(Nov)  Archive - December, 2006  (Jan)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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12-31	The great coal mining debate: Surface mining debris buries hundreds of miles of streams
12-31	China chokes on a coal-fired boom
12-31	Sago families still looking for answers   -   Sago Timeline  -   McCloy protects privacy as Sago anniversary looms   -  Guilt, blame haunt some Sago survivors   -  We must continue fight to improve mine safety   -  ‘Time will be the teller of truth’  -  Pursue Investigation Of Mines, Lightning
12-31	Climate Change: The Crack of Doom?
12-31	Erosion of Land and Culture Threatens Many Alaska Natives
12-31	Eat To Live: Cut beef, save the globe
12-31	Global warming tax: How much do we owe our distant descendants?
12-31	A Little More Green, a Little Less Gas
12-31	Polar bears’ plight a prod to act on global warming
12-31	Climate change: expertise vs. doubt
12-30	Coal industry zeros in on way to strengthen underground seals
12-30	Feds address Greenbrier Co. coal plant's environmental impact
12-30	Maps of every corner of state available free online
12-30	Rookie Senator Getting Ready For Start Of His First Legislative Session
12-30	‘Pay as you drive’: Can auto insurance save the environment?
12-30	Regional authors of fact and fiction shine in a year with many literary achievements
12-30	Bill Hayes, a guiding force over coal mines
12-30	Making Carbon Trading a Fair Trade
12-30	Travel Habits Must Change to Make a Big Difference in Energy Consumption
12-30	Researchers Use Yellowstone As CO2 Lab
12-30	Alexander to propose pollution limits on coal-fired electric plants
12-30	Kansas coal plant is delayed
12-30	Nuclear energy solution too slow, say Greens
12-30	Global warming could transform Amazon into savanna in 100 years, Brazil researchers say   -  Death of Amazon rainforest possible, researcher warns
12-30	Study: Small bugs point to global warming
12-30	Huge Arctic ice break discovered   -  Floating Arctic ice shelf drifts along Canada's northern shore   -  Arctic Death Knell Foretells Abrupt Climate Change
12-30	Nevergreens? State's signature trees could be lost to climate change
12-30	India's water resources may dwindle
12-30	Perth has driest year on record
12-29	Tanker truck wrecks, leaks in Boone
12-29	Coal truck accident
12-29	Unger, Mays big spenders on advertising
12-29	Coal company sues security firm after fire
12-29	In 2006, Idaho turned away energy giant; Public outcry resulted in two-year moratorium on coal-fired power plants
12-29	The 2006 You Didn't Hear About
12-29	Peabody names Eric Ford as executive vice president, COO
12-29	Environmental groups appeal coal plant ruling
12-29	Global warming: Our worst fears are exceeded by reality
12-29	Global warming's poster cubs   -  Global warming and polar bears
12-29	Wildlife focus: Lives in the balance
12-29	Munich Re Sees Natural Catastrophes on the Rise
12-29	Giant ice shelf snaps off Arctic island
12-29	U.K. Study Raises Global Warming Fears
12-29	Climate: Irony in the USA
12-29	Global Warming May Threaten Human Health
12-29	Scientists reach milestone in creating map of climate change
12-28	Billion-dollar plant's costs are escalating
12-28	Bright idea makes a big comeback: Conservation
12-28	Sago families: Confused treatment
12-28	Company to acquire coal reserves in Meigs, Mason
12-28	Energy is Pike's future, official says
12-28	Support of AEP proposal overwhelming at OPSB hearing
12-28	Capitalists, Conservationists Say No to Dirty Coal
12-28	Sierra Club joins Texas suit to slow TXU coal units  -   Legal Action Filed to Halt 'Fast-Tracking' of Texas Coal-Fired Power Plants
12-28	GOP corporate allies in Congress's cross hairs
12-28	Probe of coal-train plan requested
12-28	Disappearing Appalachia: How radical strip mining is devouring our region
12-28	New Year's resolutions for a warming planet
12-28	Ethanol plant could be built at The Point
12-28	Christmas cards carry their weight
12-28	New Year's Utopianism Needed Fast
12-28	Former Bush Interior Secretary Takes Job As Attorney For Shell
12-28	Western Slope drillers embracing "green" method
12-28	U.S. Companies Explore Ways to Profit From Trading Credits to Emit Carbon
12-28	Bush backtracks on global warming with plan to protect polar bears  -  Polar bear fears may spark warming rethink
12-28	Global Warming: Rising Seas creates 70,000 Climate Refugees
12-28	Dire Warnings from China's First Climate Change Report  -   Global warming likely to wreck havoc in China
12-28	German Credibility at Stake on Climate Change
12-28	Norway Wants US Politicians to See Warming Arctic
12-28	Report claims high oil prices threaten UK food security
12-28	2006: A Vintage Year For Ideas That Will Change Our World
12-28	Meat and the Planet
12-28	Video podcasts on climate change
12-28	S. America`s energy freedom
12-27	U.S. Wants Polar Bears Listed as Threatened
12-27	A Fellow Mammal Leaves the Planet
12-27	Eight-week flood trial only start of mass litigation
12-27	How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
12-27	Making Other Arrangements
12-27	Sasol and the Liquid Coal Revolution   -   The Return Of Nazi Oil
12-27	Environmental costs to push utility bills higher
12-27	Nothing if not fair
12-27	Let’s learn from past mistakes
12-27	What's behind that electrical socket?
12-27	Big Sandy isn't safe, inmate says
12-27	Coal fueling energy debate
12-27	Report: China Uses Reserves on Resources
12-27	Pipe Leak in Gulf of Mexico Leaves Half-Mile Slick
12-27	Russia strong-arms energy-hungry West
12-27	Warmer Atlantic, Climate Change Presage More, and Worse, Western Wildfires
12-27	We have to prepare for region's climate change
12-27	Global warming starving Great Barrier reef fish species to death
12-27	EU Commission Open to use of Nuclear Energy
12-27	Court must conclude that global warming gases are a real danger
12-27	Warming delays snapper season
12-26	Climate change at crisis level
12-26	New York Times: A Reader Forum on Energy and the Environment
12-26	How coal may soon be keeping jets in air
12-26	All want safer year in mines, but how?
12-26	ARTICLE ABOUT MINE DEATHS TOLD A SAD BUT TRUE STORY WELL
12-26	Pa. coal-to-fuel proposal draws environmental concerns
12-26	Signs of search for energy nudge into grand vistas of eastern Utah parks
12-26	As Atlantic warms, more fires predicted in West
12-26	California warming law applies pressure to industries; Agriculture, forestry, car makers need to reduce emissions
12-26	Global Warming House" Unveiled at Burning Man Festival
12-26	Cities, towns step up global warming fight
12-26	Renewable energy gives hope to Africa's victims of climate change
12-26	The fatal adventure of humankind: Climate change
12-26	The high cost of living with must-have latest gadgets
12-26	Turkey chokes on low-quality coal
12-25	Global warming claims tropical island
12-25	Nuclear energy nearing revival  - U.S. Eyeing Return To Nuclear Energy
12-25	Miners with black lung don't bother with Kentucky benefits
12-25	Sago mine documentary 'emotional'  -  Who the Sago miners were
12-25	Love and loss
12-25	Australia ponders climate future
12-25	Global energy hunger brings oil and gas boom to Arctic Barents Sea
12-25	More than just hot air
12-24	Miners still waiting on air packs
12-24	Coal town struggles to move on a year after Sago Mine disaster
12-24	Sago Owner Responds to Report
12-24	Who knew? W.Va. coal towns rivaled N.Y. for Jews
12-24	Sermonize on the environment
12-24	Proposed coal plants spark broad response
12-24	Reserving the right: The Navajo protest at Desert Rock  -     Navajo Police Dismantle Elderly Barricade at Power Plant Site
12-24	Battle over TXU's planned expansion far from over
12-24	Global Warming-era parenthood
12-24	Climate change sceptics issued with challenge
12-24	Global Warming a Reality In Brazil
12-23	Green Rage
12-23	Fayette seeks help to keep stream clean
12-23	Wooten remarks ‘outrage’ miners; Safety chief called Sago ‘well-operated’ coal mine   -   Wooten comments about Sago operation “an outrage,” UMWA’s Roberts says   -  Sago survivor criticizes mine safety director
12-23	Federal tests support lightning as cause of Sago mine explosion
12-23	Sago mine owner already acting on lightning threat
12-23	Coal experts hope for safer '07 while others seeking tougher laws
12-23	Miners get largest pay hike in 32 years  -   UMWA members ratify new National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement in ‘historic' vote
12-23	Mine reclamation: Cleanup vital to West Virginia’s future
12-23	Pa. green group may fight coal plant
12-23	Court halves Exxon spill damages
12-23	Increase state tax on electricity, not gas
12-23	Mine blast study cites lightning
12-23	Power-plant battle moves into court ; More pollution controls sought
12-23	Limestone and clay belong to landowners, appeals court says; UNLIKE COAL, PANEL RULES, THOSE LAYERS ARE NOT MINERALS
12-23	TVA activates third scrubber at W. Kentucky coal plant
12-23	Priest who honored victims of 1907 Monongah mine disaster dies
12-23	State development authority approves tax credits
12-23	Navajo Dissidents Take Action to Stop Tribe-Backed Power Plant
12-23	Families of Aracoma mine victims file lawsuit
12-23	Schwarzenegger Remakes Himself as Environmentalist; Governor Challenges GOP on Global Warming
12-23	Oceans Warming and Rising
12-23	US Democrats mull climate change
12-23	Australia's climate set to go from bad to worse
12-23	As mercury goes south, so does Washington
12-23	Unhappy times for hit penguin in 'Happy Feet'  -       Rockhopper Penguin Numbers Tumble in South Atlantic
12-23	Recycling cuts carbon by up to 15m tonnes
12-23	The polar bear diaries
12-23	Getting radical about climate change: the shape of things to come
12-23	Worst drought on record hits Australia, some blame global warming
12-23	Global Warming Ate My Insurance Policy
12-23	Bush signs law to study data center energy usage; Authorizes EPA to study energy consumption in servers, processors
12-22	Opposition mounting against power plants  -  Southeast Ohio: Land of Coal, and Resistance
12-22	Coal In Your Stocking
12-22	World Watch Magazine: Coal Rush (The Jan. -Feb. 2007 issue of World Watch contains OVEC photos!)
12-22	Mine ‘well-operated,’ official says
12-22	Big spending failed to sway W.Va. voters   -   10 to Remember
12-22	Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists Reveal That Bears Have Stopped Hibernating   -  Climate change is turning animals' world topsy-turvy
12-22	MSHA forms panel to study underground mine ‘belt air’
12-22	Almost $1 Billion To Clean Up Old Mining Sites
12-22	UMWA Ratifies Contract By Eighty Percent
12-22	Indiana drops coal mining plan for wildlife area
12-22	Coal truck rolls over, blocks road
12-22	Court Overturns Limits on Political Ads, Part of the Campaign Finance Law
12-22	Mountaintop removal out West--BC launching review of Cline Mine
12-22	Incentives on Oil Barely Help U.S., Study Suggests
12-22	Citizens voice opinions on gasification plant
12-22	Sebelius: Coal plants likely
12-22	Why people don't oppose building 17 dirty coal plants in Texas   -   More reasons to put a hold a coal permits
12-22	Canary in a coal mine?
12-22	Toll in Chinese coal mine disasters drops
12-22	The Last Tide Could Come at Any Time. Then These Islands at the End of the Earth Will Simply Vanish
12-22	'Sunshade' Could Ease Global Warming
12-21	Local activist honored in Washington
12-21	Sago families’ frustration grows  -  State Presents Sago Report 2nd Time  -  Manchin Says Second Report Did Its Job
12-21	Massey property damage suit declared a mistrial
12-21	Coal-producing states will get $6.3b for cleanup   -   Bush signs coal reclamation funds law; $18 million going to West Virginia    -   Bush OKs Billions to Clean Up Coal Mines
12-21	BLANKENSHIP V. MANCHIN: Governor Not Automatically Immune from Civil Rights Suit for Threatening Heightened Regulatory Scrutiny   -  Court Battle Between Manchin and Blankenship Continues
12-21	‘Clean Coal’ Claims Sparks Controversy
12-21	Bush says U.S. should turn to technology, clean energy to stop oil overconsumption   -   Text From Bush News Conference (There is no such thing as "clean" coal. We may be able to pour billions into cleaning up emissions, but the pollutants don't magically disappear if they don't go up the smokestack. Coal's dirty when you dig it, dirty when you prep it for market, dirty when you haul it, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you dispose of the ash, and it sure dirties up politics.)
12-21	A Clean Car That Runs on Coal   -   Coal-to-liquid doesn't make sense for economy, environment
12-21	Montana coal push worries environmentalists
12-21	Coal-fired power plants among biggest polluters
12-21	Rainforest Action Network Seeks to Stem Flow of Financing to TXU Coal Project
12-21	Tucson, AZ Fundraiser for Climate Protection will Touch on Mountaintop Removal (scroll down)
12-21	Journalism Teachers Discuss What Makes News Newsworthy
12-21	Making noise on global warming
12-21	Political winds bring a change in climate
12-21	Ash landfill proposal moves forward
12-21	No appeal over greenhouse mine ruling
12-21	Asia's new nuclear race
12-21	The Hidden Opportunity in Global Warming
12-21	Global warming panel to meet
12-21	Boston Looks To 'Go Green' To Curb Global Warming
12-21	Europe Acts to Penalize Jet Pollution  -  Aviation's Contribution to Climate Change  -  Airlines to Embrace Carbon Market, not Taxes  -  Private jets escape European carbon emissions proposal
12-21	With Warmer Weather, Different Decisions to Make
12-21	Outsize Profits, and Questions, in Effort to Cut Warming Gases
12-21	Indian, Chinese expedition to chart impact on rivers of glacier melt
12-21	Indian islands disappear under rising seas
12-21	High-Level Task Force To Seek New Climate Change Framework
12-21	Burnt and hostile: just what we need
12-21	Villagers in Southwestern China Grapple with Climate Change
12-20	Aracoma widows sue Massey  -  Mine Fire Families Sue Massey
12-20	Abandoned Mine Land Funds: Bush to Sign Massive Tax and Trade Bill  -  Abandoned mine bill is a milestone
12-20	The Rev. Dennis D. Sparks: Continue to pray for coalfield justice
12-20	The Sago Report
12-20	NRP Acquires Coal Reserves
12-20	Energy firm buys into wind turbine project
12-20	Allegheny seeks approval for financing plan for pollution control project
12-20	No Dramatic U-Turn Seen on US Climate Change Policy
12-20	Thirteen States Sue US EPA over Soot Emissions
12-20	Liquid Coal: Four Stocks To Watch  -  The Return Of Nazi Oil
12-20	Mild Weather Has Chilling Effect For the Nation's Coal Producers
12-20	Important issues often ignored (scroll down)
12-20	Kansas considers ban on coal-fired power plants  -  States Oppose Sunflower's Proposed Coal-fired Units and Associated Carbon Emissions  -  County OKs moratorium
12-20	TXU Shareowners File Three Resolutions Questioning Wisdom of Pulverized Coal Plants