(Jan)  Archive - February, 2006  (Mar)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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2-28	Coalfield Residents Remember Buffalo Creek (Sammons is an OVEC member and a member of the Sludge Safety Project)
2-28	American School Board Journal: The Coal Mine Next Door
2-28	Clamor Magazine on Mountaintop Removal
2-28	Rescue gear requirement delayed
2-28	Mountain Justice Film Festival
2-28	Resolutions sound like buy off for Massey (letters to the editor are great tools; use them!) - Senator should take look at poisons in streams
2-28	GE eyes Wyoming coal
2-28	Sneak Attack on Cape Wind
2-28	Nation's Landmarks Adopt 100% Renewable Energy
2-28	Pumping Up Ethanol
2-28	Solar Sells
2-28	Solar Power for Less
2-28	DuPont Looking to Displace Fossil Fuels as Building Blocks of Chemicals
2-28	News of the Weird
2-28	Dangers of mercury pollution spreading
2-27	A tarnished Blankenship re-emerges into politics; State Republicans appear to distance themselves from Massey’s top officer
2-27	Climate change forecast getting worse - Twin Paths to the Conclusion Climatic Change Is Real
2-27	Safety fines at mine minimal
2-27	Mining A Source Of Labor
2-27	Coal-fired power plants: cheaper but deadly
2-27	Scientists cite several instances of politics trumping research
2-27	The power of nun: taking a lead role in shareholder activism
2-27	Deadly coal mining practice gets no attention from legislators - Findings due on 'Russian roulette' mining
2-27	With just 32 feet between Monument mansions, Masseys squeeze in a house
2-27	Death toll rises to 18 in coal dust explosion in Shandong
2-27	Mexican Miners' Kin Want Bodies Recovered
2-27	Pebble Bed Technology -- Nuclear promise or peril?
2-27	More hurricanes likely due to global warming
2-27	National Trust plans retreat in face of climate change
2-27	SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO DISAPPEARING AT ACCELERATED RATE
2-27	Acid seas kill off coral reefs
2-27	Evangelicals split on global warming
2-26	DEP settling hundreds of Massey violations
2-26	Almost Flat, West Virginia -- Challenging King Coal: In West Virginia, citizens battle against the mining companies carving off their mountaintops -- Audio slide show
2-26	Variety of new books, articles focus on mining damage
2-26	Blackwater trail deal concerns EPA
2-26	Company Gives Up Hope for Trapped Mexican Miners
2-26	BrickStreet officials intent on controlling costs
2-26	Kentucky Coal Association Distorts Truth (letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
2-26	Wyoming competes for 'clean' coal
2-26	U.S. mines called safest in world, but can do better
2-26	Cold Fusion: A Heated History
2-26	Ponying Up for Alternative-Fuel Research
2-26	Political pressure and science
2-26	A Bush visit doesn't change the fact that spending on alternative fuels is down - Ethanol's a scam, and Bush has fallen for it - Let's talk turkey - Fueling the drive for alternatives
2-26	The Sunshine State's Potential For Power
2-26	Heating costs fueling W.Va. wood pellets industry
2-26	Powering PCs is becoming a global concern
2-26	Tougher fines, safer mines
2-26	An old miners’ haunt gets a new lease on life
2-25	Bush gives industry a boost that layers insult on to injury, environmentalists say
2-25	Slideshow: Mountaintop Trouble
2-25	The Sludge Report
2-25	Montana's Coal Cowboy
2-25	Fr. John Rausch: Waste Electricity, Destroy a Mountain
2-25	Bill Moyers on Money and Politics
2-25	Foglesong named Massey director
2-25	Search for Trapped Mexican Miners Halted
2-25	Technology may not offer quick fixes to coal mine dangers
2-25	New accident reporting rules for West Virginia’s mines is causing some confusion and concern - Is Mine Safety on Track? - Breathing Life into Mine Safety
2-25	Mine agency sues another Ky. coal operator refusing to pay fines -  Unpaid fines spur suit against mine operator
2-25	Largest solar thermal power plant under construction in Boulder
2-25	South African scientists develop highly efficient solar power technology; will enable homes to get all electricity from the sun
2-25	Mountaintop removal battle continues
2-25	Working for Change Picks up Buzzflash Interview of Erik Reece
2-25	Arch Coal CEO Takes Chairman Role
2-25	AEP president to speak at annual dinner
2-25	Miners Safe After Ala. Coal Mine Explosion
2-25	Solar power boom comes with pains
2-25	Wisconsin focuses on new energy
2-25	Wicks sees the work of Scotland's wave energy pioneers
2-25	Massey CEO memo rankles some miners
2-25	U.S. sheds light on rehiring at lab
2-25	What you can do about climate change
2-25	World lawmakers set up global warming monitor group
2-25	New scientific theory, hydrate hypothesis, suggests global warming catastrophe - Cataclysm is Threatened by Runaway Methane Release from Melting Permafrost
2-25	Global warming the biggest worry, Clinton tells forum
2-24	Campaign finance reform works, Arizona official says - Public financing of campaigns bill appears dead - Discussion but no action on campaign financing
2-24	Mine did not check ex-foreman’s record - Sago probe continues to focus on lightning
2-24	Massey memo causes concern - Miners upset over CEO memo
2-24	Sago widows want public hearing postponed - Indictment proves mine safety lacking
2-24	'Buffalo Creek' creator to screen films at Man
2-24	Chinese Coal Mine Blast Kills 15
2-24	Oxygen Lacking in Section of Mexican Mine - Mexico coal miners face hardship or US emigration - Miners accept risks for better life - The Lack of Other Jobs Traps Mexicans in Perilous Mines
2-24	The Militant on Massey
2-24	Bush's 'energy week' is a waste of energy - Bush renewable energy plan rapped
2-24	Big Oil Fan after Little Man - Remember Barton?
2-24	Pleasant Hills residents not warming to slow pace of mine repairs
2-24	Pa. proposes mercury reduction rules, protects coal
2-24	Coal Truck Accident Closes Part Of Route 30
2-24	Officials say they might pull Idaho power plant project
2-24	Midwest's windmills generate buzz
2-24	Solar collectors reduce the cost of hot water heating at home
2-24	Going Solar One Better
2-24	Worried About Dam, Upstate New York Fears Floods
2-24	New Canadian coal exploration of concern to Montana officials
2-24	Ontario warned of `future without butterflies’
2-24	More Japanese coal-fired power plants threaten emissions targets
2-23	MSHA Fines Give Partial Glimpse of Mines' Safety
2-23	Federal Leaders Find Fault With Regulators
2-23	DEP turns down another Massey silo permit
2-22	W.Va. Pays Price of Mining
2-23	Erik Reece: Eyewitness to Loss in Appalachia
2-23	Manchin still backs mine rescue gear - Manchin open to considering tax breaks for coal mine safety
2-23	Senate panel endorses greenhouse gas inventory
2-23	Bills not favorable to proposed wind farm
2-23	College class to aid coal safety
2-23	Chesapeake Energy names director
2-23	Florida Clean Coal Plant Underway (There is no such thing as "clean" coal, no matter how much of our money coal-co-opted politicians give to coal companies and utilites)
2-23	Pa. wants faster cuts in power-plant emissions - Mercury rules could benefit Pa. coal
2-23	When a favorite food turns toxic
2-23	"My Name Is Randy, And I'm Addicted To Oil." - Won’t Get Fueled Again - Does 'Peak Oil' + 'Free Markets' = Unending Volatility? - NYC Peak Oil Meet-Up Group Ventures Beyond City Life - The Peak Oil Crisis - Peak Oil, the Loch Ness Monster and Energy Descent - What peak oil means to every American
2-23	Carlyle Eyes Renewable Energy, Predicts IPO’s
2-23	Honda to Sell Low-Cost Hybrid Car in 2007/08
2-23	San Francisco to Test Turning Dog Waste into Power - Anaerobic Digestion Found to Produce Renewable Energy
2-23	No-pain energy plan - Less talk, more action on energy research
2-22	DEP denies Massey air quality permit near Marsh Fork school
2-22	U.S. jury indicts ex-Sago foreman - Former Sago Mine foreman indicted
2-22	Chamber working to keep cut-offs of widows' benefits
2-22	Northup and Chao run pick and roll against mine safety devices
2-22	Senator wants PSC regulations to stop wind farm in Greenbrier
2-22	US Led World in New Wind Power Installs in 2005
2-22	Slow progress made in search for coal miners - Miners' Families Threaten to Rush Pit
2-22	Miners from Mexico?
2-22	I Didn't Call John Stossel a "Corporate Shill", But I Should Have!
2-22	Federal Wildlife Monitors Oversee a Boom in Drilling; Energy Programs Trump Conservation
2-22	States are already pushing to end our addiction to oil
2-22	Jobs Cut at Energy Lab Restored Before Bush Visit - Bush acknowledges ‘mixed signals’ over energy lab layoffs - Bush touts technologies aimed at curbing U.S. oil imports - Senate Democrats Doubt Bush can cut US Oil Imports - Bush Pushes Wind, Solar Power, Cutback on Oil Use
2-22	Pa. Mercury Limits May Outdo Government's - Pa. would demand big mercury cuts from power plants - Illinois right to pursue tougher rules for mercury
2-22	Weak links could cause climatic catastrophe
2-22	Combating global warming makes economic sense
2-22	Illinois Farmers Want Coal Company To Use Less-Destructive Mining Method
2-22	Rising Energy Costs Illuminate Surging Fluorescent Bulb Market
2-22	Coal Power Plant Emissions Contribute to Illness, Death
2-22	Leaking freshwater dam--It will take $300 million and eight years to fix the problem
2-21	Anti-war activists plan protests at Rove's city fundraiser
2-21	Odds against rescuing 65 trapped miners in Mexico
2-21	New mine safety chief questions some rescue gear
2-21	Oceans may soon be more corrosive than when the dinosaurs died
2-21	The Just-Barely Cleaner Smokestacks Act
2-21	Coal is a deadly way to get energy (letters to the editors are great tools, use them!)
2-21	We the people hold the keys to break the stranglehold mega-corporations now have over us
2-21	wells fargo lootin and pollutin since 1852--stop wells fargo's dirty money investments
2-21	Bush outlines energy plans - In Visits to 3 States, Bush Pushes Alternative Energy - Prez George W. Carter on energy
2-21	Europe aims for energy policy that's self-reliant
2-21	Vanderbilt's Chancellor Gordon Gee and His Ties to Mountain Top Removal
2-21	Norway Firm Plans World's Biggest Wind Park
2-20	Reach of Clean Water Act Is at Issue in 2 Supreme Court Cases
2-20	Mexico gas explosion traps 65 coal miners
2-20	Pike County man says coal plant flooding his farm
2-20	Lax mine safety rules have cost too many lives
2-20	Blankenship addresses Eastern Panhandle Republican dinner
2-20	Press won’t notice Mexicans’ deaths - Our way of life exacts terrible human toll (letters to the editors are great tools, use them!)
2-20	What would a breath of fresh air cost Virginia?
2-20	Chevron claims energy debate
2-19	Solar-powered vision of the future
2-19	Md. Coal Mine Accident Kills 35-Year-Old Man
2-19	Mining for truth: Safety laws written in blood - A recurring nightmare: Images of disaster change little
2-19	Widows struggling without benefits
2-19	Coal CEO seeks victory - Mine owner says recent accidents rare
2-19	Heads being scratched over Wall Street Journal profile of Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship
2-19	Recruiting Hispanics for Kentucky Coal Mines Raises Debate
2-19	Back to life: Buffalo Creek a trout stream again
2-19	Bush's Chat With Novelist Michael Crichton Alarms Environmentalists - At a Scientific Gathering, U.S. Policies Are Lamented
2-19	President to tout energy initiatives - Bush, Officials Tout Energy Initiatives
2-19	BUSH AXING LIBRARIES WHILE PUSHING FOR MORE RESEARCH — EPA Set to Close Library Network and Electronic Catalog
2-19	Activists and survivors say logging might be to blame for disaster
2-19	Nuclear Energy Initiative Holds Uncertainties
2-19	Look at the coal hard facts about air pollution in Texas - Clear the air in Virginia
2-19	New tourist attraction is just flat ugly, visitors say
2-19	Tragedies haven’t cooled demand for coal jobs in Ohio
2-19	Ice melt alert on sea levels
2-19	Warmer than a Hot Tub: Atlantic Ocean Temperatures Much Higher in the Past
2-19	It's the wrong time to blow cold on global warming
2-19	Global Warming Threatens California’s Major Ethnic Populations
2-19	Could Global Warming Become a Runaway Train?
2-18	Ponds Threaten Appalachia  -  Residents worry about potential pond hazards
2-18	Grim forecast on global warming - An interview with Sir David King, Britain's top scientist and climate crusader - Island nations at risk from melting glaciers - Greenland's glaciers are speeding to the ocean
2-18	Alternatives to Sludge
2-18	Living on Earth: Lost Mountain
2-18	Living on Earth: Working in a Strip Mine
2-18	2001 flood brings litigation to Raleigh
2-18	Bill would establish new Division of Energy
2-18	Feds urged to make Sago probe public
2-18	AFL-CIO enters widows’ dispute
2-18	Ky. legislation would allow state to fine for mine violations - Make them pay - Fletcher's office offers mine-safety bill - Va.: Coal mine operators, union and state agree to upgrade safety
2-18	NASA and NOAA Open Science Policies Not Matched at EPA
2-18	Bush's coal-plant rules under fire - Ontario protests U.S. pollution
2-18	'Radicals' plot how to save Earth
2-18	Bosses’ profit drive, gov’t cuts in safety standards killed W. Virginia miners
2-18	Consol Plans Ignite Mount Olivet Outrage
2-18	Coal Co. Takes Heat for Recruitment Plan - Coal mine exec suggests recruiting Hispanics
2-18 ?	Fuel for Growth: Despite Controversy, Ethanol Is in High Demand, Lifting Farm Fortunes
2-18	Schwarzenegger to push global warming fight
2-18	Wyoming commission boosts bond for coal-bed methane project
2-18	The grace of saving energy: Church part of growing group that sees conservation as an aid to its mission
2-18	Skating on thin ice
2-18	Hazy Days: of Wind, Coal, and the Sacred Train
2-18	Greenland's glaciers losing ice at faster rate - Greenland Ice Loss Doubles in Ten Years, Speeding Sea Level Rise - Greenland glaciers dumping ice into Atlantic at faster pace
2-18	Groups seek ‘endangered’ status for Glacier NP - Legal case against US on climate
2-17	Climate change: On the edge - Glacier Melt Could Signal Faster Rise in Ocean Levels - Global warming '30 times quicker than it used to be' - Coastal cities could disappear as glaciers melt faster than predicted - Glaciers Flow to Sea at a Faster Pace, Study Says - Effects of emissions 'will take centuries to reverse'
2-17	West Virginia Public Radio: Coal impoundment (scroll to 2/15)
2-17	Moving Mountains - We Live It Every Day - The Legend of Weepy Hollow
2-17	Mike Roselle - Here Come the Strategists
2-17	Ventilation problems cited before Sago blast
2-17	Ky. miner dies in coal mine roof collapse - Death toll rises to three in Kentucky coal mines - Perry County coal miner killed in roof fall
2-17	Coal fumes kill 15 in China, put 200 in hospital
2-17	Mine fines going up, but details sketchy - Mine Fines Going Up, Safety Agency Says
2-17	Citations for Mines Where Workers Died - W.Va. Mines Cited for More Violations - Briefly put...
2-17	Unpaid mining fines mount
2-17	Roberts blasts Massey plan to hire immigrant workers
2-17	Sago disaster hearing to start March 14
2-17	Blair Mountain should be saved (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools, use them!)
2-17	3 Letters to the editor: Uproar over wind farm not good for environment - Does mountaintop removal please God? - Coal industry affects nearby communities
2-17	Energy Forum to Focus on Mine Rules
2-17	This sure smells fishy: Rentech, Inc. Engages The Abraham Group
2-17	Solar May Get Cheaper
2-17	Microgeneration Could Cut Fuel Poverty
2-17	Waterworld: how life on Earth will look 1,000 years from now
2-17	A Year on, Kyoto Climate Backers Urge US Action
2-16	Mountaintop mining rehearing denied, 5-3; Two W.Va. appeals court judges dissent (This case was brought by OVEC and others)
2-16	Go tell it on the mountain: The high price of our energy addiction
2-16	Study Links Power Plants to Deaths, Asthma - Maryland Power Plants Linked to 700 Premature Deaths Per Year - Maryland's air pollution a killer, study says
2-16	U.S. lawmakers look at mine rescue gear - Senate Panel Looks at Coal Mine Safety
2-16	Sago, Aracoma get more safety citations
2-16	Black lung at center of court case
2-16	Kanawha unveils mine accident response plan
2-16	Mine operator owes $800,000 in fines
2-16	Coal books
2-16	Arctic Climate Study Produces Startling Findings
2-16	The great tsunami, the giant wave that will change our lifestyles forever - Peak Oil and the Sorry State of the Union
2-16	Denver moving toward solar
2-16	Power up locally to help solve energy problem
2-16	Postal Service plugs into solar, hydrogen
2-16	Solar power gets its day in the sun
2-16	New system could cut solar costs
2-16	High Energy Prices to Push Alternatives
2-16	Japanese Putting All Their Energy Into Saving Fuel
2-16	Statement Acknowledges Some Government Scientists See Link to Global Warming
2-16	A Way to Cut Fuel Consumption That Everyone Likes, Except the Politicians
2-15	Citizens want moratorium on new coal slurry ponds
2-15	Ain't no mountain
2-15	A Coal CEO's Unusual Pastime: Firing Up West Virginia Politics
2-15	Fuming Over Mining Rule
2-15	Coal truck overturns in Wyoming; one hurt
2-15	Manchin to look into widows' benefits cutoff
2-15	Stickler bad for MSHA - Don’t Let Coal Mine Owners Dodge Fines
2-15	House OKs immediate mine chief changes - Amid concerns, mine safety chief bill passes Legislature
2-15	Recruits hungry for good jobs head off to coal mines
2-15	Drug tests for miners considered
2-15	Not One Dime: A radical plan to Abramoff-proof politics
2-15	Investors Are Tilting Toward Windmills
2-15	Plug pulled on renewable energy gurus
2-15	China Orders 35, 842 Companies to Close
2-15	Kyoto 2012 Greenhouse Gas Goals Still in Reach - UN
2-15	Paramount to Release Gore's Global Warming Film
2-15	Arctic losing its ice
2-14	Media discussion addresses Sago disaster
2-14	James Lovelock’s Gloomy Vision
2-14	Senate panel endorses publicly funded campaigns
2-14	Citizens criticize DEP's deal with Massey
2-14	Congressional forum on mine safety - Families of Mine Victims Urge Reform
2-14	Manchin mine chief measure advances - With close vote, Manchin promises new bill on mine safety chief - Senate committee to review widows' benefit - Halting widow help
2-14	AFL-CIO opposes Bush choice to lead MSHA
2-14	Massey proposes Hispanic miners in Kentucky
2-14	Staton does not mind being Blankenship target - Blankenship Taking Time Off From Politics (not)
2-14	Mine blockade concerns Boone emergency officials
2-14	Forum at WVU examines media coverage of Sago Mine disaster
2-14	Local coal miner encourages voting - Blankenship’s Sago gesture not sincere (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools, use them!) - Retired UMWA miner gives thoughts on mining tragedies
2-14	Lawsuit says EPA letting coal-powered plants use old technology
2-14	Study prompts environmentalists to call for mercury emission controls
2-13	Arch announces $1 million loss in fourth quarter - Alpha Natural Resources reports $12.4 million gain
2-14	U.S. Royalty Plan to Give Windfall to Oil Companies
2-14	A Solar Outfit's Hot Moves: Solel is producing electricity at rates that rival gas-powered plants
2-14	Open for Business: Just what did you mean by that?
2-14	BP plans $1bn hydrogen plant in California
2-14	Solar Energy Gets Boost From Higher Electricity Rates
2-14	China to Create Strategy for Oil Alternatives
2-14	Australian Coal Association denies it's too close to govt
2-14	EU Likely to Block Revised UK Emission Plan
2-14	One killed, three trapped in coal mine blast in Liaoning
2-13	McGraw challenges cuts to widows’ benefits
2-13	MSHA checks reliability of gear for mine tracking, communication
2-13	New York Times book review: When Moving a Mountain Is No Longer an Act of God
2-13	Project pinpoints coal slurry ponds
2-13	Fast action on mine safety unprecedented in state
2-13	New Law May Hurt Small Mines
2-13	Little relief in sight for deadly, dirty air - Perils of apathy in pollution war - N.C. lawsuit provides way to explore TVA's role in dirty air
2-13	Regulators deal with mines left abandoned
2-13	Could we generate our own power?
2-13	Small turbines could blow back into fashion across the U.S.
2-13	No Oil, Please
2-13	Revealed: the real cost of BP profits
2-13	India to have one million Hydrogen fuel-run vehicles
2-13	Patagonia wind aids remote communities
2-12	Sludge Update
2-12	Clara Bingham: Scalping the land for coal - Little Profits In Shredding Mountains For Coal
2-12	Fire on the mountain - Chancellor Gee and his ties to MTR  - Interested in fighting MTR? Here's what you can do! - Testimonials from the people most affected by mountaintop removal - The environmental consequences
2-12	Mine ‘lifeline’ proposal rejected since ’92
2-12	Former fireboss: Pinnacle Mine ‘time bomb waiting to go off’
2-12	Consol laying off workers at Shoemaker Mine
2-12	Make coal hauling safer, too
2-12	Elections a hobby to Blankenship
2-12	Politics already in mine safety
2-12	Mine widows left with nothing; W.Va. breaks its benefits-for-life promise
2-12	Utilities are coming before children in mercury bills - Study finds high mercury levels in Virginia residents
2-12	Major social change is only way to tackle climate chaos
2-12	Sweden plans to end oil dependency by 2020; Ambitious plan is response to global warming, rising prices and diminishing supplies
2-12	A New Chapter Begins for Concentrated Solar Power
2-12	Pioneers look forward to solar future
2-11	Global warming: passing the 'tipping point'
2-11	E-mail links Capito to Abramoff; West Virginian one of 3 GOP representatives named in inquiry - Three More Lawmakers Linked to Abramoff
2-11	Bob Sloan: Lobby legislators on behalf of E. Ky. mountains, people
2-11	Bill to slow mountaintop mining in Kentucky appears dead - Legislators block coal mining bill
2-11	Ireland OKs Manchin mine-rescue rules - House OKs bill banning radar cameras - Gov't Seeks $16M in Mine Safety Fines - 'Safe havens' could save lives of coal miners in next disaster
2-11	Ten years to prevent catastrophe
2-11	New Documentary Film about Mountaintop Removal / Surface Mining in Appalachia
2-11	Erik Reece: Who Killed the Miners? - Burning Up People to Make Electricity
2-11	Amory B. Lovins: Who Needs More Coal?
2-11	Coal Industry Sludge Poisons West Virginians
2-11	When Miners March
2-11	Jeff Goodell: The Fake Energy Solution
2-11	Bush Administration Ignored Coal Mine Safety Issues; Federal Government was Warned in 2003 of Mining Safety Problems
2-11	Miners must fight to end their slavery (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools, use them!)
2-11	Coal company president says statements left 'wrong impression' - Immigrants aren't answer to mine safety - Safer mines are best recruiters
2-11	Monongahela Forest for sale? About 5,000 acres are in federal bull’s-eye to fund the Secure Rural Schools Act - Boone Forest land may be sold
2-11	Forward residents receive update on fly ash site
2-11	Alabama coal mine shut down due to safety problem
2-11	Power Plant Would Reuse Carbon Dioxide
2-11	Arch Coal Swings to Loss - A Lump From Arch Coal
2-11	Gas blast kills twelve in China coal mine-Xinhua
2-11	Plan Unveiled for Hydrogen Power Plant
2-11	Solar thermal power coming of age
2-11	Canadian wind energy industry more than doubled capacity in 2005, association says
2-11	Market buys wind power
2-11	Solar Panels: Wave of The Near Future
2-11	World is warmer than it has been for 1200 years - Planet is warming – it's official - Major Firms Endorse Climate Plan
2-11	As the Arctic ice retreats, the old Great Game begins to boil over
2-11	Study: 1 in 5 women overexposed to mercury - Levels of Mercury in Humans Exceeds EPA Standards - Chart tells what Fish to Avoid
2-11	Censorship Is Alleged at NOAA; Scientists Afraid to Speak Out, NASA Climate Expert Reports - Politics vs. climate reality
2-11	Congress's Duty on Energy - The Grass Station
2-11	A dustup at EPA over rewritten rules
2-10	Bush would cut coal research - Programs Bush Wants to Cut or Kill
2-10	Agency to study blocks used at Sago - MSHA to Send 100 Inspectors to West Virginia - Mine Office to Get New Interim Director
2-10	Fines may not bring compliance - Mining fines among smallest - Report: Small fines for dangerous mines
2-10	House passes limits on funeral protests
2-10	Wind farm to hire locally - PSC schedules hearings on wind farm
2-10	Why work in the coal mines?
2-10	Another coal miner died on job in Kentucky in January
2-10	Cooperative coal
2-10	Mercury levels high in 1/5 of women
2-10	Peak oil in the U.S. Congress - US Government Proposes Drilling Off Virginia, Florida Coasts
2-10	Oil Giants Fell Behind on Fees
2-10	China Reports Rise in Coal Mine Deaths
2-10	Solid Growth at Foundation Coal
2-10	Ex-Press Aide for NASA Offers Defense - Politics and policy collide at NASA - Censoring Truth
2-10	US Power Providers Say They Expect Carbon Regime
2-10	Climate 'makes oil profit vanish'
2-10	Climate 'warmest for millennium'
2-10	Evangelical leaders choose stewardship of the Earth over political fidelity to President Bush
2-10	Arch Coal swings to 4th-qtr loss
2-10	The Permanent Energy Crisis
2-9	Brits panicking at global warming; U.S. yawns
2-9	Way clears for temporary mine chief
2-9	MSHA unclear on rules’ timeline - Playing with safety
2-9	UMW wants subpoenas for Sago probe
2-9	Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia (You can get this book at Frog Creek Books in the Capitol Market, Charleston, WV)
2-9	Protect E. Kentucky (letters to the editor are great tools; use them!)
2-9	Kentucky's lost mountains - Common Dreams posting
2-9	Coal dam project expands to Ky., Pa.
2-9	Coal industry expects banner year
2-9	Hiring immigrants won't make mines safer
2-9	Illinois EPA chief turns coal lobbyist; Mercury foe now represents a top polluter
2-9	'Buried alive by the National Coal Board'
2-9	Renewable energy key to limiting climate change, says report
2-9	Solar Energy Is Gaining Powerful Friends
2-9	Huge solar energy plant planned for Nevada
2-8	Response lukewarm to Bush renewable energy budget
2-8	Global warming 'a major health risk'
2-8	White House to Study Protecting Polar Bears
2-8	The Politics of Science
2-8	Accused of censoring scientists, NASA vows reform
2-8	Evangelical Climate Initiative: A moral case for action
2-8	Bush calls for sell-off of Western public land
2-7	Scientists Warn of Melting Ice in Arctic
2-7	Ky., Pa. sites added to coal impoundment tracking system
2-7	3.6% MSHA fund increase proposed
2-7	Coal mine rescue chambers won’t work, agency says - Save trapped miners - Our mines could learn lesson from Canada’s
2-7	Bush wants one-year mine land cleanup extension
2-7	Coal firm wants to hire Hispanics; Cites declining work ethic of E. Ky. miners
2-7	MSHA seeks prepayment of future fines from one coal company
2-7	Appalachian Voices bake sale raises money to lower pollution
2-7	Energy conservation doesn’t just save us money, it is patriotic - Shedding light on energy efficiency
2-7	Gap between rich, poor widening; Poor families are poorest in Mountain State, study says
2-7	Bush Budget Triples Money from Alaska Oil Drilling - Bush Budget Seeks to Recycle Spent Nuclear Fuel - An Agency by Agency Look - Budget Glance Interior - Energy companies earn their high profits, which Americans' conservation would reduce
2-7	Energy lab sees staff, funds cut; Up to 40 workers must go despite Bush's "commitment" to finding oil alternatives
2-7	"Beam Me Up, Scottie!"
2-7	Lobbyist renews call for alternative energy
2-7	Annan Urges Oil Producers to Champion Clean Energy
2-7	Corn Power Put to the Test
2-7	Council to look at installing wind turbines on public buildings and open spaces - Canadian builders warming to solar heat
2-7	UK Power Industry Seeks Clarity on Emissions
2-7	U.S. congressmen push at U.N. for new climate talks
2-7	Does administration fear scientist, or the truth about climate change?
2-7	Bush v. Science
2-6	Blackwater logging comment ends today
2-6	Winds of climate change are about to make their impact felt in many a boardroom; Top science adviser sounds death knell for theory that insists growth is good
2-6	Remember how TN wants to review MTR? The National Mining Association (NMA) is lobbying the Office of Surface Mining (OSM).  Read the NMA's petition to OSM about Lands Unsuitable for Mining (none). Check out OSM's "own" reasoning and determination on Lands Unsuitable for Mining and compare the language to NMA's letter. Help United Mountain Defense! Write to Gov. Bredesen to tell him to say no to the NMA.
2-6	Voting machine firm's past questioned - Pittsburgh Must Undo the Coup!
2-6	Mine safety assets strained; State resources thinnest ever, agency chief says
2-6	Federal coal mine safety checks to begin
2-6	Lasting troubles in America's coal community
2-6	Lobbyists now have their own lobby
2-6	Easy oil no more
2-6	Addicted to snake oil, the president postures; Bush wraps a new ribbon around business as usual - Next Steps on Energy
2-6	Canada Oil Sands to Help Meet Bush Mideast Oil Cut - Bush's plan lacks strategic elements - Bush energy pledge needs to go further, experts say
2-6	Switchgrass as fuel sputters over lack of funding
2-6	Ethanol's merits are debated
2-6	The right energy for Texas
2-6	New Power Meters Show Users the Money
2-6	America warms up to nuclear power - The case for nuclear power
2-6	Poor Nations Need Billions to Fight Climate Change - Climate Change Makes Russian Bears Aggressive - Reef 'gone in 20 years'
2-6	Industry fears it will be hit by fresh drive to cut emissions
2-6	Rip up Kyoto contract? Not so fast
2-6	US Senators Debate Climate Change; Bill Months Away
2-6	Poland: Coal Tells of a Hard History, but the Future Is Here, Too
2-6	China sets modest goal in cutting coal mine deaths
2-5	Move away from coal
2-5	Kentucky's Underground Economy
2-5	Blessings Project (scroll down) - Appalachian Treasures Project: A Struggle to Save the Heart of Appalachia
2-5	Proposed massive multistate power line could test new law
2-5	MSHA ignored law on rescue chambers - U.S. mines can learn from Canadian system - Many urge reform of mine fine process - MSHA maintains it pursues mine fines
2-5	Senate OKs tax credits to encourage mine safety
2-5	West Virginia Coal Crisis a Matter of Criminal Negligence?
2-5	Coal Company Halts Emergency Rescue Effort at Mine Accident
2-5	Never Again? Sago Just the Latest Coal Disaster
2-5	Suddenly, mine-safety manufacturers overwhelmed
2-5	Tolerating Death in the Mines
2-5	Sustainable Fossil Fuels: A new book claims that there is enough oil, coal and gas to last the earth at least 500 years - and it doesn't have to be polluting (Mountaintop removal mining, longwall mining, uranium mining, oil drilling--all are destroying people's homes, communities, land, water and futures!)
2-5	The plutonium question
2-5	Bush's Energy Escapades: The Most Obscene Profits in American History - A Call to Fight an Oil Dependency - Digging deep for America's oil riches - Bush Forgets About Global Warming - Raging at Big Oil
2-5	Technology Won't Solve America's Oil Addiction, Experts Say - The 75% solution
2-5	When the crude runs out: Life after oil - The Peak Oil Crisis: Global Warming
2-5	Fill 'Er Up With Fear: Changing the subject, a failed oilman talks about failed oil - OIL, CONFLICT AND THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL ENERGY - 'Addiction to Oil' Calls For a More Direct Intervention
2-5	Miners, other workers snap up the ‘Militant’
2-5	The Broadwater Battle
2-5	Coal-Bed Battles
2-5	Toxic Scotland: 7600 hectares of land are contaminated
2-5	Colbert County woman killed in coal train-vehicle crash
2-5	Ethanol plant counts on coal for power; the change will cost less than natural gas, but some complain that coal isn't renewable
2-5	Florida should jump-start technology for solar energy
2-5	Solar is cleaner form of energy than nuclear power
2-5	Flamey McGassey
2-5	Global warming boosting Greenland glacier flow   Polar bear deaths are a strong sign of global warming's effects - Global warming threatens Tibet rail link
2-5	Stop the Gag on Global Warming - Here's Europe's solution to global warming
2-5	NASA Administrator Calls for Openness in Statement to Staff - Bush and Science: Stop muzzling experts - Bush ignores climate change while trying to silence government scientists - Groundhog Phil would shiver in this climate
2-5	Sounds of Silence
2-5	Air pollution doesn't stop at state line: TVA emissions are making N.C. people sick, hurting mountain economy
2-5	Fear of fish
2-5	China to see greater development of renewable energy
2-4	SOTU: Coal execs confused, but pleased - State of Delusion
2-4	Blacksburg film festival examines energy's cost
2-4	MSHA OKs pager tests; Mine safety standdown nationwide on Monday - Miners return to work with added precautions - Limit Tax Incentives For Coal Companies - Inspecting Mine Safety
2-4	Coal profits likely OK, analyst says
2-4	Delegates to choose mine-safety committee
2-4	Talking Sludge
2-4	Clean Elections ...Legislation on Track
2-4	Net Metering Progress?
2-4	Save wilderness areas
2-4	Axles of evil: Loophole another sign of coal's influence
2-4	China to see greater development of renewable energy
2-4	Hollow on energy -     Bush fuels the debate
2-4	Muffled warnings on global warming
2-3	S**t You Can't Make Up: Bush to Lay Off Renewable Energy -  Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil imports - US Must Stop Gas Guzzling to Beat Gulf Oil Addiction - In Energy Work, One Hand Giveth and the Other Taketh - Seven Newspapers Grapple With Bush's Flip-Flop on Oil
2-3	Author Captures National Attention with ‘Lost Mountain’
2-3	Mountaintop removal mining permits challenged in West Virginia - US: Mountaintop Removal Mining Permits Challenged in West Virginia
2-3	527 Groups to Play By New Rules; Some disclosure issues may remain from 2004 election for consumers group
2-3	Manchin mine rules contain no deadlines - Mine inspections stepped up
2-3	Industry reacts to stand down
2-3	Sago probe full of mystery - McAteer ‘very hopeful’ of learning cause of Sago disaster - Rescuer haunted by Sago recovery
2-3	In Mine Country, Tears, Anguish and a Brief Pause for Safety - A Link Forged by Tragedy
2-3	Boone countians favor safety orders in wake of deaths - Mine families grieve as emergency mine inspections continue
2-3	Leadership: Mine safety
2-3	Institute to study using mine water to generate electricity
2-3	GOP, Dems Spar Over Tax Cut Priorities
2-3	To make coal mines safer, industry should look abroad
2-3	Judge considering case over methane gas from coal drilling
2-3	DEP to address Forward Twp. fly ash concerns
2-3	Greens Say Disasters Worsened by Wetland Loss
2-3	US Senators Plan Climate Change Bill this Spring
2-3	Solarworld Buys Shell's Solar Business; Shares Soar
2-2	W.Va. Gov. Seeks Coal Mine Safety Checks  -  Two more miners killed in Boone; Mines asked to close - Manchin calls for mine reviews - Timeline of mine disasters - Governor Orders 'Safety Stand-Down' at State Mines
2-2	Fatal mine had high accident rate
2-2	Groups ask U.S. court to block mine permits - West Virginia Groups Move to Immediately Halt Destruction of Appalachia Streams - Environmentalists renew battle against mountaintop removal mining
2-2	West Virginia coal mines shut on safety worry - US state of West Virginia halts coal mining for safety review - W.Va. Gov. Seeks Halt in Coal Production - W.Va. Gov. Seeks Coal Mine Safety Checks - West Virginia Governor Urges Mining Moratorium - Nation's Coal Mines to Have Safety 'Timeout'
2-2	In wake of two more deaths, mines heed governor's safety check - Local Coal Mines Still in Operation
2-2	Mine bill targets MSHA - Coal mine safety bill offered in Congress
2-2	Coal miner wants to see more done for safety - Mine safety equipment has changed little since ’60s - Miners want more focus on safety
2-2	Coal mine blast in northern China kills 23
2-2	‘Deregulation’ just a nice name for weakening basic protections
2-2	527 Groups to Play By New Rules
2-2	Touch-screen demonstration converts leery voters to experts
2-2	Soybeans, coal powering vehicles of the future? (Oh my gawd!)
2-2	Bush's Goals on Energy Quickly Find Obstacles -  Declaration of Undependence Rests on New Energy Sources - Much Talk, Mostly Low Key, About Energy Independence - Bush's speech is music to UK's ears - Some see flaws in Bush plan to end US 'addiction' to foreign oil - Renewable energy close, Bush says
2-2	Solar Supporters Say the Time Is Now to Push for Renewable Energy - A renewable power
2-2	Green rules could shut up to 500 US coal plants-study funded by energy industry consultants - Combative states now want coal-fired electricity - E3 Consulting Forecasts Power Generation Building Boom When Older Coal Plants Can't Meet New EPA Pollution Caps
2-2	A food chain poison
2-2	Illinois coal mine closed; carbon monoxide levels cited
2-2	Blackwater needs to be protected
2-2	Evangelicals Will Not Take Stand on Global Warming
2-2	Scientists marvel at 2005's wild weather
2-2	Bush Plan to Help Climate, but No Green Conversion
2-2	Governments Must Give Green Incentives, Says Economist
2-2	Normally a Big Chill, Canada Basks in Mild Winter
2-1	Change to our climate unstoppable, warns expert - Studies back fears sea levels are rising rapidly - Global warming demands urgent solutions - scientists - No gags on science - Lawmaker Condemns NASA Over Scientist's Accusations of Censorship
2-1	Norm Steenstra: Don't wait until another dam breaks - Take Action: Get Involved with Sludge Safety Project
2-1	Too late: Safety cast aside - Mine rules meaningless unless they are enforced - Mining disaster should switch on a light in the snobs
2-1	A broken system of fines - Millions of coal company fines go unpaid
2-1	Judy Rodd: Forest Service ignoring Blackwater Canyon risks
2-1	The Hidden Destruction of the Appalachian Mountains (Gibson is an OVEC board member) - Mountaintop Removal Road Show in Lexington (scroll down)
2-1	Teacher brings costs of mining to the surface
2-1	SOTU: What kind of money we talking about? - More Lies: Bush Backs Clean Coal, Nuke Power - Bush's ethanol push draws claps, health care proposal booed - Understanding ethanol (for investors) - Energy And The Executive - President Calls U.S. 'Addicted to Oil,' Seeks Alternatives (Alternatives to BushCo equal Big Coal and Big Nukes) - Call to Cut Foreign Oil Is a Refrain 35 Years Old - Bush Skips Complex Realities in Address
2-1	Bush nominee says laws 'adequate' at mines - MSHA nominee faces tough questions - Mine Safety Nominee Fields Tough Questions From Senators
2-1	New Patriot Act Provision Creates Tighter Barrier to Officials at Public Events
2-1	AEP plans power line; Route would run from W.Va. to New Jersey
2-1	Court upholds ruling for UMW in Sago probe
2-1	Bill would limit protests at funerals or memorial services
2-1	A Call for Coal Miner Day
2-1	Delegation opposes Montana's proposed CBM rule changes
2-1	Intelligent Deception Part II: The Denial Lobby
2-1	Virginia should set mercury standards to protect citizens