(May)  Archive - June, 2005  (Jul)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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6-30	Richmond paper: Two arrested in protest at Massey; Activists seek closing of firm's coal-mining complex near school in W.Va. town - Beckley Register Herald: 2 arrested as Coal River group visits Massey headquarters - Coalfield citizens arrested delivering demands to Massey headquarters - State Journal and affiliated TV: Locals Arrested At Massey Protest
6-30	Protest set July 8  (...and meanwhile...Massey Energy Honors Environmental Award Winners The gall! Remember this 02/13/2004 Charleston Gazette news story by Ken Ward Jr.: "A Massey Energy Co. subsidiary could face fines of up to $40 million in a new lawsuit that alleges nearly 2,000 days worth of water pollution violations. The federal court lawsuit alleges that Massey's Sidney Coal Co. in Pike County, Ky., routinely violates its legal water pollution limits.")
6-30	'Appalachian Spring Postponed' takes a look at politics in W.Va. (Taylor is an OVEC board member and Straight is an OVEC intern)
6-30	Mountain Justice Summer sweeps through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee
6-30	A Fossilized Energy Bill
6-30	EPA faces fight on mercury policy - Greenpeace tests for mercury pollution on Cape Cod
6-30	Take Action: E-Letter on Global Warming
6-30	No nuclear, no coal ... wind yes! - Nuke power unsafe, renewable sources hold key: British report
6-30	Maine Solar Energy Bill Signed Into Law - Large-scale solar energy project planned for PSU
6-30	Calif. farmers clean up using solar power; They save on energy costs, and air quality improves
6-30	Sunshine mapping from space means brighter solar energy future
6-30	ETHANOL’S POTENTIAL: Looking Beyond Corn - Fuel for the future?
6-30	Look beyond conventional coal plants (As long as there is mountaintop removal and Big Coal's money in politics there is no such thing as "clean" coal!) - Senate fuels gasification project
6-30	Arch Coal CEO elected to USG board
6-30	Second Central Appalachian railroad transportation case settled
6-30	Work hours of Chinese coalminers to be limited to 8 - China wants to cut coal miners' work day (Shoot! Wonder if Friends of Coal will still want to emulate China?)
6-30	Energy: China's burning ambition
6-30	Future Climate Could be Hotter than Thought - Study - Clearing smoke may trigger global warming rise - Beckett Warns over Global Warming Weather Damage - As the heat rises, so do concerns for elderly
6-30	Global Warming May Unleash "Sand Seas" in Africa, Model Shows - One in six countries facing food shortage
6-30	Global warming makes sea less salty; Researchers predict effects on 'conveyor belt' of ocean currents - Oceans at risk from global warming-scientists
6-30	Global warming might create lopsided planet
6-30	Pressure builds on US over global warming - US won't be persuaded on Kyoto: Blair
6-30	Does dirty air cool the climate?
6-30	Fuel Cell Cars Face Bumpy Road Despite $60 Oil - Honda Leases First Fuel Cell Vehicle to a Family
6-29	Coal River Mountain Watch pleased with Manchin meeting
6-29	Group to take concerns to Massey headquarters
6-29	Water rules: The Gazette told you so
6-29	C8 a 'likely carcinogen,' EPA panel concludes
6-29	International Coal Group Adds Planning and Acquisition Executive
6-29	High court clears coal-fired plant
6-29	Sunny California: Promising energy source - Farmers Counting on Sun for Energy - How to brighten solar power's future - Extra solar power to be sold to TVA - APS helps pay for solar panels - Wineries go solar
6-29	Amendment's defeat 'not end of world,' speaker maintains
6-29	US Senate Passes Energy Bill, House Talks Loom - Senate OK on energy bill sets up battle - Energy bill boosts chances of building Iron Range coal plant - Senate energy bill offers boost for Westinghouse nuclear plants
6-29	Five states sue Allegheny Energy
6-29	Micro-power hailed as cheap, safe energy of future; Thinktank sees nuclear subsidy as bar to full use of renewables
6-29	Nuclear power 'too slow' and small-scale renewable overlooked - Cancer Risk Linked to Radiation Exposure
6-29	Environmentalists Angry over French Nuclear Project - France to Host World's First Nuclear Fusion Plant - Five Facts about ITER Nuclear Fusion Project - Nuclear Project could Solve Energy Woes - Scientist - France Will Get Fusion Reactor To Seek a Future Energy Source
6-29	Which would Blair prefer - an ID card or a windmill? - G8 climate negotiations very difficult - Chirac
6-29	G8 Leaders' Cars to Use Eco-Fuel made from Straw
6-29	Global Warming to Raise Storm Damage Costs - Finance Giant Allianz wants G8 Climate Change Move - Climate Changes to Push Up Insurance Fees
6-29	Russia Signs First Kyoto Project, More Seen
6-29	Sales of Hybrid, Diesel Cars Seen Surging in United States
6-29	Coal trains and traffic in Gallatin
6-29	Energy efficiency makes great difference
6-28	Public should say no to wrong mining practices
6-28	Manchin blames scare tactics for bond vote failure - Bond loses, but Manchin might get new options - Don Blankenship is 2-for-2 in election battles in seven months - Most southern counties favored pension bond
6-28	Federal flood insurance
6-28	Company trying to protect bats
6-28	Senate Energy Bill Faces GOP Opposition - Key Provisions of US Senate Energy Bill
6-28	Nemacolin developer gets key permit - Power plant plans in Greene County advance
6-28	Virginia coal: Hard facts
6-28	Canada to reduce mercury emissions
6-28	Alternate Power: A Change Is In The Wind
6-28	The Impending Decline of Saudi Oil Output
6-28	Scientists expect go-ahead for nuclear fusion reactor
6-28	Blair poised to say Yes to more nuclear power - Taiwan phases out all nuclear power, for coal
6-28	Climate change 'to drown Britain' - Nightmare vision of underwater Britain
6-28	Blair Admits G8 Climate Deal "Very Difficult"
6-28	Europe may force airlines to pay for CO2 emissions
6-28	A wild idea to fight global warming: Artificial space ring could shade Earth, group proposes
6-28	Global Warming May Alter Atlantic Currents, Study Says
6-28	The Race to Alaska Before It Melts
6-28	"Lite" solar water heater - A hot source of energy - Biofuel Crops seen Aiding Scottish Cereals Sector
6-28	New Study Weighs Promises, Pitfalls of Hydrogen Cars
6-27	Coal Mountain: After 28 years, the war rages on between mountain communities and the coal industry - Save the mountains, save money
6-27	Pension funding turns to general revenue; Defeat of bond proposal means money will come from budget - W.Va. opts for old debts over new by rejecting pension bond plan
6-27	Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin was in Washington this month, reportedly to meet with GOP mastermind Karl Rove. Speculation is that the party could be grooming Benjamin for a federal judgeship. (scroll down for this blurb)
6-27	Settlement of coal transport case leaves pay question unanswered
6-27	Fate of energy bill won't affect plans to build Wyoming coal gasification plant, say DKRW Energy officials - Kansas counties begin bid for Westar Energy coal plant, 200 jobs - Coal plant plans announced - Power task force to talk about health - Court urged to toss company's suit
6-27	Geologists take another look at Appalachians in search of oil
6-27	New Wild West: The price of Bush's drive for energy
6-27	Behind China's Bid for Unocal: A Costly Quest for Energy Control - The Chinese Challenge - Quenching America's growing thirst for oil
6-27	US and Europe weigh in on nuclear energy
6-27	Global warming’s pace could devastate Africa - Alpine areas the litmus test of global warming
6-27	Wilted Europe eyes global warming (and air conditioners)
6-27	Can We Bury Global Warming? Pumping carbon dioxide underground to avoid warming the atmosphere is feasible, but only if several key challenges can be met
6-27	Kyoto Protocol Waste of Cash or Green Lifeline? - Green message 'goes straight to the bottom line'
6-27	New Hi. law: easier to install solar panels - California Governor's Solar Plan Is Generating Opposition - Former Miller site turning into one-of-a-kind facility - Villagers in Eastern Nepal using solar lamp
6-26	W.Va. rejects pension bonds; Measure fails 46 percent to 54 percent - Special Bond Amendment Vote Boils Down to Two Millionaires Going Mano a Mano
6-26	Opposing views on Massey Energy facility looming over Marsh Fork Elementary (See first two letters. Exercise your right to free speech--write a letter to the editor!)
6-26	Destructive mining practices robbing us of our heritage
6-26	Coal protests are reminiscent of a cartoon show
6-26	C8 testing to start in July
6-26	After 10-day wait, Thackers allowed to return home - Cambrian Coal needs to do the right thing - Cambrian hit with citations
6-26	Concerns arise over Bush's pick for EPA job; Lawyer works for firm that represents W.R. Grace, others
6-26	Britain's top climatologist says a G8 fudge on global warming could be disastrous
6-26	Rising power demand unearths coal dilemma; New gasification method is expensive, but cleaner (And there's the mega-problem of mountaintop-removal-mined coal...)
6-26	Coal stock prices are smokin' in June
6-26	Chinese Strength, U.S. Weakness
6-26	Mercury a lingering problem despite attempts at regulation
6-26	Exhibition Coal Mine offers a look into the past
6-26	Coal train derails in Colorado, strands Amtrak passengers
6-26	Parking lot's 'solar trees' offer shade, provide power - Developers buy into efficiency of solar energy
6-26	African aid useless without action on climate change - Global warming threat to waterfowl
6-26	Douglas L. Faulkner Named Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
6-26	What's so Revolutionary about Venezuelan Coal?
6-25	W.Va. set to vote on bond proposal
6-25	U.S. Court Backs Bush's Changes on Clean Air Act - Read the Decision  (JBK notes: This ruling overturns a portion of the Bush Administration's efforts at weakening the New Source review rules. These rules were adopted by WV-DEP this year (Reg 14 and 19) and approved by the Legislature in April, in spite of our complaints that they would weaken air quality protections, would damage public health, and were being challenged in court. Next year, when we go to the Legislature, we can say "We told you so". And we should start in July when WV-DEP holds a public hearing on their efforts to adopt Bush's Mercury Rollback Rules, (also damaging to air quality and public health and also being appealed in court).)
6-25	Appalachia presentation to be held twice
6-25	Military interested in coal-to-fuel technology
6-25	More Cash for Clean Energy
6-25	Schwarzenegger's solar-roof plan could get sidelined by partisan squabbling
6-25	Energy bill may hinge on MTBE fund - Energy bills: Gridlock is still looking good - Proposed ban on additive ignites debate
6-25	Coal rush? Power project signals boom, debate
6-25	Researchers hope to reduce 'greenhouse gas' emissions
6-25	Utah court hearing is blow to coal mine bosses’ libel suit
6-25	Pilot solar power-plant delivers promising results - Solar water heaters made mandatory in buildings in Tamu Nadil
6-25	Europe divided on the nuclear option; The debate rages on how to respond to global warming
6-25	Coal train hits stranded pickup truck
6-25	Grassroots risk: living with heavy metal contamination
6-25	Beyond Oil: The view from Hubbert’s Peak - Oil shale could produce within a decade, congressman says - Energy execs say West could rival Saudi Arabia
6-25	China's appetite for coal claims the lives of 6000 miners every year, reports
6-24	Wildlife, coal advocates hold talks - 'Dialogue' looks at wildlife issues; Industry, conservationists discuss use of mined lands - Conference promotes use of once-mined lands for wildlife
6-24	Pension bond voting hopes high; 19,121 cast early ballots; figure encourages state officials - Turnout May Be Key to Bond Election - 1.7 percent of voters cast early ballots in bond issue - Feelings heat up in $5.5 billion pension bond issue
6-24	Ross to move International Coal Group headquarters to W.Va. - Massey Energy Company acquires Great Western Coal (scroll down)
6-24	County discusses new voting tools - Saturday's Vote Will Be End Of An Era
6-24	Property and rights (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools, use them!)
6-24	Save the mountains
6-24	DuPont-DEP meeting on Wood C8 dump set
6-24	Uncle Sam calls on Wyo coal
6-24	Blowing the whistle on climate change: Interview with Rick Piltz
6-24	Green Tinge Is Attracting Seed Money to Ventures
6-24	A Comparison of Senate - House Energy Bills - U.S. Senate Completes Debate, Sets Vote on Energy Legislation - Senate Nears Completion of Energy Bill; Conflict Expected with House
6-24	Wind farms breezing through Britain - Thais told to save energy as oil bills rise - ASEAN discuss renewable energy to boost power output - Use renewable energy, Tanzanians advised - Developing countries receive boost for renewable energy under new UN plan
6-24	China Says Coal Imports Up 59 Percent
6-24	Bush cold-shoulders global warming plea
6-24	Carmakers Must do More to Cut CO2 Pollution – EU
6-24	European Coal Burning, Greenhouse Emissions Higher in 2003
6-24	Global warming will bring fiercer hurricanes - Global warming evident in Timor Sea corals, say scientists - Global warming study provides cold comfort for north Europeans
6-24	Malaysia Biofuel to Get Green Light Soon – Minister
6-23	Report details contamination in some Mingo wells (OVEC staffers have worked extensively with residents in Mingo whose wells are contaminated. People believe coal companies are injecting coal slurry into abandoned underground mines and that the slurry ends up in their water. We've seen the water coming out of people's taps--black! Many families have a filed a lawsuit against the company they believe has contaminated their wells, which, years ago, before the slurry injection started, were clean.)
6-23	U.S. attorney top pick for filling Judge Haden's post
6-23	TAKE ACTION! Support a new direction on energy! - Say No To Nukes In Energy Bill - Stop the Nuclear Power Hustle
6-23	Bush Calls for More US Nuclear Energy - Bush Touts Nuclear Energy - Bush: U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power Plants - On a Rare Visit, Bush Talks Up Atomic Power
6-23	Fiore Cartoon on Nuclear Energy
6-23	US Senate Rejects Mandatory Emissions Cuts - Energy bill could bring offshore drilling to Virginia's coastal areas - - Global warming rider shot down by Senate
6-23	Bond ad budgets soaring -  Blankenship Tells Teachers to Stop Ads - Tug of War - In Politics, Don't Mess With the Don - Few Voters Cast Early Ballots - Pension Bond Issue - Frank Bellinetti, David Haney, Kenny Perdue, Karen Price, Cecil Roberts, Steve Roberts and Cecil H. Underwood
6-23	Protest coverage scant (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
6-23	Oceana receives flood mitigation funding (Your tax dollars paying for Big Coal's profits / externalized costs)
6-23	Miners compete in regional event
6-23	Emission projects OK'd for LG&E, Kentucky Utilities
6-23	Pa. Struggling to Prevent Death in Mines
6-23	Coal power plant proposal alarms environmentalists and Illinois - Wis. Power Plant Project Causes Alarm
6-23	Global Warming and Economic Development (pdf) - Global warming threatens Tibet rail link
6-23	Bush set to shun G8 allies on global warming - 'Earthy evangelist' changes US climate - Global warming: Blair must protect G-8 position
6-23	G8 Decision on Fusion would Herald Nuclear Future
6-23	EU Wants 20 Percent Cut in Energy Use by 2020
6-23	Standby Britain: How it fuels our energy crisis
6-23	EU Approves Coal Rescue Plan for Poland
6-23	European Industry Squeezed by Surging Power Prices - Taiwan lagging in renewable energy - Taiwan Takes Tentative Steps on CO2 Emissions - Renewable energy 'will struggle to pay its way' - Rules move ahead on renewable energy credits in Idaho
6-23	China's growth sums just don't add up for the planet
6-23	Combustible dust plagues plants
6-22	A conversation with convicted ecoterrorist Jeff Luers
6-22	Science Under Siege By Bush Administration, ACLU Charges
6-22	Manchin pitches pension proposal to voters - Pro and con campaigns pick up pace as special election nears - Manchin takes to air on 'false ads' - Governor makes stop in Beckley for pro-bond rally
6-22	Elk Foundation eyes reclaimed coal mines
6-22	Senate Endorses Bush Policy on Climate - Senate Approves Weaker, Voluntary Climate Plan
6-22	Voting machines: Let's have a look
6-22	U.S. in danger of becoming fascist (Winnie is an OVEC board member; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
6-22	Rise in coal use casts doubts over EU Kyoto commitments - Germany's greenhouse gas emissions increase - MAJOR BLOW TO ENVIRONMENT
6-22	Biofuel Increasingly Competitive if Oil Surge Lasts
6-22	Elders fight to keep land; Peabody opponent says elderly suffer from stress disorder
6-22	Seven dead after Israeli train smashes into coal truck
6-22	Warming to raise risk of wildfires
6-22	Ross Gelbspan: Why Mainstream Coverage of Global Warming Has Failed
6-22	Renewable Energy 2005: A Mid-Year Review
6-22	Wind Turbine Price Rise Seen As Sign of Industry Health
6-22	WB helps China scale up use of renewable energy
6-22	Chinese coal mine corruption needs digging out - China's coal demand to reach 2.5 bln tons by 2010 - report
6-21	Domenici Backs Off Warming Limits - Lobbying Heats Up As Climate Vote Nears - Mayor leads crusade against global warming
6-21	Reducing pollutants from electricity generation helps economy, study finds
6-21	Manchin invokes jobs to drum up support for plan - Pension bond foes elaborate on opposition - Massey chief fires back at Manchin
6-21	Bond foes, backers clash; Manchin made issue personal, Blankenship says - Manchin making bond issue 'personal,' Massey CEO says - WV: Manchin VS Blankenship? - Pension PR Battle Heats Up - Manchin Brings Added Safeguard to Pension Bonds
6-21	Flood Trial to Begin in March 2006
6-21	Mining Dilemma
6-21	Massey Energy Announces Purchase of Great Western Assets
6-21	Other facts temper job gains
6-21	In W.Va. county, vote-buying indictments turn few heads
6-21	ARC map will boost tourism in Appalachia (An OVEC staffer has a blurb of text on this map, recounting the region's rich biodiversity.)
6-21	Dynatec Producing Coal-Bed Methane Gas in West Virginia - Canada’s Coal Bed Methane Losing its Buzz
6-21	A Flicker Away From a Blackout
6-21	US power plants could run short of coal - Arch warns coal could run out at power plants - Arch has long-term interest in high-sulfur coal
6-21	Load of bull - Hauling bill's death ups prices
6-21	After 29 years, widow wins fight for black-lung benefits
6-21	How global warming is changing the animal kingdom - Storms, floods and sunshine: welcome to global warming - Thawing Siberia Triggers Global Warming Alarm
6-21	Climate change: More coal use pushes up EU greenhouse gas emissions in 2003 - Record European CO2 Prices Seen Going Higher Still
6-21	Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK
6-21	Ontario may join smog lawsuits against U.S., industrial polluters
6-21	AEP Includes Amos Plant in Major System Upgrade
6-20	Annihilation of mountaintops
6-20	Ah, cleaner air at affordable cost
6-20	Not all the power lies with politicians
6-20	Hundreds of Concerned Citizens Attend Rally Against Mountain Top Removal  -  Bringing Down The Mountain Killers: Fighting King Coal in W.Va.
6-20	New US Move to Spoil Climate Accord  -  U.S. Resists Strong Summit Language on Global Warming
6-20	Fiddling as the Planet Burns; There is nothing left to debate about climate change. It is happening and each of us must act  -  US Senate Climate Vote Puts Heat on Administration
6-20	Global warming in Africa: The hottest issue of all  -  Africa 'on front line of climate change'  -  Climate Refugees: the hidden cost of climate change
6-20	Hauling bill's death ups prices
6-19	Protesters offer slurry meal to coal group head  -  Protesters face coal association president with slurry dinner
6-19	New US move to spoil climate accord  -  How high-pressure politics threatens action on climate  -  Everyone Agrees Global Warming Is Wrecking Our Planet ... Everyone Except Those Who Can Stop It  -  Melting polar ice caps are scientific fact, yet the G8 leaders won’t act
6-19	How carbon causes global warming  -  Shore Losers
6-18	Mountaintop removal spurs competing rallies  -  Rallies for, against mountaintop removal mining set for same time
6-18	AEP Announces Pollution Measures at Plants  -  Amos scrubbers among $1.8 billion in AEP pollution control  -  AEP to invest $1 billion in Amos plant
6-18	Bush blows cold on global warming  -  Lobbying from within  -  Revolving door/Climate adviser returns to roots  -  Climate change gains crucial ally in U.S. Senate
6-17	OSM delays changes to buffer zone rule
6-17	Errant report leads to higher prices on natural gas, and now, a lawsuit
6-17	Senate votes to require more alternative energy  -  Senate Makes Environment the Focus of Energy Bill  -  Finance Panel Approves Energy Tax Breaks  -  US Senate Panel OKs $10.7 Billion Energy Tax Package
6-17	U.S. Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan; Global-Warming Science Assailed  -  G8 leaders already cooling on global warming  -  Blair caught in G8 climate dilemma  -  PM urged to bypass Bush on climate change  -  Climate change plan for G8 summit diluted after Blair's US visit
6-16	Blankenship's residency questioned
6-16	Blankenship Files $300 Million Lawsuit - Massey, president sue for $300 million, allege defamation  -
6-16	'The Appalachians': Exploring a Maligned Region So Many Think They Know
6-16	Bonds: Best solution - Bond sale foes need to offer some alternatives - Pension bond fund generating debate - Board dragging its feet, critics say; Retirement board delay to help pension bond vote, foes say
6-16	Governor urges approval of bond amendment - Massey CEO says plan is a giant bet on stock market
6-16	Company fined for polluting river
6-16	Researchers Try to Make Coal Cleaner (Suggestion--get Big Coal $ out of politics and stop mountaintop removal! Another suggestion--spend those coal research billions on truly clean renewable energy.)
6-16	Groups Sue EPA Over Mercury Pollution on Behalf of Children - Environmentalists track mercury levels
6-16	U.S. Appeals Court sides with Duke in clean air case - Appeals court sides with Duke Energy - Ruling Puts Power Plant Cleanups in Doubt
6-16	EPA rejects request that it review NSR equipment replacement rule
6-16	EPA guidelines aim to clear air in parks -Parks' haze clearly getting worse, study finds - EPA Sets New Rules for Cleaner Parks Air - TVA touts $300 million scrubber for coal plant closest to Smokies
6-16	Bush Puts Energy Heat On Congress - Bill favors Western coal projects
6-16	Plan for more coal energy in Nevada runs into Calif. opposition - Nevada clean air interests hail vote against Gerlach energy plant
6-16	Start of Northeast bike path work delayed for a year; Fear of coal-ash pollution forces redesign
6-16	Living standards fuel our need to burn coal
6-16	Ontario to slow phase-out of coal-fed power plants - McGuinty government backtracks on coal phaseout
6-16	Morgan Stanley Economist Sees Oil Crash As Alternative Energy Gains Ground
6-16	Nukes in, Cash Out in Softened G8 Climate Text
6-16	Bush Says `What, Me Worry?' on Global Warming
6-16	Miners trapped in flooded Indian coal mine
6-16	Renewable energy can be a lot cheaper
6-16	Biggest on-Shore Windfarm Is Switched On
6-16	Renewable Energy Wall Map Wins MapWorld 2005 MapInfo Contest
6-15	Promoting tourism makes sense for the state
6-15	Manchin Gets His Team, But Not Blankenship - Blankenship says he declined Manchin offer
6-15	Bond review panel revealed; Bipartisan members will approve bond issues if proposal passes
6-15	State cites coal company for blasting violations - Mine closed until problem of flying rocks solved
6-15	Coal truck knocks out phone, cable access for parts of western Kentucky
6-15	Chicago Climate Exchange paves the way for U.S. emissions trading
6-15	Senate Proposes Broader Energy Tax Package - Better Prospects for Energy Bill in the Senate - Senate kicks off two-week energy debate
6-15	Bush energy chief says Western resources vital to U.S. future
6-15	Health Groups Join Suit Against U.S. EPA Over Mercury Emissions
6-15	£40m plan to 'store' greenhouse gases - Funds for greenhouse gas storage - Ministers back carbon dumping
6-15	Nuclear waste: the 1,000-year fudge
6-15	Demand for Natural Gas Brings Big Import Plans, and Objections
6-15	BP: Energy Consumption Likely to Be Lower - Global energy use has hit 20-year high, says BP - 'Record volume rise' in world energy consumption
6-15	Mercury levels in Neuse studied
6-15	White House spins global warming - Yes, globe is warming, even if Bush denies it
6-15	Exxon makes a cold calculation on global warming
6-15	Report urges Ohio to fight global warming
6-14	Massey on spot over school, bond issue
6-14	Racism: Terrible legacy - A NATION'S HAUNTING PAST
6-14	Sales tax exemptions cost state $500 million a year - Tax cuts depend on bonds, official says
6-14	Workers' comp running big bills; Coalfield school systems rack up high costs for state
6-14	SEARCHING 20,000 KENTUCKY ACRES FOR NEWBORN ELK (Introducing one species does not compensate for the loss of the most biologically diverse temperate forests on Earth)
6-14	Investors: Here comes the sun
6-14	Clark wants troublesome road repaired
6-14	Something Rotten in Ohio
6-14	An odd couple and the energy bill - Senators vow to block Fla. drilling, delay U.S. energy bill vote - US Senate Begins Debate on Energy Bill on Tuesday - US Farm, Oil Groups Spar over Ethanol in Energy Bill
6-14	Effort Underway To Reduce Mercury Expose To Fetuses
6-14	US drops investigation into Arch Coal acquisition - FTC ends Arch Coal investigation - Antitrust regulators drop their challenge to Arch deal
6-14	French to Boost Biofuel Output to Meet EU Target - Cow Power is Georgian Answer to Patchy Gas Supply
6-14	Nuclear power not the way, says Greenpeace
6-14	United States Backs Efforts To Develop Methane as Energy Source
6-14	Global Warming: The US Contribution in Figures - World scientists say people causing global warming
6-14	Global warming a threat, but also an opportunity; With leadership, N.C. climate change could bring economic boost
6-14	World Bank can Answer G8 Climate Call
6-14	Navajo Nation Bans Mining, Processing
6-14	Florida coal-plant opponents speak out
6-13	Pension bond foes begin ad war - Campaign to Defeat Bond Proposal Begins
6-13	The debate's over: Globe is warming
6-13	Films trace electricity to its origin - Mountain Justice Summer Film Festival - Mountain Justice Summer events in Lexington, Ky this week
6-13	Pension bond sale still raises many questions
6-13	Charleston Gazette's Potpourri today mentions: The Massey CEO and the pension vote (point 4), and Who Owns West Virginia (last point), presented by our own Sludge Safety Project
6-13	CARBON-FREE KILOWATTS: Powerful wind - Wind energy power-generation project could improve region's economic fortunes
6-13	Down-and-Dirty Profit From a Surging Energy Market (Hear ye all ye investors--your profits come at our pain and extreme costs!)
6-13	$500 Million Plans for Consol Expansion Highlight Growing Trend for New Mine Development in the U.S. (Also highlight politicians denial of global warming and ecological reality, and refusal to lead the way to clean energy future.)
6-13	Technologies show promise in mercury removal
6-13	California's high-tech solution to its energy problems could work
6-13	Leak raises nuclear power doubts
6-13	The nuclear power option - expensive, ineffective and unnecessary
6-13	White House cool as top official walks
6-13	Putin wooed on climate change plan
6-13	Rift opens with US as global warming rises on G8 agenda - Beckett exposes G8 rift on global warming - Blair turns up global warming heat
6-13	Driven by profit and the opportunity to shape regulations, major corporations are backing stronger measures to reduce global warming
6-12	‘Project Mountaineer’ hopes to power up the East
6-12	Utilities Show Interest in New Nuke Plants
6-12	Motorcyclists find riding heaven in West Virginia
6-12	Virginia Coal-Fired Plant Draws Protest
6-12	Coal plant not the only way, some Floridians say
6-12	Aussies enviros call for coal power ban
6-12	Toxic soil lawsuit imminent; former coal gasification plant polluted neighborhood
6-12	Pay and performance: Are CEOS earning their keep?
6-12	Editor of Climate Reports Resigns - Official in flap over global warming quits
6-12	GOP Warms Up to Emissions Cuts; Some Environmentalists Say Proposals Do Not Go Far Enough - Calif. Governor Calls for Effort to Halt Global Warming - Senate closer to adding climate provisions
6-12	How will U.S. curb global warming? - Warming debate heats up
6-12	BP shows two faces as it fights US bill to cut CO2 emissions
6-12	Bury CO2 at sea, says DTI
6-12	Eco-Friendly Motor Rally Sets Off from Kyoto to Celebrate Environment
6-11	Boulder rips into house in E. Kentucky - Man sees boulder fall, crash into his building
6-11	Coal trucks and the Public Service Commission
6-11	Mine Collapse Kills Worker in Pennsylvania
6-11	$10M Approved For Coal-Gasification Plant
6-11	Federal magistrate temporarily stays order halting methane project
6-11	Climate Action - Bush blows cold on Blair's global warming plans - Big guns urge G8 global warming action
6-11	Arctic explorers say global warming forced them to cut journey short - Expedition's ironic success
6-11	Georgian Windpower seeks to sue Stelco for killing plan to replace coal power
6-10	Tensions rise over AML bill
6-10	Pro-pension bond group unfazed by Blankenship
6-10	Mountain Justice Summer Activists in Jail; Need Legal Defense Funds (The three have been released, but legal funds are still needed.) - Update from Mountain Justice Summer
6-10	Climate Changes Spur Plan for Alaska Village Move
6-10	US States Grapple with Carbon Reduction Plan
6-10	Exxon writes America's energy policy, BushCo chops up emissions reports. Is there any hope at all?  - Ex-Oil Lobbyist Was In Charge Of Global Warming Reports
6-10	Big Business Urges Urgent G8 Global Warming Action
6-10	Businesses 'ignoring energy efficiency measures'
6-10	Power plants across India send SOS: We have no coal
6-9	Blankenship Calls Pension Bonds a 'Crap Shoot'
6-9	Environmental groups report vandalism, harassment - A different view of Mountain Justice protests
6-9	3 activists arrested after disrupting company meeting
6-9	In West Virginia, paragliding can send even beginners on an Appalachian high
6-9	Scottish Coal jobs secured by move into renewables - Peat touted as cleaner alternative to coal
6-9	Energy-efficiency helps firms save cash
6-9	Renewable power worth a sacrifice
6-9	Global warming 'spin' defended
6-9	Portland trims carbon dioxide to 15-year low
6-9	Water Safety Tops EPA Chief's List
6-9	Green heroes or terrorists? (Oh plu-eeze! Who are the extremists in West Virginia? Mountaintop removers!)
6-9	China closes largest failing strip mine - 'Coal rush' in China exacting a heavy toll
6-9	Big bass, big problems
6-9	Peabody plant proposal draws fire - Power plants blow no good for increasingly sick Fort Worth kids
6-9	Money isn't a solution to water problems; Regulations protect well users
6-8	FPL Energy veto stymies bat study, group says
6-8	Official fires back at Blankenship
6-8	Massey chief to oppose bonds; Blankenship to air ads opposing Manchin’s pension proposal - Massey CEO Opposes Bond Sale - More pensions lack full funding; Millions may not know condition of their own pensions - Manchin braces for critics of his pension bond plan - State voters will OK bonds June 25, Manchin predicts
6-8	Mountain Justice Summer Heats Up
6-8	Officials ignoring Logan flooding (letters to the editor are great tools; use them!) - Move on, miners (scroll down)
6-8	Ireland urges West Virginians to vote early - Election officials implementing changes
6-8	Counties urged to buy talking ballot devices
6-8	Instead of asking what can we do to lessen demand and to stop global warming...Government, industry ask: Can we ship enough coal to meet demand?
6-8	Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming - Official Played Down Emissions' Links to Global Warming
6-8	Text of Bush, Blair News Conference - Bush, Blair Agree to Lift African Debt, Discuss Global Warming - US wants to share nuclear power and clean coal tech, says Bush - Bush 'needs to know more' about global warming
6-8	Joint Science Academies’ Global Response to Climate Change - Academies Warn of Warming
6-8	Wet, wild and sustainable -- how we can save the oceans
6-8	Houston company may gain federal aid; Provision in bill may open up "clean" coal loan to energy firm
6-8	Baltimore enters legal fray on mercury pollution rules; City joining states' action on EPA limits, mayor says
6-8	Coal expert warns against being first
6-8	Poachers endanger Kentucky's ginseng (and mountaintop removal destroys it forever!)
6-8	Suspect congressional travel
6-8	National Coal Corp. Reports First Quarter 2005 Financial Results
6-8	Jerome County approves power plant research tower
6-8	Arsenic: In Search of an Antidote to a Global Poison
6-8	At least 30 killed in China mine blasts - China launches 80 mln energy efficiency program
6-8	Renewable Energy to Play Role in New CA Emissions Reductions - Plans for World's Largest Wind Farm Submitted - Biggest wind farm could power one in four London homes
6-7	The Longer View
6-7	EPA wants to review DuPont permit settlement
6-7	New and bleak climate-change study  -  Blair confident of change of climate in White House  -  Disappearing arctic lakes linked to climate change  -  G8 seen as chance for climate change break
6-7	Companies call on Bush for emission guidelines
6-7	Breaking That Dirty Oil Habit
6-6	Politicians ignore Logan flood areas (letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
6-6	Global-warming fight goes grass roots - Global warming is real
6-6	Why wait 20 years to cut mercury emissions at coal plants? Environmentalists say the EPA is ignoring some promising technology
6-6	Second year of high bat kills reported at Tucker wind farm - Sellin' Nukes, Dissin' Wind
6-6	The new terror law
6-6	Nuclear options - China Said Weighing Bids on Nuke Plants - Beattie fears nuclear threat to coal
6-6	Hunger for Energy Transforms How India Operates
6-6	Death and disease stalk China’s coal bowl - Ash fall from coal-fired plant worries villagers
6-5	Get registered to vote in upcoming election
6-5	Retiring the debt: Is a giant bond sale the best way to shore up W.Va.’s pensions? That’s for you to decide
6-5	Coal's Comeback--Cleaner plant may still be too dirty for some - A new threat from an old source
6-5	Retrofitting coal plants with pollution controls helps company profits
6-5	Mountaintop removal: 'environmentally destructive'
6-5	This really stinks
6-5	Warning from Gore on future; Global warming called an emergency
6-5	West Virginia man photographs old coal patches before they disappear
6-5	Warming up to solar power - Wind power gets another whirl
6-5	Build wind farms off coast, urges adviser
6-5	Renewable energy to power remote villages
6-4	Blackwater Spill Under Investigation In McDowell County
6-4	Environment atlas reveals planet wide devastation - Changing planet revealed in atlas - Three decades of environmental degradation as seen from space
6-4	Companies cash in on synthetic coal credit; Tax loophole created during the 1970s still on the books
6-4	KENTUCKY SHOULDN'T HAVE FIRED MINE-SAFETY WATCHDOG OPPEGARD
6-4	Rules to help shield non-coal miners
6-4	Fish Role Eyed in Coal-Bed Methane Debate
6-4	Utah hopes Idaho's in-depth study sheds light on mercury problem
6-4	Innovative Technology Shows Promise for Low-Cost Mercury Control; Patented DOE Process Licensed to Industry for Commercial Development
6-4	Mine could begin producing coal by end of June
6-4	Japan Squeezes to Get the Most of Costly Fuel
6-4	China Reports More Cities Suffering Acid Rain, Rivers and Lakes Polluted
6-4	Disappearing Arctic lakes could be disastrous to migratory birds -Global warming causes Arctic lakes to disappear - 125 large northern lakes disappear - Over 60 stories on this topic
6-4	Humans warming oceans: scientists - Global warming's impact on US plants and animals
6-4	Make That Latte Iced: Seattle Heat Kindles Global-Warming Talk
6-3	Blackwater spills into Elkhorn Creek
6-3	Activists study Mountain Justice - Security is watchword at group's camp - Venezuelans and Appalachians Unite!
6-3	Edited transcript of June 2 chat on mountaintop removal mining with Bill Caylor, president of the Kentucky Coal Association
6-3	PA plans to regulate mercury emissions at 40 coal-fired power plants - Mercury a worry for duck hunters
6-3	Proposal would put restrictions on coal-bed methane water
6-3	Alabama Coal Mine Shut Down After Fatality
6-3	Mo. residents testify against coal plant
6-3	Air pollution controls = huge savings in Europe
6-2	Coal companies trample on public, private property
6-2	There is no such thing as clean coal
6-2	Arrested Massey protesters issued citations, released - Argentina Indy Media: Showdown in Coal Town--16 Arrested in MJS Action - Infoshop News
6-2	Energy prices boost tax revenue (Can we please have a full accounting of the externalized costs--that is the costs the polluting energy industries pass along to us while amassing profits? Examples of externalized costs include the cost of air pollution on our health and our forests and increased flooding related to mountaintop removal.)
6-2	Optical-scan voting system is a better choice for Kanawha - Optical scan system hacked
6-2	The toll of coal--Man injured in toilet explosion files lawsuit - About 200 outlets carried this story
6-2	We're rapidly getting thirstier
6-2	Maryland governor, AG At Odds Over Mercury Emissions Rules - Mercury is rising - New Hampshire lawmakers test positive for mercury
6-2	31-year coal fire to be snuffed out - PA DEP Awards $3.2 Million Contract to Extinguish Percy Mine Fire
6-2	Ocean current changes could cause climate 'flip' - Seabirds put at risk by global warming - Waters are too hot for white beaked dolphins
6-2	On reducing emissions, one person at a time
6-2	An escape valve for greenhouse gas - Patented technology captures carbon dioxide from power plants
6-2	Schwarzenegger's Voluntary Proposal Aims for 25% Cut by 2020 - Gov. Vows Attack on Global Warming
6-2	Antarctica conference to focus on climate change
6-2	Allergies may be linked to global warming
6-2	Sweden shuts nuclear plant in shift to wind - Nukes-Against-Global Warming Strategy Scored as Too Costly
6-2	Diversity is key to energy future - report - Another Scottish sea test centre for renewable energy
6-1	Beckley Register Herald - State Police arrest 16 at Massey site - Mountaintop Removal Protests Continue - 16 arrested while attempting to deliver demands to Massey - WBOY/WTRF coverage - MetroNews Radio - Hampton Roads Newspaper- Channels 8 and 11
6-1	Partnership puts Beckley mine on the map; 'Geotourism' program reflects diversity of ARC's 13-state region (OVEC's Vivian Stockman has a blurb on this map about Appalachia's ecology.)
6-1	Coal can devastate (Scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
6-1	The hole gets deeper
6-1	From Jail Cells to Solar Cells
6-1	You May be Brainwashed by Corporate Media if You:
6-1	Methane event focuses on lessons learned
6-1	Indo-US energy talks focuses on clean coal technology (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.)
6-1	Aviation blocks emissions targets
6-1	Formal Japanese bureaucrats go casual to help fight global warming
6-1	Global warming and coral reefs