(Aug)  Archive - September, 2006  (Oct)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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9-30	David Orr interviewed in Cleveland Plain Dealer: Mountaintop mining getting more attention (OVEC is one of the groups funded by the Lewis Foundation)
9-30	$1,000,000,000,000: the cost of capping greenhouse gas emissions    -   Cost of Iraq war nearly $2b a week
9-30	Traveling group of activists urges groups to fight polluters  -  Noon Today, State Capitol, Charleston, WV near the fountain on the north side: Please come out for the Environmental Justice for All Tour Press
9-30	Senate again rejects Stickler for MSHA job
9-30	SIERRA CLUB ANNOUNCES 2006 NATIONAL AWARDS
9-30	"Is God Green?"  (scroll down)
9-30	Kennedy: Environment, democracy at risk
9-30	Time for action (scroll down)
9-30	US EPA denies permit for Illinois coal power plant
9-30	8,000 coal miners strike in Kazakhstan for job safety
9-30	Ireland: Renewable energy to ‘treble by 2010’
9-30	Climate change may drive lemurs to extinction
9-30	Officials show little interest in call for coal moratorium
9-30	U.S. on track with greenhouse goals, but too easy?
9-30	Germany model for U.S. market?
9-30	Is wind power just hot air?   -   Save the planet, by degrees
9-30	Science and action on climate change diverging: UK
9-29	Coal Said Top Enemy in Fighting Global Warming
9-29	Coal symposium hears optimistic formula for state, energy strategies
9-29	Sago widow puts personal face on safety issue
9-29	Cost of saving the planet: a year's growth
9-29	Biologist: Mass Extinction A Very Real Threat
9-29	Hotter: Ominous report
9-29	Clean Air, Murky Precedent
9-29	We must act against changing climate (Letters to the editor are great tool--use them!)
9-29	Salt River seeks to restart Nev. Mohave coal plant
9-29	Manchin to hit airwaves for party
9-29	Both sides now: Ex-advocate hears opposing views in job as reporter
9-29	Regional coal production down 14 million tons, executive says
9-29	Rehab preferred in mine appeals
9-29	St. Louis-based Arch Coal wins national award  (Wonder if the folks who had to sue Arch to keep the company from apparently weaseling its way into owning all their ancestral land--wonder if those folks and all the others living near its mountaintop removal operations think Arch's "community involvement" is award-worthy...)
9-29	Nuclear Energy: Still a Bad Idea
9-29	China Carries Out Test of Fusion Reactor
9-29	Pollution watchdog's dual roles questioned
9-29	Planemaker Boeing Says Biofuels Show Some Promise
9-29	Wyoming undaunted by California energy legislation
9-29	The Peak Oil Crisis: The Perfect Storm   -  COOKING ON THE ROAD TO COLLAPSE
9-29	Government Accused of Censorship Over Global Warming
9-29	CNN Fact Checks Inhofe’s Diatribe Against Global Warming Science
9-29	White House Says No Change on US Carbon Strategy
9-29	Rare Mineral Further Implicates CO2 in Last Global Warming
9-29	Man and His Endangered Home: Our pursuit of growth and luxury may leave us homeless
9-29	Blasting A/C in the Arctic
9-29	Global threat, need for action, hit home
9-29	Grants Support Research on Renewable Energy Projects
9-29	Biofuels: When Renewable Energy Is Bad For The Environment
9-29	Wind turbines and solar panels at British DIY chain   -  London mayor doubles renewable energy targets for new buildings
9-29	Wind sails ahead in renewable energy awards
9-29	Japan: Sharp's LCD Plants Use Renewable Energy
9-29	India: Use renewable sources to achieve energy security
9-28	'Is God Green?' Moyers PBS program examines the debate among Christians
9-28	Forests Worth Far More Alive Than Dead  (We need to know the real value of Appalachia's forests--before coal companies use mountaintop removal to destroy  them forever!)
9-28	Tragedy: More Sago deaths  -  ICG says: Portrayal of two Sago workers' roles is wrong, unfair  -  Federal Money to Help People Cope with Sago Missing
9-28	Senators Propose Funds for Paper Ballots to Back Up Electronic Ones   -  Betty Ireland: Now is not the time for voter ID law
9-28	Massey CEO gives pep talk at coal symposium   -   ‘Truth’ key to coal’s future; Blankenship kicks off 3-day Coal Symposium  (Indeed, and the truth is there is no such thing as "clean" coal, mountaintop removal must end and we are in very deep doo-doo if we don't do something about greenhouses gases and the global climate crisis.)
9-28	More power to the people? Yes, but not from dirty coal
9-28	The Ascent of Wind Power
9-28	Maryland hopes alternative energy solutions blowin' in the wind
9-28	SOLAR THERMAL COMING OF AGE
9-28	Best Bets and podcast for Sept. 28-Oct. 4  -  THURSDAY, SEPT. 28: HYAMP pours on punk rock, if you please  (scroll down)
9-28	Warm Water Surging into Arctic Ocean
9-28	US Blocked Hurricane Statement - Nature Magazine
9-28	Warming Trend Is Hatching a Business
9-28	Miliband warns ‘flat earthers’ on climate change
9-28	Suzuki fears climate change damaging reef
9-28	Excellent start by Milliband on climate change, says Christian Aid
9-28	Climate change 'terror'
9-28	£10 million scheme to boost public sector use of renewable energy
9-28	An 87% Cut by 2030
9-28	Virgin's Branson Launches Plan to Cut Plane Emissions
9-28	Inhofe: Global-Warming Scientists, Media "Doomsayers" and Tools of "Hysterical Left"
9-27	What Would Real Election Integrity Mean?
9-27	Intact Northern Forests Worth US$250 Billion/Year - Study  (We need to know the real value of Appalachia's forests--before coal companies use mountaintop removal to destroy  them forever!)
9-27	Sago counseling money unused
9-27	Mine cleanup could be linked to inheritance tax
9-27	Schwarzenegger to sign bill against coal-fired power Wednesday  -  New bill's effectiveness in halting global warming depends on other states, nations following suit  -  Renewable energy bill becomes law in California
9-27	Casey apologizes to Massey CEO over alien worker claim
9-27	Coal Symposium draws national experts to Bluefield   -  3-day Bluefield event will affect mining lives
9-27	Walker Machinery Employee: A dark past exists in every industry  (This fellow's job obviously precludes him from seeing the truth.  Reclamation?)
9-27	More Coal for Texas
9-27	‘Arts for All’ visits Pullman Square
9-27	Montana governor touts state's energy
9-27	Sierra Club asks Sebelius for moratorium on coal-fired plants
9-27	Mountaintop Removal/Valley Fill Mining In The Eastern United States (scroll down)
9-27	MAN KILLED IN 3-VEHICLE COLLISION  (scroll down)
9-27	Wind energy gathers speed in Pa.
9-27	Economists on Climate Change: Do We Care?
9-27	Article contends officials blocked hurricane report  -   Feds: No global warming cover-up
9-27	Miliband 'scared' about climate change threat   -   Auditor-General to recommend Ottawa take action on global warming
9-27	Branson urges cooperation on climate change
9-27	Germany to Put Global Warming Back on G8 Agenda
9-26	2 workers from Sago Mine have shot themselves
9-26	Windfarm opposition file petitions  -  It’s turbines or something else: Wind power clean choice for the future
9-26	Earth May Be at Warmest Point in 1 Million Years  -  Haggling Over Global Warming
9-26	Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying  -  Buying of Climate Skeptics Threatens Earth
9-26	Cheap oil has a cost for coal conversion
9-25	Officials to discuss Sago disaster at symposium
9-25	Lewisburg filmaker’s mountaintop removal DVD released
9-25	Coal leader disputes global warming  ...Meanwhile:  Evangelical Christian Lobbyist Pushes Environment  ... and Siberia faces meltdown  ...and We can solve humanity's biggest problem - but only if corporations work together with individuals and governments   ...and Church says climate change a 'moral' issue
9-25	End run: Vast political money (OVEC co-leads a non-partisan coalition of groups representing West Virginians from all walks of life who helped get our 527 laws passed.)
9-25	Politics is Callaghan’s calling
9-25	Maybe it’s not all just for the sake of the kids (scroll down to below second line break)
9-25	Questioning Mining
9-25	Federal officials to address Sago Mine accident at coal meeting
9-25	Fines going up won't necessarily bring accidents, fatalities down
9-25	Coal still powers America
9-25	George Bush's battle to control the world's oil supply has cost billions of dollars, much more than it would have cost to discover new sources of energy
9-25	Coal mine collapse kills six in NE China city
9-25	Power Authority Charts West's Course
9-25	Leashing the wind
9-25	Warming up to solar power
9-25	California should lead the shift to an alternative-fuel economy
9-25	Honda Shows Cleaner Next-Generation Diesel, Streamlined Fuel Cell Car  -  Toyota to Up Prius Output in Japan By 50 Percent
9-25	China's Fierce Kyoto Rules Irk Foreign Investors
9-25	EU Global Warming Target Difficult - UK Official   -  Germany Expects Smooth Passage for its Carbon Plan
9-25	Cooling Sun brings relief to sweltering Earth
9-24	Blankenship, Republicans trying to buy W.Va.
9-24	Coal industry converging on Bluefield this week
9-24	Coal company's plan to dump in Levisa on hold
9-24	Bob Kiss: Coal mining still very important to West Virginia’s economy  -  Coal-to-liquid doesn't make sense for economy, environment
9-24	Marshall lands $2M grant for mine safety
9-24	Hiring practices upset county officials
9-24	State business interests and next speaker of the house (below second set of line-break dots)
9-24	Largest Solar Project In U.S. Slated For Colorado
9-24	Report: Mercury polluting food chain
9-24	Officials Wary of Electronic Voting Machines
9-24	Obama’s star power aligns W.Va. Dems
9-24	Marshall's Birke Art Symposium offers variety of events, displays
9-24	How deep can you dig?
9-24	Maryland's biggest underground coal mine closing soon  -  After 29 years, coal runs out at Western Maryland mine
9-24	Talk covers Montana governor's energy vision
9-24	St. Paul's District Energy plant inspires clean, green copycats
9-24	Green solutions for China's ascent
9-24	Of ants and men – and saving the world
9-24	California red tape trips up green energy efforts
9-24	Greenhouse gas limits good for business, planet
9-24	California global warming bill clouded by multiple lawsuits
9-24	Wary businesses lead new assault on global warming
9-24	Sportsmen targeting global warming
9-24	THE MIGHTY GLACIER THAT'S MELTING AWAY BEFORE MY EYES
9-23	Bus tour organizers hope to put spotlight on industrial pollution  (September 30, the tour will come to Charleston, West Virginia. Some folks will go airborne for an aerial tour of mountaintop removal, others will visit Marsh Fork Elementary School.)
9-23	(How can we already be) looking at the end of the age of oil and abundant energy
9-23	Financing woes slow coal-to-liquid fuel-production plan
9-23	New W.Va. Mine Safety Head Starts Monday
9-23	Joy Global CEO: No end to mining boom in sight
9-23	Drugs' toll on Harlan's soul
9-23	Longwall mining: Conservationists probe Illinois coal mining regulations
9-23	It'd be nice to breathe easier   -   Mercury seeping widely in N.H., report says
9-23	Renewable Energy Reaching a Positive Tipping Point
9-23	Silicon Valley Explores Solar Technology
9-23	Clinton conference secures $7 billion to fight global warming, disease and other woes
9-23	Global warming film lights fire under Congress
9-23	It's Hip To Be Green
9-23	Giant hole melts in northern ice cap
9-23	Climate change tops British agenda in speech to UN
9-23	Wal-Mart to reduce packaging
9-23	Reducing CO2 From the Top Down  -  Climate Economics
9-22	Party chiefs feud over coal baron's politicking
9-22	Morgan Messenger: EPA checks Marsh Fork Elementary for coal dust  -  Counter Punch: The Elementary School vs. the Strip Mine: Ed Wiley's Long March
9-22	Students lobby, work to end MTR
9-22	Mingo water project over half completed
9-22	Sumner receives money but no signs from Massey Energy chief
9-22	GOP leaders blasts 527s; Groups have no contribution limit, congressman says
9-22	Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Will the Next Election Be Hacked?   -    Voting machines OK, state says
9-22	Coal mining company busted
9-22	Blankenship says Casey ‘lying’ about illegal workers
9-22	Tainted Science
9-22	Kazakhstan: Mine Blast Kills 41
9-22	Coal power becomes Texas debate topic
9-22	The Peak Oil Crisis: A Report to the Senate
9-22	Tycoon gives billions for energy that doesn't warm Earth
9-22	Gore training 1,000 volunteers to spread global warming message
9-22	White House Outlines Global Warming Fight; Technology and Voluntary Cutbacks Urged
9-22	Next U.S. President Should Engage More on Climate: UK
9-22	Retreating into denial as global warming surges
9-22	Exxon blinks in the global warming debate
9-22	Schwarzenegger, Bloomberg team on climate change
9-22	Top scientists challenge oil giant on climate change denial
9-22	Human influence on climate change found, scientists say
9-22	Mass tourism and climate change could lead to destruction of world's wonders
9-22	Small businesses at risk on climate change
9-22	Solar World: Concentrators in PV clothing
9-22	DayStar touts progress on solar cell technology
9-22	SolarWorld Group Supplies Solar Power Technology to China and Italy
9-22	More powerful solar cells
9-22	Virgin Group pledges to invest $400 M in renewable energy
9-22	Could biofuel be an invasive species?
9-21	Zeb Mountain, TN: Firm ordered to halt mining; National Coal fined for going through streams
9-21	Global Warming Washing Away Entire Communities
9-21	Glacier meltdown quickening   -  Greenland ice sheet melting faster: study  -  Thaw and storms opened channel to North Pole
9-21	Climate-controlled White House: The administration claims it wasn't telling scientists what to say about climate change; e-mails obtained by Salon prove otherwise
9-21	The heat is on: how global warming could suddenly tip over and ignite calamity
9-21	Military tests 1st synthetic fuel for jets
9-21	Casey: ‘How Many WV Jobs Has Blankenship Given Away to Illegal Foreign Workers?’
9-21	Mine governors visited cited twice for dangerous conditions
9-21	Jackson Kelly lawyers accused of hiding evidence
9-21	Mine Safety: Bush's Failed Nominations and Changing The Political Calculus
9-21	Doctors' group cautions against coal-fired plant
9-21	Mining Office Wants Air Pack Data
9-21	Coal company stocks down; dip in natgas eyed
9-21	U.N. climate body keeps hope alive on U.S.
9-21	Royal Society Tells Exxon: Stop Funding Climate Change Denial
9-21	Science And Salvation
9-21	Official turns up the heat on air-conditioner debate
9-21	Calif. sues 6 carmakers in global warming suit
9-21	Italian Green Activists Oppose Uranium Plan
9-21	US Sees Delay in Big Rise in Alternative Motor Fuels
9-20	Sea levels are rising faster than predicted, warns Antarctic Survey
9-20	It’s turbines or something else: Wind power clean choice for the future  -  Wind may generate 30 pct of electricity by 2030
9-20	China Needs To Break Ties Between Polluting Industry, Local Officials (And so does the United States)
9-20	Call for Domestic Renewable Energy
9-20	High levels of mercury showing up in more animals  -  Mercury harming animals, study says
9-20	Capito donates tainted money
9-20	Group targets Mingo delegate
9-20	Why won't Sobonya back clean elections?
9-20	Charleston Gazette Editorial: Aliens--Miners from Mexico
9-20	WV Environmental Activist Visits DC Seeking Help for Children Threatened by Mining Practices
9-20	Giardina is true friend to state (scroll down)
9-20