(Mar)  Archive - April, 2005  (May)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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4-30	Catharine Pancake's documentary--Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & the Battle for Coalfield Justice (see tenth paragraph and on)
4-30	Massey Energy says transportation key to coal deliveries - Massey Energy's income up - Massey Energy Results Beat Street View
4-30	Shortage of mammoth tires worries coal operators, others -  Tire shortage dogs Wyoming coal, construction
4-30	CSX, Burlington Northern Post Profit Surges
4-30	Energy Follies
4-30	What California Can Do to Create a Thriving, Self-Sufficient Residential Solar Market
4-30	Brazil's Fledgling Biodiesel Industry Takes Off
4-30	Responding to China's Power Surge
4-30	Coal, the most expensive fuel
4-30	Internal EPA study finds higher benefits from curbing mercury pollution - Midwest coalition lobbies for tougher mercury regulations
4-30	International Coal Group Wants to Go Public
4-30	Through the Cracks: Company miners not helped by provisions for UMW
4-30	Robots 'confirm' global warming - Climate change could be fatal to global crop yield
4-30	'Ice man' Blair feels Green heat
4-30	Scots 'support' climate crackdown
4-30	The Ticking Time Bomb Called Peak Oil
4-30	D.C. Reps. Call for Renewable Energy Budget Increases - Konarka Goes Where the Solar Is - Renewable energy request generating strong response - PG&E adds 158 megawatts of wind energy to portfolio - The discord between supply and retail demand is limiting the commercial viability of green energy
4-30	Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: International and Comparative Perspectives
4-29	Blair Mountain really should be saved
4-29	Global warming 'proof' detected - Data From Space, Oceans Validate Global Warming Timeline - Global warming rate discovered - Scientists confirm Earth's energy is out of balance - GLOBAL-WARMING 'SMOKING GUN'
4-29	EPA Releases Mercury Pollution Report
4-29	Mine cleanup work lacked safety approval
4-29	Mingo County dirt track project to seek federal funding (Just another way taxpayers pay for MTR!)
4-29	U.S. air pollution down, report says; Kanawha among six state counties with failing grade from Lung Association
4-29	34 workers died in West Virginia last year
4-29	Mountaintop mining leaves land scarred (letters to the editor are great tools--use them!) - Greed prevails (scroll down)
4-29	Pocket-Sized Nuclear Fusion a Reality
4-29	‘Hydrogen office’ on the way
4-29	Alternative Energy That Doesn’t Stink
4-29	World Day of Remembrance: How many lives does the coal cost?
4-29	Bush Is Blowing Smoke on Energy - Bush Calls for Development of More Nuclear Power - Text of Bush's Press Conference - Part I
4-29	Plan to phase out coal won't drain power, McGuinty vows as Lakeview closes
4-29	International Coal Group files for IPO
4-29	Explosion in Chinese coal mine traps 29 miners - Latest China mine blast traps 26 underground
4-29	Scrip collectors keep 'tragically romantic image' of coins alive
4-28	W.Va. needs more wealth (How about fairly taxing the coal reserves controlled by out-of-state corporations?)
4-28	The first — and last — campaigns of Warren McGraw captured in twin documentaries
4-28	Wheeling-Pitt sues Massey subsidiary over coal contract
4-28	West Virginia shift
4-28	Land giveaway isn’t easy
4-28	W.Va. residents' state tax burden 19th highest in country (yet coal reserves and corporate land holdings are exceedingly under-taxed)
4-28	Books detail history of Blair Mountain
4-28	Act now to curb bully lobbyists
4-28	Celebrating Appalachia's culture
4-28	Complaints about dirty Appy streets continue
4-28	Bushes pushes energy strategy (read: energy tragedy) - Bush Offers Plan to Bolster Refineries and Nuclear Plants - Bush Wants Refineries at Ex-Defense Bases - Bush Plan to Tackle Energy Costs' 'Root Causes,' Officials Say (One root cause: blind, eco-cidal greed) - Bush Touts Technology to Solve Energy Woes - Bush Unveils Energy Proposals; Industry Analysts Question Whether Initiatives Would Help
4-28	Researchers Say They Achieved Nuclear Fusion in Tabletop Experiment - Itty-Bitty and Shrinking, Fusion Device Has Big Ideas
4-28	New Study Confirms Benefits Of Replacing Coal-Fired Electricity In Ontario; Health And Environmental Damages Significantly Increase Costs To Province - Coal power expensive, costs lives: Ont.
4-28	Coal is the most expensive fuel
4-28	The True Cost of Coal
4-28	U.S. businesses starting to see need for action on global warming
4-28	Ozone Layer Most Fragile on Record: Fears over increase in skin cancer as scientists report that climate change continues to destroy the earth's protection
4-28	Climate Change Poses Threat to Food Supply, Scientists Say
4-28	CEO says AEP in talks to settle pollution suits
4-28	Windmills turn in power-starved China
4-28	Three coal mine accidents kill 10, trap 37
4-27	American Electric Power turns attention to future investments; Expansion includes 765-kv network, new clean-coal plant (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.)
4-27	Farmers unhappy over power lines
4-27	We can no longer afford to burn coal; The Earth is in trouble, and the burning of coal for energy is one of the main causes of the crisis
4-27	Two opposing letters to the editor on mountaintop removal (scroll down to read both)
4-27	Music review: The Appalachians (scroll down)
4-27	Coal ash removal to cost more than $46,000 - More Fly Ash Cleanup Under Way In Forward - Resident: Coal mine needs closer watch
4-27	Collins, Lieberman plan appeal of EPA's mercury regulations - Senators may ask EPA to review mercury rule
4-27	Coal Stays Green (investors stay blind!)
4-27	Kentucky's Un-mined Coal Assessment Guidelines
4-27	G8 will turn up heat on US over global warming
4-27	JPMorgan Chase´s new environmental policy includes global warming
4-27	Global Warming Could Be Risky for Satellites Too
4-27	Mass.'s Solar Power Referendum is worth voting for
4-27	Five dead, 25 missing in flooded coal mine in NE China - Enhancing mine safety 'top priority'
4-26	Slurry task force seeks to protect the environment
4-26	Weather doesn’t dampen spirits at annual Earth Day celebration
4-26	Minding the mountains
4-26	Appalachian Power airlifts tower for nation's largest power line
4-26	Energy policy
4-26	Bush and Saudi Prince Discuss High Oil Prices in Ranch Meeting - President asks Saudis to increase production
4-26	Catching the wave
4-26	Rescue work dampened by poisoning gas in flooded coal mine
4-26	China Says Not To Blame For Global Energy Crunch
4-26	Arch Coal's First - Quarter Earnings Drop
4-26	International Coal Group Hires Another Key Executive
4-26	Wisconsin's Summer Temps To Warm 8-18 Degrees By End Of Century
4-25	Get coal cash out of politics (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
4-25	Mine blowouts rarer but real threat
4-25	Rahall backs bill to get compensation for Wyoming
4-25	National health-care standard would level field for workers
4-25	Bush's Most Radical Plan Yet
4-25	Obama stands firm in his opposition to Clear Skies Act
4-25	A single, tiny ray of hope in energy bill - VP Cheney Meets with Saudi Leader in Dallas
4-25	U.S. secretary of energy: Our trove of coal worth new look (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.)
4-25	China eyes turbines at sea to boost wind power
4-25	Japan to propose giving energy-saving know-how to developing nations
4-25	John Passacantando on Earth Day
4-25	900,000-year-old ice may destroy US case on Kyoto
4-24	Would Jesus put a dam above school? (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
4-24	Ecology and the economy go hand in hand
4-24	Fly ash mudslide victims tell of horrors as pro-dumping forces object before panel
4-24	U.S. Loan Proposed to Rescue Alaska Power Plant; House Energy Bill Includes Help to Convert Experimental Coal Project That Failed
4-24	Bush Encounters Hurdles on Energy Agenda - Democrats Hit Bush on Gas Prices, Energy Plan - Massachusetts congressman takes aim at energy bill
4-24	69 confirmed trapped in flooded Chinese coal mine
4-23	A hazardous night for emergency crews; One killed, fifty treated in chemical truck crash - Truck Driver Dies in W.Va. Chemical Crash
4-23	State gets grant to retrain miners
4-23	Power plant lawsuit dismissed
4-23	Slurry task force seeks to protect the environment - Governor Fletcher Releases Report On Black Water Spills - Study: Research should be required for slurry permits - Report urges more research of surroundings for coal impoundments
4-23	Fletcher speaks to Eastern Ky. leaders (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.)
4-23	Polluter-Friendly Energy - Coal a big winner in energy bill: Legislation passes House, heads to Senate - Energy bill helps Wyo, Cubin says
4-23	U.S. Senator Tom Carper vows to filibuster EPA vote -  EPA fail the public on mercury
4-23	Committee hears ash concerns; Lawmaker says conditions for constituents are unbearable
4-23	Oil's Lesser Role in U.S. Economy Limits Damage From High Prices - Oil Peak Poses Dramatic Challenges
4-23	ExxonMobil Spends Millions Funding Global Warming Skeptics - ExxonMobil Fuels Attacks on Climate Change Theory
4-23	What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art - Celebs Join Inuits at Earth Day Event
4-23	Stormy Earth Day for Bush - Bad Weather Forces Change in Bush's Earth Day Plans (Earth strikes backs!)- Rain puts damper on Bush trip (Was he afraid the acid rain would melt him?)
4-23	Nuclear power? Yes please, says Blair - Waste to energy could provide 17 per cent of UK electricity
4-22	Mingo truck crash kills driver, sickens firefighters
4-22	Battle to save Blair Mountain raging - Group Moves to Preserve Blair Mountain - Make Blair Mt. a historical site
4-22	Authors: Ban mountaintop removal mining - STATEMENT BY KENTUCKY AUTHORS
4-22	Local groups look past Earth Day
4-22	Earth Day theme: Responsible action from people every day - Earth Day fair stresses environmental awareness - Earth Day at 35: Is it still relevant?
4-22	The Green Dream Is Alive
4-22	Big Rock and Mountain Boys celebrate release of first album
4-22	Bush Administration Climate Research Faulted Over Missing Components
4-22	Rahall, Capito differ in debate on energy bill -  US House Oks Energy Bill After Fight Over Additive - House Votes to Approve Broad Energy Legislation - Major Provisions of US House Energy Bill - Energy Bill Is Passed By House; Focus Is Production, Not Conservation - House Takes Action on Energy Measure
4-22	Nuns given environmental honor
4-22	Litter problem doesn't make Lexington, state inviting to tourists
4-22	Ash sites toured in Schuylkill
4-22	Work begins to stabilize ground that was undermined in Chartiers Twp. - DOE-Sponsored Project Turns Coal Waste Into Valuable Building Material
4-22	EU Lawmakers Want Higher Energy Use Cut in 2006-15
4-22	Antarctic Glaciers in Retreat From Climate Change - Antarctic Peninsula bears brunt of global warming - Survey finds glaciers retreating rapidly as the local climate warms
4-22	Lawmakers part with locks of hair - all in the name of science
4-22	Indigenous people oppose coal mines
4-22	Longwall in Australia: Mining process may be listed as an environmental threat
4-22	Mine Shaft Explosion in Turkey Kills 17
4-22	Goldman Prize Winners Face Down Danger for Earth's Sake
4-21	Office of Surface Mining to review permit approval
4-21	Coal, State Dispute Taxes on Exports; Office of Tax Appeals Ordering Refunds in Newer Cases
4-21	Authors view strip-mining - Writers get look at effects of mountaintop removal mining
4-21	Join the fight to save Blair Mountain and its history
4-21	A slow boat to the Chinese
4-21	Museum adds coal exhibit
4-21	House passes energy bill that allows ANWR drilling - Bad Energy Policy - House Begins Debate on Energy Bill -  Bush Says Has No "Magic Wand" Energy Fix - U.S. House Seen Approving Energy Bill on Thursday - Taxpayers for Common Sense Statement on the Energy Bill - Environmental lip service a dangerous trend
4-21	Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. Acquires Coal Property in West Virginia
4-21	CO2 coal technologies '10 years away'
4-21	Group launches drive to block new Western coal power plant
4-20	Coal industry has hurt state for too long - Enforce mining laws (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
4-20	Simple power plan is in sun and wind (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
4-20	Five hurt in explosion at abandoned mine
4-20	Closed road expected to reopen today
4-20	House, Bush to Focus on Energy Bill - Bush Says He's Worried About Energy Prices - Bush Aide Plays Down Short - Term Fix on Energy - Action must be taken to investigate, lower gas prices
4-20	Call for China to develop multiple energy sources
4-20	Whistle down the wind - Cumbrian wind-farm plan generates heat among divided environmentalists - Nuclear call criticised
4-20	Global warming's weird legacies - Citing earth's problems, without much preaching
4-20	Protestors say council puts mining interests before its citizens -  Peabody's 1Q Profit More Than Doubles
4-20	Pitt on coal, companies, and fast food fingers
4-19	DEP chief puts settlement agreements on hold
4-19	Dianne Bady: Pruett, Bush, state leaders help Big Coal destroy W.Va.
4-19	Mine blowout closes major highway in eastern Kentucky
4-19	Sludge isn't pretty stuff
4-19	EPA Proposal to Weaken Water Quality Spurs Outrage
4-19	Earth Day: Call to action
4-19	The Goldman Standard; These six activists have won a top prize -- and countless battles
4-19	The Missing Energy Strategy - Congress Takes Another Run at Passing Bush Energy Bill - House Energy Bill Increases Tax Breaks
4-19	EU seizes on report to press US on climate change
4-19	Japan researchers look to seaweed in fight against global warming
4-19	Montana House passes mine wastewater funding bill
4-19	University of North Dakota Win Award for Research into Coal Combustion Products (That's right kiddies! Recycled mercury is good for you!)
4-18	Library to host talk on how to clean but stay green
4-18	Reclamation must be first; In extending abandoned mines tax, Congress must see the work is done
4-18	Mine reclamation leaves grass but not employment
4-18	Massey to meet in NYC May 24
4-18	Flowering on Wall Street: activists' clout
4-18	A planet on the brink: The Archbishop of Canterbury warns that the price of our continued failure to protect the earth will be violence and social collapse
4-18	Taking on the climate change deniers and their media enablers - State of Fear - Forty public policy groups have this in common: They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing the earth to overheat. And they all get money from ExxonMobil
4-18	Global warming is real, dangerous and ignored at great risk to the planet - A Planetary Problem
4-18	Church's vote not to study global warming disappointing
4-18	Bush uses gas prices to push energy bill
4-18	Soot Reduces Sunshine Over China, Study Finds
4-17	Save Blair Mountain from being destroyed (letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
4-17	West Virginia businesses benefit from China’s growth (Walker doesn't see anyone turning out the lights, because he isn't looking in the right place. Nature is turning out lights--we are in a period of mass extinction, caused by humans. After five years of studies, 1,300 scientists concluded we have already used up 60 percent of the earth's natural resources, and we are rapidly gobbling up the remainder. Scientists warn too that global warming may bring unfathomable catastrophe. Pregnant women are warned that eating mercury-contaminated fish could poison their babies, with severe, life-long effects. Other scientists try to teach us the multi-trillion-dollar annual values of services (flood control, water purification, etc.) of intact ecosystems. All signs tell us that we cannot continue with our ravenous ways, but so-called leaders are blinded by the coal-powered light and ecocidal greed, refusing to see the darkness that will encompass us if we do not curb our ravenous energy appetite and swiftly abandon our fossil fuel diet for conservation, energy efficiency and truly cleaner alternative energy.) - U.S. Helping Beijing Clean Air For 2008 Games
4-17	Set course for Chinese renewable energy deals
4-17	And for those who defend the fossil-fool status quo: Answer to poverty seen in sun and wind; U.N. officials say renewable energy has vast potential - The many reasons to reduce fossil fuel dependence - UN: SURVEY REVEALS DEVELOPING WORLD'S RENEWABLE ENERGY POTENTIAL - Report: Renewable energy would be a moneymaker for Arizona (and any state!)
4-17	SCE to Solicit More Renewable Power
4-17	Kentucky needs real energy plan; Fletcher's dig-up-coal wish list won't aid economy, environment
4-17	Don't eat those fish, New York warns
4-17	Bush Asks House and Senate to Send Him an Energy Bill - Change to the Clean Air Act Is Built Into New Energy Bill - Bush Prods Congress on Energy Legislation
4-17	Economy would not be hurt by emission limits, study says; Bush rejected the Kyoto treaty on the grounds that U.S. business would take a hit
4-17	U.S. should focus on developing soy diesel (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!) - It is the dawn of a new era for automotive fuels
4-17	Wyoming shows it has low-sulfur coal to burn; Demand surges as power plants in the East try to cut pollution
4-17	What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? - COAL TO FUEL - "Why would the children of today want to trade one dirty technology like oil for a dirtier one like coal?"
4-17	Yukon forecast for next 100 years: warmer
4-17	Top-ten money-earners among Kentucky lobbyists
4-16	Priorities pushed 527 bill to back burner (Many thanks to Delegate Caputo. As for many of  the rest of the legislators, perhaps their "priorities" are campaign contributions from special interests!)
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