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5-31	Appalachian Power's new plant stack is growing ever skyward
5-31	Good life: Perfect retirement area--if mountaintop removal not expanded
5-31	Race issue sparks fuss over immigrant workers
5-31	Sex sells. But can GE use sex to sell coal?
5-31	Thursday at 1 p.m. on Kentucky.com: Online Chat with Bill Caylor, president of Kentucky Coal Association
5-31	African Drought and Global Warming
5-31	Hurricane Season could Renew Global Warming Debate
5-31	Is worlds gas gauge on empty?
5-31	Solar and Wind Energy Fail Exxon's Economics Test - $2 Billion in Renewable Energy Exports for Green Energy Resources, Gets EU's 'Sustainable Procurement' Nod - Waking a sleeping buffalo: MSU students explore renewable energy on the Hi-Line
5-31	Coal mine flooding kills 8 in Fujian
5-30	Residents and others ask for closure of processing plant
5-30	Kathryn Stone responds to Steve Walker's "Criticism of mining oversimplified a complex issue"
5-30	Criticism of mining oversimplified a complex issue (Walker, with his bank account fat from the destruction of our forested mountains and streams, chooses to ignore what mountaintop removal is doing to our future.) (An e-mail we received on this op-ed: One thing he is forgetting that in making a "moral choice" (as he puts it) about using electricity from coal, driving a car, and eating meat that doesn't destroy any one else's home, property or lives. What they do does affect everyone, including the animals.)
5-30	Politicians ignore solar energy (Scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
5-30	Mini-generators fill demand for clean energy, alternative power
5-30	Crude awakening - Oil: Caveat empty
5-30	Scientist digs into global warming - Global warming actions can be controlled by people's participation
5-30	G8 SUMMIT: The Climate Does Not Look Good
5-30	Coal mine blast kills three, injures eight in C. China
5-30	Serious UK nuclear leak 'went unnoticed for nine months'
5-29	Reforesting the mountaintop: UK researchers' method facing some resistance (Not another inch of MTR until all existing sites are successfully reforested--including the understory. Prove it can be done!)
5-29	Scientific inquiry: Is the White House helping researchers reach the 'right' conclusions?
5-29	Experts: Petroleum May Be Nearing Peak
5-29	Documentary maker here still mountain girl at heart
5-29	Ohio paying for coal that can't be mined
5-29	Nothing's free in Freetown
5-29	Utah will study level of mercury in state fish
5-29	Coal mine flood in eastern China traps 12
5-29	Philippines: Firm asked to stop coal plants
5-29	Britain: No more middle of the road: the crunch is coming for pollution - Owners of gas-guzzling cars to be hit by five-fold tax increase
5-29	California to tackle global warming; Governor to buck Bush, set own rules
5-29	Global warming? A small few non-believers say no
5-29	How smoky was my city, how green it is now
5-29	Wind farms emerging on the horizon
5-29	The winds of change: the future belongs to renewable energy
5-29	UK blew wind power, we cant let Holyrood sink wave energy - Wave technology industry is on the crest of a slump
5-29	Business Interests Target "Activist" Attorney Generals
5-28	Dirty Money --As coal plants win the right to burn dirtier and dirtier, the administration is subsidizing coal as the clean fuel of the future
5-28	Consol to add 400 jobs at mine - Consol may expand Pa. mine, creating 400 jobs
5-28	Board wants more review of DEPs C8 deal
5-28	Mine-safety lawyer's firing questioned - Prosecutor of coal operators and miners replaced
5-28	New Climate Stewardship Bill Would Subsidize Nuclear Development - Nuclear power is wrong answer - Nuclear Power Not Needed to Reduce Global Warming Emissions
5-28	Massey Energy Annual Meeting Webcast Replay
5-28	Critics upset about process for proposed Nevada coal plant
5-28	Montana labor organization endorses developing coal, power plants
5-28	Aviation is fastest-growing source of C02 emissions
5-28	Climate and energy: what the United States needs
5-28	Industry chiefs' environment plea - Large firms call on govt to do more to cut CO2
5-28	Europe Tackles Climate Change During Green Week 2005 - - Leaked G8 climate draft sets no specific targets - G8 will not set targets to cut global warming
5-28	Arctic trek may heat up warming concerns - Climate change refugees could crowd Europe's central belt - Rising sea levels pose global threat
5-28	Buried treasure, deadly price
5-27	Businesses call for urgent action on climate change
5-27	Residents speak out against Massey permit
5-27	Court refuses appeal of Mingo school delay
5-27	Leave Blair Mountain proud peak of history
5-27	Permit deal would leave C8 issue up in air
5-27	Ohio regulators approve mining plan under old-growth
5-27	Appalachian Treasures presentation In Mississippi (scroll down)
5-27	Senate Panel OK's Energy Bill, Ends Utility Law - Energy Package Clears Senate Committee
5-27	State challenges mercury rule; Review sought for Bush pollution plan - Feds must protect Maine from other states' toxins
5-27	State unveils 'permanent' fix to town's gushing coal mine
5-27	Policy debate: Power plants on Navajo land
5-27	President's Air Pollution Initiative Is Revived
5-27	Global Warming Will Increase World Hunger - Africa Faces Food Crisis Under Global Warming
5-27	British museum that tells story of coal wins biggest arts prize - Disused British coal mine wins lucrative Gulbenkian museum prize
5-26	Mountain Justice Summer: A grassroots group on a mission to save the mountains
5-26	Peak Outrage
5-26	Court wont hear arguments in DEP enforcement case - Court declines to hear appeal of mine inspector decision
5-26	Increasingly, evangelists are embracing environmentalism
5-26	Pruett now helping destroy mountains (Scroll down. Winnie is an OVEC board member; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
5-26	Arctic Leaders Appeal Over Global Warming - Global warming happening faster
5-26	Coal ash to become concrete additive
5-26	First woman named to mine safety board
5-26	Bush Says Tired Of Waiting On Energy Bill (his Big Coal and Oil funders are getting tired of not getting exactly everything they want right now)
5-26	US wants to review BC coal mine
5-26	Oil supply shortage may be made up with China coal - Coal mine tragedies leave endless suffering
5-26	Toxic Avengers
5-26	Italy Cuts C02 Allocation Plan, Wins EU Approval
5-26	Massey Energy Company reported -Don Blankenship on board through 2008
5-25	For the sake of the kids; West Virginia Residents Confront Massey Energy
5-25	Two protesters arrested at coal prep plant
5-25	Environmentalists Rally
5-25	Two arrested after protesting Massey facility near school - Coal mine noise, dust protested; Two arrested for trespassing on Massey Energy property - Raleigh County Protest - Two protesters arrested at coal prep plant
5-25	State court urged to protect mine inspector powers
5-25	Mountaintop removal mining of coal should be outlawed (It already is outlawed! Mountaintop removers are breaking state and federal laws!)
5-25	Is a man with a bullhorn adequate flood warning? (letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
5-25	Republican Environmentalists for Kaine? (Possibly cleaning up some of the emissions from burning coal is a great goal, but as long as there is mountaintop removal, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
5-25	Perceptions, global warming and coal (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 coal corporations, etc, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
5-25	China to Face Increasing Coal Shortage - China's coal shortage to hit 330 million tons by 2010
5-25	Record high for European emissions trade
5-25	Oil Firms to See Windfall From EU CO2 Scheme
5-25	Chicken Little and the canary in the coal mine
5-25	Global warming threatening traditional medicine - Will global warming impact tourism hotspots?
5-25	Dissident shareholders push Exxon Mobil on global warming
5-24	'The Last Campaign': Movie documents McGraws battle against big money
5-24	Nine groups oppose New River Gorge development
5-24	Workers' Comp begins award review
5-24	Consol: Rescue Teams Enter Virginia Mine
5-24	Anti-emissions mission
5-24	Mega-mall in upstate New York could give birth to a clean-energy awakening
5-24	Clean-coal advances urged at meeting (Possibly cleaning up some of the emissions from burning coal is a great goal, but as long as there is mountaintop removal, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
5-24	China's coal riches could ease oil insecurity (As long as the world's "leaders" remain oblivious to the true costs of coal, that is...)
5-24	Coal-to-oil plan worth a look - Gamble in the desert
5-24	U.S. official defends stance on environment
5-24	Scotland 'can lead world in renewable energy' - World Renewable Energy Congress - Renewable Energy Projects expected to spend $13 billion
5-24	Renewable energy has users smiling
5-23	Mountaintop removal protests planned in four states
5-23	Miners, environmentalists stand at the ready as interest in coal reignites
5-23	Pike residents take on TECO - Regulators Fine, Scrutinize TECO Coal - Environmental Report Sees No Harm From TVA Land Swap
5-23	Coal industry leaving an ugly, tragic legacy
5-23	How to win a global-warming suit - The business end of global warming
5-23	Groups push renewable energy for power line project - Senator pushes renewable energy credits
5-23	Portugal to Get World's First Commercial Wave Farm
5-23	School officials say year-old energy program paying off
5-23	Tilting at windmills: Britian split over energy eyesores - 2,000 more wind turbines in countryside - Chavez Frias wants new solar and wind energy agreements with Iran
5-23	New data may mean more fish warnings - Man blames mercury poisoning on Gulf fish
5-23	Cleaner coal plants fail to find acceptance
5-23	The Courage to Develop Clean Energy - 'Clean coal' may soften Wyo's low-sulfur edge (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 coal corporations, etc, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
5-23	Death toll rises to 45 in Hebei coal mine blast
5-22	Dirty Secret: Coal Plants Could Be Much Cleaner
5-22	Global warming could lead to crowding in Europe - Measuring the reality of climate change - PM warms to climate evidence
5-22	Focus On Pollution Cleanup
5-22	US House Rejects Lifting Offshore Drilling Ban
5-22	China coal mine blast kills 20
5-21	American Electric advances clean-coal plans with deal (See purple rants below - there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
5-21	Climate change and industry - Ice sheet confounds climate theory
5-21	Sierra group sues to block coal plant
5-20	Human Activities Cause of Current Extinction Crisis - Ecosystems, economic choices and human well-being
5-20	Ohio to get first AEP clean-coal plant; W.Va. a good bet for second facility (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 coal corporations, etc, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.) - GE, Bechtel sign study agreement for AEP clean coal plant
5-20	Ex-mining contractor to pay back premiums to Comp
5-20	Mountaintop removal themes included in Tamarack exhibit (Dalporto is an OVEC member!)
5-20	DuPont faces C8 criminal probe
5-20	Money to Burn (OVEC's Janet Fout was asked to give a quote for this story, but the paper edited her comments out. Janet said, "It is good news that Arch is working with area residents. We hope the company is honestly and fully informing the local community about the potential devastating impacts of longwall mining, especially as they relate to subsidence which can damage homes and property. Individuals will have to pay for city water, but unpolluted groundwater provides free drinking water. Polluting water is another way the coal industry externalizes its cost--that is passes it costs along to the public." To learn more about subsidence and the toll on coalfield residents from longwall mining, see Tri-State Citizens Mining Network.)
5-20	State Still Depends on Coal Industry (Make no mistake--the State Journal's parent company investors include at least one coal baron...But the truth endures: The coal industry will do all it can to continue its ecocidal, greed-driven bid to whisk all the wealth out of West Virginia it can, despite the fact that it could but won't mine coal safely and responsibly. We have many reasons to stand up and fight for an end to the most irresponsible coal mining practice ever--mountaintop removal. Top reasons: Our communities, our way-of-life, our futures!)
5-20	FBI fears bunny huggers - FBI, ATF address domestic terrorism - Eco-warriors are 'US terror risk' (Hey, how about going after the REAL eco-terrorists--the mountaintop removers who are terrorizing entire ecosystems!) - ACLU accuses FBI of 'spying' on activists - Senate committee to mull expanded police powers
5-20	Sierra Club files lawsuit against coal-fired power plant
5-20	Residents concerned about contamination
5-20	UK Firm Claims Breakthrough In Fuel Cell Technology
5-20	Start-up drills for oil in algae
5-20	In U.S., fight against global warming finally reaching a boil
5-20	Warming Is Blamed for Antarctica's Weight Gain
5-20	Two Bodies Found After China Coal Mine Blast; 49 Still Missing
5-20	Rule made to hem China's coal-fired power plants
5-19	Bringing Down the Mountain (Click on Features)
5-19	Blair Mountain could be attraction (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools, use them!)
5-19	Pike residents protest at coal company; TECO mines are danger, they say
5-19	Coal firm is sued for fatal crash; Widow's suit says truck overloaded
5-19	11 States Challenge Break on Mercury for Coal Power Plants - NJ again takes lead in multi-state suit against EPA - Pa. to set tougher rules to cut mercury emissions
5-19	State should consider all costs of plant - U.S. must continue to study clean coal (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 coal corporations, etc, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
5-19	Senate Panel Rejects Better Mileage for Gas Guzzlers
5-19	Miners' advocate charged with fraud - President of sick miners group indicted on Medicare fraud charge
5-19	Not in My Backyard! - Golden Gamble in Grass Valley, Part 4: Tailings to Tiles
5-19	Shanghai seeks clean energy rather than coal
5-19	US Doubts New Kyoto Climate Deal after 2012
5-19	Papuans seek forest carbon credit
5-19	To track global warming, watch the water flow
5-19	Global Warming Kills Species, Endangers Humans - Scientists
5-19	China Coal Mine Blast Traps More Than 50
5-18	Massey Energy to Webcast Annual Meeting - And We Broadcast the Disastrous Costs of Massey Stockholders' Profits--Join Us May 24!
5-18	Pollution scuttles plant
5-18	Solar and Wind Energy Potential
5-18	U.S. mercury rule lets hazardous air pollutants off the hook
5-18	Groups to sue over EPA rules on mercury - National Wildlife Federation: EPA Approach to Mercury Violates Law
5-18	Federal vote-fraud trials to be separate
5-18	US cities snub Bush and sign up to Kyoto
5-18	Global Warming 'To Hit Africa Hard'
5-18	Clinton: Beware of global warming
5-17	Human costs cloud future of state coal
5-17	1921 mining battlefield's future at stake; Group seeks to save mining battlefield (Kenny King is an OVEC member)
5-17	Forest's Colorful Jewels in a Fight for Their Lives (Mountaintop removal destroys the forests' understory forever!)
5-17	Groups contest mercury emission cuts
5-17	Bush Urges Development of Alternate Fuels (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 coal corporations, etc, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
5-17	Spring's start coming earlier, study blames global warming
5-17	Un Climate Talks Start Hunt for Kyoto Successor
5-17	Global warming speeds up glaciers melting in Mount Qomolangma
5-17	U.S. Mayors Support Global Warming Treaty
5-17	Wind-power fate up in air
5-17	Gas explosion kills 21 miners in China
5-16	Norm Steenstra: I have too many windows open
5-16	Hechler carried Logan without using black bag
5-16	Ceres power cell sets world alight
5-16	America's 50 Dirtiest Power Plants Emit Up To 20 Times More Pollution Than Plants With State-Of-Art Controls; Needless Pollution Linked to 20,000 Premature Deaths, Fetal Damage and Global Warming
5-16	American mayors unite to implement Kyoto goals on carbon dioxide levels
5-16	Bush Refocuses on Domestic Priorities
5-16	Climate change policy in tatters: Urgent action needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions - Drowning by numbers
5-16	Scientist digs into global warming
5-16	Dam rover goes where no inspector can
5-16	Renewable energy important for future of Minnesota
5-16	Big California Wind Farm Wrestles with Bird Deaths
5-16	Coal waste to be cleared following pair's deaths
5-16	Gas blast in northern Chinese coal mine kills at least 14
5-15	Asking the impossible: Victims from last years flood face deadline to find homes
5-15	New York Times: A New Campaign to Preserve an Old Mining Battlefield (Kenny King is an OVEC member)
5-15	Religion shouldn't neglect this world for the next
5-15	Some see link between toxins at power plant and workers' deaths
5-15	Importing power, fostering pollution; 31 coal-fired electric plants in permitting stage - The mercury's rising: No more dirty power plants for Utah - Dishing more dirt on Hatfields Ferry
5-15	Old Foes Soften to New Reactors
5-15	For fuel cell innovation, the tank is half full
5-15	British government report gives new wind to green energy
5-15	Problems Aplenty in a World of Plenty
5-15	Bring on this year's scorcher - if only to give Dubya the hint
5-14	CONSOL worker second W.Va. coal death of 05
5-14	Clean up power plants before building more
5-14	Clean-Coal Plants Should Be Pushed (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 coal corporations, etc, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
5-14	Ecological debt and climate change: Living within ones resources is the first lesson of mainstream economics. What if we applied the same lesson to the global household?
5-14	Rebuffing Bush, 132 Mayors Embrace Kyoto Rules - Bush needs to engage in global warming issues
5-14	European emissions trade takes off as world watches - Carbon trade-off
5-14	WARMING DEADLIER THAN HITLER
5-14	U.S. dims hopes for G8 progress on global warming - Heat Rises Over Meeting on Climate Change
5-14	Study: Climate change to swell, dry up rivers
5-14	Seaweed to breathe new life into fight against global warming
5-14	China-US coal-bed methane development program makes headway
5-14	Waste warning over plans to expand UK's nuclear power
5-14	Explosion at China Coal Mine Kills Nine
5-13	Company sues Massey over coal shipments
5-13	Browse coal industry Web site for trip though the looking glass
5-13	Stop listening to coal industry (letters to the editor are great tool--use them!)
5-13	Miners urged not to forget past (letters to the editor are great tool--use them!)
5-13	Economic impact of tourism recognized at meeting
5-13	Mine inspectors to watch for drugs
5-13	Senate Panel Issues Bill Updating U.S. Energy Policy - US Senate Panel to Unveil Part of Energy Bill Friday
5-13	Release the energy records
5-13	Senate Finally Confirms Johnson as EPA Head
5-13	Feds publish power plant pollution regulation
5-13	A Newly Electric Green: Sustainable Energy, Resources and Design - Total, EDF raise stakes in solar energy joint venture
5-13	Chavez Predicts Worldwide Energy Crisis
5-13	White House Wants Oil Price at $25 a Barrel (White House Heads Firmly Stuck in Sinking Sands)
5-13	Scientists Demand Action to Save Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
5-13	North Sea species are moving towards the Arctic to dodge climate change
5-13	The threat posed by global warming is fuelling the arguments of the nuclear-power lobby, but how convincing are its claims - Nuclear power may be the only way, says chief scientist
5-13	Clean coal technology attracting attention in Asia (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.)
5-12	Toxic emissions up 11 percent in West Virginia; Top 10 polluters in state were coal-fired power plants
5-12	WV HOBY Seminar begins today (On Friday May 13, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy's Julian Martin, OVEC's Vivian Stockman, Delegate and United Mine Workers of America member Mike Caputo and president of the West Virginia Coal Association speak on a panel about the "Future of Coal.")
5-12	Toxic emissions up in W.Va., EPA data shows
5-12	Small Number of Utilities Pack a Big Pollution Punch - Report: Dirty Kilowatts - Power plants' 'dirty secret'--Group lists 8 in Kentucky as top polluters - Six TVA coal plants named among nation's dirtiest
5-12	Bill would provide $4 billion to promote cleaner coal (Hmm. Given the above news, seems like the power plants, not the taxpayers should pay to clean up the existing worst offenders. Still, cleaning up emissions for new plants is a great idea...except the cleanest, cheapest way to increase energy is conservation and energy efficiency measures. And remember--there is no such thing as "clean" coal!) -
5-12	G.E. CEO Jeffrey Immelt has pledged to "make coal sexy again" --but what if his green gamble doesn't pay off? - Read full article here - Ecomagination: Inside GEs Power Play
5-12	Conservatives Push "Ecoterror" Laws (Nope, that doesn't mean they want to go after mega-polluters)
5-12	Federal regulators issue coal-cleanup ultimatum to Ohio
5-12	Coal Drugs-Summary Box
5-12	Duke may add 3 plants -- including 1 coal-fired; Utility says more capacity needed to meet demand
5-12	Feds help fund power plant cleanup (Another hit on your wallet, brought to you by "Cleaner Greener" Liar Liar Coal)
5-12	Wave, wind, sun and tide is a powerful mix; Research at Oxford shows how renewables can plug Britain's energy gap - Washington State Passes Progressive Renewable Energy Legislation
5-12	Investors see growing risks from climate
5-12	Can Earth take the heat of 'global brightening'?
5-12	Global Warming Solutions Generate Excitement at Carbon Expo
5-12	Global warming spells out water shortage - Global warming threatening 'roof of the world' - Wrapping up the glacier to keep it cold - Global warming could obliterate Highlands
5-12	Global Warming: The Conveyer Slows
5-12	UK fails to pay global warming dues
5-12	ExxonMobil Faces Major Shareholder Challenge to Explain its Increasingly Isolated Opposition to Global Warming Evidence, Failure to Address Risks
5-12	Greenhouse gas trade growing sharply-World Bank
5-12	At 6 a.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday WV Public Radio's Inside Appalachia explores National Geographic Traveler Magazine Geo-Tourism map of Appalachia (An OVEC staffer has a blurb about Appalachia on this map)
5-11	Outlook to air segment on The Appalachians
5-11	Another Birdbrain Environmentalist - What's Wrong With His Hair? (scroll down)
5-11	Feds end criminal probe of slurry spill; No charges filed in Massey dam failure - Feds halt grand jury probe into Massey slurry spill
5-11	Court Sides With Bush on Secrecy of Cheney Energy Panel - Judge who exonerated Cheney is on payroll from Exxon - Appeals Court Sides With Cheney in Lawsuit - U.S. court dismisses Cheney energy task force case - Cheney Wins Court Ruling On Energy Panel Records
5-11	Pentagon Is Asking Congress to Loosen Environmental Laws - Nature at Bay
5-11	Transmission line dispute delays construction on $1B power plant
5-11	History: West Virginia reality
5-11	Quarry hearing begins; Need for valley fill not proven, residents engineer says
5-11	3 fatal wrecks happen in Mingo, Wood, Morgan
5-11	Coal Producer Alpha Natural Resources Reports Results for First Quarter 2005
5-11	Better than coal?
5-11	Wheeling-Pitt Stock Slides on Report
5-11	Environmentalists Crank up Heat on Utilities
5-11	Investors at UN Meet Pledge $1 Billion in Clean Energy - Investors at UN Talk About Climate Change - Investors Worth $3.22 Trillion Urge Action at Climate Risk Summit
5-11	THE CLIMATE OF MANI - THE CLIMATE OF MANII - THE CLIMATE OF MANIII
5-11	Australia's Greenhouse Gas Scientists Declare Climate Emergency - Climate Change Already Affecting Plants, Farms and Habitats
5-11	Global Warming Is Biggest Threat to Wildlife - Top Scientist
5-11	Swiss Put Glacier Under Wraps to Slow Ice Melt
5-11	On global warming, N.C. must provide leadership, because Washington won't
5-11	Ireland Faces Big Chill as Ocean Current Slows
5-11	Before the flood
5-11	David Bellamy's inaccurate and selective figures on glacier shrinkage are a boon to climate change deniers
5-10	Agency says Logan contamination not a threat
5-10	Cornerstone environmental law, NEPA, under fire in energy bill
5-10	The New Power Generation: Mainstream America is starting to pull the plug and rely on homegrown solar energy; Dawn of the hygrid age
5-10	Fayette County Mountaintop to be Mined? (The coal company says their work doesn't destroy environment! No, it only destroys communities, forests, streams and our future.)
5-10	Coal mining blasts not small, gentle (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tool--use them!) - Fuel efficiency will cut prices at pump
5-10	Public critical of coal power; Energy conservation, renewable fuels popular with people at task force forum
5-10	G.E. Chief Urges U.S. to Adopt Clearer Energy Policy (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.)
5-10	Why nuclear power is not the answer
5-10	The Intensifying Global Struggle for Energy
5-10	House energy bill big waste of time
5-10	Protecting lives
5-10	Duke Energy Will Acquire Cinergy for $9 Billion in Stock - PSI still committed to building coal gasification plant
5-10	Coal plant has hefty demand for water
5-10	Group faults Allete for using coal
5-10	Woman settles with Va. coal company over ruined home
5-10	A coal industry titan with a love of laughter
5-10	Shortage of mammoth tires worries coal operators
5-10	Norway Aims to Become a Low Carbon Country
5-10	Warnecke named president of Arch Coal Sales
5-10	Co-Op Windfarm to Provide Power for 10,000 Homes
5-10	Global Warming's Link to Clearer Skies on Earth
5-10	Global warming: a clear and present danger
5-9	Blair Mountain nominated for historic status amid contentious meeting - The Appalachians
5-9	Mountaintop removal manifesto
5-9	Hedda Haning and Julie Archer: Ballot legislation helps ensure voter confidence
5-9	Politicos: Courthouse machines - Vote-buying must be met with zero tolerance
5-9	Memories: Rail station hosted many coal loads
5-9	Fletcher energy plan a (blinded-by-greed) map to (a bleak) future
5-9	When It Comes to Replacing Oil Imports, Nuclear Is No Easy Option, Experts Say - Blair demands nuclear power to protect high 'living standards' - Report seeks more nuclear plants to help cut pollution
5-9	A Village at the Edge, With Nowhere to Go but Down
5-9	Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows - Cambridge scientist warns of cooler European weather
5-9	NC Lawmakers Address Rising Worry Over Global Warming's Impact
5-9	Renewables Fund heads further into wind - Ireland Invests Millions In Renewables Research - Renewables to see the light - We need to stabilise consumption and develop renewables - Former Energy Sec. Abraham Supports Ocean Renewables in Energy Act
5-8	The Battle of Blair Mountain
5-8	Using fly ash to fill mines questioned
5-8	A Mountain of Controversy
5-8	Byrd raises more than $800,000 in 2 days; Capito reports raising more than $71,000 from January through March
5-8	Residents voice concerns about coal mining; State report linked Long Fork flooding to TECO Coal operations
5-8	The other CO2 problem
5-8	Turn up the heat now, or force generations to pay later
5-8	Alaska's burning heart
5-8	Global warming plus natural bacteria could release vast carbon deposits currently stored in Arctic soil
5-8	Airborne particles key factor of cardiac, respiratory illness: researcher
5-7	Blair Mountain nominated for historic status amid contentious meeting
5-7	A Victory for Friends of the Mountains!: Site of Rebellion Nominated to Registry - Mountain nominated for historic status; Landowners, coal industry object - Other papers carrying the AP story
5-7	Chief justice warns of threats to courts' independence
5-7	Ruining mountains (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tool--use them!)
5-7	Manchin denies knowing of Lincoln vote buying; State GOP chief wants ex-secretaries of state, new governor included, grilled on accountability
5-7	Despite reclamation of Coal Twp. subsidence, resident says ground continues to give way
5-7	DuPont settles charges over C8; Government said chemical giant hides info about dangers
5-7	"Glaciers in Everest melting faster due to global warming"
5-7	There's no dimming, but it is global warming that's happening
5-7	Global warming plus natural bacteria could release vast carbon deposits currently stored in Arctic soil
5-7	Grants awarded for coal-mining research
5-7	Peabody coal project back on track: IEPA issues new air permit for $2 billion clean 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.)
5-7	6 arrested for coal mine accident in Changchun
5-6	Webb, Stockman; Coal-sludge dam hazardous to school, public
5-6	Mining damage far from minimal, environmentalist lawyers tell court
5-6	Manchin vetoes tax cut for timber, gas
5-6	State conservationists will work to create more wilderness areas - Move would open millions of acres to variety of development - Bush Administration Rolls Back Rule on Building Forest Roads - Environmental Groups Blast New Bush Forest Rule - Road building to be allowed on national forest 'roadless' areas
5-6	New Zealanders to pay global warming tax
5-6	Blair Mountain must be memorialized; Irresponsible mining has already destroyed too much
5-6	Schleede; Wind energy advocate overstated benefits to state
5-6	DOE-Sponsored Project Turns Coal Waste Into Valuable Building Material
5-6	58 dead in three mine disasters
5-5	Board plans to appeal judge's ruling
5-5	Julian Martin: Where is the Gazette while state habitat is destroyed?
5-5	Letters could save Blair Mountain
5-5	Mountain time: Going behind the scenes on Appalachians documentary
5-5	Congress prepares to extend mine reclamation program - Group wants to see mine reclamation fund restored
5-5	Raleigh Commission takes first step toward prevention ("Youngsters are taught in basic science that if the land is stripped of vegetation, the soil will erode when it meets running water." gee, why don't mountaintop removers know this?)
5-5	Group tours newly reclaimed Pa. coal refuse pile
5-5	Less-polluting hybrid locomotive begins operation
5-5	Florida Demo Tames High Sulfur Coal: Delivers Power At Very Low Emissions (Hurray for cleaning up some of coal's deadly emissions, but there is no such thing as "clean" coal. Coal's dirty when you dig it, dirty when you haul it, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you dispose of the ash, and it sure dirties up politics!)
5-5	Power Co. tries Greenwash at Conference
5-5	Global warming makes seal pups go hungry
5-5	Global warming tops Cinergy agenda; Shareholders will get details today
5-5	Japan May End Bid For Nuclear Fusion Project
5-5	Vining Joins Arch Coal as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Trading
5-4	An Appalachian trail
5-4	Why Mountain Justice Summer? - Mountain Justice Summer
5-4	Labor History Film Festival Planned
5-4	Trout Unlimited advocates renewal of mine cleanup fund
5-4	DEP works on plan for writing water quality rules
5-4	U.S. Energy Chief Wants 'Clean Coal' Push (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.) - Energy ministers say must cut oil dependence
5-4	Energy bill has many faults (scroll down) - White House Vehicle Fuel Savings a Drop in Bucket?
5-4	Publisher isnt a vanity press (scroll down)
5-4	Appalachians Are Finding Pride in Mountain Twang
5-4	Criminal negligence
5-4	Leakey Leads Search for Global Warming Solutions
5-4	New Zealand Sets Carbon Emission Tax at NZ$15 a Ton - Our cities need to unite to tackle climate change - Irish Greenhouse Gas Firm Says to List in London
5-4	Switching to Renewable Energy Gets Easier
5-4	Living off the grid charges up writer
5-4	Practical hydrogen from a microbial fuel cell
5-4	Chinese island tapping into wind power - Sun power, German aid - Geodynamics shares surge - Energy company to harness the power of hot rocks
5-4	The brain is defenseless against mercury - Opponents of NM power plant fear airborne mercury pollutants - State sleeps while coal plant moves in
5-4	Cancer Epidemic - Symptom of an Unsustainable Society
5-3	Kanawha judges ruling keeps Mingo school in limbo
5-3	Group to publish map of state's labor history
5-3	Coal mine operator sentenced to prison - Ky. Mine Operator Sentenced for Violations
5-3	Coal tax money earmarked for rural anti-drug effort
5-3	Ky. state senator to face charges, attorney says
5-3	State employees are considered 'the spoils of war'
5-3	GE in talks to build more "clean coal" plants (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.)
5-3	A hazardous policy on mercury
5-3	Surging Coal Prices Sour Energy Investment in China - Value of Coal Output by China Increases
5-3	Ontario reviews replacing coal with expanded nuclear plants
5-3	Biomass is the clear winner in the face of energy crisis
5-3	California Scientists Issue Global Warming Warning
5-3	Rising number of greens ditch cheap air travel
5-3	Climate change poses a greater threat than terrorism, yet it has barely registered as a British election issue
5-2	Capito, Rahall at odds on energy bill; Clean-coal research included, but so are breaks for Western mining (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.)
5-2	Judge refuses to lift stay; delays Mingo consolidated school
5-2	Voices from the Mountains
5-2	Sculpture depicts miners stripping Mother Earth
5-2	Ky. Coal Association PR: Reclaimed mountaintops grow in value (barf bag anyone?)
5-2	We need mountains, not more parking lots - All of us pay price for devastation in E. Ky.- For love of Kentucky, stop destroying it
5-2	Louisville company gives ash a good use; Pioneering efforts convert coal waste (Yet, dangerous materials can seep into groundwater.)
5-2	Price of coal keeps nuclear goals at bay - Interest in Building Reactors, but Industry Is Still Cautious
5-2	Adventurers hope Arctic trek draws attention to global warming
5-2	Expo '05 offers glimpse of future
5-2	Pipeline sought to tap wasted gas
5-2	Livingstone's green vision
5-2	China slashes rebates on some steel, coal exports
5-1	Rape of the Earth! Decapitated mountains: monuments to nation's wasteful fuel consumption
5-1	Devastating view from the mountaintop: Strip-mining method wrecks land, lives of its people
5-1	The Appalachians: Documentary tells story of peoples relationship to land, history, world
5-1	McGraw Film Ready For Debut
5-1	Job safety
5-1	A poison wind: Toxic mercury blows into Utah from Nevada
5-1	Nuclear Looks Worse than Ever - Nuclear power could be cheaper low carbon alternative than renewables
5-1	Unmentioned Energy Fix: A 55 M.P.H. Speed Limit
5-1	Renewable energy consumers smiling - North Dakota Passes Renewables and Hydrogen Incentives
5-1	Environmental group calls wind turbines an eyesore - First green group attacks blight of giant wind farms - UK wind farms: all at sea
5-1	King George, Prince Abdullah, Global Warming, and the Torture of Thomas Jefferson
5-1	Scientist's bright idea to fight global warming - Greenhouse gases buried at sea - Ben & Jerry's Launch Campaign to Tackle Climate Change
5-1	The United States and global warming: a tale of two countries

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