(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 -