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2-28	Scientists Urge Global Action on Clean Energy
2-28	Study: 'Tipping point' for climate is near
2-28	Global warming: Crucial strides still possible
2-28	Conservation may limit global warming; Researchers support carbon taxes, a ban on coal-fired power plants and an end to beachfront construction - Science Panel Outlines Roadmap for Reducing Risks from Climate Change
2-28	Congressional review of mine safety to begin - House report: MSHA moves too slowly
2-28	W. Va water could help boost coal to liquid - Manchin poised to go national - The Return Of Nazi Oil - Coal-to-liquid doesn't make sense for economy, environment
2-28	Buffalo Creek destruction still fresh in survivors memories - Remembering the Buffalo Creek Flood (Survivor Arley Johnson's speech was clearly a call to action -he insisted people to get involved to protect human lives from the excesses of the coal industry.)
2-28 ?	National Guard helps restore Hindman's water as wells run dry
2-28	Shore up Kentucky mine bill
2-28	Growing Industry Faces Severance Tax
2-28	New Push for Conserving Electricity Starts to Show Results
2-28	Balance needed in energy policy
2-28	Regional railroad's coal plans unclear after federal loan denial - Senator's Railway Lobby Link May Have Helped Derail Loan
2-28	Experts offer insight into coal mining methods
2-28	New cleaning technology brings fresh breath to coal miners lungs
2-28	Coal power likely to be an issue in Ontario's election
2-28	Utility nixes coal plant; Company looks to meet future needs with conservation, existing sources, renewables
2-28	Greenies in coal protest
2-28	Climate Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax
2-28	Climate scientist calls for end of new coal power plants in U.S.
2-28	Congress needs a Marshall Plan in climate-change debate
2-28	Warming, sea level rise threaten 42 million Brazilians: study
2-28	Minimizing climate change will cost $45 bln, scientists say
2-28	London mayor unveils climate change plan
2-28	Climate change tomorrow`s high-tech
2-28	Western governors join forces on warming
2-28	Carbon Curbs Gain Backers
2-28	Climate change may kill off Amazon species
2-27	Top Scientist Seeks Halt on Coal Plants - NASA scientist says U.S. must burn less coal
2-27	Buffalo Creek remembered: Survivor recalls horrifying moments, haunting memories - Channel 11 News Transcript - News Video: Ceremony Allows Survivors to Remember, Rally to Prevent Another Buffalo Creek Disaster - Remembering Buffalo Creek
2-27	Senate panel eases water protection
2-27	Cecil Roberts: Once again, Blankenship wrong about unions
2-27	Firms get look at rescue chambers
2-27	Sago: More lessons
2-27	Would a real miner do this?
2-27	Polluted Water Spills Into Big Coal River in Boone County
2-27	The environmentally tinged takeover of TXU Corp. illustrates global warming's increased financial relevance
2-27	U.S. turns down loan for DM&E coal train project
2-27	Regulatory Clearance Seen as Slow but Sure - Coal Loses in TXU Acquisition - TXU's $32B Buyout Draws Muted Criticism - Green groups laud TXU move but want to see more
2-27	Coal-Fired Plants Scrapped as Part of Utility Deal
2-27	Clinton pushing 'clean' power plants (There is no such thing as 'clean" coal. Coal's dirty when you dig it, dirty when you prep it for and haul it to market, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you dispose of the ash, and it sure dirties up politics!)
2-27	Spring Lecture Series Focuses on Citizen Activism in Appalachia
2-27	Western States Agree to Cut Greenhouse Gases - Five U.S. Western States to Bypass Bush on Climate
2-27	A green case for nuclear power - An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New Heresies
2-27	Scientists from 63 countries to investigate polar melting - New Study Of Polar Secrets in Global Warming Fight
2-27	Inching Up an Ice Highway in a 70-Ton Truck
2-27	Global Warming Worries to Boost Renewables
2-27	Californians Flock to Chicago Climate Exchange
2-27	Labor Shortage Pushes Mining Companies to Recruit and Pay More
2-27	Two die in dump truck accident at opencast coal mine
2-27	The Oil Depletion Protocol: An Interview with Richard Heinberg
2-27	Scientists say Humanity ignores Antarctic melting and Greenhouse gas time-bombs with the price of Mass-Extinction
2-27	'Future of Life': We have met the enemy, and he is us
2-26	Buffalo Creek flood to be remembered
2-26	It was 18 miles of horror - Documenting fatal disaster: Santa Clarita man to tell of 1972 coal dam collapse
2-26	Another coal waste disaster is inevitable
2-26	Candidates Who Shun Corporate Cash Are Winning
2-26	Stream-protection bills worrying DEP officials
2-26	Virginia lawmaker wants U.S. to start using liquid fuel from coal - Coal-to-liquid doesn't make sense for economy, environment
2-26	Mingo County coal-to-lquid plant closer to becoming a reality - The Return Of Nazi Oil
2-26	Mel Tyree: Numerous solutions to climate changes exist
2-26	We can mine coal and save tops of mountains, too
2-26	A Buyout Deal That Has Many Shades of Green - TXU Board OKs Sale to Private Firms - Deals Broader Effect on Coal Plants Is Uncertain - Pressure, Buyout Halts TXU Coal Buildout in Texas - Slowing TXU and its coal - Energy Firm Accepts $45 Billion Takeover; Buyers Made Environmental Pledge
2-26	Filthy Coal: As Mark Twain Famously Said, "There's Money In It!"
2-26	New Report from Ceres Warns of Investor Risks from TXU's Original Coal Strategy (before buyout)
2-26	Texas coal-fired plants concern Oklahoma citizens
2-26	Strange days are these...
2-26	Global Warming: Enough to Make You Sick
2-26	Water: First Casualty of Climate Change?
2-26	Climate change will hurt more than environment
2-26	All countries, both rich and poor, must come together to confront climate change
2-26	Global Warming Endangers Harp Seal Pups
2-26	New species, warm water and whales: the Antarctic's secrets revealed by melting ice - Exotic Animals Seen Where Antarctic Ice Used to Be - Melting ice gives birth to a strange new world
2-26	Oscar for Al Gore Global Warming Film
2-26	Global warming a threat to shores
2-26	NY State Bill Would Set Penalties for Wasting Energy
2-25	Feds find hundreds of unsafe mine seals
2-25	Too many haters of mountains, its culture
2-25	Appalachian poets come together in new book 'Coal, A Poetry Anthology'
2-25	Saving miners and mountains: Gutted Ky. bill still has safety measures that miners need
2-25	Manchin: U.S. needs to stop importing oil - Coal-to-liquid doesn't make sense for economy, environment
2-25	Death, destruction of flood still vivid - The disaster too sad to be a movie
2-25	Coal companies are gambling with lives
2-25	Lecture set to disprove some former flood beliefs - Lecture challenges stereotypes
2-25	Garbage Wars II: McDowell County landfill seeks to double tonnage accepted
2-25	Gas company answers verdict with bully tactics
2-25	More on mercury
2-25	New York Times editorial on RAN: The Truth About Coal
2-25	Prospective TXU buyers would build fewer coal plants - In Texas, planned coal-fire plants stoke environmental battle - TXU sale could cost $32 billion
2-25	Energy Options
2-25	Bureau proposes phased plan for coal-bed methane
2-25	Aussie Greens say Labor wasting money with clean coal policy --because there is no such thing as "clean" coal
2-25	HCNG: An alternative to coal and oil?
2-25	North Carolina panel offers plan on greenhouse gases
2-25	How global warming goes against the grain
2-25	Australia plots climate change escape route for wildlife
2-25	Winter in Switzerland is warmest on record
2-24	How green is my college?
2-24	MSHA redefines mining deaths
2-24	AML grant funding beneficial to Mingo County
2-24	Support for Ky. mine safety bill dropped
2-24	Enviros score major win in Texas coal-plant fight
2-24	$45 Billion Deal Near For Texas Power Firm; TXU Purchase Would Set Leveraged Buyout Mark
2-24	What Will it Cost to Fight Global Warming?
2-24	Duke plans 2 coal-fired plants; Contradicts warming stance of utility's CEO
2-24	One woman, fighting to save her people from extinction
2-24	Climate change decimating polar bear population
2-24	Science And Business Leaders Sign Climate Change Plan
2-24	Economist calls for an end to "business as usual" on climate change
2-24	Cheney on Global Warming
2-24	Getting Cozy with Conoco? - Remember Griles?: Leveling a Mountain of Research on Mountaintop Removal Strip Mining
2-23	Greed destroying our mountains (Letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)
2-23	MSHA, industry debate extent of new seal rules
2-23	American Botanical Council: Saving Wild Ginseng, Goldenseal, and other Native Plants from Mountain Top Removal
2-23	Kentucky needs Stream Saver law
2-23	Sponsor says KY mine safety bill hijacked
2-23	Bush Makes a Pitch for Amber Waves of Homegrown Fuel - Extravagant subsidies and low coal prices have made for some strange ethanol projects - Carbon cloud over a green fuel - Bush's cellulosic ethanol road show
2-23	Virginia Passes Dominion-Backed Overhaul
2-23	Polluters: We need to know more not less
2-23	South Africa: SA Must Start to Kick Its Coal Habit
2-23	Southern Ocean Being "Strangled" by Greenhouse Gases - Warming oceans contain less oxygen for fish, conference told
2-23	Children losing sleep over global warming
2-23	Poll finds strong support in Europe and U.S. for polluter taxes
2-23	We must reverse global warming
2-23	Himalayas affected by global warming: study
2-22	State shuts down mine, citing danger from Talon explosives State closes part of mine contaminated by explosives
2-22	Massey firm appeals in safety case - Massey company pleads guilty to safety violation
2-22	Webster Couple Strives to Ease Dependence on Electric Grid (These good folks are OVEC members)
2-22	Some Communities Sign On to Cut Emissions
2-22	Uncertain Future
2-22	Coal Taxes Support Communities Across West Virginia - Some Businesses Find Ways to Capture Emissions - Utilities Face Difficult Decisions on Power Plant Technologies
2-22	Coal to liquid insanity: Motor Fuel Market Could Be Attractive to Coal - The Return Of Nazi Oil
2-22	Mining practices that harm streams must end now
2-22	Kentucky rally urges mine safety - Conflict suggested on mine-safety bill
2-22	Unity needed for environment, economy
2-22	Morgantown Power Tower Plan Sparks Concerns
2-22	Before regulation hits, a battle over how to build new US coal plants
2-22	Power pause - N.C. officials seek delay on Duke plant decision
2-22	Coal plant order blocked - Clear the smoke shrouding TXU permits
2-22	ExxonMobil Shelves Qatar Gas-to-Liquid Project in Favor of Natural Gas
2-22	Hearing to Probe Climate Change and Inuit Rights
2-22	As earth warms, lawsuits mount
2-22	Business as usual is over, Gore warns
2-22	Swiss Re signs climate change pact
2-22	Europeans Agree to Cut Emissions Sharply if U.S. and Others Follow Suit
2-22	How fast must we act on global warming?
2-22	Duke Balancing Demand Vs. Global Warming
2-22	In Far North, Peril and Promise; Great Forests Hold Fateful Role in Climate Change
2-22	Climate change laps at Bangladesh's shores; Rising oceans already a reality, thousands could be displaced
2-22	A Battle Over the Costs of Global Warming
2-22	How Vermont can fight global warming
2-21	Bill McKibben: Warning on Warming
2-21	Fighting climate change 'cheaper' than ignoring it
2-21	Cleaner Coal Is Attracting Some Doubts
2-21	WV Senate OKs Manchin mine safety plan - KY lawmakers hope to resuscitate legislation on mine safety
2-21	Age-old question: How can West Virginia be so poor with such rich resources?
2-21	We must stop the damage to mountains (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--please use them)
2-21	Cecil Roberts to speak at WVU Tech
2-21	House OKs temporary gas tax, wants say on roads
2-21	CONSOL Energy and Headwaters Form Alliance To Explore Coal-to-Liquids Developments
2-21	UW Students Vote On Resolution To Drop Alpha & Massey From Their Coal Purchasing Policy
2-21	Pa. Takes Action Against Power Plant Pollution
2-21	9 States Sue Over Mercury Emissions
2-21	Perry Can't Fast-Track Coal Plants, Judge Rules
2-21	Coal plant opponents talk strategy before audience of 850
2-21	EPA Seeks Comment On US Greenhouse Gas Inventory
2-21	CONSEQUENCES OF A RISING BAY
2-21	Md. House Approves Cut in Car Pollution
2-21	US geologist blames coal mining for Newcastle earthquake
2-21	Australia to Change Lightbulbs to Curb Warming - Australia Plans to Phase Out Incandescent Lights
2-21	EU Backs Bold Climate Change Goals
2-21	International group tackles global warming
2-21	World Bank needs $10 bln climate fund-chief scientist
2-20	Eminent Scientists Warn of Disastrous, Permanent Global Warming
2-20	Mountaintop Removal Battle: End Far Away for Longtime Litigation
2-20	Mine Safety: Empty Threat?
2-20	Manchin says mine communication moving along - Senate to vote today - Tax credit for coal firms fails in mine safety bill
2-20	Widow's suit claims drugs 'rampant'
2-20	Groups want Legislature to condemn Iraq troop surge - War Debate Could Make To State Capitol
2-20	Big Oil Firms Expand in Unconventional Oil Sector
2-20	Guilt-Free Pollution. Or Is It?
2-20	Is It Good that Big Businesses Are Going Green?
2-20	Coal-bed methane fallout? Farmers may be seeing signs
2-20	Texas Showdown: Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plants Spark Big Environmental Fight - Coal plant battle draws attention of task force
2-20	Va. mercury study gets needed money - DEQ will try to learn how the neurotoxin is getting into Va. waters
2-20	Thousands of miners strike a year after Mexican coal mine explosion that killed 65 workers - Mexico holds mine tragedy vigil
2-20	Cozy at the Beach - Ethics Story Thickens Over Abramoff-Interior Relationships - Remember Griles?: Leveling a Mountain of Research on Mountaintop Removal Strip Mining
2-20	Is US Near a Tipping Point on Global Warming?
2-20	Will Very Expensive CO2 Drilling Experiment in Southern Utah Solve Global Warming?
2-20	EU States Tussle over Climate Change Goals
2-20	German Output May Plummet as World Warms - Study
2-19	DEP fails to track strip mine mitigation
2-19	Safety bill revision limits coal mine closures
2-19	Mine safety technology on fast track
2-19	Certain measures just keep returning (OVEC leads the Clean Elections or public financing coalition)
2-19	Carbon dioxide research goes underground
2-19	UWSP targets coal supplier
2-19	Seeing tunnels firsthand offers fresh perspective
2-19	Plant studies (letters to the editor are great tools; use them)
2-19	Campaign Strengthens For a Voting Paper Trail
2-19	Montana Farmers Blast Methane Drilling
2-19	Conference to focus on black miners in region
2-19	Groups split on effects of fly ash on water system
2-19	Environmental Fight Looms Over Coal Power Plants
2-19	Small Mill Explosion Injures 2 Duke Energy Employees - Blast injures 2 Duke workers
2-19	Synthetic fuel could power Air Force's future
2-19	Safety Problems Remain in Mexican Mines
2-19	Ontario Emissions Down on Fewer Coal Power Plants
2-19	W. Europe's Biggest Coal Power Plant Tackles CO2
2-19	Climate change: scientists warn it may be too late to save the ice caps
2-19	Insurers shrink from coasts
2-19	US Business Braces for Battle on Climate Laws
2-19	New World Body May Help Cut CO2 Emissions, UN Told
2-19	Shift to low-carbon world may be more radical than Stern suggests
2-19	'Testing time' for EU climate policy
2-19	Science association joins in climate change concern
2-19	Critics' 'conspiracy' perplexes Flannery
2-18	Memorial service scheduled - Buffalo Creek Flood: Black history presentation planned
2-18	Death, destruction of flood still vivid - Chances of another disaster remote, state says - Related books and videos - Rod Hall's Buffalo Creek Memory - Jim Piccirillo's Buffalo Creek memories - Cheryl Rorrer Reynolds' Buffalo Creek memory - Derek Mullins' Buffalo Creek memory - Debbie Gorgia Jude's Buffalo Creek memory - Buffalo Creek video footage
2-18	Faked White Buck mine safety checks common knowledge
2-18	Healthy, sustainable future: West Virginias healthiest streams at risk without Tier 2.5
2-18	Mollohan pushing PSC on wind farm studies
2-18	Gas-rights suit pits business against business
2-18	House plan looks to power up Kentucky's national energy role
2-18	Students rally for bill to regulate mining practices
2-18	The last thing the River of Grass needs
2-18	Coal loses market momentum
2-18	Ag producers worry about CBM water
2-18	US military oil pains - USAF tests synthetic fuel from coal, gas
2-18	US FERC OKs 2 LNG terminal projects in Mississippi
2-18	US, China 'must act to avert disaster'
2-18	Global Warming: It's About Energy
2-18	Greenhouse Gases Hit New High, Rise Accelerates - World temperatures continue to climb
2-18	All-Star Global Concerts Planned on Climate
2-18	Europe 'complacent' on climate change
2-18	Canada vote reignites Kyoto row
2-18	EU Energy Ministers Postpone Decision on Plan to Turn Europe into Low-Carbon Economy
2-18	Sachs Warns of Global Warming Disaster
2-18	Renewed focus on carbon trading
2-18	10 ways to decrease global warming
2-18	How you reduce global warming
2-18	World 'at tipping point over global warming'
2-18	CLIMATE CHANGE: Islands Could Fall Off the Map
2-18	Britain in bloom - when it's not meant to be
2-18	Why it's harder than you think to pay for a carbon guilt trip
2-18	Over-50s leave largest carbon footprint
2-17	Buffalo Creek: 35 years have not erased memories
2-17	War protesters picket Capito office - Capito - For war buildup?
2-17	Watching our peaks disappear
2-17	We've been to the mountaintop -- and destroyed it
2-17	Kentucky push to stop mountaintop mining gets no traction in legislature - Urban legislators sponsor mountaintop removal ban - Lawmakers Halt Move To Limit 'Mountaintop Mining'
2-17	Fighting the New Defeatism on Climate Change
2-17	In Energy Conservation, Calif. Sees Light; Progressive Policy Makes It a Model in Global Warming Fight
2-17	State might relax PPGs mercury flow controls
2-17	STATE VEHICLES WOULD USE ALTERNATIVE FUELS
2-17	Explosion at coal mill injures two Duke Energy employees
2-17	West Virginia loans OKd for area businesses
2-17	Loan to Pa. waste coal-to-fuel plant money won't be taken away
2-17	Air Force Tests Synthetic Fuel in N.D.
2-17	Supreme Court hears coal lease dispute
2-17	Rising Price of Electricity Sets Off New Debate on Regulation
2-17	Bills link Congress' approval to loan for coal train project
2-17	New coal plant faces protests
2-17	B.C. green plan forces coal-fired plant changes
2-17	India's building boom fuels coal rush
2-17	In world's coal mines, Bucyrus officials see gold
2-17	Analysis: Carbon-based fuel won't go away
2-17	Uncertainty clouds mining of coal
2-17	Politicians sign new climate pact
2-16	RELIGION: New group takes spiritual approach to environment
2-16	Mountaintop-removal news roundup
2-16	Free the Kentucky mining bills
2-16	Shelby, Alabama coal mine closed for decade-long coal slurry pollution
2-16	Greenhouse gas tracking bill has little chance of passage (pdf)
2-16	VICTIMS' FAMILY MEMBERS URGE STRICTER RULES - Mine safety bill stalls; widows urge lawmakers to take action - Miners' survivors plead for safety bill
2-16	Coal has a place - in history
2-16	Former Enron traders get probation for driving up energy prices
2-16	Health Experts Warn of Mirant Dangers
2-16	Florida makes it easier to build nuclear plants
2-16	Newspapers and Climate Change
2-16	U.S. CO2 legislation threatens future of coal in power generation - Sen. Kerry bill to halt Texas coal power plant construction
2-16	Texas companies plan wind, gas, coal power plants
2-16	Rivals push coal-cleaning technologies - Rival firms dispute coal gasification
2-16	New coal-gasification plant site narrowed in southwestern Indiana
2-16	N.C. congressman Shuler urges TVA to clear Smokies air
2-16	Explosion at coal mill injures two Duke Energy employees
2-16	Wall Street Journal: Climate Change's Cold Economics... ... Meanwhile in Australia: Cash in on climate, says Pratt
2-16	Glaciers not on simple, upward trend of melting
2-16	Worlds largest science conference focuses on climate change
2-16	A Greener Niger
2-16	More Thoughts on Climate
2-16	Warming to Spread Disease, Hunger in South Asia
2-16	Debate over global warming is shifting
2-16	Investors turn up heat over carbon emissions
2-16	Canada Gov't Relents, Says Will Obey Pro-Kyoto Law
2-16	Child cap could be the answer
2-16	Rising heat is killing us softly
2-15	State to lose $1.2 million on Talon investment - Contractor injured detonating military explosives at surface mine - As Bo Webb notes, people living near mountaintop removal operations are likely breathing this: Health questions about tetryl
2-15	Commission takes hard look at Boone County evacuation plans
2-15	Governments Debate Climate-Energy Dilemma - Nuclear Option Re-emerges in Energy Debate - Efficiency Can Make Difference in Meeting Energy Needs - Window of Opportunity?
2-15	Rockefeller: Coal--Will it Be Part of Global Warming Solution? (Will politicians see beyond the next election and face ecological reality? Coal is 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! Stop using taxpayers' billions to prop up the fossil fool's paradise--coal.)
2-15	Massey mine workers plead guilty to safety fakery; Pair were to testify against White Buck Coal Co.
2-15	Ken Ward Jr. in Washington Monthly: Shafted--How the Bush administration reversed decades of progress
2-15	Kentuckians Gather To Show Their Love For The Mountains
2-15	Wind vs. Coal: False Choices in the Battle to Resolve Our Energy Crisis
2-15	Coal blackens outlook in China
2-15	Correction: Magnum Coal Co. Magnum 100 %owned by the ArcLight Capital Partners
2-15	DEP Grants Tunnel Ridge Permit; Ohio County's first new coal mining venture in 30 years
2-15	Compromise reached on forest access-road bill
2-15	Census Bureau report details W. Va.s various rankings
2-15	Loosening of pollution reporting rules is blasted
2-15	Why do we continue to destroy the earth? (Fox is an OVEC board member)
2-15	Study Questions Prospects for Much Lower Emissions
2-15	Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman: "clean" coal technology was a key priority for the Bush administration (Coal as clean? more Lies from BushCo--health and ecosystem destroying lies for the sake of campaign donors) - Energy secretary backs 'clean coal,' nuclear power
2-15	Australia and Finland's Leaders Agreed Nuclear Is Not Miracle Solution to Global Warming
2-15	France's Areva Wins $5 Billion Nuke Deal
2-15	To cool Earth, just scrub the carbon - Virgin, the Dynamo, and the Prize
2-15	UN OKs CO2 injection into ocean floor; activists have concerns, however
2-15	Justice Official Bought Vacation Home With Oil Lobbyist - Lobbyist, Fed Lawyer Share Vacation Home - Remember Griles?
2-15	Mexico mine workers plan strike to mark explosion
2-15	Governor Corzines Executive Order On Global Warming
2-15	Exxon Chief Cautions Against Rapid Action to Cut Carbon Emissions
2-15	TXU asks anti-coal group to pull ad from TV
2-15	FTSE index launches climate change criteria
2-15	Province announces major "green" initiatives in Throne Speech
2-15	Calif. groups sue to protect polar bears, walruses from industry, global warming off Alaska
2-15	Exxon, AEI and Climate Change
2-15	Australia: Mine firms urged to contribute to climate change research - Climate change economic impact 'ignored'
2-15	Global warming may worsen droughts in U.S. Southwest, Middle East
2-15	Canada: Coal-plant project could switch to wood waste
2-15	NY Students Imagine City Plan after Global Warming
2-15	Activist-author offers thoughts on mountaintop removal to KY 8th grade class
2-15	Mountaintop removal talk in Florida
2-14	Fatality from vehicle wreck added to mine deaths count
2-14	Blankenship: Unions hurt bottom line - Massey CEO says nonunion mines more competitive
2-14	Magnum Coal argees to new UMW contract
2-14	Kentucky: You'd think the chairman of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee would be up on environmental issues
2-14	West Virginia often ranks near high or low in the nation
2-14	Stop Taking the Tops - Another Centrist Dem Cozies Up to Coal
2-14	Global warming becomes a campus cause
2-14	High Time for Voting Reform
2-14	Mining Montana
2-14	Business leaders form group to oppose coal plants
2-14	Coal can't be clean - Australia's Flannery
2-14	Australia: Move to clean coal 'will cost jobs' (not to mention that there is no such thing as 'clean" coal)
2-14	Canada: New rules threaten proposed coal projects - Coal-fired electricity dumped
2-14	Mingo County Day (Members of Sludge Safety Project attended this event)
2-14	Kentucky: Coal Truck Accident
2-14	Coal loses steam
2-14	Coal to liquid insanity: Wits to build pilot coal-to-fuel plant in China - SA scientists to produce oil from coal for China
2-14	10 global warming dinosaurs - Companies' Support Goes against the Environment
2-14	US Congress Urged to Act Fast on Climate Change - Industry CEOs testify for emissions limits -
2-14	Science: Global Warming and the Government
2-14	Residents may get less data about emissions
2-14	Oil Has Peaked, but Where's the Data? Analyst Asks
2-14	Hard to Tell What Causes Fatal Disease of the Lungs
2-14	Push for new climate treaty intensifies - Time Running out for Post-Kyoto Climate Deal - Blair - Hope for end of climate deadlock
2-14	Madrid Temperature Could Top 50 Celsius by 2100
2-14	Tim Flannery: the Climate Change Warrior
2-14	Rising Seas Threaten Britain's Best-Loved Beaches
2-14	Sea Level Rise Could Hit Poor Countries Hard - Study
2-14	Rising Bay Puts Cemeteries at Risk
2-14	Passenger jets get a radical green makeover
2-14	Climate change puts ski resorts on slippery slope
2-13	Film shows hows, whys of mountaintop removal mining
2-13	Buffalo Creek: A catastrophe remembered (photos)
2-13	Miller calls for mining that spares landscape - Gubernatorial Candidate Talks About Mountaintop Removal
2-13	Massey: Corporate laggards on global warming named - Environmentalist shareholders criticize 10 companies
2-13	Companies Pressed to Define Green Policies
2-13	Brown warns of sanctions over coal exports
2-13	The turning point on global warming
2-12	Renewables Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming
2-12	Promise of youth may change game
2-12	Allegheny Hearing Begins Today
2-12	"Clean coal" captures notice at dual seminars
2-12	Big Enviro Groups Holding Back Anti-Warming Movement
2-12	1,000 protest coal plant plan - Texans Rally Against New Coal Plants
2-12	Nevada Gov.s coal-to-liquid fuel plans not without problems
2-12	More coal-to-liquid insanity: Pa. legislators petition for coal-to-fuel funds - With fuel supplies at risk, undermining project is unwise
2-12	The Colbert Report on Global Warming
2-12	New Hampshire in mercury battle with EPA
2-12	DC area: Power Plant Plans Generate Opposition
2-12	Rescues, not recoveries
2-12	Bob Brown: We must kick the coal habit - Australia: Coal facing a doubtful future - China fires up coal future
2-12	Australia: People occupy coal port
2-12	German miners stunned by end of subsidies
2-12	Big Oil increasingly carrying torch for renewable energy
2-12	Climate Change: A Threat That Unites Us All
2-12	The White House is pulling an about-face on global warming -- but don't count on any actual policy changes
2-11	Killer Weather Ahead - Global Warming: Get Used to It - Report: Catastrophic Climate Change may be Inevitable unless Drastic Steps are Taken - Global warming means we must change lifestyles
2-11	Mine seals must improve; NIOSH releases draft safety report - New questions raised on mine seals
2-11	Leaving miners to die
2-11	Gas-rights verdict too late for man who started lawsuit
2-11	Woman heads push to keep state free of litter
2-11	Some economists see more than dollar signs
2-11	Piping the problem underground
2-11	Bush energy budget bypasses Wyo coal
2-11	LIQUEFIED COAL (HR 547): Voting 200-207, the House defeated a Republican motion to broaden the definition of alternative fuels to include natural gas and hydrogen as well as coal-to-liquid technologies.
2-11	Pennsylvania orders review of anthracite coal mines
2-11	Coal plants start giant lobby fight - Sheryl Crow And Laurie David Fight Against Coal-Fired Plants
2-11	Baptist group opposes Texas coal plant plan
2-11	FPL in fight to ease doubts on coal
2-11	Huge coal-fired power plant planned for Nevada
2-11	Our insatiable appetite for coal: Wisconsin's greenhouse gas emissions are rising at a rate far faster than the rest of the nation's - Is coal the only option?
2-11	Australia: Coal miners 'could work on solar'
2-11	South Africa: Women dig in for coal
2-11	CSIRO's horror climate forecast for Australia
2-11	Summit takes a look at a world without oil
2-11	Oil Companies Discuss Energy Challenges (while pocketing billions, destroying homelands, lobbying against higher fuel efficiency standards, etc.)
2-11	Utah radioactive sludge removal delayed 16 years
2-11	Venezuelan state buys power firm
2-10	It's not too late to avoid the worst
2-10	US Energy Secy Tells Congress 'no' to Emissions Cap - Bush administration put on the defensive over climate change - Global Warming Tussles Boil at White House, Capitol
2-10	Pelosi Backs Restrictions on Heat-Trapping Gases
2-10	Mine seals must improve - New Rules Hard for Mine - Safety Companies
2-10	UMW reaches deal with Peabody coal company
2-10	Massey subsidiary agrees to plea deal
2-10	Showdown nears in Texas TXU coal plant battle - UT report: Coal plants could harm Waco's air
2-10	Mercury pollution rising as Canada, U.S. opt to keep talking
2-10	E.U. Considers Broad New Penalties in Pollution Disasters
2-10	Kentucky mountaintop removal bill won't be considered; practice could become issue in next governor race (and all of us, everywhere, can make it an issue in the presidential race--ask the candidates their positions on their websites, write them letters, write letters to the editor)
2-10	UNEP Wants to Build on Google Partnership Success
2-10	Shell hires Bush's environmental adviser
2-10	Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society
2-10	Seven reasons the uranium price will hit $100 this year
2-10	China Set to Launch Kyoto Clean Energy Fund
2-10	Greenhouse gas ocean burial can start Feb 10
2-10	Climate Change Worsening Indonesian Floods
2-10	Support Seen Growing for Climate Summit
2-10	Few Funds Yet for UN's New Africa Carbon Plan
2-10	Global Warming to Require More Robust Disaster Monitoring
2-9	Literary Lunch --A 'Big Ugly' fight
2-9	Campaign financing advances in W.Va. Senate
2-9	MetroNews: Bottle Bill Lobby
2-9	White Buck to plead guilty in safety case; Massey subsidiary accused of faking pre-shift checks
2-9	MSHA requires mines to provide up to 96 hours for trapped miners
2-9	ICG delays opening Tygart Valley mine - ICG slows expansion further
2-9	Coal incentives and Mountaintop removal (scroll down for these two letters to the editor)
2-9	Act now on climate change: US bishops to Congress
2-9	Little doubt on cause of global warming, experts tell Congress - 4 scientists tell Congress humans cause warming
2-9	Plans to combat global warming heat up
2-9	$25M prize to beat greenhouse gas
2-9	Carbon funds eye U.S. market
2-9	'Success Xpress' set to bring high-tech mine training to Belfry
2-9	W.Va. history not taught in school
2-9	Texas: Don't let coal dirty our air - Coal gasification wouldn't work at plants
2-9	Arizona: Power plant plans shelved
2-9	New Mexico: Rally to Oppose Desert Rock Power Plant!
2-9	Report targets coal-fired plants
2-9	KING COAL NO MORE
2-9	NY to Sue Exxon Mobil Over Slow Cleanup of Huge Underground Oil Slick Beneath Brooklyn
2-9	Md. governor urges regulators to deny LNG plant proposal
2-8	Searching for Balance - Is Coal on the Sidelines in Climate Change Debate? - Many Predict Impact from Greenhouse Gas Caps - The Implications of Climate Change: A View from West Virginia - Carbon Question: A Looming Challenge - Atmospheric Scientist Offers View of a Changed West Virginia
2-8	Cheap mining desecrates land (letters to the editor are great tools, please use them!)
2-8	Regulators give final nod to area mountain top mine
2-8	Raser des montagnes pour en extraire du charbon
2-8	Kanawha kids do poorly in survey; coalfields kids do even worse (How can this be in the "billion dollar coalfields? How can this be, when the coal industry repeats over and over how fabulous it is for West Virginia?)
2-8	Hampshire County group protests power line (scroll down to 2-08 entry)
2-8	Stop the Spin! No Getting Around Emissions Caps, Experts Say
2-8	Utility group ready for carbon caps
2-8	Kyoto carbon trade seen buying planet 20 years
2-8	Senate Panel Rakes EPA Chief Over the Coals
2-8	Effects of Bush Climate Science Censorship Linger
2-8 ay	Global warming a hot topic in Washington
2-8	Coal to liquid stupidity: KY: Fletcher delivers state of commonwealth address - PA Gov Urges Bush to Restore Funding to Nation's First Coal-to-Liquid-Fuel Plant - Coal plant confident loan will be coming - Strickland: Ohio must pursue alternative fuels - President Requests $863 Million for Fossil Energy Programs
2-8	CO2 can be stored in aquifers for years: study
2-8	Bush Budget Slashes Environment, Funds Nuclear Development - $1.94 billion 2008 Hanford budget proposed
2-8	Coal industry OK with Manchins mine safety bill
2-8	Oil, gas company plans to add 160 jobs in W.Va.
2-8	Texas Baptists Work To Block Speedy Coal Plant Approval - Texas Baptists Turning Green - But Not All the Way
2-8	Texas Coal War Update
2-8	Colorado takes aim at mercury emissions
2-8	Opponents of Duke coal-fired expansion file brief
2-8	Environmental groups threaten to sue plant
2-8	Alaskans fear coal project could ruin habitat
2-8	'Green' Group Distances Itself From 'Coal is Dirty' Claim (Hello ED? Take a look on the front end of the coal cycle. There is no such thing as 'clean' coal. It is indeed filthy.) - Clarification: Environmental Defense Not Part of Texas Clean Skies Coalition Coal Ads
2-8	China's coal mine accidents increase alarmingly in January
2-8	Australia's top climate scientist and Prime Minister clash on coal industry
2-8	American zampoliti - Remember J. Stephen Griles? - CREW Releases Latest Corruption Report: The 25 Most Corrupt Bush Administration Officials
2-8	Anglo American forms black empowerment coal company
2-8	Climate change concerts 'to dwarf Live Aid'
2-8	'Integrate climate change in planning'
2-8	Britain helps citizens atone for emissions
2-8	Hot weather could start a dotcom fever
2-7	Bottle bill will benefit our state
2-7	Senate panel OKs mine safety bill
2-7	Stalled for more than 5 years, work may resume on King Coal Highway
2-7	Reports on global warming lag behind the science
2-7	Bush (ecocide) budget focuses on clean coal - More for Energy Research
2-7	Nat'l Renewable Energy Lab Frustrated With Funding - Bush Calls For Renewable Energy, Cuts Colorado Funding - Bush Allocates $1 Billion to Renewable Energy
2-7	Economist Paul Volcker says steps to curb global warming would not devastate an economy
2-7	Exxon tied to payoff to rap global warming
2-7	Virginia Is Redrafting Electricity Regulation
2-7	Massey chief sees depressed coal price through '08
2-7	Residents leery of coal hauling
2-7	Notes from My Purple State: "A Coal-Fired War"
2-7	Gas companies are big spenders on anti-coal ads
2-7	NJ sues feds over emissions from Pa. coal-fired plant
2-7	Doubts cloud coal-plant plan
2-7	Groups criticize coal plant
2-7	Groups Challenge Environmental Analysis of Controversial Black Mesa Mine: Feds Failed to Consider Harmful Impacts to Sacred Springs
2-7	Clean coal a problem, China says
2-7	China Says Rich Countries Should Take Lead on Global Warming
2-7	Explosion in central Colombian coal mine kills 8
2-7	Canada Sees its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Soaring
2-7	Brazil scolds rich on environment
2-7	Record temperatures leave China sweating
2-7	Bill McKibben: Alpha Females
2-7	Vegetarian Is the New Prius
2-7	UN Doubts China Will Overtake US on Carbon by 2009
2-7	China May Swing to Net Coal Imports by Year End
2-6	A climate-change cost analysis
2-6	Religion and Ethics: Mountaintop Removal Mining - Bob Faw reports from Kentucky on religious opposition to mountaintop removal mining
2-6	Scientists say: go solar for answers on climate change
2-6	Cheney's Fund Manager Attacks... Cheney
2-6	Global warming threat
2-6	Concerns Escalate Over Proposed Mine in Taylor County; effects of long wall mining cause concern for a state park
2-6	Injured Miner Released From Hospital
2-6	Getting to the dirt on coal
2-6	Kanawha State Forest bill in works
2-6	Coal to liquid: USAF Testing Synthetic Fuels With B-52 in Cold Weather
2-6	'Clean coal' tax cut advances in Wyoming legislature
2-6	Group launches 'Coal is Filthy' ads against TXU plan
2-6	Bush budget plan would eliminate funding for waste coal-to-fuel plant
2-6	Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit in Run-Up to the Election; Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil slashed fourth quarter refining margins to temporarily lower pump prices
2-6	China Is Set on Curbing Fossil Fuels: Climate Chief
2-6	Boxer wants U.S. to host energy summit
2-6	Coal Fired Power Plant Creates Controversy
2-6	Global warming to hit poor the worst: UN chief
2-6	ExxonMobil-Funded Group Offers Scientists Cash to Attack Major New Global Warming Study
2-5	Hightower Lowdown: People are electing candidates who shun corporate cash
2-5	Coal silo activists waylay Manchin
2-5	Saving money with renewable energy sources
2-5	Protect public from dam threats
2-5	Congress to ponder mine-safety changes
2-5	Politics of global warming heating up in Texas - Merrill Lynch gets lumps of coal - Who's Funding Global Warming? - The Citibank List: Climate Change, Climatic Consequences
2-5	Investment Implications of a Changing Climate (pdf)
2-5	TXU faces a Texas coal rush
2-5	U.S. opts out of climate change panel
2-5	46 nations warm up to global warming environmental threat
2-5	Mega-donors get mixed election results
2-5	Kentucky 2nd-worst state in disabilities
2-5	11th Circuit mulls unsealing coal files
2-5	Global Warming Report may Trigger Lawsuits - Lawyers
2-5	Bangladesh Faces Bleak Future from Global Warming
2-5	Melting Glaciers, Sinking Isles: Warming Hits India
2-5	Global Warming Threatens Australia's Barrier Reef
2-4	Oil heir buying W.Va. by the ton
2-4	Water top priority, Mingo County officials say (but they let coal companies ruin water)
2-4	A Disaster Epic (in Slo-Mo)
2-4	At Humanitys Doorstep
2-4	Carbon Dioxide Rate is at Highest Level for 650,000 Years
2-4	Bush Backers Offer Bribes to Undercut Global Warming Report
2-4	A Mega Environmental Disaster in the Making?
2-4	Global water crisis looms
2-4	More coal-to-liquid insanity: Fuel diversification a matter of security - Time to rev up proposals to make alternative fuels
2-4	Colombia Coal Mine Explosion Kills 32 - Gas blast traps Colombian miners
2-4	The Withering of the American Environmental Movement
2-4	Climate study may serve as a wake-up call for government, business
2-4	Global Warming Poses Health Threats
2-4	Global warming, climate report warns humans could cause an Earth catastrophe
2-3	Scientists warn of grim future from global warming
2-3	Warming puts region's coal in the cross hairs
2-3	WV Gov receives surprise delivery of kids letters
2-3	Speed, weather factors in fatal wreck
2-3	With $100 million in venture capital funding, Targe Energy charges ahead
2-3	Dire report won't change U.S. greenhouse policy
2-3	Global Warming Is Being Seriously Underestimated
2-3	New Climate Findings Shift Debate
2-3	Utility customers may make 'green energy' donations
2-3	Required air packs yet to reach miners
2-3	Democrats to target coal plants
2-3	Exxon linked to climate change pay out; Think tank offers scientists $10,000 to criticize UN study confirming global warming and placing blame on humans
2-3	Exxon pumps in record numbers - Exxon posts record profit
2-3	Exxon Shouldn't Be Able To Use it's $40 Billion Profit To Bury Evidence It's Killing Our World
2-3	New study shows Exxon Valdez oil persists on Alaska coast, its wildlife
2-3	Higher output, lower costs help Arch Coal
2-3	Massey Energy: Killer Coal Gas Powers Chinese Taxis
2-3	A canary in the Chinese coal mine; Smog and soot are killing crops and leaving farmers breathless
2-3	Seven killed in Chinese coal mine fire
2-2	West Virginia: Fatalities reported in coal truck accident - 3 die when minivan collides with coal truck - Alabama: Driver killed in fiery truck accident
2-2	Climate report spurs immediate calls for drastic, speedy change - U.N. Panel Blames Humans for Warming - Seas Rising Faster than U.N. Predicts - Draft Findings by U.N. Climate Panel - Worrying Report on Climate Change Released in Paris
2-2	2007 may offer best chance for publicly funded campaigns in W.Va. - A True Freedom Bill: Clean Elections
2-2	Children write Manchin to move school from coal silo - Children Call on WV Governor Joe Manchin to Move Marsh Fork Elementary Away from Coal Contamination
2-2	U.S. lack of advancement on mine safety is decried - MSHA pressures manufacturers to speed air packs production
2-2	Energy town hall meeting panel peppered with pointed questions - Panel tackles foreign-oil dependence
2-2	Water wars tipped as planet heats up (so why, why does government continue allowing the coal industry to poison streams and groundwater and bury streams?)
2-2	Catastrophes Inevitable, Says New Report - Danger of Global Warming As Official As It Can Get - Climate Panel Issues Urgent Warning to Curb Gases
2-2	Why are EPA Libraries Closing?
2-2	Billionaires for Coal: The inside story
2-2	Edwards sketches 2008 platform (mountaintop removal mention in last paragraph)
2-2	RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY PROGRAM LISTINGS
2-2	Vanity Fire
2-2	Arch Coals Earnings Preview and Massey Energy CEO to Speak at Conference
2-2	Pennsylvania Launches Energy Independence Plan
2-2	Gibbons' coal-as-fuel plan impractical, costly
2-2	Guide to alternative fuels
2-2	Ecological goods and services of Arctic watershed worth ten times the value of its natural resources
2-2	Duke Energy faces rising costs of coal (or is it that the true high and deadly costs of coal are being exposed and calculated?)
2-2	Blair: fossil fool
2-2	Court asked to unseal files in case against coal firm
2-2	China Warns of Disasters from Warming Tibet Plateau
2-2	World's sea levels rising at accelerating rate
2-2	28 South Florida mayors sign pact to reduce greenhouse gases, energy use
2-1	The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Stop Global Warming
2-1	WV MetroNews: Mountaintop Mining Decision Faces Court Challenge
2-1	Grist: Buried in Logan County, WV
2-1	The Hightower Report: MOUNTAINTOP REVELATION
2-1	China to Require Swap of Old Coal Plants for New
2-1	EU too Confident on Carbon Capture, Germans Say
2-1	Capito, Rahall back coal-to-liquid loans - Fuel: More valuable than food?
2-1	Low oil prices endanger coal-to-liquid growth
2-1	West Virginia welcomes business at a steep cost
2-1	Senator: Bottle bill is a good proposal
2-1	Bill would preserve forests ecology
2-1	More Carbon-Free Zones?
2-1	Study says 14 new coal plants may worsen global warming - Coal plans prompt warning
2-1	Bush's blatant abuse of climate scientists
2-1	Pollution from trains complicates coal plan
2-1	International Coal Group Unit Completes Purchase of Buffalo Coal Company Assets
2-1	Report says ecological value of Arctic watershed greater than natural resources (that's what were talking about here too!)
2-1	Australia: Underground coal mining a menace to water stocks
2-1	Miners claim report was incomplete
2-1	Nuclear Power Faces Stormy Seas Threat
2-1	Oil's Life Cycle - Pollution Each Step of the Way
2-1	Tibet glacier melt threatens China
2-1	Global Warning: As Paris Blooms in Winter, Scientists Debate Climate Change
2-1	Biggest U.S. Companies Fail to Disclose Climate Change Risks to Investors, Study Says
2-1	Global Cool to reverse global warming
2-1	Global warming: Fossil fuels are to blame, world scientists conclude
2-1	Global-warming research calls to all students
2-1	Eiffel Tower Turns Light off to Signal Climate Risk
2-1	Al Gore Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

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