom to hit energy bills
3-28	Lights out for a new nuclear age in Scotland
3-27	Aluminum study panel ignored suggestions
3-27	Response to recent article written by Steve Walker of Walker Machinery
3-27	Senator reports death threat
3-27	West Virginians need their EQB (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
3-27	Patrick Mann: Wind power
3-27	Study sees sprouting of green power; In a decade, market may reach $100 billion a year
3-27	Geo-Greening by Example - New oil discoveries outpaced by increasing demand - Oil dependence can be solved with hybrid vehicles
3-27	Climate shift? It's just warming up - Global warming allows beetles to attack whitebark pines
3-27	Turning a coal mine into a tourist attraction
3-27	OVERWEIGHT TRUCK BILL
3-27	Illinois state attorney battles power plant construction
3-27	Mountain tourism is on the map (An OVEC staffer was invited to write a paragraph about Appalachia for this map.)
3-27	Energy research 'failing UK needs'
3-26	Support “Voter-Owned” Elections! - Campaign Finance Reform
3-26	Read the WV Environmental Council's Legislative Update and take action on WV government issues--TODAY!
3-26	Take Action with WVCAG: March Mineral Madness
3-26	Manchin government-redo bid looks dead
3-26	ATVs boost tourism in Harlan County
3-26	Industry Cites Effect of EPA Rule on WV Power Plants - N.H. toughens rules on mercury - Carper, Casle slam new EPA mercury regulation - New EPA 'Do-Nothing' Mercury Pollution Rules Dangerous to Public Health - Region's senators ask EPA to toughen mercury rules
3-26	Texas company (Harken!) will drill for coal bed methane gas in Evansville area
3-26	Is the 'End of Oil' on the horizon? - What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? - Despite high prices, Wyoming oil industry not booming
3-26	Ohio economy to get jolt from new power plant (As long as there is global warming, mercury, acid rain, mountaintop removal, longwall mining, 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.) - Power plant could have huge impact
3-26	Goldtooth: 'We only have one Mother Earth' - Health of Mother Earth is our responsibility
3-25	Extension of mine reclamation tax considered in House
3-25	Wallboard plant planned near Moundsville power plant
3-25	Mine reclamation advertising is fake (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
3-25	Mountain State is losing its hills (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
3-25	Blair Mountain crucial to history (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
3-25	Coal in a Nice Shade of Green (As long as there is global warming, mercury, acid rain, mountaintop removal, longwall mining, 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.) -The other side: ‘Clean’ coal doesn’t do much to protect environment
3-25	What Happens Once the Oil Runs Out?
3-25	UK nuclear energy: set for a comeback soon?
3-25	Emissions busters vie for billions; Market for pollution control equipment seen growing
3-25	Tech gets $12 million grant to research coal slurry uses
3-25	Kentucky county gets $50,000 to transform mines (land, which pre-mining, was a TRUE paradise) into off-road paradise - Harlan County gets grant for ATV tourism; ABANDONED MINING ROADS WILL BE DEVELOPED
3-25	Rendell unveils $60 million mining project for W. Pa.
3-25	It’s a great weekend to see film from Appalachia
3-25	Where is the 'morality' in Clear Skies Act? (letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
3-25	Estimates of greenhouse warming double
3-25	Hot air and global warming
3-25	Britain’s top climate scientist backs global warming claims
3-25	National Geographic puts Appalachia on the map (An OVEC staffer was invited to write a paragraph about Appalachia for this map.)
3-25	Energy Panel Broke Law, Groups Say
3-25	Bioheat gaining steam as home-heating option
3-25	Leupp residents want their share of C-aquifer
3-25	Eight killed, six injured in central China coal mine explosion - Safer Chinese coal mines a long way off
3-25	Experts Warn Ships May Bring Lake Invaders
3-24	W.Va. May get massive plant
3-24	Coal severance tax suit worries some officials
3-24	Coal wants taxes repaid; State could pay up to $500 million if companies win case
3-24	Massey turned visitors away (letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
3-24	Arianna Huffington: Paying the Price For Bush's Retro Energy Policy
3-24	Converting your car to straight veggie oil
3-24	Friends of Cheat not suing logging firm, member says
3-24	Law limiting mercury draws environmentalists’ ire
3-24	Judge refuses to close hearing in Wyoming coal-bed methane case
3-24	EU Leaders Drop 2050 Emissions Reduction Target
3-24	Call to demolish polluting homes
3-24	New Greenhouse Gas Reporting Guidance Issued
3-24	Climate change poorly understood by US public, MIT survey finds
3-24	Report: Rivers may get too hot for fish - Global warming spoiling unpopulated arctic, says study - 'Eternal snow' melts as temperatures rise
3-24	NASA Study Finds Soot May be Changing the Arctic Environment
3-24	Power answers blowing in the wind
3-24	EU Leaders Want Nuclear Fusion Agreement by July
3-23	Green Energy Seen as $100 Billion Market in Decade
3-23	Massey mine cited again for violating safety rules
3-23	The Capitol Report: Interim panel recommended no water changes
3-23	Senate panel approves request for turnpike coal truck waiver
3-23	Comp tries to speed up benefit process
3-23	Global warming: "Tragedy of the Commons" revisited
3-23	Mercury in Fish Linked to Increased Heart Disease - EPA Chided for Disregarding Study of Benefits from Mercury Curbs
3-23	Fly ash tests in Forward are negative - Arsenic levels prove normal
3-23	LTE: Industrial wind power is a fraud
3-23	Dozens of States Declare Support for Nuclear Power
3-23	'China boom unsustainable as eco-costs skyrocket'
3-23	China: Renewable energy given priority
3-23	Australia: Coal dust fears
3-23	Testing of 'clean coal' product under way (As long as there is global warming, mercury, acid rain, mountaintop removal, longwall mining, 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.)
3-23	Professor, Students Donate Website Proceeds to Renewable Energy Projects
3-22	Bush, industry seek reversal of mine ruling - Mountaintop mine permit ruling appealed
3-22	Raleigh judge upholds Massey permit suspension
3-22	New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data; Study Called Stricter Limits Cost-Effective
3-22	Revisiting the UMW cleanup
3-22	Bill could change elections in state (scroll down; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
3-22	The Fall of the 527: New legislation aims to rein in groups that can collect unregulated documents
3-22	Blankenship could have aided miners (scroll down; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
3-22	Christian obligation (scroll to bottom; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
3-22	Goal: Make abundant coal clean (As long as there is global warming, mercury, acid rain, mountaintop removal, longwall mining, 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.) - AEP proposes clean coal plant in Ohio
3-22	47 state sites land on cultural tourism map (An OVEC staffer has an 100-word blurb about Appalachia on this map!)
3-22	Comment is allowed on sludge proposal; Tennessee sewage may go to Hopkins
3-22	Arch Coal upgraded to "buy" - update
3-22	Building green to save green - Greening Affordable Housing
3-22	Goldman Sachs To Buy Wind-Power Development Firm
3-22	U.N.: Nuclear Energy May Be Back in Vogue
3-22	Global warming could trigger ant invasions
3-22	Britain Off Course on Domestic CO2 Emissions Targets
3-21	MSHA chief sought industry job for 6 months
3-21	Cecil Roberts: Massey’s poor safety record speaks louder than hype
3-21	Permits reissued for DuPont landfill in Wood County; DEP refuses to limit discharges of chemical C8, not covered by pollution rules
3-21	Group battles plan to log in Cheat River Canyon - W.Va. state parks boast colorful history
3-21	EPA AIR POLLUTION SETTLEMENT WITH OHIO UTILITY SHOWS ENFORCING THE LAW WORKS, SAYS NRDC; Polluters Continue to Lobby Feds to Drop Remaining Clean Air Act Enforcement Cases - Emission cuts suffer setback
3-21	The biggest challenge of our time; The Kyoto treaty makes a step towards reducing greenhouse emissions, but it's far from enough
3-21	Former state Sen. Mike Ross and coal
3-21	Horses thriving in Appalachia on pastures that were once mountaintop mines (The most biologically diverse temperate forests on Earth are decimated and biodiversity is lost forever. Is creating horse pastures for rich people an acceptable reason for destroying communities and the vital ecosystems service provided for all by intact forested mountains?)- Mountains get new industry
3-21	Saving the life aquatic: The effects of overfishing and climate change are taking a dire toll
3-21	Iraq invasion may be remembered as start of the age of oil scarcity; Production tumbles in post-Hussein era as more countries vie for shrinking supplies
3-21	Planned Illinois coal plant could cast haze over refuge
3-21	Carrying coal from new castles
3-21	Modest experiment in methane gas production
3-21	Report: Renewable energy equals jobs - Baldacci backs far-reaching energy measures
3-21	Sustainable Development: Heading in the right direction?
3-21	Britain expects more cooperation with China on renewable energy
3-21	Renewable energy--Every source leaves a footprint
3-20	Miners’ insurance about to expire
3-20	An ex-miner, but still killed by coal; MINISTER'S DEATH IN CRASH ILLUSTRATES DANGERS OF OVERLOADED TRUCKS
3-20	Anti-war rally - Some 100,000 to Protest in London Two Years after Iraq Invasion
3-20	Many oppose Consol project (scroll down; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
3-20	The Money Behind the Debate Over Drilling in ANWR
3-20	Death toll rises to 59 in Shanxi coal mine blast
3-20	Proposed Idaho power plant triggers heated exchange at meeting - Polk Champions Clean Coal; County Houses One of the World's Only Power Plants Capable of Gasfication
3-20	ONGC, HPCL, REL bet big on wind energy
3-19	Take Part TODAY! Rallies to Mark War Anniversary - Interview with WVPFP's Lida Shepherd - Soldiers' Families to Hold Anti-War Rally at Ft. Bragg - IVAW Statement on the Second Anniversary of the Iraq War
3-19	Global Warming to affect millions this century - Reports say Global Warming is here for real - Global Warming Could Decimate Crops - Shareholder Pressure Gets Results on Global Warming - Global Warming Fatal For Coming Generation - A sobering projection on sea-level rise - Global warming here to stay
3-19	Massey to appeal verdict, calls $50 million unjustified
3-19	Power Plant That Pollutes Northeast Agrees to Cut Emissions - FirstEnergy settles clean-air lawsuit for $1.1 billion
3-19	Fly ash slide in Forward declared safe - Toxic Sludge is Good for You!
3-19	Acid Rain Stunts Eastern Forests
3-19	Stinky sewage sludge may be shipped to W. Kentucky, used to help "reclaim" strip-mined land
3-19	Open records laws vital part of free society
3-19	Senator Pledges Fight in Energy Committee - Senate Nod to Arctic Oil Drilling Stiffens Opposition
3-19	Shanks Named President of Arch Coal's Eastern Operations
3-19	AEP Ohio Seeks Cost-Recovery Means for Proposed Clean-Coal Plan (Read: Your money used to prop up dinosaur, deadly industry disguised as bright new "clean" technology)
3-19	The mercury mess - In the mercury hot spot - Mercurial Rulemaking
3-19	Greens call for sustainability criteria to be applied to hydrogen economy
3-19	City's green-energy aspirations start with tiny turbine - Replacing your electric supplier with windmill isn’t good idea for some
3-19	Peabody buys Illinois, Indiana coal reserves for $61 million
3-19	China Coal Mine Blast Kills 17 Miners
3-19	Deforestation blamed for worsening Thailand drought (Mountaintop removal is permanent deforestation!)
3-18	Fate of Campaign Finance Reforms Rests with Senate Judiciary
3-18	‘Clean’ coal doesn’t do much to protect environment
3-18	Check out the facts before issuing praise (scroll down; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
3-18	No Stopping Global Warming, Studies Predict - Climate change inevitable in 21st century; Sea level rise to outpace temperature increase - Oceans extend effects of climate change - Global warming has momentum, 2 studies show - Climate Models Reveal Inevitability of Global Warming - How to prepare a planet for global warming
3-18	Study Links Mercury from Power Plants to Autism - Mercury Pollution, Autism Link Found - US Study
3-18	Too little, too slow - Act quickly on reducing mercury - Mercury's new friends - Rule change puts babies in the womb at risk - Mercury Rule Analysis Questioned
3-18	Coal fly ash can contain poisonous metals - Pa. DEP: No Fly Ash Dangers in Forward Twp
3-18	Secrecy hasn’t risen, state agencies say - Public has right to voice opinions in open meetings
3-18	Tourism conference to focus on creating, marketing packages
3-18	Massey To Appeal Multi-Billion Verdict
3-18	International Coal Group Appoints Ben Hatfield as CEO
3-18	High-tech review boosts Consol's coal reserves in W.Va.
3-18	Get ‘On the road again’ with Nelson’s new biodiesel - German Biofuel Firms to Become Large Grain Buyers - UK Biodiesel Plant With Tesco Backing Gets Go-Ahead
3-18	Americans See Fuel Efficient Cars as "Patriotic"
3-18	$53 Billion in New Investment Required to Meet U.S. Renewable State Standards
3-18	Toxic coal tar residue cleanup plan unveiled; poison leftover from plant that converted coal to gas - State Asks Utility To Clean Up Hudson River
3-18	China acts on coal mining safety - Explosion in Chinese coal mine kills 18
3-18	China could transform global market in renewables
3-18	Renewables May Have Minor Impact on GHG Emissions, Says Oxford Study - Biomass - Moving Higher Up The Renewables List?
3-17	Verdict against Massey upheld; Lincoln judge rules company must pay $63 million in suit
3-17	Mercury plan reverses other chemical cuts
3-17	Mercury, Coal and Bush, Oh My - Our Preferred Poison: A little mercury is all that humans need to do away with themselves quietly, slowly, and surely - Rule Leaves Millions at Risk
3-17	Could cuts in emissions come faster?
3-17	AEP files W.Va. paperwork for clean-coal power 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.) - Another coal conversion plant considered - U.S Energy Department Announces $62.4M in "Clean Coal" R&D Awards - Environmentally safer catalyst proves more active in hydrogen production
3-17	Programs, pending legislation demand open government
3-17	Senate Votes to Allow Drilling in Arctic Reserve - Effort to Protect the Arctic Refuge Has Only Just Begun - Arctic Drilling Vote "Strengthens Our Resolve" - The Arctic Refuge and Public Are About to Get Drilled - FACTBOX-Key Facts About ANWR's Land, Oil, Wildlife
3-17	COAL STRIP MINING PERMITS MAY GET EASIER, FASTER
3-17	Saving the world: Environment a just cause for evangelicals
3-17	First Hydrogen Car For Sale in 2012 - Daimlerchrysler
3-17	World Solar Industry Growth Jumped 70 Pct In 2004
3-17	Muhlenberg power plant spurs suit; Pollution threats to Mammoth Cave cited
3-17	Battling the Toxicity of Coal-Burning Power Plants
3-17	Study Suggests Link Between Environmental Mercury, Autism
3-17	Save climate, save money - Row over climate 'hockey stick' - Global warming may dry up economies too
3-17	Stark Effects From Global Warming
3-17	CONSOL Energy Reports Increase in Coal Reserves - Coal producer sees profit rise - Massey May I Think I've Got Something to Say...
3-16	EPA caps mercury emissions; Regulation leaves some plants exempt - EPA's mercury regulations raising a ruckus - EPA Power Plant Rule Fails to Protect Public Health; Pollution limits for mercury lower than Clean Air Act requires - Bush Administration Mercury Rule Another Payback to Big Energy - Today show report on controversial mercury rules ignored criticism - EPA's new mercury limits not enough, critics say - Critics assail rules on mercury - Kentucky environmentalists criticize mercury rule - Environmentalists See Promise, Peril in New EPA Regulations
3-16	New Jersey Will Sue EPA Over New Mercury Rule - Pa., others oppose new mercury rules
3-16	Board sends new comp rules to secretary of state
3-16	DuPont agrees to reduce C8 emissions
3-16	Cecil Roberts in Washington Post: China's Deadly Mines (We are appalled by the death-rate of Chinese miners. But we are appalled, too, by the premature death rate from coal-related pollution here, the poisoning of infants from mercury emitted by coal burning, the deaths and property damage from mountaintop removal -related floods, etc, etc. ad nasuem.) - Asian coal use contaminating northern Pacific
3-16	Turnpike seeks fee to allow coal trucks
3-16	Ross didn’t benefit from vote, hearing examiner says; Former state senator facing ethics complaint
3-16	Save refuge: Drilling won't cure lack
3-16	The best disinfectant
3-16	Coal-to-diesel plant gets boost from Arch Coal
3-16	Early test results at site of ash slide not cause for alarm
3-16	Cleaning up coal (..is not possible until mountaintop removal is banned and industry campaign contributions to politicians and judges are controlled.)
3-16	CONSOL sees bright future for coal (...for coal barons, that is.)
3-16	Climate Change Is Called Economic Threat at Talks - Economy 'needs healthy climate' - Global warming threat central to policy-Britain - Ministers from 20 countries meet in London to discuss climate change
3-16	Carbon sinks and reforestation
3-16	Mount Kilimanjaro without snow - STATE FORESTS FACE CHANGES WITH GLOBAL WARMING
3-15	Julian Martin: WV Power
3-15	Environmentalists seek ruling in Kentucky fill case
3-15	Appalachia has tourism hopes in map; Commission promotes region to world with map of sites for visitors
3-15	Senator’s water-regulation bill questions unanswered
3-15	Showdown Vote Approaches on Arctic Drilling; Bush may soon achieve his energy exploration goal as the GOP adds the measure to a budget bill - Bush pushes Alaska oil exploration plan with revived energy bill - Senators: Vote No on refuge oil drilling
3-15	Breaking the Oil Addiction
3-15	Mercury Emissions To Be Traded; EPA Criticized On Pollution Rule - Proposed EPA Mercury Rule Leads World in Wrong Direction - Little result expected from mercury rules - EPA Issuing New Mercury Pollution Rules
3-15	Government must be open to public
3-15	Ireland backs optical scan systems for state voting; Under proposal, counties to receive free setup
3-15	Court Dismisses Lawsuit against Arizona Clean Elections Law - McCain, Feingold File Brief Condemning FEC's Soft Money Regs
3-15	Virginia coal in New York financial spotlight (Time for the true costs of coal to be calculated and featured in the national spotlight.)
3-15	Silver From Asian Coal Burning Pollutes North Pacific
3-15	Coal Mine 'Under the Radar' Stirs Cross-Border Feud
3-15	UGA Researcher's Technique Advances Science, Limits Animal Sacrifice
3-15	Renewable energy could spark 43,000 jobs - 'GREEN' POWER COULD ENERGIZE JOBS - DFL bill would accelerate use of home-grown energy sources - Clean energy fund poised to invest - Solar energy efforts heat up - London Takes Centre Stage with Clean Technologies
3-15	Minnesota Bill Could Revoke Coal Plant Grant
3-15	THE DARK SIDE OF BRIGHT LIGHTS
3-15	'Tree-Power' Could be Future Energy Source
3-15	Energy giant reveals study into £40m offshore wind farm project
3-15	Power Producers Seek Latest Models of Nuclear Reactors - Duke Power May Seek to Build Nuclear Plant - Nuclear industry shows signs of revival
3-15	Photos Show Climate Change As Ministers Meet In UK - Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up Call for Action Against Global Warming - Europe Seeks Ideas on Cutting Aircraft Climate Impact
3-15	China: 16 miners dead in Heilongjiang coal mine blast - Safe stoves to help curb a disease
3-14	Aspiring singers must know just one song for gig
3-14	Electronic Voting: The sun revolves around the Earth and George W. Bush won the election in Ohio
3-14	A Technology to Save the Planet - We could solve our energy problems in 10 years - London Takes Centre Stage with Clean Technologies
3-14	Freedom of information--Clampdown on info had started years before 9/11 - Across U.S., Citizens Fight for Records
3-14	Newsman says dissent stifled; BOB EDWARDS SAYS CURRENT PERIOD LIKE MCCARTHY ERA
3-14	Southern W.Va. was once paradise (letters to the editors are great tools--use them!) - Tonnage and employment (scroll down)
3-14	Super credits waning
3-14	Bush to Permit Trading of Credits to Limit Mercury - Mercury taints mountains - Mercury Falling and Rising - Clearing the air
3-14	Air pollution from other countries drifts into USA
3-14	Clean coal: Boon or bane?
3-14	Blood and coal: the human cost of cheap Chinese goods
3-14	Floods, drought are feared as Himalayan glaciers thaw - Himalaya glaciers receding fast due to warming-WWF - Himalayan glaciers 'melting fast' - Water shortages loom as glaciers melt - Water crisis fear as glaciers melt - SE Asia sounds alarm over worst drought in decades
3-14	UK Backs Off In CO2 Row But Takes Legal Action
3-13	A different tack on mercury; Group’s petition seeks tougher limits in West Virginia water
3-13	Fish eaters suffer ill effects of mercury - Blocking the tailpipe aimed at Maine
3-13	Charleston Gazette: Groups use sunshine laws to probe coal industry - Also in the Herald Dispatch
3-13	Ken Ward Jr.: Media needs to stand up for right to know - Public needs to know what government is doing
3-13	Open government fight includes ‘regular guys’ - Poll: 7 in 10 Worried About Gov't Secrecy - Local students know their rights
3-13	Text of West Virginia open meeting law - Text of West Virginia Freedom of Information law
3-13	New study shows open government at stake at state level
3-13	Demand for Public Information Is Surging
3-13	Landslide covers road near Welch
3-13	Protect E. Ky. lives, roads from overweight trucks - Wonders never cease, but keep a stake handy in case truck bill rises from the dead
3-13	Coal at the crossroads: Once a staple of Illinois' economy, industry now victim of a stalemate - Activists, companies clash over coal's fate - SIUC continues research in cleaner coal technology - Lawmakers walk a thin line on coal issue
3-13	Renewable energy a smart deal - GreenUp offering awards for towns - Australia RE Firm Taps Scottish Wind Potential
3-13	Running on Empty
3-12	Coal truck-pickup collision kills one
3-12	Environmental Quality Board (EQB) and Clean Water
3-12	WV Legislature--Take Action: Bottle Bill Needs Your Calls! - The Assault on EQB Continues Please call --we must save the EQB!
3-12	School’s in and S is for Sludge
3-12	Judy Bonds: Essay in "The Appalachians" - Vivian Stockman: Essay in "The Appalachians"
3-12 LIES	Walker Machinery Co. president: Coal indispensable to the economy of West Virginia (OK, economy boy, let's have a full accounting of all the externalized costs the coal industry passes on to the people of this state and nation--the deadly floods, the poisoned children, the polluted water, the lost ecosystem services, the lost communities, black lung, retirement-cheated miners, rising asthma, early mortality, the corruption of the political process, potentially catastrophic global warming, etc., ad naseum. "Cleaner and greener?" That propaganda smells, even to the most mercury-laden brain!)
3-12	Clearer Skies - Clear Skies Initiative: Senate panel was right to block pointless legislation - EPA's smelly policies: On mercury and water treatment, the federal government disappoints
3-12	'Hard evidence of climate changes' emerges in northeast US - Evidence compounds to affirm threat of global 'heating' - In pictures: How the world is changing
3-12	Kyoto Credits System Aids the Rich, Some Say - Industry fury as Beckett retreats over UK carbon allowances - Britain fights greenhouse gas cuts
3-12	Crop warning sounded on gas emissions
3-12	'I Have a Nightmare' - Is Environmentalism Dead, Or Are You Just Stupid?
3-12	'Lose their retirement savings'
3-12	Analysis: Bush energy plan future cloudy
3-12	Window-dressing the EPA
3-12	Massachusetts sues EPA over upcoming mercury rule - Dangerous air - High levels of mercury found in mountain songbirds
3-12	Incineration: dangers that lurk in fly ash
3-12	Green energy creates N.Y. jobs; Comptroller says increased use of renewable energy could create 43,000 jobs - Hevesi links renewable energy, jobs
3-12	Online Forum: Editors on the Future of Energy
3-12	Wave of the future? - Half MW Solar Energy Project for Water Utility - California Utility OKs Renewable Energy Projects - Renewable energy, green building funds show Harvard's commitment
3-12	Bush still on wasteful energy path
3-11	Breathing woes in Pennsylvania towns: Physician says airborne fly ash is a likely cause
3-11	Aluminum study gets OK from board
3-11	Blair Mountain meeting set for March 18 (scroll down)
3-11	State OKs Mingo contract; Consolidated school plans were on ice
3-11	Letters signal end of pipeline; Options to expire on property for 280-mile natural gas line
3-11	EPA to cut WV smog by 78%; Agency finalizes Clear Skies backup rule with 2015 as goal - Environmentalists win two - E.P.A. Sets Rules to Cut Pollution - Electric utilities with coal power plants facing cost burden - EPA: Coal-burning sites must pollute less by 2015 - EPA Enacts Long-Awaited Rule To Improve Air Quality, Health
3-11	Mercury Rising? - Controversy Continues Over EPA Mercury Standards - High Levels of Mercury Found in Vt. Birds
3-11	THE APPALACHIANS
3-11	Defendants dispute negligence in fatal Virginia mine accident
3-11	Suing the Climate Changers
3-11	Evangelical Leaders Find Biblical Imperatives to Combat Global Warming
3-11	Clean energy creates jobs, boosts state's economy - Hevesi touts benefits of renewable energy sources - In first month, 'green power' is catching on
3-11	Nanoscience solutions for energy technologies advocated
3-11	China coal mine blast kills 16
3-10	Raising the Bar: Checking in on Mountain Justice Summer - "If it looks ugly; it's probably bad"
3-10	DEP won’t protect water resources (letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
3-10	In Ohio, Bush stresses coal use; President says in Columbus technology needed for clean burning to reduce oil demand - Bush Makes Renewed Push for Strategy on Energy - Bush pushes energy ideas during visit to Columbus
3-10	Bush-Backed Emissions Bill Fails to Reach Senate Floor - 'Clear Skies' Bill Stalls in Senate; EPA to Issue Air Pollutions Rules Today, Next Week - Senate Panel Deadlocks Over Pollution Bill
3-10	New U.S. Rule Resets Limits on Soot, Smog
3-10	Mercury On My Mind - New study makes argument for stronger mercury rules
3-10	Bush EPA nominee Steve Johnson garners praise and sympathy - Politics likely to fuel policy under new EPA chief
3-10	Evangelical Leaders Swing Influence Behind Effort to Combat Global Warming
3-10	Dead in its tracks: Ky. truck bill's gone, but danger still on roads - Big city concerns doomed truck bill
3-10	Kyoto Protocol Spurs Race to Develop Fuel Cells
3-10	Houston-Based DKRW Energy LLC and Arch Coal Sign Coal Option Agreement for 33,000-Barrel-Per-Day Wyoming Coal-to-Liquids Facility - Coal Gasification Plant Proposed For Eastern Idaho
3-10	'Dirt house' South Africa harming itself with coal
3-10	Poland Weighing Legal Options on EU Emissions
3-9	Coal promoter hails higher coal output hailed as crucial to state finances (Raney ignores the huge externalized costs of coal on current and future generations)
3-9	Bush Mercury Plan Rests on Flawed Analysis - Bush visiting Ohio to tout "clean coal" efforts - Bush speaks in Columbus today to push energy, clean-air bills (More mercury anyone? 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.) - Trouble seen in levels of mercury; Studies find widespread contaminants in fish and wildlife - Mercury study identifies hot spots and problems for inland birds
3-9	Massey firm cited for repeated illegal blasting
3-9	Woman makes environmental movement move (along with all of you!)
3-9	Buffalo Creek Disaster and American Minor
3-9	Public meeting on Coalfields Expressway set for March 17
3-9	Slippery slope: Landslide at steep reclaimed strip-mine site brings reclamation problems into forefront -
3-9	Coal truck in wreck well above weight limit; Family mourns minister's death
3-9	Public’s safety is top priority in truck debate - 40-ton load limit sustained - 60-ton loads won't be allowed - Kentucky House rejects raising truck weight limits - Senate OKs allowing coal truck limit for other loads
3-9	ENTERTAINMENT / MARI-LYNN EVANS / PRODUCER OF "THE APPALACHIANS"
3-9	House passes tighter regulations for ginseng harvesting (but mountaintop removal coal companies can forever destroy ginseng habitat, no problem)
3-9	Arch Coal to take $9.9 million charge on management-incentive plan
3-9	Plateau Action Network to hold fund-raiser
3-9	Ethics Complaint Vs. Alaska Ex - AG Dropped
3-9	UK Acts to Unlock Scottish Green Power Potential
3-9	New Report Outlines Great Lakes Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
3-8	Logan meeting planned on Blair historic status (OVEC is an active member of the Friends of the Mountains coalition)
3-8	Justices let stand miner benefit ruling - High court won't hear Brink's case
3-8	Tucker park idea upsets senator
3-8	Inez man hit by overloaded coal truck dies
3-8	Hit the brakes on HB8 - Opponents try to stall overweight truck bill
3-8	Utility to Spend $500 Million on Cleanup - Dynegy to Spend $545M on Clean - Air Charges
3-8	GAO: EPA slanted mercury analysis to favor Bush plan
3-8	EU to Start on Nuclear Fusion Reactor by End-Year
3-8	Bush undermining bid to reverse global warming: scientist - Bush accused of 'fiddling while world burns' by ignoring climate change
3-8	Journalist puts global warming sceptics under the spotlight
3-8	Higher levels of mercury seen polluting Boston region
3-8	Allocating Pollution: Power generators are split over how emission allowances should get divvied up
3-7	Criminalizing Environmental Protests: The State of Oregon vs. Mike Roselle
3-7	Sunshine: Open government
3-7	Manchin reverses course on water rulemaking bill; Bill would switch power to DEP, give industry a win
3-7	Profile: Delegate Cliff Moore
3-7	Debate key to Comp changes, McCabe says
3-7	Mingo takeover about money (scroll down; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
3-7	Tourism blazing a Trail - Southern lawmakers want more tourism bucks
3-7	Safety of fly ash fill comes under scrutiny - Air to be monitored for metals, arsenic
3-7	Pa. represents biggest part of $8.6-billion cleanup tab; President Bush backs Sen. Specter’s funding proposal - Tragedy often strikes at old mining sites; But which are priorities for limited cleanup funds? - Reclamation series Part III
3-7	Virginia region launches effort launched to land power plant
3-7	Supreme Court sides with Wyoming on coal-bed methane taxes
3-7	Pollution hurts economy and health
3-7	Deadline set for Clear Skies Act vote - Mercury hurts children most
3-7	Protecting Campaign Coffers, Not Nature
3-7	Make climate change a policy principle - or drown in debt -Denmark to Push for Ambitious EU Emissions Goals
3-7	Bush's EPA pop quiz: 'Do you believe global warming is a myth?' - Baker Breaks Ranks on Global Warming
3-7	Consumption of local food helps cut CO2 emissions
3-7	Scientists says rapidly melting ice caps prove global warming is real
3-6	Both sides hope for answers on C8
3-6	‘Bottle bill’ can fight litter and create jobs (scroll down; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
3-6	Coal heritage grants help foster economic change in region
3-6	Will White House Allow New E.P.A. Chief to Protect Environment and Public Health?
3-6	Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: For the Sake of Our Children
3-6	Bush looks to reshape power-plant rules
3-6	Region waiting to reclaim scarred land, but funding system is ‘poorly administered’
3-6	Lyon court requests recertification for Ky. coal highway
3-6	CLEAR SKIES ACT IS BAD FOR ILLINOIS COAL
3-6	'Denial lobby' turns up the heat: The vocal minority sceptical of the threat of global warming are now targeting the UK, writes Conal Walsh - No deadlock on global warming outside Beltway
3-6	Global warming: More than a drop in the ocean
3-6	China earmarks $6.1 bln to boost mine safety
3-6	Difficult issues have to be solved before China renewable energy law takes effect
3-5	Support Urged For Voter-Owned Elections!
3-5	Flood Cases Finally Going to Trial; Judges Will Split Up Lawsuits According to Watershed Areas
3-5	Mining hasn’t gotten safer since disaster (Letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
3-5	DEP to launch first-ever water-use survey (The impetus for this initiative can be traced back to one dogged and informed individual. Way to go R.E.!)
3-5	Growing concerns stall Kentucky trucking bill - Veto the hauling bill
3-5	Bush selects Steve Johnson to head EPA - President Taps Stephen Johnson as Next EPA Administrator - E.P.A. Scientist Is Bush's Pick as New Chief - Scientist Named To Head The EPA
3-5	Backup Plan Is in the Works for 'Clear Skies'; With the Clean Air Act overhaul stalling again in the Senate, the White House prepares to use other means to change power plant regulations - New pollution rules would preempt 'Clear Skies' - Leave Clean Air Act alone, Baldacci says - Rebuff to 'Clear Skies'
3-5	Power expects 3,500 a night
3-5	Second Atlanta developer wants to build in Fayette
3-5	Mingo school board, county residents sue state board
3-5	Renewable energy use still hampered
3-5	China: Changing views change climate
3-4	Aluminum committee told to meet in public
3-4	A narrow miss: 100-ton boulder nearly flattens Georges Creek house
3-4	Hills not filled with sound of music
3-4	Don L. Blankenship: UMW president’s claims false (barf bag anyone?)
3-4	Judge allows Zeb Mountain, Tennessee mining to proceed - Judge allows Zeb Mountain mining to proceed
3-4	Robot leads way into fiery eastern Kentucky coal mine - Industry turns to robot to inspect potentially dangerous coal mines
3-4	Damaging truck bill - Panel rushes out truck bill with no word from public - Motive transparent (scroll down for this letter to the editor)
3-4	Owner of jobs agencies indicted
3-4	Forests could be key to curbing global warming (Another way mountaintop removal is an ecological disaster.)
3-4	U.S. Must Address Global Warming, Bush Ally Says - Baker's warning on global warming
3-4	Arctic Lakes Show Signs of Global Warming - Global warming debate is over, UW prof says
3-4	Philippine Archbishop on coal plants: People's future at stake
3-4	Scotland: Decline of Old King Coal
3-4	China trying to move away from reliance on coal - Capital waves goodbye to polluting plants
3-3	Water quality board pick pushed weaker rules
3-3	House panel approves millions for Southern W.Va. roads
3-3	Log, coal trucks to abide by similar weight limits under W. Va. bill
3-3	Public input on trucking bill unlikely; Hearing canceled: E. Kentuckians go unheard - Another ugly mark on truck weight bill - Shove bill into path of speeding gravel truck
3-3	Arch Coal Earns West Virginia's Top Environmental Award for Fourth Consecutive Year (Gag me!)
3-3	Study reviews stream damage from longwall mining; 115 miles along 22 streams affected in Pennsylvania - Mining report released - DEP releases study on mining subsidence -
3-3	Coal: The new black gold (Yeah, you make money by externalizing costs; we and our children pay a heavy toll--our forests, our streams, our homes, our health, our future.)
3-3	Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) Announces Two-for-One Stock Split
3-3	Mercury on the rise - No end in sight for toxic pollution
3-3	Clean air reform for N.Y. if not in U.S.
3-3	New Alternatives Seeks Returns In Clean Energy - Renewable Energy Gathers Under One Roof, One Vision - Being energy efficient saves money and the environment
3-3	Explosion in Chinese coal-mining town kills at least 20 schoolchildren
3-3	China signals urgency in easing danger of mines - Greenpeace hails China's first renewable energy law
3-3	India Eyes Role As Big Seller of Pollution Credits - UK Refuses To Budge in EU Spat Over Carbon Trade
3-3	New Zealand: Power protests could prove disastrous - Govt backs renewable energy sources
3-2	Judy Bonds and Bo Webb interviewed on The Progressive Voice of the Mountains (Click on February 28, 2005 entry)
3-2	Coal industry running state aluminum study
3-2	Manchin wants government to safeguard coal; W.Va. governor seeks imported coal tariffs next time prices plummet (Manchin wants to protect the industry, but will he protect the people who are under assault from mountaintop removers?)
3-2	Chesapeake coal traffic in Congress; Capito to introduce bill to allow giant trucks to detour on I-64/77
3-2	Hollows will wash away after mining (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
3-2	'West Virginia Hills' song will have to be rewritten (great letter to the editor; a note about the LTE below this one--follow link--ending mountaintop removal does not mean giving up electricity.)
3-2	Workers’ Comp changes begin with new officer, staff transfers
3-2	Audubon Magazine / Ted Williams: That Sinking Feeling-- In coal country, longwall mining is causing the ground to cave in as much as five feet--leaving fish, wildlife, and people as waste products
3-2	U.S. needs wind power today more than ever
3-2	CLEAR SKIES ACT DELAYED AGAIN - US Senate Panel Delays Emissions Vote Again - 'Clear Skies' loophole could exempt 894 sites from cutting emissions
3-2	Kentucky mineral-hauling bill a weighty issue; Critics say raising limit may hurt roads - Senate panel will examine bill to raise hauling limits - Heavy trucks could enter cities - Crusader warns of consequences of higher truck weight limits - Truck weight limits
3-2	First Ky. coal-burning power plant in 15 years ready to fire up - Coal fires up Kentucky plant (As long as there is mountaintop removal, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
3-2	Pa. mine shuts down again, blames DEP regulations - Maple Creek mine shut down - PA DEP Secretary Disputes Maple Creek Mining's Claims That Regulatory Decisions Forced Closure of High Quality Mine
3-2	China fuels energy cold war
3-2	Good fish, bad fish
3-2	Boiler MACT Rules Heat Up
3-2	UNEP's Governing Council Goes Tough On Heavy Metals
3-2	U.S. companies face more global-warming proxy votes
3-2	Campaign to tackle climate change - 100 World Cities in UK Climate Rescue Drive - Experts point the way ahead for Kyoto-II deal
3-2	Traders Predict Market in Trading Carbon
3-2	China approves renewable energy law to cut emissions
3-2	South Africa Approves First Commercial Windfarm
3-1	Public-funded elections bill advances (OVEC coordinates Citizens for Clean Elections)
3-1	Manchin proposes future tariffs on imported coal when prices drop
3-1	Tourism industry the 'wave of the future,' study shows (If Gov. Manchin and the DEP have their way, then eco-disaster tours will be our prime attraction!)
3-1	Judge approves DuPont settlement; Company agrees to pay at least $107.6 million over use of chemical C8 - Judge Approves $107.6 Million Settlement against DuPont over Alleged Poisoning of Water
3-1	New WVU Tech president, wife bring hope to campus
3-1	Bailey wants flood coverage spelled out - State debates helping uninsured in flooding (But do the legislators mention the role of global warming in increased flooding? The role of mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining in the yearly floods in the southern part of West Virginia? No-o!)
3-1	Businessman pleads guilty to kickbacks for contracts; ‘Pork Chop’ Booth admits giving cash, gifts to state official
3-1	Texas Lawmakers Team with Environmentalists To Push Wind, Solar Energy - Greenpeace Urges World Bank, ADB to Shift Funding to Renewable Energy - Anti Wind Farm Report Dismissed
3-1	Report Proposes Aggressive Plan to Regain U.S. Leadership in Multi-Billion Dollar Solar PV Market
3-1	Politics pits Montana coal against Wyo coal
3-1	Exxon Mobil Says Energy Demand Will Rise
3-1	Pact to curb mercury is rejected - Countries reject global mercury treaty
3-1	Mercury pollution costs $8.7 billion for each year's children - Study: mercury costs billions in lost productivity - Study: Mercury hurts IQ of hundreds of thousands of children annually - Mercury Damage to Babies Costs Billions, Study Says
3-1	The GOP’s science on mercury is out of this world
3-1	Energy Strategy For Illinois - Illinois Governor seeks to cut air emissions
3-1	Global coal crisis warning - China looks to renewable power - Chinese Legislature Passes Renewable Energy Law
3-1	Big biz warms up to climate change - Cooperation in the Air
3-1	Global Warming Sparks Plankton Migration - Global warming clear to experts
3-1	Traders Gather for Conference on the World's Newest Trading Commodity: Pollution
3-1	Total log ban mulled in 13 Philippine regions (Why? Because the government recognizes that large-scale deforestation--known here as mountaintop removal-- heavily contributes to deadly flooding.)

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