(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!)
4-16	US energy study finds greenhouse gas limits affordable - Study: Greenhouse Gas Limits Affordable
4-16	Change to the Clean Air Act Is Built Into New Energy Bill - A Dirty Little Footnote to the Energy Bill
4-16	Feds Say East Kentucky Coal Company Interfering With Investigation - Court asked to order coal company to stop interference
4-16	Caution Urged in Eating Fish From Adirondacks and Catskills
4-16	Climate Change Wreaking Havoc With Seasons - Growing changes in gardening due to warmer conditions
4-16	Seeking solutions to a cooler planet
4-16	SOUTHERN AFRICA: Recurrent dry spells "cause for concern"
4-15	Rahall reintroduces bill to clean up abandoned mines
4-15	DEP unsure of plan to make water rules; Agency officials have yet to study
4-15	DEP merges two top positions
4-15	Harvard Ayers: Coal cannot be a ‘green’ form of energy
4-15	Court ruling sought in mine inquiry
4-15	Doing no wrong: Coal miners wear the white hats in William Blizzard’s union history
4-15	UK lecturer's book on mountaintop mining to be published next year
4-15	Kentucky agricultural, coal counties lose population
4-15	House Set to Pass Energy Bill
4-15	White House's EPA Nominee Blocked Again in Senate
4-15	President soft pedals mercury reform
4-15	Developing Nations Ripe For Wind, Solar Energy - UN
4-15	Mapping Reveals Earth's Best Sites for Wind, Solar Power
4-15	Starbucks Makes Commitment to Renewable Energy
4-15	Wind turbines will destroy Highlands - The Beauty of Wind Farms
4-15	New Steps to Curb Global Warming in Oregon
4-15	Feeling the heat: Global warming in Alaska - Early spring is a fact of life for the birds and bees
4-14	A mountain of an issue: Author decries strip-mining methods
4-14	Mining coal only darkens our future - Mountaintop mining is illegal under law (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
4-14	Live-wire Axe: Mining for info on a Power-ful mascot (We need a Mercury Maiden mascot, too!)
4-14	Coal trucks accountable through whom we send to Charleston
4-14	Kentucky county retracts honor for lawmaker
4-14	Pa. buyer beware over property's mineral rights
4-14	E.P.A. Nominee Advances, but With a Hitch
4-14	Rep. Barton Faces Energy Challenge; New Panel Chairman and Industry Ally Will Be Man Behind Major Legislation - Remember Barton? - And see page 17 of this pdf
4-14	US House Committees OK Energy Legislation - House Committee Backs Drilling in Wildlife Refuge - House Set to Pass Energy Bill
4-14	US House Panel Rejects Boost in Car Mileage Rule - Stricter Auto Fuel Use Would Slow Oil Demand - Saudi Crown Prince to meet Bush on April 25
4-14	Energy Giants Banking on Environmental Disaster
4-14	Pa. township installs solar power panels to cut energy bills - Solar Firms Say Silicon Shortage Will Stall Growth
4-14	The beauty of wind farms
4-14	Canada Finally Unveils Plan To Meet Kyoto Targets - Canada to invest in green projects abroad to meet Kyoto obligations
4-14	Coalition presses electric companies over global warming risks - Five plans to cut global warming are announced
4-13	Speaker recounts slurry spill horrors
4-13	Mining forced woman to live in 8-by-12 toolshed, she says; Mold in house made her sick - Two years in a shed; Suit blames coal company for making home unlivable
4-13	Manchin said no to AEP tax breaks; State may be in line for second of planned coal-gas plants
4-13	Is the EPA Lowballing the Mercury Risk? - Little is being done to combat the dangers of mercury
4-13	States take clean-air measures into their own hands
4-13	Clean coal generator dedicated at EKP (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.)
4-13	Hopi warnings to the world
4-13	House Panel Resumes Writing Energy Bill
4-13	Pennsylvania Colleges & Universities Increase Wind Energy Commitment - UK Offshore Wind Plans Blown Off Course - Head to head: Wind farms - Wind farms: an iCan briefing
4-13	Indiana coal truck accident leaves two dead, one injured
4-13	BP fails to reduce greenhouse gases
4-13	ARTICLE IN HARPER'S (scroll down)
4-12	Killing of Appalachia
4-12	Byrd wants more done about gas prices - Coal Promising As Fuel of Future (Let's talk about fuel efficiency--it's our cheapest, cleanest and quickest way to reduce our gluttonous energy consumption. Throw in conservation, and we could reduce our nation's energy use by at least 20 to 30 percent.)
4-12	Belmont County officials pressing for AEP facility
4-12	EPA must act to prevent emissions, say 12 U.S. States - List of states suing federal government over mercury regulations rises to 10 - States Ask Court to Force EPA Action on Greenhouse Gases
4-12	Pennsylvania DEP Announces Project to Reclaim Abandoned Coal Processing Facility In Dauphin County
4-12	Cambria coke plan sparks concerns
4-12	A coal-fired masterwork of song
4-12	Stronger Conflict of Interest Policies Urged for EPA, NIH
4-12	Has Nuclear Power's Time Come? (7 Letters)
4-12	Wind Farms could prevent 100 coal-fired generating plants
4-12	The last Japanese coal miners union disbands
4-12	Appalachia turns to tourism - A GEOTOURIST'S APPALACHIA GUIDE
4-12	Mountaintop Removal Roadshow in Indiana today
4-12	Canada deal stirs state debate on emissions
4-12	How students in one class tackled global warming
4-12	Companies see sludge as step toward profit
4-11	Julian Martin: Team looks like partner in firms' PR campaigns
4-11	'The Appalachians' Hits Down-Home
4-11	Earth Mothers on Patrol
4-11	As Coal Prices Rise, So Do Coal Stocks
4-11	Mine remains sealed nearly two months after fire
4-11	Solar energy does more than heat pools
4-11	New AEP Plant Sought For Ohio (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.)
4-11	Western Power Plan Spurs Cos., Clean Energy Debate - Nevada showdown pits coal plant proponents against advocates of renewable resources (See above)
4-11	Coal plant pitched before to Sho-Bans: Talks fell apart over land purchase issues
4-11	Sludge dispute spurs closer looks at laws regulating sewage - Carroll factory seeks use of sludge
4-11	Hot under the feathers: birds are taking flight from climate change
4-10	‘Kids’ group still not charity; Organization known for ads against McGraw
4-10	War stories: Son of Blair march organizer tells history of miner struggles
4-10	Dispelling Appalachian stereotypes - Appalachia's Anthems: The Music Plays Top Fiddle in This Documentary
4-10	Mountaintop mining . . . -  . . 'A realistic view' - Spring returns: Walking lightly on Planet Earth - PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT IS KEY MORAL CAUSE
4-10	Neighbor: Lehigh Coal breaks Pa. rules
4-10	States Seek Regulation Of Greenhouse Gases - 2 Sides Do Battle in Court on Whether E.P.A. Should Regulate Carbon Dioxide
4-10	US government 'must restrict CO2'
4-10	Rising water puts Irish homes at risk
4-10	The science debate behind climate change
4-10	Global warming: Nuclear power no solution
4-10	US stance on Kyoto 'hits renewables' - Four-State Transmission Plan Will Boost Renewables
4-10	SEA WINDFARM WORK SET TO START
4-10	Chinese coal mine bosses ordered into shafts to stem accidents - Despite leader's pledge, China's demand for coal makes regulation difficult to enforce
4-9	Election reform bill fails
4-9	Saving the Southern Appalachian Mountains: The Mountain Justice Summer Coalition
4-9	BushCo permitting irreparable damage
4-9	Carbon Offsets 'Cancel Out' Your Share of Global Warming
4-9	Nukes Are Green (And pigs fly! Watch "Kilowatt Ours" for information on strontium 90 and other radioactive pollution from Nuclear power plants--and that's not even the virtually forever radioactivity from spent fuel.) - Global warming won't save nuclear power
4-9	Westmoreland still lives with spill aftermath
4-9	Mercury's hot spots - Wisconsin joins suit challenging new EPA mercury emissions
4-9	Coal Miners' Lawsuit - Company in black-lung suit denies masks were faulty
4-9	Solar project may cut Alberta energy bills
4-9	Arch Coal's First Quarter Conference Call to Be Broadcast on Internet
4-9	Low-Grade Coal in Marriott's Stocking
4-9	Aussies sidestep Kyoto ban
4-9	A truly global problem
4-9	Electricity from trash possible, problematic
4-8	Utility's financing plan for power plant moves forward
4-8	State economy continuing to improve
4-8	Capito wants tax credits for coal in measure (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.)
4-8	Board concerned about secret DEP meetings
4-8	New coal-based products may be made in state
4-8	Miners, mountains and music - Life's dream of filmmaker from Akron now a reality; `The Appalachians' premieres on PBS; it's a labor of love
4-8	WEST VIRGINIA IN SOLAR ROOFS PROGRAM - Partnership sheds light on value of solar power
4-8	Ross Invests Again in West Virginia; Strong Coal Market Motivates Acquisition of Anker, CoalQuest
4-8	DuPont opposes proposal of C8 legal fee disclosure; Shareholders to vote on subject later this month
4-8	West Virginia taking bait to trust big business
4-8	A mess averted - Hopkins sewage proposal dropped
4-8	Coal-dust mask makers fighting miners' lawsuit
4-8	Two US Senators Block EPA Chief Nomination - Science, Ethics and a Stalled Nomination
4-8	US Court to Hear States Push EPA on Global Warming - Science Panel Says Human Activity Key Trigger in Global Warming
4-8	Duke Energy CEO Proposes Carbon Tax - Industrial giants join climate talks
4-8	New Australian plan for global warming
4-8	Scrubbing up coal plants a costly exercise
4-7	Wind shifts on bat-turbine study
4-7	Heading off Eco-Armageddon - Study predicts dire future for world environment
4-7	Byrd moves to extend program to clean up abandoned mines
4-7	Report: Arsenic exposure possible from fly-ash in Pa.
4-7	Bush plan would exempt many plants from regulation, report says
4-7	Explosives workers not checked (Coal companies perpetuating mountaintop removal unleash 2 - 5 MILLION POUNDS of explosives on the Appalachian Mountains EACH DAY!)
4-7	Rolls-Royce in US$100 Million Singapore Fuel Cell Venture
4-7	US Lawmakers Want Daylight-Saving Time Change, But Don't Want To Reduce Oil Consumption
4-7	Eco-firms see growing profits - Turning neocons green
4-7	California eyes cap-and-trade plan to trim greenhouse gases
4-7	Canada, Automakers Announce Breakthrough Global Warming Agreement
4-7	U.S. told to pay for land it seized - Land unjustly taken from Kentuckians, judge rules
4-6	Trailer for "The Appalachians"
4-6	EPA backs off bad-air label for three counties; Marion, Monongalia, Harrison off hook for tougher permits
4-6	Most of national forest is not ‘untouchable’
4-6	Manchin set to sign bill to help woo AEP power plant to W.Va.
4-6	Mines can become beautiful places (Barf bag anyone?) - And now for the truth: Study--Woody establishment patterns following mountaintop removal in the Coal River Valley (pdf) - Mountaintop removal could devastate region - ‘Reclamation' is not at all what it seems - Mining method may hurt stream habitat, study says
4-6	Waste-coal plant in works after green light from Pa. DEP
4-6	Drugs in the mines
4-6	U.S. presses China on "cleaner" energy
4-6	Take off the crest of Bailey Mountain, Don (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
4-6	Energy's market forces touted
4-6	Massey Backs First-Quarter Guidance
4-6	Global warming 'myth' proving to be a grave reality
4-6	No new coal mines in News South Wales, say green groups
4-6	Ten killed, 30 missing in China coal mine mishaps - China to spend 3 billion yuan to boost coal mine safety - Coal death toll climbs to 1,113 in Jan-Mar
4-5	Documentary Soundtrack - The Appalachians
4-5	Report Tallies Hidden Costs of Human Assault on Nature -  A productive, but taxed, Earth - Civil-rights, suffrage activists didn't give up, and neither should environmentalists
4-5	Benjamin can’t be objective on coal (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
4-5	Consumer advocate warns of ‘tug-of-war’ for new power 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.)
4-5	Mercury is gift that keeps on giving (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
4-5	New Pa. coke plant gets quick OK; Facility will bring 750 jobs and high mercury, soot emissions to Cambria
4-5	Pa. DEP OKs air-quality permit, clears way for Robinson power plant
4-5	Western US States Plan Major Power System
4-5	Professor says global warming could trigger monsoons in the Pacific Northwest - Namibia's Ignorance About Global Warming 'Dangerous' - Seabirds starving as climate changes
4-5	China Says Coal Mining Deaths Up 21 Pct. - China Tries to Stem Flow of Coal Mine Disasters - Closing unsafe mines will have little impact on coal supply: official
4-5	Costs, Coal Cap PetroChina Natural Gas Ambition
4-5	Wilbur Ross eyes coal IPO
4-5	Using global warming to create conditions for life on Mars OR... Global Warming, Bush, Alternative Energy Jobs and - Men on Mars?
4-4	Friends of the Mountains and Friends of Coal (scroll down)
4-4	Proposed Gob Plant (scroll down or click here for audio )
4-4	Wind farms need closer look, Mollohan says
4-4	Competition for power plant could be expensive - Consumer advocate warns of 'tug-of-war' for new power 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.)
4-4	DEP agrees to do more water testing at quarry location
4-4	UMW will again be important - Stand up against state’s coal kings (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
4-4	Ross and FOC (scroll down)
4-4	US in race to unlock new energy source; Green groups warn against moving methane hydrates from beneath seabed
4-4	Wintry Canada to Use Solar Power to Heat Homes
4-4	Coal's renewed popularity stokes Arch, Peabody shares
4-4	Unemployment hits hardest in rural areas
4-4	Mercury madness
4-4	MTBE Lawsuit Costs Dominate Energy Bill Debate
4-4	UK Biodiesel Maker, Retailer in Green Fuel Tie-Up
4-4	Ford Delivers 5 Fuel Cell Cars For Canada Tests
4-4	Barbara Freese Writes Coal: A Human History
4-4	Green activists to challenge ExxonMobil on Kyoto stance
4-4	Global warming: Shutdown of Atlantic current would ravage food stocks
4-4	World of Coal Ash
4-3	Jack Spadaro: Mountaintop marauding?
4-3	Fact o’ Sludge
4-3	Bush's stance on mercury pollution: Don't eat the fish
4-3	Linda Cooper: Wind turbines have hurt community - Windmill just what the doctor ordered
4-3	Officials Say Coal Truck Crackdown Helping Make Kentucky Roads Safer
4-3	Some residents, officials favor planned power plant in Greene County, Pa.
4-3	Health, Faith, Labor, Eco Groups Join Together Against Global Warming - Taking on Carbon Dioxide In Defiance Of Bush
4-3	Help secure U.S. by using more coal (Scroll down; What this guy means is secure his wallet by using more coal and think only of short-term money, not current and long-term costs of using coal. Write your own letter to the editor in response!)
4-3	National Security Experts Call for Renewables Deployment
4-3	Education program helps produce college graduates in coal-mine area
4-3	Rentech to Present Wyoming Clean Coal-to-Liquids Technical Study Results (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.)
4-3	Local-stock index sputters in quarter
4-3	Energy wildcatters float proposals
4-3	IBEC warns Govt must embrace green schemes - Progressive Czech renewables act passed
4-3	Australia: Big truck warning on coal highway
4-2	The State of the World? It Is on the Brink of Disaster - Health, fate of planet hinge on our actions, big and small
4-2	Ky. man killed at Lincoln mine
4-2	Senate extends reclamation tax and passes power bill
4-2	WV CAG Capital Eye - WV E-Council Legislative Update
4-2	Ky. crackdown on overweight trucks rolls on
4-2	Coal-gasification company's past in question
4-2	Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug-In Rule
4-2	Hawks join environmentalists to encourage fuel efficiency
4-2	Climate science keeps on ticking
4-2	Global warming fuels call to invest in nuclear fusion
4-2	Proposal to Fight Global Warming May Threaten Oceans
4-2	Adapting to Global Warming: The Carbon Lobby's Modest Proposal
4-2	National Coal Corp. Appoints Energy and Financial Leaders to Its Board of Directors
4-2	EPA should return to drawing board on mercury - Tough on Mercury
4-2	Venezuela's Indigenous Protest Against Coal Mining in their Lands
4-2	Coal mine flood traps 17 in China
4-1	Two Sides On Coal Rally Face Off - Pension bond pushed at coal rally - Miners, management extol their friendship with coal -  Hoppy's Commentary For Friday
4-1	Va. Tech's Take Back the Night event dedicated to memory of slain activist
4-1	Water quality board opposes weaker pollution rules
4-1	Senate sends coal tax measure to governor's desk
4-1	Judicial Showdown Has Big Environmental Implications
4-1	Energy Insanity - Going Geo-Green
4-1	The ends of the Earth
4-1	Senate passes bill to attract AEP power plant to Mason
4-1	McCabe denies conflict over Stonewall resort
4-1	Solar and Wind Units Bring Energy to Navajos - Global Wind Power Capacity Seen Rising 26 Pct 2005
4-1	For Very Different Reasons, Groups Agree on Gas Alternatives
4-1	Spring Forward Faster
4-1	E-voting: Corruption record
4-1	Worried residents’ concerns heard
4-1	Concerned about mercury levels, states sue the EPA and consider creating tough new standards of their own - Retrograde on Mercury - Mercury emission rules challenged as lax
4-1	Pennsylvania DEP Formally Challenges EPA's Revised Finding On Mercury Emissions From Power Plants
4-1	CO2 rise forces energy rethink - Blair Should Appoint `Minister for Climate Change,' Panel Says
4-1	No Longer Elephant in the Room, Global Warming Takes Center Stage - Ford to write a report on global warming in response to shareholders - Socially conscious investors get results on global warming
4-1	Global warming: Shutdown of Atlantic current would ravage food stocks
4-1	UK could 'miss Kyoto gas target' - UK CO2 Emissions Rise Again, May Miss Kyoto Target
4-1	Kiwi Protestors will Die-In at Solid Energy Conference: "Green" Coal? Yeah Right! - Environmentalists determined to halt Illinois Peabody project
4-1	China mines slapdash, scary, and hugely profitable