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3-31	Van Jones: Eco-apartheid--Why is the green movement so lily white?
3-31	'We speak for the mountains': Fight ecological injustice in Appalachia
3-31	MSHA unveils another 89 non-contributing violations at Massey mine - MSHAs Aracoma investigation leads to record $1.5M fine for Massey (scroll to 3/30 entry)
3-31	VBS.tv on West Virginia coal
3-31	Dynegy listens to dissent; CEO meets environmental groups on issue of coal plants
3-31	Oil Peak Could Catch United States Unprepared
3-31	Her Side of the Mountain - Saving the mountains
3-31	Governor says coal pollutant testing getting Ohio attention
3-31	New Ky. state cabinet needed to cut energy dependence
3-31	As a mine still burns, reasons are sought
3-31	How much is carbon worth?
3-31	Voice of America: Future of Coal in a Carbon Constrained World
3-31	Industry tries new ways to fight global warming
3-31	Warming debate over; let the solutions begin
3-31	Sydney Dims Lights to Protest Emissions
3-31	Previewing a U.N. Climate Report: Species Are Going To Be Lost
3-31	Report warns Australia of severe climate impacts - Asia faces floods, drought, disease: UN panel - India, China 'more sensitive' to climate change - Climate change threatens infrastructure - Climate-induced fires tough to adapt to
3-30	Massey fined $1.5M; Company cited for reckless disregard for safety at Aracoma - MSHA says record fine levied to force compliance with safety laws - "Avoidable Tragedy"
3-30	Court ruling: Is mountaintop mining at risk?
3-30	Report suggests energy audits in Pike (there is no such thing as "clean" coal!)
3-30	Suicide by coal (scroll down)
3-30	Talk on energy touches on cultural change
3-30	AEP to Test New Technology at New Haven Site
3-30	EPA Tells 20 US States Cut Air Pollution by '08
3-30	Port Authority faces ADEM fine over coal dust runoff
3-30	Proposed legislation examines undersea coal mining
3-30	Coal comeback pushes up UK emissions - Anger as UK's carbon dioxide emissions reach 10-year high
3-30	Greener buildings vs. climate change
3-30	Wall Street Journal to Americans Who Are Concerned About Global Warming: You Are Morons
3-30	Who's the moron: James Inhofe
3-30	Non-CO2 gases also cause global warming
3-30	Retreating Himalayan Icefields Threatening Drought in Bangladesh
3-30	California Eyes Joining EU Emissions Trading Scheme
3-30	Heed global warning on sinking Shanghai
3-29	Record $1.5 million fine issued against Massey
3-29	Mines' Futures Uncertain After Ruling
3-29	The good, the bad, the politics as usual - Mountaintop Rescue
3-29	Ridge-top wind generates debate
3-29	Local citizens reiterate request for new school
3-29	Legal action sought on funds for state mine cleanup program
3-29	Changes too slow, coal mine widows say - Mine safety unheeded, its backers threatened, House committee told - Coal miner widow: Toughen federal safety laws
3-29	Rahall, other lawmakers seek coal-to-liquid support - Coal-to-gas coalition launched - Coal to liquids may be a while off - Coal to Liquids Coalition may spur job growth
3-29	Lake off-limits after selenium found in fish
3-29	Massey seeks to delay wrongful death lawsuit over Aracoma fire
3-29	UMWA issues unfair labor practice strike authorization to locals at Foundation Coal
3-29	Climate Change: Coastal Mega-Cities in for a Bumpy Ride
3-29	Scientists weigh risks of climate 'techno-fixes'
3-29	A German vision: greening globalisation
3-29	Food, Water Security Threatened by Warming, UN Panel Chief Says
3-29	Climate Change: Study Maps Those At Greatest Risk From Cyclones And Rising Seas
3-29	Understanding and Evaluating Carbon Offset Programs
3-29	Global warming threatens more than just poles and tropics
3-29	Whistleblower Group Details Bush Interference with Climate Change Science
3-29	Will climate change kill the Amazon?
3-29	$200m climate change plan
3-28	Responsible: Mountaintop ruling
3-28	Federal ruling could have broad implications for mountaintop removal permits (scroll down to 3-27 entry)
3-28	Coal industry responds to valley fill ruling
3-28	Stop Mountaintop Removal --Take Action
3-28	Concert for the Mountains Features Authors, Activism, Entertainment
3-28	SHAME ON US FOR DESTROYING OUR MOUNTAINS
3-28	Is it safer yet?
3-28	Rahall Announces Formation of National Coal-to-Liquids Coalition
3-28	Watershed programs coming to Lincoln County
3-28	Lake near power plant closed to anglers
3-28	MSHA: Sago Report Out Soon
3-28	Uranium Ignites Gold Rush in the West
3-28	Report Charges Broad White House Efforts to Stifle Climate Research
3-28	Coal Interests Fight Polar Bear Action
3-28	Study: More CO2 Will Shift Climate Zones - Global Warming Study Warns of Vanishing Climates - Global climates face threat of fearsome changes
3-28	In the U.S. desert, high-altitude oases are vanishing
3-28	Global Warming Response - Markets or Taxes?
3-28	Reality Check: 83% of Americans Now Say Global Warming is a Serious Problem
3-28	Earths Climate Needs the Help of Incentives
3-28	China likely to overtake U.S. as biggest carbon emitter this year
3-28	Climate change: Populations at greatest risk
3-27	Both sides looking at mine permit ruling - Unseamly Behavior (scroll down)
3-27	Environmentalists hope ruling ends mountaintop removal mining - Mountaintop Removal Mining Permits Illegal - Mother Jones: Moving Mountains Just Got Harder - MSNBC: Judge blocks mountaintop mine permits
3-27	Coal is the enemy of the human race
3-27	Rank-and-File Rebellions in the Coalfields, 1964-80
3-27	Its coal vs. oil as lobbying heats up Hill
3-27	Montana asks Ottawa to review B.C. mine
3-27	Hitting Back
3-27	US corporation may limit coal power plants
3-27	Sports: Adapt to warming
3-27	Environmental Advocates Fear for the South, the Environmental 'Canary in the Coal Mine'
3-27	Climate Change and Public Health
3-27	Climate change will increase extinction risk, especially in the tropics
3-27	Turns Out He Does Know Jack
3-27	'Flagrant violations' at Schuylkill coal mine
3-27	Russia halts work at 12 mines over safety
3-27	Taiwan Finds Huge Methane Hydrate Gas Reserves
3-27	Norwegian Bishops Urge Global Warming Action
3-27	School of Energy Resources Symposium Will Explore Carbon Sequestration
3-27	El Nio Has Bigger Bite With Climate Change
3-26	Some question if increased fines will improve mine safety
3-26	Energy business must change
3-26	Good News: Federal Court Decides Mountaintop Removal Permits Illegal
3-26	Criminal Indifference, Big Coal Versus Children
3-26	FPL going off course with coal
3-26	Weekend party marks victory over 'coal rush'
3-26	Clean coal is all hot air
3-26	Fighting for air: frontline of war on global warming
3-26	Global Warming and Civil Rights: Eyes on the Prize
3-26	Report queries nuclear role in beating global warming
3-26	Warmer World Puts Squeeze on US Maple Syrup
3-26	Blair calls on US, China, India to cut greenhouse emissions
3-26	Global warming makes ice a hot topic at U.S. lab
3-26	Flowering patterns hit by global warming
3-26	Climate action must carry social cost
3-26	City report urges 30-per-cent cut in greenhouse gases by 2020
3-26	Tough Task as Britain Bids for Steep Carbon Cut
3-25	Going on a ramp-age
3-25	Capitol Climate Round-up
3-25	Coal-mine safety is focus in House - Stalled on safety
3-25	Global Warming Creating Colder Winter Weather? 'Tis True
3-25	Vermont Maple Syrup Hard Hit by Climate Change
3-25	Will state global warming laws have much impact?
3-25	Why the right goes nuclear over global warming
3-25	Kyoto, Gore and the Atomic Lobby
3-25	Climate studies show polar warming trend
3-25	China mine flood kills 15
3-25	Clean coal is tricky (indeed, since there is no such things as "clean" coal)
3-25	Climate doomsday approaching: report
3-25	Save forests to fight global warming: Stern
3-25	Riches Await as Earth's Icy North Melts
3-25	Bill McKibben says we're stuffed
3-25	City to reveal tough climate change proposals
3-25	Climate change to reshape B.C.
3-25	Climate change, a threat to developing economies
3-25	El Nio Has Bigger Bite with Climate Change
3-24	4 mining permits blocked; U.S. judge cites alarming cumulative stream loss in decision - Judge blocks mountaintop removal permits - Judge says corps' permits for valley fills violate law - Earthjustice Statement on Mountaintop Removal Mining Court Decision - Federal Judge Rules Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Illegal
3-24	Raleigh school board asks governor for money to build new Marsh Fork school - PDF transcript of WV Public radio report - PDF of Raleigh Board of Education letter to Gov. Manchin - PDF of reply
3-24	Coal-to-liquid fuels carry too steep a price - Take Action: No liquid coal!
3-24	OVEC WINS E-APPALACHIA AWARD
3-24	REMIND US WHY COAL IS GOOD FOR KENTUCKY
3-24	Griles spent much of his career enabling MTR - Griles pleads guilty Friday - Another top official to admit guilt in Abramoff corruption probe - Remember Griles? See the eighth paragraph here - J. Steven Griles highest-ranking Bush official convicted in Jack Abramoff scandal
3-24	Fletcher signs legislation to make coal mines safer
3-24	Loose barges block traffic at Racine Dam
3-24	Carbon dioxide sequestration test site in Ohio?
3-24	Logan City Council Elects to Invest in Renewable Energy Over Coal
3-24	Clean coal would cost billions
3-24	'Lost Mountain' Author Addresses Annual Library Associates Meeting
3-24	Antarctic Melting May Be Speeding Up - Scientists
3-24	Global warming may cause biodiversity extinction
3-24	Amazon 'faces more deadly droughts'
3-24	Southern Ocean Current Faces Slowdown Threat
3-24	Global warming may be bad for asthma sufferers
3-24	Why the sloppy love for nuclear?
3-23	Global Warming Activists Try to Stir Americans to Change
3-23	Ongoing Summer Internships & Opportunities
3-23	Mine safety fines to double under new regulation - Industry Not Happy With New MSHA Rule
3-23	Synfuel tax benefit to end in December
3-23	Toxic discharges rise in W.Va., nationwide - State data files
3-23	Coal leasing near East Lynn Lake
3-23	Effort to cut emissions premature, AEP CEO tells Congress
3-23	AEP CEO MORRIS EARNED $12.6 MILLION
3-23	Mine operator admits workers' comp fraud
3-23	Clinch River plant in Carbo one of states top air polluters
3-23	Substantial Amount Of Mercury Entering The Ocean Through Groundwater
3-23	Separate But Toxic
3-23	Coal plant opposition grows
3-23	Duke coal plant may cost $2 billion
3-23	Maryland Asks To Join Suit On Emissions
3-23	Theyre Looking for a Few Good Coal Miners
3-23	U.S. Mining Co. Denies Link to Killings
3-23	Siberian coal mine town buries dead from gas explosion
3-23	Dirty Air Becomes Divisive Issue in Hong Kong Vote
3-23	US Developing System to Track Global Warming Gas
3-23	California Climate Action Registry a Big Draw
3-23	Not the Swimsuit Edition
3-23	Greenhouse-friendly Airbus to halve its fuel use by 2020
3-23	Global Warming and New Technology Heat Up Race for Riches in Melting Arctic
3-23	Pill stops cow burps and helps save the planet
3-22	Gore Urges Immediate U.S. Freeze on Warming Emissions - Gore Warns Congress of Planetary Emergency - Gore Challenges Congress on Climate - Al Gore makes global warming plea
3-22	Sago Mine shut down - ICG idles Sago Mine due to high costs, low coal prices
3-22	MSHA finalizes new rules in mining procedures - Make big fines stick for failure to report
3-22	Sediment control is one of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy's biggest concerns related to logging - Tough Times for Timber - State Taxes Cause for Concern in Timber Industry
3-22	Flood Cases May Be Headed to Supreme Court
3-22	Global boom in coal power and emissions
3-22	Burning the Furniture
3-22	Step it Up: No New Coal - Power Shift
3-22	PUC asked to probe "clean-coal" plant
3-22	Rt. 51 crash injures 3 drivers, covers the roadway with coal
3-22	Groundwater fills bay with mercury
3-22	MINING'S LEGACY A SCAR ON KANSAS
3-22	Hazleton dredge hearing slated for April 2
3-22	If public must pay for, and live with coal plant, it has a right to the facts
3-22	Meteorologists Say Sure Humans Cause Climate Change
3-22	Bush staff distorted climate science - Congress Gathers More Evidence That White House Tampered with Climate Data
3-22	Candidates warm to climate change
3-22	Britain 'leading the way on climate change'
3-22	UK Plans Contest to Build Big Carbon Capture Plant
3-22	Effort Afoot to Start US Climate Registry
3-22	Low-carbon diet
3-22	The next big thing in environmental law: Climate change
3-21	Company was warned about explosives - Mine, contractors cited for explosives accident
3-21	Campaign cash: Public financing works in other states
3-21	Activists Feel Warming on Climate Change
3-21	Bill McKibben: Global warming knocking at your door
3-21	OPEN LETTER FROM DAVE COOPER: Protesters Arrested at Capitol Rally
3-21	Blackwater Cleanup Continues
3-21	Rule deadline worries mine board
3-21	Russia mourns dead after trio of disasters - Russia: Death tally tops 100 in coal mine - 21 trapped in northern China coal mine
3-21	Blankenship publishes group's admission on ads
3-21	New coal plant deal includes wind farms - The Heartland Takes a Big Leap
3-21	Coal kills
3-21	Alaska Natives push Congress on global warming
3-21	Utility Chiefs Wary of Emission Limits
3-21	Official defends editing climate papers
3-21	Scientist accuses White House of 'Nazi' tactics - House Panel Investigates Bush's Climate Science Manipulations - US fudging of climate science - details revealed
3-21	Star in New Role, Gore Revisits Old Stage - Mountain of coal stands in way of Gore's crusade
3-21	Big oil, big row
3-21	Eco group warns of freshwater crisis
3-21	Tinkering with Earth's climate to stop global warming raises new risks
3-21	Bush team takes heat over global warming science
3-21	Australian Utilities Gear up for CO2 Trading
3-21	Cleaner Fuel for Ships May Raise CO2 Emissions
3-21	Spread of Desert "May Cause Mediterranean Exodus"
3-21	Flowers, Animals Signal Spring Arrived Long Ago
3-20	Siberian mine blast kills 106; 4 missing
3-20	Beckley Register Herald editorial: No matter how you cut it Marsh Fork deserves a new school
3-20	Photographer claims Capitol, State Police used 'abusive force' at protest
3-20	Coal Spill in Raleigh County Stream
3-20	Citations issued in fatal mine accident; Roof violations behind 2 deaths, state officials say - McDowell coal mine hit with citations
3-20	Dozens of cars in coal train derail spreading coal and debris over a wide area
3-20	Nature writing: the anti-bulldozer?
3-20	Electric Utility, Sierra Club End Dispute
3-20	Arctic Sea Ice Melt May Set Off Climate Change Cascade
3-20	Testimony by James Hansen: Political Interference with Government Climate Change Science - Nasa scientist accuses White House of global warming cover-up - Top NASA Scientist: Bush is Politicizing and Screening Global Warming Science
3-20	When Climate Message Is Strong, Attack the Messenger!
3-20	Natural Disasters Will Increase - UN Meteorologists
3-20	Rising Sea Levels Threaten Indian Islands
3-20	$4 Trillion Backs Latest Call for Action on Climate Change
3-20	Birds and fish respond to climate change
3-20	Adapt or die, warns climate change researcher
3-20	EU to Use Taxation to Protect the Environment
3-20	Many Major Rivers in Danger of Drying Out
3-20	Investors Urge US Congress for Rules Slashing CO2
3-20	Coal Mine Accidents Underreported to Protect Livelihoods
3-20	Thailand's Coal-Power Drive Sparks Health, Environment Outcry
3-19	21 Coal Miners Die, 100 Missing in Siberia Explosion
3-19	EKU Celebrates Earth Days in the Cumberlands
3-19	Stream war pits industry against DEP
3-19	U.S. court to overturn controversial mine permit
3-19	Action on warming could curb nightmare impacts
3-19	Consensus document may understate the climate change problem
3-19	Scientists question climate tinkering
3-19	Ex - CIA Chief Says U.S. Must Act on Climate
3-19	Coal Boss Warns of High Costs
3-19	Taming Fossil Fuels
3-19	World's most important crops hit by global warming effects
3-19	Property owners concerned about rights
3-19	Coal industry's global warming win in doubt
3-19	'Dirty' coal holds ground
3-19	Coal, power plants face uncertain hurdles - Future of 'Clean Coal' Power Tied to (Uncertain) Success of Carbon Capture and Storage - Can dirty old king coal manage to clean up its act
3-19	US and other G8 members split on climate change measures
3-19	NASA Studies How Airborne Particles Affect Climate Change
3-19	U.S. looks at climate change impact on animals
3-19	Global warming boosts Arctic shipping, oil - report
3-19	Investors to press Congress on warming
3-18	Congressman demands action on mine refuge chambers
3-18	Capturing Carbon
3-18	US 'blocks environment progress' - Global warming is a 'weapon of mass destruction'
3-18	Collapse of Arctic Sea Ice 'Has Reached Tipping-Point'
3-18	Climate shift
3-18	Global warming refugees left to drown?
3-17	YouTube video posting of protest
3-17	Coal silo protest - Protesters arrested at Capitol - Photos Protestors Arrested - Activists occupying WV governor offices - Coal toxins threaten kids' health, protesters say
3-17	Huntington resident among protesters
3-17	Marsh Fork Elementary protest leads to arrests at Capitol - Its Getting Hot In Here: 11 protestors arrested
3-17	Blast blamed on roof friction - Miners union releases investigation report on Sago Mine Disaster - UMW safety director explains Sago report findings (scroll down to 3-16 entries)
3-17	Raleigh judge sets aside flood verdict
3-17	Cancer: Coal's Hidden Cost
3-17	Development must not cost us our environment
3-17	Coal-waste study could change rules
3-17	Proposed coal plant reflects global warming quandary - Rehberg touts coal-to-liquids
3-17	Bird's eye spew - Lost Mountains: Google Earth Adds New Layer of Destruction To Imagery
3-17	Public opinion turning on coal plant - MEA decision to go with coal a bad one
3-17	A halt to building coal plants? It's not such a radical thought
3-17	Strickland Wants Billion for Energy
3-17	Britain aims to lead on adapting to climate change
3-17	Automakers Fight Calls to Boost US Fuel Efficiency
3-17	Could Crazy Technology Save the Planet?
3-17	World May Get Greener, Then Wilt, Due Warming
3-17	Anger over coal dust cloud
3-17	Baucus asks State Department to intervene in B.C. mine
3-16	Protestors Arrested at Marsh Fork School - Governor Says Marsh Fork Future A Local Decision
3-16	DEP files appeal in Massey silo ruling - Agency appeals ruling allowing coal silo to be built near school -
3-14	Some in W.Va. do find coal filthy - Coal is filthy and very insulting
3-16	Blast blamed on roof friction: UMW dismisses other reports that blamed lightning - UMW blames roof friction for Sago mine explosion - UMW cites roof hazard in Sago blast - Reactions to UMW report on Sago tragedy
3-16	Will King Coal Be Deposed?
3-16	AEP to capture carbon at two plants - AEP Sets Largest Carbon-Capture Test at Coal Plant
3-16	New Hampshire Towns Press Washington on Warming
3-15	March 16--Take Action--2nd Coal Silo Approved
3-15	Renewing a Call to Act Against Climate Change
3-15	New Hampshire Towns Press Washington on Warming
3-15	Cheap Coal in US Threatens Global Climate
3-15	Study: Coal Industry Faces Bleak Future - MIT Coal Study: U.S. Must Take Lead in Carbon Emission Storage - The Precarious Future of Coal
3-15	In a Test of Capturing Carbon Dioxide, Perhaps a Way to Temper Global Warming
3-15	Former Sago foreman placed on probation
3-15	ICG orders shelters for mines
3-15	Coal-to-liquid: A giant (insane) step Summit will promote coal-based military fuel
3-15	Environmentalists pleased with legislative session (scroll to 3-24 entry)
3-15	Fish and Wildlife withholding documents: What can be so secret about a squirrel?
3-15	Special session possible
3-15	Gasification plant made unwelcome in the area
3-15	Two Coal Mine Accidents in China Kill 10
3-15	Arctic impact on global warming lures scientists
3-15	Bush v. the Polar Bears
3-15	Ont. boreal forest critical in global warming fight: report
3-15	Global Warming Affecting Investors' Decisions
3-14	Split board grants Massey silo permit - Board overturns DEP rejection of silo near school - Massey Cleared to Build Silo at Goals Coal
3-14	Surface coal miner killed in Kentucky - Pikeville miner dies in accident
3-14	Safer coal mines; Credit disaster victims' loved ones for bill's rescue
3-14	Concert for Mountain Justice, A Celebration of Culture and Resistance
3-14	Mountaintop removal is on Google Earth
3-14	Deal with the devil: Jobs not worth damage from coal mine, trucking
3-14	Clean-coal plant likely to exceed $1.5B budget (there is no such thing as "clean coal") - There is no such thing as Clean Coal
3-14	Whose Oil Is It, Anyway?
3-14	Climate change has parched Aussie farmers looking north
3-14	Warming May Cause Food, Water Shortages
3-14	Regional Impacts of Climate Change
3-14	Canada Emissions Trade Seen Worth C$12 Bln
3-14	New law in the climate jungle
3-14	Poor Need More Help to Adapt to Warming - Wolfowitz
3-14	EU summit adopts 'bold' energy-climate strategy
3-14	Climate change bill is revolutionary, says Blair
3-14	Drought Threatens Crops in Much of Southern Europe
3-14	Evangelical Body Affirms Concern for Global Warming
3-13	Take E-Action: Keep Millions of Tons of Mountaintop Mining Waste Out of Our Waterways
3-13	Updated Google Earth shows mountaintop removal sites - A bird's eye view of mountaintop destruction with Google Earth
3-13	More coal trucks rumbling through Charleston
3-13	More insanity: Coal-to-liquids conference planned in Beckley
3-13	Gas session dropped after methane tax break survives - Death of Manchin's coalbed methane bill comes at a price - West Virginia is open to many businesses
3-13	Session good to environment, House leader, advocate say - Session: A few achievements
3-13	Mine-safety bill doubles inspections, adds medics - Following deadly year, mine safety bill OK'd in Kentucky
3-13	Blue ribbon panel to offer insights into mine safety at symposium
3-13	Mine accident reported
3-13	Dig This Campaign
3-13	Clean energy push could doom plants
3-13	Green outcry over clean coal station
3-13	Australia--Money should go to alternative energy: Greens
3-13	Roots of Darfur: Climate change
3-13	Peru's alarming water truth
3-13	Only a carbon tax can stop global warming
3-13	Climate change will affect world's forests, FAO report warns
3-13	British Govt unveils Bill to cut CO2 emissions
3-13	Smithsonian scientists report new carbon dioxide study
3-13	U.S. Wakes Up to Global Warming Impact on Polar Bears
3-13	Environmentalists urge G-8 to act on climate change
3-13	Scientist Says Sea Level Rise Could Accelerate
3-13	Fliers Ready to Pay More Tax for Less Carbon
3-13	New credit card fights carbon
3-12	Downstream legislators
3-12	Coal monsters ruin city efforts
3-12	Toxic West Virginia
3-12	The Great Flood
3-12	Stripped Mountain
3-12	Sierra Club presents first annual Energy Film Festival
3-12	Climate report: Mass starvation, drought possible
3-12	It's expensive to ignore global warming
3-12	One Woman, Fighting to Save Her People From Extinction
3-12	Boxed In by a Polar Bear
3-12	Polar bears,the poster animals of climate change
3-12	Christians Called on to Save Earth From Global Warming - Caring for Creation: The Greatest Moral Crisis of Our Age
3-12	Climate change increases risk of megafires, experts warn
3-12	"CLIMATE CHANGE IS BIGGEST THREAT TO OUR FUTURE ECONOMY"
3-12	U.S. Needs National Energy, Climate Policy: GE CEO
3-12	Al Gore's Carbon Solution Won't Stop Climate Change
3-12	Pelosi Reveals Who's Who On Global Warming Panel
3-11	Open government: For the public good
3-11	Google Earth adds NZ roads, "global awareness" layers - Major Layer Update for Google Earth
3-11	Coal mining practices and dangers are shown on the big and small screens
3-11	Steps taken to improve mine safety, but work remains to be done - Underground shelters
3-11	Morgan Messenger: Mining activists speak on mountaintop removal
3-11	Which side will they be on?
3-11	Canadian Government Plays Russian Roulette With U.S. River (scroll through pictures to see photos of the 2000 Martin County Coal disaster...could it happen out West, too?) - U.S. Opposes Canadian Coal Mine
3-11	Who needs another big power line? Not Hampshire County
3-11	Workin In A Coal Mine
3-11	Groups: Save us from cancer - FLY ASH FACTS
3-11	Cutting emissions: the new power ploy
3-11	Twenty Die in Flooded Chinese Mine
3-11	Towns are taking a stand on issue of global warming
3-11	New Climate Report Contains More Bad News - Global Warming Report to Warn of Drought
3-10	'Deep Economy' by Bill McKibben: Why a growth-oriented economy is no longer good for our planet
3-10	Students, community unite to fight mountaintop removal
3-10	Corps Pumps Up Provisions for Environmental Destruction
3-10	Energy-weaning workshops planned
3-10	Mine shelters OKd
3-10	Sixty Minutes: Miner's Widow Slams Safety Practices
3-10	Backers, foes continue to discuss provisions of Ky. mine-safety bill
3-10	Let's Call the Coal Thing Off -- Is King Coal about to be deposed?
3-10	Congress Collides with Utilities: Midwest Has 'Coal Rush,' Seeing No Alternative
3-10	Texas Fold 'Em?
3-10	Groups hit impasse over stream list
3-10	Residents say no to coal mine
3-10	Coal toll: Costs are on the rise
3-10	Canadian sues DTE Energy over mercury output
3-10	NZ power company abandons coal plant
3-10	Europe Sets Ambitious Limits on Greenhouse Gases - EU takes lead on climate
3-10	The Real Riddle of Changing Weather: How Safe Is My Home?
3-10	Warming climate is taking its toll on subterranean ice
3-10	World Bank report shows size of carbon market
3-10	Climate change pushes diseases north: expert
3-10	Protocol Is Cited in Limiting Scientists Talks on Climate
3-10	Voluntary Carbon Offsets: Boon or Boondoggle?
3-10	Carbon dioxide levels threaten oceans regardless of global warming
3-10	Magazines go green with global warming issues
3-10	Memo seals lips on global warming
3-10	Coal debate creates a hot climate
3-10	Ill wind puts climate change on top of agenda
3-9	Drinking water at long last - Background: Massey Energy Court-Ordered to Provide Water in Mingo Co. - Background: Lawsuits Muddy Water Project
3-9	Senate, House Agree to Study Coal Slurry and groundwater Contamination; Sludge Safety Project Wants Independent Verification of Study
3-9	Activists say EPA ignoring threat from coal ash; Waste is leaching into groundwater, posing health risks
3-9	Protection our rivers
3-9	State expects to approve first coal mine shelters
3-9	Mountaintop removal disgusting
3-9	Buffalo Creek could be repeated
3-9	Scroll down for several letters to the editor: Coal destroys us - Coal damage - Listen to the outcry
3-9	Final Films for Thought
3-9	Sens. Bunning and Obama push CTL - Romney embraces coal, traditional marriage in W.Va. stop
3-9	When things unravel
3-9	Coal giant to generate a tenth of its electricity from crops
3-9	Coal-fired plant lacks environmental study, Ark. regulators say
3-9	Scientists link odd weather to coal plants
3-9	Man blames power plants for mercury emissions into river
3-9	A Grimy Giant Greened
3-9	US OKs Early Site Permit for Nuclear Power Plant
3-9	Rolling Back the Regs
3-9	Memos Tell Officials How to Discuss Climate
3-9	Polar Bear Population Shrinks: Symptom of Global Warming?
3-9	New House panel to study global warming
3-9	Climate is Big Issue for US Hunters, Anglers
3-9	Swiss Re Says Global Warming to Cause Heavy Claims
3-9	U.S. insurers seen as lagging on global warming
3-9	One Woman, Fighting to Save Her People From Extinction
3-9	Global Warming: Who Losesand Who Wins?
3-9	Automakers ask judge to boot out global warming lawsuit
3-9	Britain Pushing for Security Council Climate Debate
3-9	Greenhouse Gas Threat From Tropical Peatland Under Investigation
3-9	Sports world goes green to combat climate change
3-9	Scientist's climate-change book is more compelling than ever
3-8	Ansted mayor worried about proposed coal haul route
3-8	Group says state's pollution fees too low
3-8	Drilling notice passes House with a roar
3-8	McDowell landfill legislation dies in House - Landfill Plan Trashed
3-8	Ohio: Coal mining below forest to go on
3-8	Coal-burning waste presents 'extraordinary' cancer threat, watchdogs warn
3-8	Third Documentary 'The Appalachians' March 9th
3-8	Mountaintop Removal
3-8	With Coal Plans Cut Back, Texas Faces Energy Gap
3-8	Case Against TVA's Coal-Plant Emissions Heats Up
3-8	Fish are up to their gills in mercury
3-8	Peabody, Rentech agree on coal supply terms
3-8	Chinese Coal Mine Explosion Kills 15
3-8	BPU document shows projects may have violated pollution laws
3-8	Delight as coal plan dumped
3-8	Born to die: Climate change disrupting life cycles with fatal results
3-8	A cost of climate change that can't be counted in dollars - survival
3-8	DiCaprio Heats up Global Warming with New Film Documentary
3-8	Climate change bad for health
3-8	Baltic Sea Region to Warm Sharply in 21st Century
3-8	Key Issues at the EU Summit on Climate and Energy
3-8	EU urged to lead world on climate change
3-8	Chancellor lays out roadmap on climate change
3-7	Erasing mountains in a hunt for coal
3-7	Chesapeake Energy partially funds Texas anti-coal ad campaign (scroll down to 3/06 entry) - Coal is Filthy campaign (pdf)
3-7	Ky. mine safety bill clears House, heads to Senate - House passes mine safety bill 100-0 - Safety in the Senate
3-7	Miners widows: Help may be coming; Rahall wants to undo callous red tape
3-7	Coal-to-liquid insanity: Sasol eyes US coal in global drive - Click here to go to Sierra Clubs action centersend an e-letter to your Senators on coal-to-liquid insanity!
3-7	The Lincoln Standard Company acquires three new publications - Native-son millionaire shaking up county
3-7	Court reporter happy with Massey verdict, attorney says
3-7	Granny D: Aging Activist Still on Quest for Social Justice
3-7	Judi Bari, Ten Years Gone
3-7	A Coal Executive With a Cleanup Mission
3-7	London, Coal, and the Homes of the Front Range
3-7	Monday linkfest
3-7	DOE Staffers Taking Industry Jobs - Remember Jeffrey Jarrett?
3-7	New Funding to Help Close Ontario Coal Plants
3-7	Energy Department makes legislative push for Yucca nuclear dump
3-7	Solar Energy Conversion Offers A Solution To Help Mitigate Global Warming
3-7	Carbon revolution in the village
3-7	How Do Costs Compare between Renewable and Traditional Energy Sources?
3-7	Government, Greens welcome scrapping of New Zealand coal-fired power station
3-7	Deadly truth about climate change
3-7	Arctic Spiders May Hold Clues to Global Warming
3-7	EU Faces Test in Fight to Curb Climate Change
3-7	Bank Of America Starts US$20 Bln Environmental Plan
3-7	Insurer sounds warning bell on climate change
3-7	Union Organizing Can Be Deadly in Colombia
3-6	Airtight mine shelters may pass regulations
3-6	Lack of safety check cited in mine roof fall death
3-6	WVU newspaper Daily Athenaeum: Overly greedy King Coal must be controlled
3-6	Coal-to-liquid fuels: Not 'clean coal', not economically viable, and just not cool
3-6	Streams agreement sought - Stream preservation important on more than one level
3-6	Ky House revives mine safety bill
3-6	Dethroning King Coal
3-6	Resisting Desert Rock
3-6	Coal-fired plant's foes decry cost increase
3-6	Coal-fired ethanol plants questioned - Ethanol may not ease global warming: U.N.
3-6	Low-carbon economy nearing
3-6	China About to Pass US as World's Top Generator of Greenhouse Gases
3-6	U.N. Chief: Climate Change an 'Inescapable Reality'
3-6	How to change the world in 10 easy steps
3-6	UK Plans to Cut CO2 Doomed to Fail - Scientists
3-6	Let's face up to the challenge
3-5	Martinsburg Journal: Activist wants end to harmful mining
3-5	'They keep dumping, and dumping '
3-5	Mining agency returns to full name
3-5	Coal could help country be energy independent' - The Return Of Nazi Oil - Coal-to-liquid doesn't make sense for economy, environment
3-5	More Layoffs Coming At Consolidation Coal
3-5	Opposition by green groups seen slowing efforts to build more plants across U.S.
3-5	Environmental costs prove hard to assess
3-5	Virginia: Computer chips move past cigarettes and coal as top state export
3-5	Documentary Film Series to Focus on Bristol Region's Musical Heritage
3-5	DM&E Railroad Looks to Wall Street
3-5	Coal plant cleanliness at issue
3-5	Clean-coal realities: Xcel's big plans contain tradeoffs, uncertainties (Clean-coal realities: There is no such thing as "clean" coal)
3-5	Beware of Corporate Do-Gooding
3-5	US Companies Feel Heat of Global Warming Awareness
3-5	Allies Struggle To Define Energy Security
3-5	EU Summit Set to Agree Carbon Capture Projects
3-5	Bolivia Blames Rich World Pollution for Floods
3-5	Official report says US CO2 to rise by 20%
3-5	Climate change 'will hit coastlines soon'
3-4	Mines might get more time on selenium
3-4	Group pushing for streams protections
3-4	Coal truck plan worries Ansted residents
3-4	Fairmont a clearinghouse for researching global warming
3-4	Making news in Lincoln: Native-son millionaire shaking up county
3-4	Burning gob wont help W.Va.s future (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them?)
3-4	When Being Green Puts You in the Black - The greening of America - My Dot-Green Future Is Finally Arriving
3-4	Goldman Sachs got environmentalists to embrace a utility they loved to hateand sealed a $45 billion deal
3-4	Coal Going Green, For More Green
3-4	System encourages coal-fired power plants
3-4	Global warming may bring hard times (if we insist on propping up mega-polluting industries of the past, sure...but if we heed the need for embracing the renewable energy revolution, we can create jobs, jobs, jobs--jobs that don't sacrifice our future)
3-4	U.S. global-warming gas output to keep on rising - U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions - Climate Change Impact More Extensive Than Thought
3-4	Study Says Feds Miss Energy Deadlines
3-4	In the rush to promote nuclear power as a clean alternative, the pitfalls of uranium mining are being ignored - The green minefield
3-4	Penn State Fayette conference focuses on black miners
3-4	Miners and Democrats
3-4	EPA Likely To Increase Mercury Emissions In West
3-4	Big Profits, Big Worries in Oil Fields
3-4	Policymakers have settled on 'emissions trading' as their favorite global-warming fix. But it isn't working.
3-4	Nickels warns U.S. Senate to not rein in cities fighting global warming
3-4	Global warming is human rights issue-Nobel nominee
3-4	The Family Vacation (Climate-Change Lessons Included)
3-4	Telling images of global climate change
3-4	The countdown to climate change
3-4	Report author details `intolerable impacts' of global warming
3-4	Losing Bangladesh, by Degrees
3-4	Hansen Offers Options for Addressing Global Warming
3-3	Spend your spring break fighting mountaintop removal
3-3	U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions
3-3	Massey foremen targets of probe - Massey official on board hearing Aracoma fire cases
3-3	Leave No Child Inside
3-3	COAL COMPANY APOLOGISTS CAN'T FOOL MINERS; Will of the people; Coal propaganda
3-3	House committee revises forest bill
3-3	Coal plant cleanups could exceed $1.1 billion
3-3	The New, Green Face of Wall Street - Will Congress Learn from the TXU Deal?
3-3	Another early skirmish in the coming coal war
3-3	Clean-coal entrepreneur has less-than-clean history (and "clean" coal has no history because there is no such thing)
3-3	State, Local Officials Call for Federal Climate Action
3-3	Warm Winters Upset Rhythms of Maple Sugar
3-3	Group: Global Warming Effects Hunting
3-3	Climate Change Impact More Extensive than Thought
3-2	Audubon photo essay: Scarface - Editor's Note
3-2	MSHA fine rule still under review - Mine safety improvements must come faster
3-2	Massey lawsuit against court reporter dismissed - Judge dismisses Massey suit against court reporter
3-2	Coal mine widows to protest stalled Ky. safety bill - Unmet promise on safety
3-2	Coal in cars: great fuel or climate foe? A key problem is that liquid from coal emits twice as much carbon as gasoline
3-2	The Return Of Nazi Oil - Coal-to-liquid doesn't make sense for economy, environment
3-2	Coal plants get burned; Go green, get rich
3-2	'This line will be built'
3-2	Protect streams
3-2	AEP files for 12% hike
3-2	Where The Coal Is Stained With Blood
3-2	False Choices in the Debate on Voting Technology
3-2	Human rights and climate change: Arctic Inuit argue U.S. pollution devastates centuries-old hunting traditions
3-2	500-Year Siege
3-2	Validity of power plant's permit challenged
3-2	Calif. Bill Would Allow New Nuclear Power Plants
3-2	Climate Change as Dangerous as War - UN Chief Ban
3-2	Polar Year Starts With Worries of Rising Seas
3-2	Shanghai has Warmest Winter on Record
3-2	France has Warmest Autumn, Winter for Centuries
3-2	Merkel Urges Bold EU Climate Moves
3-2	We need to put a clear and realistic price on carbon across the economy
3-2	Can you be traveling green by buying offsets?
3-2	Scientist calls for end of new coal plants
3-2	One Bite at a Time: A Beginner's Guide to Vegetarianism
3-1	Mankinds defining moment
3-1	Mines no safer since Sago, committee in Congress told - Union chief: Mine safety still lacking - Mine safety improvements slow in coming, panel hears
3-1	Rolling Back the Regs
3-1	Global-warming author shares vision
3-1	Massey CEO enters Senate abortion debate - Senate approves abortion rules
3-1	Professor: Early coal photos didnt always tell full story
3-1	Homegrown Coal Technology
3-1	Far-reaching fallout in the gas industry
3-1	Green energy could leave coal in the dust
3-1	Experts tout coal gasification (From mining to cleaning to transporting to burning to disposal of the ash, coal is dirty, dirty, dirty.) - Xcel's plans for clean-coal plant may grow
3-1	Ontario Quits Coal - Zero Tolerance for Carbon-Dioxide Emissions
3-1	Clean Coal, Forest Biofuel and Other Fairy Tales
3-1	Students Learn About Coal Mining
3-1	Coal seems out, but wind's not in
3-1	N.C. Nixes One of Two Duke Coal Plants
3-1	Power Plant Emissions May Be Harmful, Agency Says
3-1	US officials square off on power market competition
3-1	Ahead of the Bell: Coal miners
3-1	Getting rid of coal-fired plants would be smart
3-1	Dominican Republic settles suit with AES
3-1	Nuclear energy just a sideshow: UK climate change expert
3-1	South Carolina mayors taking a stand on global climate change
3-1	Campaign delivers practical tips on cutting emissions
3-1	Climate report to UN calls for action - Science Panel Outlines Roadmap for Reducing Risks from Climate Change - Scientists Offer Plan to U.N. for Civilization to Rise to Climate Challenge
3-1	Climate Expert Urges China, US to Talk on Warming
3-1	Climate change to blame for wild weather: scientists
3-1	Developing Nations Hit Back on Climate Change

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