(Jun)  Archive - July, 2005  (Aug)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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7-31	Songs, humor, prayers decry mountaintop mining in W.Va.; Gathering at Capitol, hundreds denounce coal-industry practices
7-31	State buffer rule weaker than federal
7-31	Where the elk run free: Animals and mountaintop-mining debate
7-31	‘No record’ nominee hostile to all things progressive
7-31	Barton Kills National Renewable Energy Standard Which Would Save Texas Consumers $4.7 billion, Create 19,400 Jobs
7-31	Religious community supports million solar roofs
7-31	Big firms turn to a solar powered future - Albuquerque Measure Promotes Use of Renewable Energy
7-31	World's top coal producers serve up a Kyoto-lite - Half-hearted climate change response - How big energy won the climate battle
7-31	Warnings grow on global warming
7-30	Blankenship downplays coal silos' importance - DEP sets timetable for demolition of Massey silo
7-30	Mining firm donates land to state DNR
7-30	Blankenship Promises 'Aggressive' Court Battle
7-30	Energy Bill Raises Fears About Pollution, Fraud; Critics Point to Perks for Industry - Coal gets respect in new energy bill OK'd by Senate - Lawmakers look after southern W.Va. projects in federal highway bill - Energy bill ready for Bush's signature - Highlights of the energy bill - Energy Bill Is a Mixed Bag for Some
7-30	First Wind Farm in National Forest Planned
7-29	Rally to fight mountaintop removal
7-29	Massey to appeal DEP silo order
7-29	‘Mountain Justice Summer’: W.Va. communities - be wary of radical protesters (Fear-mongering, somewhat defamatory editorial by Roger Lilly, who makes a living supplying machines to coal companies that destroy our mountains)
7-29	Appeals court sets argument in mining case
7-29	Kill the Bill - EPA Holds Back Report on Car Fuel Efficiency  -  Energy shortage  -  Anemic energy plan
7-29	Massey Energy Reports 194% Increase in Second Quarter Net Income
7-29	Is a waste-coal facility the answer to Robinson Township’s problems -- or will residents get burned?
7-29	Reaction to Six-Nation Climate Pact  -  Six-country pact on clean energy 'not meant to undermine Kyoto'
7-29	Students work for poor in Appalachia  -  New River developers trying again
7-28	Both Massey silos off permit, DEP says survey shows
7-28	Coal Silo Decision Called A Victory - Protesters cheer, Massey and employees jeer ruling
7-28	Blankenship sues, Gov. Manchin responds - Manchin stands by DEP actions in wake of suit by Massey chief - Blankenship says freedom of speech was threatened - Manchin Says Comments Taken Out Of Context - Blankenship Defends Lawsuit
7-28	Power grid operator asks users to conserve
7-28	Another coal company cited for alleged black water spill - Coal Company Is Cited For Polluting Kentucky Stream
7-28	Kentucky may gain from federal funding for clean-coal technologies (Orwellian Lies! "Clean" coal is cleaning out your pockets! "Clean" coal is buying your "leaders." As long as there is mountaintop removal there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
7-28	$1.5 Billion Giveaway Secretly Slipped into Energy Bill, Waxman Says    Energy Tax Breaks Total $14.5 Billion; Some Lawmakers Wanted More Support for Efficiency, Alternative Sources - Five-year negotiations lead to modest energy bill
7-28	Energy Officials are Seeing an Upward Trend for Power Use
7-28	Solar Power Breakthrough; New Low-Cost Solar Energy May Replace Gas
7-28	Environmental Report Names Top Polluters
7-28	Senators urged not to remove power plants from mercury standards
7-28	Solar-Powered Subway Station Is Coney Island's Newest Attraction
7-28	U.S. Partnership to Address Climate Change - Australia looks beyond Kyoto with new pact
7-28	Global Warming: How Hot? How Soon?
7-28	Key facts on global warming
7-28	Global warming blamed for decline of puffins
7-28	Coal mine blast kills 14 people in Guizhou
7-27	"He shut my silo down, and I shot him with this lawsuit."
7-27	Massey silo permit revoked; DEP says silo is out of permit area, orders removal - W.Va. regulators cancel coal silo permit near Raleigh school - Massey Permit Canceled
7-27	Take Action: Reject the Dirty Energy Bill - Wasting energy - Bill Wouldn't Wean U.S. Off Oil Imports, Analysts Say  - A role for coal (no role for your lungs, the water or the future) - Congress, After Years of Effort, Is Set to Pass Broad Energy Bill - Energy Compromise has Billions in Tax Breaks for Energy Companies, Cuts Conservation Support - Negotiators Agree on Tax Breaks in Energy Bill - Coal industry touts compromise in energy bill - Lawmaker: Energy bill could fuel area coal communities
7-27	Byrd wins abandoned mines extension; Bill stalls as Wyoming, Eastern states disagree - Abandoned mine legislation stalls
7-27	Blankenship Sues Governor for Violating Freedom of Speech - Massey CEO sues W.Va. governor in federal court
7-27	Environmental report names top power plant polluters in Northeast
7-27	Senior thrill-seeker (Rose Marie Riter is an OVEC member)
7-27	Utility likely to oppose "clean" coal-power plan
7-27	U.S. To Announce 'Beyond Kyoto' Greenhouse Pact - U.S. to Join China and India in Climate Pact
7-27	Australia: Climate change threatens coastal areas - Australia: 'Too late to save fragile ecosystems' - Climate change inevitable: Minister - Australia's unique role in saving planet
7-27	Fueling a breakthrough
7-27	Greenpeace's Blockade of Australian Coal Port Ends
7-26	Most of McGraw libel suit dismissed
7-26	Kentucky cites coal company for allegedly polluting stream
7-26	Bush urges agencies to assess possible coal shortage
7-26	Sumner to TVA: Keep coal trains out
7-26	In Search of a New Energy Source, China Rides the Wind
7-26	Lawmakers Reach a Deal on New Energy Policies - US Energy Bill would Nearly Double Ethanol Output - UC scientist says ethanol uses more energy than it makes - Curbs on fossil fuel consumption killed - Lawmakers near agreement on energy bill
7-26	Renewable Energy Online Courses - Log on to your solar future!
7-26	Insurers Link Global Warming with Higher Cost of Storms
7-26	EU Emissions Trade to Dampen Aviation Demand
7-26	Rails Derail Arch Coal
7-26	Going green? Put fruit in your tank, says Cyprus
7-25	OSM to probe state reviews of mine permit revisions
7-25	Battle at Marsh Fork Elementary Continues
7-25	Massey trumpets 'total environment' record in anti-protester ads
7-25	State puts Massey above citizens’ safety (letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
7-25	ICG Retains Top Coal Executives for Move to Charleston
7-25	Congressional Negotiators Are Nearing Agreement on Broad Energy Measure - Prospects for Energy Bill Improve - Lawmakers Remove Roadblock to Energy Bill - MTBE Legal Protection Dropped from Energy Bill Draft - Energy Bill Might Not Protect Gas Additive
7-25	State seeks reimbursement for refinery signs
7-25	Leupp Navajos protest C-aquifer water slurry deal
7-25	With doubts about global warming melting away, U.S. must stop stalling and lead world into action
7-25	Clean power: Alternative energy no longer alternative - Windpower prices fall as oil, gasoline prices double
7-25	Kansas will need infrastructure to transmit wind energy
7-25	Plan for Winter Windmill Idling May Save Birds
7-25	Indians now look to make oil out of coal
7-25	China seeks Spanish help in developing renewable energy sources
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7-24	W. Va. residents decry presence of 'outsiders' at coal protest
7-24	Job Market in W.Va. Defies Efforts to Reform Welfare
7-24	Uncertainties Slow Push for Nuclear Plants; Cost of Building New Facilities, Concerns About Waste Disposal Are Cited
7-24	Dredge foe questions its radioactivity
7-24	Roberts's docket provides few hints - John Roberts and the Smirking Man
7-24	Railroad gets on track to meet coal demands
7-24	New culture in old coal town
7-24	Feds, Wyoming split over drilling rules - Oil and Gas Permitting Keeps BLM Staff Too Busy For Environment
7-24	Senators acknowledge global warming, but question solutions
7-24	Ocean warming harms wildlife
7-24	Economic boom batters China's climate
7-24	Five bids to create solar city
7-24	Solar Electric System Saves G/G Industries $12,000 Annually in Electric Bills - 'Green' buildings can reduce energy bill by almost half
7-24	Mercury pollution threatens mountain songbirds
7-24	UK chemist tilts at autism's origins - To vaccinate or not
7-23	Mistrust: Environmental protection? - Massey protest meets counterprotest - Massey Works on Its Image (Wonder if it will work on its substance? Or maybe the substance is too toxic to touch...) -
7-23	Keeping the peace (scroll down to 7/22 entry)
7-23	Greenbrier man named head of coal waste-fired power plant
7-23	Water-Cleanup Measure Stalls Energy Bill - GOP Lawmaker Offers Deal on Energy Measure
7-23	Turning corn to gasoline takes 29 percent more fossil energy
7-23	A Bid to Chill Thinking: Behind Joe Barton's Assault on Climate Scientists - Members of Congress probe climate researchers - Barton badgers climate scientists - Hunting Witches - An attack on sound science - Climate scientists badgered
7-23	Ferocious Heat Maintains Grip Across the West
7-23	Solar electricity is gaining ground in U.S., worldwide; Industry says incentives of states make difference
7-23	Shingara reacts to MSHA investigation
7-23	Wind farm starts power supply to 13,000 Scottish homes - Japan slips off solar energy pace - China hopes to boost renewable energy cooperation with Spain
7-23	Biologists monitor biggest threat to bald eagles' long-term survival - CDC touts new report on contaminants - Cadmium, Mercury, Pesticides: Environmental Chemicals of Concern
7-23	Knott official might be removed
7-23	Fuel Revolution
7-22	DEP report on silos expected next week
7-22	A few questions for those with no problems at MFE (letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
7-22	Logan mine spills coal slurry into river, creek - Line break spills coal slurry into two waterways
7-22	State cites coal company after sediment flows into river -  Kentucky cites four coal companies for polluting streams
7-22	Energy bill flawed
7-22	Pa. mine safety officials subject of federal probe
7-22	Interview with Wessel Bear Lewis: Fasting to Stop Mountain Top Strip Mining
7-22	Mr. Roberts' Neighborhood - Roberts used to navigating business issues - 'Hapless toad' case fuels fears of Roberts' foes
7-22	US Senate Panel Begins Work on Greenhouse Gas Cuts - Senators Struggle to Act on Global Warming
7-22	US buildings significant contributors to global warming
7-22	Firms beat climate-change target
7-22	Environmentalists Sue Over Emissions
7-22	Stanford project mixes Darwin with hydrogen
7-22	Pressure cooker Earth
7-22	Asian push for use of renewable energy intensified - The benefits of going solar
7-22	5,290 Chinese coal mines shut for safety checks
7-21	Manchin defends DEP on Massey silo permit
7-21	Bush nominee fought Haden mining ruling - Business as Usual with Judge Roberts - Environmental groups study Roberts's rulings with concern - As a Lawyer, Court Nominee Was Considered a Skillful Advocate for Corporate Clients - Another Activist Judge - Upping the Stakes
7-21	Cubin-Rahall alliance seeks to save AML - Pa. could get the shaft
7-21	Protecting, Conserving Water Resources Could Save Communities Immense Sums
7-21	Nature Deficit
7-21	Lawmakers push to finish energy bill
7-21	Wealthy coal operator avoid prison time in election fraud case
7-21	Big companies take note of renewable energy
7-21	Bizarre season of heat, hail and floods
7-21	World Bank to Take Lead in New Climate Change Plan - Blue Skies, Green Cities
7-21	Climate change: an American farce, a global tragedy
7-21	Humans are main cause of warming, scientist says - Global warming big concern for Californians
7-21	Latest China coal mine blast kills 26
7-21	Garbage gas touted as fuel source
7-20	Environment Lawyers Uneasy Over Roberts' Supreme Court Nomination - A match made in heaven? - Bush Taps Staunch Conservative for Supreme Court Justice
7-20	Dueling demonstrations in Raleigh; Location of silo near elementary school is at center of controversy
7-20	Protestor Showdown in Raleigh County
7-20	EOC: Plan in place should Marsh Fork pond fail
7-20	Massey again shows disregard for residents (letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
7-20	Byrd has $1.7 million for race - Byrd outraises potential 2006 field
7-20	Forget horsepower, try veggie power - More drivers taking the hy-road
7-20	Wyo. lawmaker seeks AML deal - Abandoned mine cleanup ranges from simple to costly
7-20	Senators seek to bypass Environment Committee on mercury bill - Reducing Harmful Mercury
7-20	Wanted: Qualified Coal Miners
7-20	Peabody Energy profit jumps on record coal demand
7-20	An unlikely alliance for Illinois renewable energy plan
7-20	Korea Develops Futuristic Solar Cell - Portugal Pins Energy Hopes on Wind Farm Licenses
7-20	World Heritage Committee to Consider Global Warming Effects
7-19	Series of marches to protest Massey facilities; ‘Tear it down’ is battle cry on Marsh Fork coal silo, residents say
7-19	Granddad wants safe environment for children
7-19	From hot water to hazardous highwalls: mining's troubled legacy
7-19	Scientists call for more research on the effects of toxic chemicals
7-19	Large Volume of F.B.I. Files Alarms U.S. Activist Groups
7-19	Global warming has the House hot under the collar - ExxonMobil takes heat on global warming
7-19	Global Warming Unstoppable for 100 Years, Study Says
7-19	Brussels launches sustainable energy campaign - EU Presses On With Drive to Reduce Energy Use
7-18	Coal Reaches Changing Point
7-18	Comments on bond issue
7-18	Lawmakers in fight over future of abandoned mine cleanup funding
7-18	FBI Says It Has Files on Rights, Environmental Groups - FBI Monitored Web Sites for 2004 Protests
7-18	Joint study by universities says ethanol not worth the energy
7-18	Methane drillers go full throttle
7-18	Construction of coal-burning gas plant in East St. Louis delayed
7-18	Students' solar car wins 1,600-mile race
7-18	Italian Village Pins Survival Hopes on Wind Farms
7-17	DEP criticized over Massey silo; Complaints of proximity to school ignored, boundary advances overlooked, Raleigh residents say
7-17	Marsh Fork, Massey battle leaves teachers with their own concerns - Calmer voices must prevail in Massey-CRMW battle (Are we to trust the two-time perpetrators of the Martin County, KY disaster to operate this close to our kids? And what about the apparently fudged maps?)
7-17	Massey, DEP making a deal (Letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
7-17	Byrd leading Capito in campaign cash
7-17	Mountain State aims to attract ecotourists (And in southern West Virginia why not have eco-disaster tours of mountaintop removal sites?) - Cabins by O’Brien shows ecotourism in W.Va.
7-17	Grand jury to hear charges against trio of protesters; Men accused of disrupting coal company's meeting - Charges against coal company protesters sent to grand jury - Felony charges against protesters sent to grand jury (these are trumped-up charges and videotape exists to prove that!)
7-17	Coal Removed from Creek Near Hernshaw
7-17	Pa.'s coal history leaves costly legacy of abandoned mines - MINING CASH
7-17	Province set to fight U.S. polluters
7-17	Arch, Massey say rail woes hurt coal profits (And many say coal profits hurt coalfield residents)
7-17	Coal to Surpass Oil in Colombia Exports
7-17	Tasmanian coral reef 'proof of global warming'
7-16	DEP halts Massey silo project; Maps show facility outside site's original permit area - DEP suspends disputed Massey permit - Coal Silo Permit Suspended (Citizens raising a ruckus and a reporter investigating did this. If it weren't for that, DEP would have done nothing but continue its blind rubber stamping of permits!)
7-16	Mistrust: DEP and DuPont
7-16	Rahall to sit on team of conferees debating energy bill
7-16	Court Says E.P.A. Can Limit Its Regulation of Emissions
7-16	A User's Guide to the Planet: The world's ecosystems are failing, forcing business and industry to green themselves or suffer the consequences
7-16	Site of worst anthracite mine disaster all but forgotten till now
7-16	In Kentucky, 'it's all political' is exactly the problem, not an excuse
7-16	Just as in Burnside project, PPL using fly ash to fill strip pit in Locust Summit
7-16	UDRI wins research grant (As long as there is mountaintop removal and mega-coal cash in politics, there is no such thing as "clean" coal.)
7-16	A slippery European energy outlook
7-16	How much oil do we really have?
7-16	New plastic solar cell seen as a breakthrough
7-16	Federal Funding To Help Promote Wind Energy Production
7-16	Hopis, Navajo look to future without Mohave - Bull Mountain looking up
7-16	Nexen proceeding with $400 million coal-bed methane project in Alberta
7-16	Malawi Explores