OVEC News Links Archive - February 2007

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	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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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 - Deal’s 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