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4-30	Environmental laws not enforced (scroll down)
4-30	Plant near Ohio River would make fuel from coal for military
4-30	Lilly residents oppose path of coal-refuse trucks
4-30	Colombian Prosecutor Probes U.S. Firms
4-30	In mosquito, a small tale of climate change
4-30	Action is key to new climate change report, warn Green groups
4-30	All Eyes on Vermont as Auto-Emissions Case Procedes
4-30	Coal mining biggest cause of work-related lung disease: Chinese ministry
4-29	New mine seal regulations not yet in draft stage
4-29	Wanna Bet the Farm on Carbon Capture and Sequestration? - BEWARE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES TOUTING CLEAN-COAL TECHNOLOGY
4-29	Coal money talks (scroll down)
4-29	Time running out on atmosphere
4-29	Maryland coal mining: Dynamite, heavy trucks rumble at mine operations, bringing noise, dust and dirt to nearby residents
4-29	Dirty coal is the fuel of the past
4-29	AEP chief striding through crossroads
4-29	Mayors past and present battling in Summersville
4-29	New coal mine methane venting technology could be asset, EPA says - Demonstration turns methane gas to energy
4-29	Web site can help keep danger out of frying pan
4-29	Coal protesters chained to tracks
4-29	Chernobyl Reminds Us that Nukes are NOT Green
4-29	Heartland Institute Bankrolls Dishonest Global Warming Campaign
4-29	Is Global Warming a Sin?
4-29	Warmest April has Europe bracing for killer heat wave -Overheating Britain: April temperatures break all records
4-29	Officials agree that global warming threatens national security
4-29	Carbon-Neutral Is Hip, but Is It Green?
4-29	U.S., China should take lead in global pollution solutions
4-29	Meanwhile, in Australia a global crisis arrives in the back yard
4-29	Can the Ruling Classes Save the World From Global Warming?
4-29	Climate report to warn time running out in greenhouse gas battle
4-29	Improving consumer lifestyle choices key to meeting CO2 goals
4-28	Jeff Young, Living on Earth: Fill 'er up-with coal? - Rahall Asks Air Force to Incorporate Coal-to-Liquid Fuels into Modernization Plan - Energy Independence or Destroying Appalachia for Coal?
4-28	Protect God's creation: Vatican issues new green message for world's Catholics
4-28	Americans stepping up to the plate on global warming
4-28	UN: We Have the Money and Know-how to Stop Global Warming
4-28	Protect Earth, Mollohan advises
4-28	Mountaintop Removal Hot Topic At Conference
4-28	Upcoming Ky. conference to explore mountaintop mining
4-28	Eastern Kentucky issues debated - Democrats tackle coal tax in Kentucky gubernatorial debate
4-28	Federal plans for power lines run through N.J.
4-28	Massey Energy: Wheres Your Sense of Public Relations? Canceling the Picnics a Dumb Idea
4-28	Opposition grows against push for coal
4-28	Chesapeake Energy reportedly dropping 'Coal Is Filthy' campaign - 'Filthy Coal' Advertiser Cleans up Act Following Objections from Rahall, Byrd (oh geez...our politicians promote the utter lie that coal is clean and suppress the truth that coal is filthy. geez.)
4-28	Mine rescue reignites stolen-copper debate - Massey Details Search For Suspects Accused of Entering Abandoned Mine
4-28	Coal-bed methane industry wants wildlife rules relaxed
4-28	U.S. to Test New Coal Mine Methane Venting Technology
4-28	Warning: Don't eat the fish from these local waters
4-28	In 1914, Colorado coal miners struck for months -- then the National Guard opened fire
4-28	The Fightin' Irish
4-28	Exxon profits already up 10 percent in 07
4-28	U.S. Proposal Would Allow Oil Drilling Off Virginia
4-28	Hope Is in the Air
4-28	Gore visits U.N., offers help on global warming
4-28	China's premier promises to combat global warming
4-27	States take lead in cutting carbon emissions
4-27	Industry reviews work yet to be done on coal-mine safety
4-27	WV Public Radio: Coal boom is cooling off(scroll to 4-26 entry)
4-27	Power Companies' Reach May Expand; U.S. Plan Could Aid Disputed N.Va. Line
4-27	Massey says profit rose sharply in first quarter
4-27	Briefs from the Ky. campaign trail
4-27	Fletcher fuels energy, health; Goal is for county to be America's energy capitol'
4-27	Today in Big Coal
4-27	Appalachian Terror Unit tears up the Java Joint
4-27	Promise of fair hearing cools coal-dock annexation battle
4-27	Mercury levels make fish unsafe for some
4-27	Suspects come out of mine
4-27	Cecil Roberts to speak at WVU-Tech
4-27	Means Exist to Cut Emissions, But is There the Will?
4-27	Public Remains Split on Response to Warming
4-27	Censoring Global Warming Skeptics
4-27	Debates over "clean" coal continue
4-27	Is China outdoing US in curbing carbon? Its plans to limit emissions and boost efficiency could undercut a key argument against carbon dioxide limits in the US.
4-27	Australia drought is climate change warning: UK
4-27	Germany Sets Tougher Goals to Protect Climate
4-27	UK: April hottest on record - High temperatures, and even higher anxiety, in Europe
4-27	Scientists Demand Changes to Film by Global Warming Skeptic
4-27	Key Points in Canada's Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases
4-26	Fight renewed over streamlined mine permits
4-26	At least one Boone mine gets reprieve with court ruling
4-26	Global Warming Comes to Coal Country: The Prospects
4-26	Coal trucker's death to be counted
4-26	Why don't Congress and the media focus on the real problem with coal? (scroll down)
4-26	Ky. Voter Guide--Mountaintop removal and gubernatorial candidates
4-26	Coal industry backs safety chambers
4-26	Power to the Public Financing - Justices Reconsider Campaign Finance
4-26	Ice shrinks, birds migrate early in warmer Arctic
4-26	'08 hopefuls tout climate-change plans
4-26	Critics of coal file petition against Duke
4-26	Bush Administration's Response to Global Warming Under Scrutiny - EPA Accused of Flouting Supreme Court - California to sue EPA over air standards
4-26	Massey picnic cancelled
4-26	Coal firm wants annexation hearing stopped
4-26	Company wants to use coal ash
4-26	The Danger Downwind
4-26	Industry caught in carbon smokescreen
4-26	ICG loses $8.1 million in 1st quarter, announces production cuts
4-26	Responders search mine for man
4-26	The Spin Over the "Joint Nuclear Energy Action Plan"
4-26	Coal Power Worsening Australia Drought
4-26	China must end its dependency on coal
4-26	India's energy dilemma: Coal-powered growth vs climatic disaster
4-26	Canadian Province Joins California Climate Pact
4-26	Climate-Change Divide
4-26	China eases hostility over climate crisis
4-26	Queensland, Australia: 90% say climate change top issue
4-25	MSHA finds violations in accident - MSHA cites coal operator, contractors for explosive accident
4-25	Conservation and efficiency could help; ditch coal-to-liquid plans
4-25	Coal conversion could be boon for Appalachia - Groups battle over liquefied coal
4-25	Climate: Time Is Short
4-25	Humans should be smart enough to avoid extinction
4-25	'Landscrape' opening reception
4-25	The Business of Environmental Protection
4-25	EPA chief criticized for lagging on warming - Democrats want swifter EPA action on emissions standards
4-25	State mine board to consider drug testing (scroll down)
4-25	No more Massey Energy picnic
4-25	AEP says it won't abandon coal plans
4-25	Consol Energy, Chevron Develop Coal Mine
4-25	Coal plant progressing amid protests, lack of buyers
4-25	Actions by U.S. States Advance Debate on Climate Change
4-25	Global warming causing thirstier trees
4-25	China could overtake US as biggest emissions culprit by November - The Great Pall of China
4-25	Asia in spotlight over global warming
4-25	Canada: 20% emissions cut by 2020
4-25	Climate clash threatens EU-US summit
4-25	Germany Also Faces Extreme Weather Due to Global Warming
4-25	Russian Energy Giant to Bundle Carbon Credits With Gas Sales
4-25	The Chinese mining industry - cheaper lives mean cheaper coal; so Australian bosses threaten relocation
4-24	Jane Goodall: Life Is Hanging By A Thread
4-24	U.N. Panel to Lay Out Steps on Warming - U.N. panel lists climate-change cures
4-24	Lincoln Standard: Residents concerned about mining operation
4-24	Shareholders sue Sago Mine owner - Suit accuses ICG of misleading investors
4-24	Beckley Register Herald op-ed: King of the Hill
4-24	Cecil Roberts briefs Berkeley County Democrats on clean coal technology, mountaintop removal (there is no such thing as "clean" coal)
4-24	Charlotte Weber: Coal-to-liquid technology will benefit U.S., W.Va. - Coal-to-liquid doesn't make sense for economy, environment
4-24	Mining companies challenge emergency shelter requirement
4-24	Accident in Chinese coal mine kills 11 miners
4-24	Merrier Times for King Coal - Arch Coal profit falls in 1Q but shares rise as it beats estimates
4-24	Sea life at risk as acid levels rise in oceans
4-24	U.S. Government Scientists Urge Preparation for Climate Change
4-24	EU, U.S. at loggerheads over climate change, energy
4-24	Target Global Warming, Target Exxon
4-24	Six steps to hell
4-24	Scientists: Climate clock is ticking in South Florida
4-24	Vast fossilized rainforest found deep in a coal mine - Geologists discover world's largest fossil forest in the ceiling of an Illinois coal mine
4-24	Melting Himalayan Glaciers a Dire Threat - Experts
4-24	Top Brass Fear Climate Change
4-24	China's first climate change steps too small
4-24	Deep sea fish growing slower due to global warming
4-24	UK Companies Unite to Help Fight Climate Change
4-24	Mutual Funds Ignore Climate Change Risks - Ceres
4-24	Climate change dominates Australian political debate
4-24	An island made by global warming
4-23	Earth Day 2007: Happiness Is a Smaller Eco-Footprint
4-23	Save Our Cumberland Mountains Group Hits TVA Feasibility Plan
4-23	Crunch time for Hitler's fuel: Supporters of 'liquid coal' tout homegrown benefits as Congress weighs energy bills, but questions remain
4-23	Coal tipple owner threatens suit
4-23	Stream restoration could reduce flooding (Eliminating mountaintop removal / valley fill would reduce sedimentation, flooding)
4-23	MSHA decides to investigate 2005 mining death
4-23	Climate Change Adds Twist to Debate Over Dams
4-23	Chinese coal mining death toll mounts
4-23	Jane Goodall: Climate change makes deforestation an even bigger threat
4-23	Small Island States Speak Out at Security Council Climate Change Session
4-23	Earth Day: How gardeners can fight global warming
4-23	Roves debate with Crow, David over global warming heats atmosphere at correspondents dinner
4-22	E.O. Wilson: Acting Now To Save Life On Earth
4-22	James Hansen: Climate Change--Why We Can't Wait
4-22	This Earth Day, a focus on Earth's warming
4-22	Kathy Mattea to raise awareness for Girl Scouts
4-22	Mingo County Redevelopment Authority
4-22	Feds, state reopen probe of coal truckers death
4-22	Worth the risk?
4-22	Unsafe culture surrounds mines
4-22	In Florida, Warming Gives Earth Day New Urgency
4-22	How eager are we to fight global warming? Statewide poll finds most Pennsylvanians see individual efforts as too inconvenient
4-22	Changing the Social Climate
4-22	Drastic ecological change coming
4-22	American ruling could put gas guzzlers off the road
4-22	Hard choices, sacrifices ahead on global warming - including higher costs
4-22	China says global warming threatens development
4-22	That sinking feeling
4-21	Finally, An Earth Day With Promise
4-21	OVEC fighting for new Marsh Fork Elementary
4-21	Bodies of 2 Maryland miners found in collapse
4-21	Maryland mining accident illustrates safety risk in surface mining (scroll to 4-20 entry)
4-21	Proxy shows Massey CEO received nearly $27 million last year despite stock trouble - Troubled mines pay big
4-21	Mine rescue practice planned
4-21	Gypsum Dome Built At Cardinal Plant
4-21	Deregulation fails to meet promises; power bills soar
4-21	Coal company decides to leave Appalachia
4-21	Mentor residents win fly-ash battle
4-21	Coal-fired plant hits bumps in road
4-21	Reliance on Coal Sullies 'Green the Capitol' Effort
4-21	Nine killed in China coal mine accidents
4-21	Regulators cite railroad after Seward coal dust complaints
4-21	Step It Up on Wall Street
4-21	Successor Deal to Kyoto Now Vital for Former Refusenik
4-21	Climate change putting bird species in danger
4-21	Bush vs. Clinton on climate change
4-20	State to study coal slurry waste
4-20	Growing Number of Americans See Warming as Leading Threat
4-20	The State Journal: States that stick with carbon fuels will do poorly, because soon there will be no demand for carbon
4-20	World Needs to Axe Greenhouse Gases by 80 Pct: Report
4-20	Massey Union Vote - Bid fails by 70 votes
4-20	Massey says company will resume work at Logan site - Mine Web: Massey wins some valley fill respite; but what of 2008? - Massey allowed to resume use of fills
4-20	Coal giant puts more focus on Wyoming - Peabody decides to spin off operations in W.Va., Kentucky
4-20	Power plant project gets $600M
4-20	AEP partners with Pa. company to construct power line - Allegheny Energy Seeks Virginia Authorization for New Transmission Line
4-20	Energy--Governors take steps (coal-to-liquid is a super giant step in the wrong direction) - Coal to liquids debated in hearing
4-20	Mattea shares experiences at Girl Scout fundraiser
4-20	W.Va. asks for federal help to cope with flooding - Logan: Cleanup continues in flooded areas
4-20	Orphan ponds worry Fayette residents
4-20	Maryland mines record too good to be true, safety experts say - Search for Md. Miners Turns Up Vehicle
4-20	Mine Shelter Plans Submitted
4-20	EPA questions coal-bed water bill
4-20	Laurie and Sheryl Go to School
4-20	Stricter gas emission cuts to curb global warming
4-20	U.N. urges businesses to tackle climate change, think "green"
4-20	Businesses 'face tougher climate change legislation'
4-20	Drought-Hit Australia to Stop Irrigating Food Bowl - Australia: For millions the water will stop midyear
4-20	Norway Aims to be Carbon Neutral by 2050
4-20	China coal mine gas "burst" traps 11
4-19	USA Today: Mining battle marked by peaks and valleys (The figure on mining employment is actually about 24,000 with only about 2,500 of those jobs being directly part of destroying the mountains. Mountaintop-removal mined coal accounts for less than five percent of the coal burning for electricity in the US. With currently avialble energy efficiency and conservation measures we could reduce on energy usage by 20 to 30 percent. There is no "need" for mountaintop removal. The coal industry )
4-19	Coal sludge, mud landslide destroys Pike County home
4-19	Rescuers Dig for 2 Men After Mine-Wall Collapse
4-19	Legislative review sought for mine cleanups - Council urges lawmakers to fund mine cleanup program
4-19	Bluefield Daily Telegraph: Governors from across the nation gather for alternative fuel summit
4-19	AEP finds partner for proposed massive multistate power line
4-19	Energy Biz Insider: Assault on Coal Continues (assault on people, mountains, planet continues...Sorry Bill, we have "reclamation" pictures and information on our website. Why don't you have pictures of rock-dust victims, acid mine drainage, flooded out hollows, drowning victims, fly rock victims, displaced communities, etc.? Why don't you have information on the fallout from mountaintop removal such as biodiversity, water pollution, exacerbated flooding and cultural demise? Why don't you mention how conservation and energy efficiency could more than offset the "need" for MTR-mined coal. )
4-19	Anti-coal litigation could push prices up (Flooding, polluted water, destroyed streams, lost forest, adverse health effects, cultural demise are costs of mountaintop removal we already pay and only a few profit.) - Analysts: Second-half coal will cost more
4-19	VSU's SAVE hosts Earth Day Celebration
4-19	Cleveland Plan Dealer: Plan for fly-ash silos upsets residents
4-19	Corps Defends Dam Operation in Flood Wake
4-19	Sheryl Crow: Learning the Truth about Coal and Nuclear Energy Sheryl Crow
4-19	World to US: We Demand Climate Justice
4-19	No US Emissions Curbs Without China, India - Envoy
4-19	China about to become biggest carbon emitter
4-19	There is now no doubt that global warming is a security threat to us all
4-19	'Environmental security' essential
4-19	Could global warming cause war?
4-19	Spain's CO2 Emissions Fell in 2006 - Study
4-19	US coal company to develop second China coal mine
4-19	Cover-ups hampering efforts to clean up China's coal mining industry
4-18	Parts of mining ruling suspended - Judge allows Massey to resume use of 3 valley fills
4-18	Climate Fears, Costs Threaten Coal-Fired Power Plans
4-18	Crews work to rescue two in Maryland mine collapse - Two unaccounted for in Western Md. mine collapse
4-18	Noisy, yes; pack leader, no; Jurors toss all but two charges against man
4-18	Warning: Dam problems
4-18	Tug Valley hardest hit by weekend flooding
4-18	Jim Sims and the clean coal PR push
4-18	Clean Sky Coalition Anything but Dirty Coal
4-18	Slow down the coal express
4-18	Expert calls coal plant a fine mess
4-18	Tenn. lawmakers worry Va. coal mines polluting Clinch River
4-18	Coal mine in the Chuitna River?
4-18	Tell lawmakers to clean up coal-fired plants
4-18	Climate Fears, Costs Threaten Coal-Fired Power Plans
4-18	Rahall: Key to Energy Independence Is Coal - Headwaters Signs Agreement for Coal Based Liquid Fuels Refinery in The Philippines
4-18	3 coal mine accidents in 24 hrs. trap 47 Chinese miners underground
4-18	Senators Seek to Cut US Gasoline Use, Save Energy
4-18	Halting Minnesota IGCC could set a precedent
4-18	Darfur war, climate change linked
4-18	UK Puts Climate Change in UN Council, China Objects
4-18	World's plants facing mass extinction
4-18	U.N. Council Hits Impasse Over Debate on Warming
4-18	Warming Predicted to Take Severe Toll on U.S.
4-18	Hill Brawl Over Climate Adaptation Policy Is Brewing
4-17	New Thinking To Save The Earth
4-17	U.S. rejects call for tougher U.N. environment role
4-17	THE EFFECT OF APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINTOP MINING ON INTERIOR FOREST
4-17	Channel 3--Check out the video here: Abandoned Mine Danger?
4-17	West Virginia flooding - Residents return to homes, take stock after latest flood - Id be tickled to death to be off this creek bank - Fresh water dam collapse averted - After the storm - Flooding rips apart Pike, Martin roads
4-17	DEP thought fresh water lake, dam near Hamlin was empty - Fresh water dam was not inspected by DEP as required - Dam emergency reveals problem in states dam safety program (scroll 4-17 entry)
4-17	State has hundreds of hazardous dams
4-17	Biggest U.S. warming problem: water, too much and too little (see above)
4-17	Video key in activist's trial - for both sides
4-17	Global Warming Hits Southwest
4-17	Clean coal (meaning carbon sequestration) technology far away, official says
4-17	Forbes: Clean Coal? - Govs push 'clean' coal, conservation - (Manchin speaks, too, on coal-to-liquid) Western Governors Hold Conference On Future Energy - Bipartisan energy conference showcases governors from five states - Coal-to-Liquid Fuels: A BETTER WAY
4-17	What's that? Xcel to argue against coal
4-17	Security Council takes on global warming - UN Security Council should take lead on climate change - Panel says climate change poses security threat - Climate change may worsen instability - Global warming could spur 21st century conflicts - Security Council to hold unprecedented debate on climate - Melting Himalayan glaciers pose security risk -UNEP
4-17	Global warming expected to have dramatic impact on U.S., Canada - Global warming may put US in hot water
4-17	Global warming health effects; Smog, heat waves may contribute to big rise in illness
4-17	U.S. 1990-2005 greenhouse gas emissions up 16 pct
4-17	Coal Miners' Granddaughter
4-17	Valley Health has Black Lung program
4-17	Rulings go against administration
4-17	Probe: Blocked Sensors Caused Mine Blast that Killed 108 Russian Miners
4-17	The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Forecast: 40% of the World's Fossil Fuel Emissions Could Be Captured and Sequestered by 2050 (But do we have until 2050?)
4-17	Step It Up Rallies Take Aim at U.S. Congress
4-17	Its Time To Move Forward To Solve Our Global Warming Problems
4-17	China Rejects Caps, Aims to Cut "Carbon Intensity"
4-17	Latest China coal mine accidents trap 45
4-17	Coal-bed methane water appeals rise
4-17	Massey Energy First Quarter 2007 Earnings Conference Call/Webcast
4-17	Activists Target Wall Street 7 to Stop Funding Coal - Students protest Merrill Lynch coal investments with irony
4-17	Around the Markets: Future for coal brighter (if so, future for humanity darker)
4-17	Coal plant battle continues at hearing
4-17	Australia: Angry residents air coal dust concerns
4-17	Death in the rainforest: fragile creatures give the world a new climate warning
4-17	Coal Clean Up Continues
4-16	We Stepped It Up!
4-16	President Bush expands influence over regulatory agencies; Scientific assessments by environmental agencies could be delayed
4-16	BREAKING NEWS: Leaking Dam in Lincoln County May Break - Rivers flood across W.Va.; Southern counties hit hardest, but devastation wide - Flooding in southern W.Va. counties cause evacuations - LAKE SCARE PROMPTS VOLUNTARY EVACUATION OF HAMLIN AREA - High water traps motorists - Surveying The Damage - State Of Emergency - Flooding Hits WV, KY With Force
4-16	East Coast Storm Breaks Rainfall Records
4-16	Charity seeks lasting world
4-16	City-type vs. well water: Only 2 percent in Marion County have well water
4-16	Senate debates coal-based liquids' place in biofuels bill
4-16	Welsh town offers lesson for W.Va.
4-16	Forget the old tax fights: All should enjoy the profits from natures gifts
4-16	Coal is on a collision course
4-16	Billionaires for Coal Personally Thank Manhattan Banks
4-16	China plans to shut 29 coal-fired power plants
4-16	Tycoon says no to coal
4-16	Dominican Republic asks for extradition in coal ash case
4-16	From Canada's north, a ground-level view of global warming
4-16	Global warming activists urge U.S. emissions cuts - Demonstrators Across America Seek Action On Global Warming - NH residents call for action on global warming
4-16	Global warming a security risk - Top ex-military leaders call global warming major security risk
4-16	Helping India Prepare For Impact Of Global Warming
4-16	Scientists call for India to join global effort to monitor climate change
4-15	Global Warming Called Security Threat
4-15	Valley biodiesel network in the making - Educating The Public On Renewable Forms Of Energy
4-15	Activists Stepping up Fight Against Warming With Rallies, Lobbying - Thousands Protest Climate Change Across the Country - Nationwide, a Clamor Over Global Warming - Demonstrators in US gather for global warming protests - Protesters urge action on global warming - Hundreds in Boston join nationwide global warming protest - Over 1,000 Climate Rallies Planned This Weekend
4-15	Edwards proposes greenhouse gas plan - John Edwards: NO COAL
4-15	Push for new coal plants recipe for disaster
4-15	Global Warming Pollution Up in 48 States Since 1990
4-15	Thomas Friedman: The Power of Green
4-15	The lessons of Darby
4-15	The Coal War--Clearing the Air With China
4-15	Know your trout
4-15	Coal burning having a devastating impact on rural Chinese
4-15	Planning for a new nuclear age - Nuclear Energy Revisited
4-15	W.Va. vital to weather data collection
4-15	Signs of climate change there, if you look
4-15	Don't argue about climate change, plan for it
4-15	'Billionaires for Coal' jumpstart Earth Day events
4-15	Global Warming Challenges the Unitary Executive
4-15	U.S. Report Predicts Peak Oil by 2040 - Breaking the addiction to cheap oil
4-15	World Bank Still Fuelling Climate Change
4-14	Climate wars: Experts fear the possibility of a total breakdown in society as climate change takes hold
4-14	Inspect mines more, say widows - MSHA says mine's safety was ignored before blast
4-14	Christian group to premiere film tonight (OVEC' s Maria Gunnoe will speak and OVEC's Tonya Adkins will sing)
4-14	Ruling marks three times a federal judge has ruled valley fills illegal; Army Corps offers false hope of jobs where there should be no mining: Judge's Ruling Leaves Logan Miners Jobless - Logan Leaders Say Miners Should Work
4-14	Appalachian unity Culture, environment key to new initiative (So how in hell does Gov. Manchin ignore the situation at Mark Fork Elementary, allow coal slurry injection and condone mountaintop removal?)
4-14	Nasty business with oil's cousin
4-14	Supreme Court Rulings Change the U.S. Energy Game
4-14	The Uncertainties of Cheap Energy
4-14	NY, New England push for tougher U.S. mercury rules
4-14	FILM A Diamond in the Rough (scroll down one paragraph)
4-14	Va. mine's wastewater headed for Pike area
4-14	Coal bed methane drilling: Not just a western issue
4-14	Climate Justice League Strikes Merrill Lynch
4-14	Duke won't fight plant ruling
4-14	Climate protest set today in Blacksburg
4-13	U.N. draft urges re-brand for global warming
4-13	Bush presses for coal liquids to cut gasoline use - Senate debates coal-based liquids' place in biofuels bill - A BETTER WAY
4-13	Report criticizes W.Va. for global warming gas emissions
4-13	New Report: PA Ranks 3rd in Global Warming Pollution Nationally - Ohio's emissions rank fourth in U.S. - Report: carbon emissions up 18 percent since 1990 - Report targets coal-fired plants; Carbon dioxide emissions up 22% in Illinois - Carbon dioxide concerns voiced - Colorados Carbon Boom - New Report: Global Warming Pollution Up 18% Nationwide Since 1990
4-13	Nowhere to turn for climate change deniers - Newsweek Hides Global Warming Denier's Financial Ties to Big Oil
4-13	Living on Earth's April 6th show on Climate Change
4-13	States Seek Tightening of Standards for Mercury - New York aims to clean waters of mercury
4-13	Minnesota coal-to-gas plant dealt a setback by judges; energy and environmental costs of building and operating the plant outweigh the economic benefit
4-13	Union appears to be key to safer coal mines
4-13	Mine explosion report: Company ignored safety - Feds: Illegal Torch Sparked Mine Blast - Cause of Ky. mine explosion found - Investigators meet with family of killed coal miners
4-13	MSHA fines Pennsylvania coal mine $874,500 in miner death
4-13	Coal operators made West Virginians suffer
4-13	Foundation Coal, Miners Reach Agreement
4-13	Sector Snap: Coal Stocks Edge Higher - Peabody Energy: There's Green in Coal
4-13	Mayor moves to counter global warming
4-13	UVM Launches Climate Teach-In
4-13	Clear and present danger
4-13	Florida lawmakers move expansive energy plan forward
4-13	Britain hopes U.N. climate debate spurs policy push
4-13	Local group fires up to walk on coal
4-13	UN 2009 Climate Summit Might Spur Treaty Talks
4-13	Climate report predicts heat waves, floods, species' end in Europe - Southern Europe 'to become climate change hotspot'
4-13	Transport seen surging, damaging climate: U.N. draft
4-13	Australian wine is feeling the heat of climate change
4-12	Over 1,000 Climate Rallies Planned This Weekend
4-12	Greensboro, NC newspaper: Mutilated mountains 'don't grow back'
4-12	Black Diamonds Receives The Spadaro Documentary Award
4-12	Massey plans appeal of W.Va. mountaintop removal mining permits - The State Journal: Miners Out of Work as Massey Asks for Stay
4-12	Inaugural Earth week kicks off
4-12	The New Standard: Activists Target Big Banks for Financing Climate Change - Costs of Solar to match coal by 2010?
4-12	Goldman to invest in Texas IGCC project
4-12	Acid Mine Sludge Dumping Concerns Preston Residents
4-12	Group sues Reliant Energy over river discharges
4-12	The Breeze (James Madison University): Earthfest 2007 to host speakers (including Jack Spadaro), events planned to educate local community
4-12	DEC issues draft plan to cut mercury in New York waters
4-12	Film warns of dangerous fossil fuel shortage
4-12	Energy Group report on peak coal
4-12	The Global Toolbox and Google Earth
4-12	A Terrifying Truth
4-12	Warming Could Spark North American Water Scramble, UN Warns
4-12	New York City Tallies Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions
4-12	Global warming report dire for North America
4-12	UN considers climate change summit
4-12	Hollywood's guru of global warming
4-12	There Is Climate Change Censorship - And Its The Deniers Who Dish It Out
4-12	U.N. says climate change to hit southern Europe hard
4-12	Global warming to damage coffee industry
4-12	Ottawa neglecting science on global warming: experts
4-12	Schwarzenegger glosses over California's dirty little secret about coal
4-11	Massey seeks stay of ruling - RULING BANS MOUNTAINTOP BLASTING
4-11	Allentown Morning Call: Mountaintop mining is ruining Appalachia
4-11	Review of MSHA air requirements sought
4-11	Former Army Corps manager indicted; accused on forging signatures on mine discharge permits
4-11	Are ramps under threat? Chefs, big-city connoisseurs create an increase in demand (not to mention mountaintop removal!)
4-11	Time to Step It Up This Weekend
4-11	$2.5 trillion investment in new coal-fired plants (this money would better serve humanity if re-directed to truly cleaner renewable energies)
4-11	LA Times: Collision on coal is coming
4-11	Climate change effects on Asia 'too alarming to contemplate,' researcher says
4-11	Gasification of coal worries some in Bowie
4-11	Nature: Climate Takes Aim
4-11	Little Time to Avert Big Temperature Rise: U.N. Study
4-11	Challenge to Emissions Rule Is Set to Start
4-11	Social change can stop climate catastrophe
4-11	UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Danger of Global Warming
4-11	How Trees Might Not Be Green in Carbon Offsetting Debate
4-11	Potential Curbs on Greenhouse Gases by 2030
4-11	Gore Pins Hopes on Live Earth Environment Concerts - Gore's Climate Concert Finds Home in New Jersey
4-11	Darfur Crisis Comes To Google Earth
4-11	Millions Face Hunger From Climate Change: Report - Little time left on global warming - study - Climate changes to affect food and water supplies globally, intensify tropical storms
4-11	Seas Rise in India Buries Islands and a Way of Life
4-11	True Cost Clearinghouse
4-10	Aracoma mine fire survivors are suing Massey
4-10	Easter in Las Vegas
4-10	With a Dick Like This, Who Needs Cheney
4-10	Coal Power Plant Waste Plan Opposed in Kansas
4-10	Coal fuels climate challenge
4-10	Woodstock, New York, takes on global warming
4-10	Fly ash could cause health risk
4-10	Next task: 'Repairing' the climate
4-10	Wars For Water?
4-10	U.N. Global Warming Report Originally Much Bleaker
4-10	Children Bear Brunt of Climate Warming - Report
4-10	Acidic Oceans Threatening Sea Life, UN Panel Says
4-10	UN Experts Warn Warming Will Damage Society, Nature - UN Sounds Global Warming Alarm
4-10	Goa, Going, Gone - Asia Tourism Faces Climate Chaos
4-10	Winter Arctic Sea Ice Near Record Low
4-10	Global warming: It's here, it will get worse
4-10	US fears global warming warring
4-10	Bill Ties Climate to National Security - Will Global Warming Threaten National Security?
4-10	Singer Sheryl Crow starts global warming tour
4-10	California Snowpack Melt Stirs Water Worries
4-9	Massey Energy's CEO Blankenship and the Reverse Nuremberg Defense Just Giving Orders, Not Carrying Them Out
4-9	Many new constraints for Bush on the environment-on greenhouse-gas emissions, strip mining, and logging
4-9	Ahead of the Bell: Peabody Energy Rises
4-9	Mining OK here but not in Mont.?
4-9	Groups set sights on coal-fired behemoth
4-9	Ruling on emissions critical in global warming fight
4-9	Science court could limit propaganda
4-9	We Have What It Takes to Overcome the Climate Threat
4-9	Foundation to Offer $100 Million to Deal With Global Warming
4-9	Lake Erie affected by global warming - Lake Superior in US Losing Ice Cover Fast, Signaling Global Warming
4-9	CIA and the Pentagon urged to assess warming's effect on security
4-9	Europe's Problems Color U.S. Plans to Curb Carbon Gases
4-9	The 90 Percent Solution
4-9	Can the world share the burden of climate change?
4-9	Australia: Climate change report findings prompt industries to consider future - Farming, tourism industries consider effects of climate change
4-9	Climate change threat to international peace and security: British Government
4-9	Global Warming Threatens To Spawn New Dust Bowl
4-9	Global warming to hurt worlds poor
4-9	Where China's Rivers Run Dry
4-9	China: Nine killed in coal mine accident
4-9	Coal company wants to conduct probe near Wise County landfill
4-8	Pioneering Welsh town begins the transition to a life without oil
4-8	An artist from the ground up
4-8	Peril greater for some miners
4-8	A miraculous moment for Pine Mountain
4-8	Big Oils Vendetta Against the Electric Car
4-8	U.S., China Got Climate Warnings Toned Down
4-8	Hot and cold
4-8	Wells College talk focuses on mountaintop removal
4-8	The shrinking Arctic
4-8	Pelosi: Global Warming Already Underway
4-8	Mountain climbers becoming reluctant witnesses to global warming
4-8	Debate heats up over climate report
4-8	Now is the time to make global changes
4-8	Report predicts climate calamity
4-7	Charleston Gazette: Judge blocks Massey plan to continue mining
4-7	New York Times: Scientists Detail Climate Changes, Poles to Tropics - BBC: Billions face climate change risk - L A Times: Bleak U.N. report on global warming derided as too soft - Guardian: Scientists' stark warning on reality of warmer world
4-7	Clean air - it's the law
4-7	Appalachian News Express: CONSOL to discharge mine water upstream of Pikeville's sole drinking water intake
4-7	Noted Appalachian Author Endorses Miller In Governor's Race
4-7	Harlan Daily Enterprise: Mountaintop removal raises concerns
4-7	Dredge judge limits groups line of inquiry
4-7	Illinois coal mine to close
4-7	Contrary to the Bush administration's contentions, greener energy options would help the economy, not hurt it
4-7	Grist: Bipartisan bill calls for intelligence assessment of climate impacts
4-7	Carbon-Capture Test Begins at German Pilot Plant
4-7	New partnership will study clean coal (There is no such thing as "clean" coal. Coal's dirty when you mine it, dirty when you prep it for market, dirty when you haul it to market, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you "dispose" of the ash, and it sure dirties up politics!)
4-7	What would give me hope? "Step it up 2007" is a good start!
4-7	Canada and Montana Flathead River Controversy--Environmental review of coal mine fans flames of debate
4-7	Australia: In wake of climate report, gov. told to reject coal mine proposal - Australian tourism industry sweats over weather report
4-7	(Myopic, one-sided) Texas Analysis: Coal is here to stay - Australia, China To Co-operate In Developing Clean Coal -U.S. Supremes Have Spoken, April Conference to Provide Clean Coal's Response -
4-7	More Wisconsinites Turning To Solar Power; Homeowners Trying To Fight Global Warming
4-7	Cdn opposition, environmentalists call for action after climate-change report
4-7	Climate change report leaves scientists ruffled
4-7	Mexicans worry over drying lake
4-7	China to share burden of CO2 emission cuts
4-7	Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: Quite Possibly the Worst Environmental Assault Yet
4-6	Lawyers argue over scope of mine ruling - No decision on appeal of latest mountaintop removal
4-6	Massey Energy, Public Radio and the Politics of Coal in West Virginia
4-6	Aracoma survivors sue Massey
4-6	Massey Verdict
4-6	Naysayers suppressing global warming threat
4-6	Manchin is already running hard for 2008
4-6	Pike miner survives being buried alive
4-6	Why did none of the happy miners write chipper songs?
4-6	U.N. Report: Climate Change Poses Bleak Future
4-6	Peak Coal and Mountaintop Removal
4-6	Students bring awareness to mountaintop removal
4-6	U.S.: climate change brings drought to Southwest - Global Warming Brings Perpetual Drought to U.S. Southwest
4-6	Climate change: 175m kids suffer
4-5	How to Live a Low-Energy Lifestyle
4-5	Big Energy's alternative challenges
4-5	Close call for CSX train crew - Coal train derails, sending engine into river - Enormous boulder derails coal train
4-5	Boone jury awards miner $1.9 million in firing suit
4-5	Student protesters are not extremists
4-5	Coal strike idles nearly 1,000 in Greene County
4-5	Abramoff probe targets head of GOP environmental group
4-5	An interview with Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers - Duke Energy and the New Global Warming Fight
4-5	DOE Funding $235 Million For Innovative Clean Coal Plant In Florida (there is no such thing as "clean" coal --coal's dirty win you dig it, dirty when you haul it, dirty when you wash it for market, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you dispose of the ash--and it sure dirties up politics! No more government hand-outs for dirty coal!)
4-5	The remote that helps you find the remote
4-5	Surviving a warmer world: Global forecast is 'mostly dry' (so here in West Virginia let's bury streams and poison ground and surface water...smart move NOT)
4-5	Solar costs 'to catch up with coal by 2010' (if you factor in the toll on people on the planet--the costs the coal industry foists onto current and unborn generations, then coal is far more expensive...)
4-5	EPA, carbon, and the South
4-5	Southern Company: Choosing profit over life for decades
4-5	Coping with water scarcity
4-5	Another Round of Stay the Course: Bush Holds Line on Global Warming Despite Ruling - White House expected to feel the heat from Supreme Court's ruling on global warming - Bush agrees with greenhouse gas ruling, sort of
4-5	Take Action: Tell the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to Protect Polar Bears
4-5	US CO2 Action to Take Years Despite Court Ruling
4-5	China, US, Russia looking to tone down UN climate report
4-5	U.N. to Look at Climate Change Threats - U.N. Draft Cites Humans in Recent Climate Shifts
4-5	Man the dikes for climate change
4-5	Canadian Mining Journal: Planning for climate change
4-4	Talon explosives shipped out of W.Va.; Army ends plan for strip-mine disposal - Army moves old munitions to Okl., abandons mine blasting plan
4-4	USA Today: Is Earth near its 'tipping points' from global warming?
4-4	Manchin signs mine bill
4-4	Coal train derails, locomotive submerged
4-4	Fox-in-the-Henhouse Government
4-4	Speaking Din to Dirty Power: Navajo Challenge New Coal-Fired Plant - Jobs, jobs, jobs
4-4	America 'unnecessarily at risk' by looming fall-off in petroleum
4-4	What if coal is running out too?
4-4	AEP, synonymous with coal, wants more wind power - AEP looking to buy wind-generated energy
4-4	Studying the hydrogen energy chain - U.S. cities hot for hydrogen
4-4	We Must Imagine a Future Without Cars - Coal the car fuel of the future, claim experts (insane idea--coal-to-liquid creates double the global warming gases as an equivalent amount of oil and uses huge amounts of freshwater)
4-4	Nuclear power revisited in California
4-4	Scientists say global warming will bake Midwest
4-4	Bush Splits With Congress and States on Emissions - Bush Holds Line on Global Warming Despite Ruling
4-4	'Climate change': too big and too little
4-4	Global Warming Footprint Tool Goes Online
4-4	New report published on links between air quality and climate change
4-4	$500 million buys cleaner air for one coal plant
4-4	Millions could suffer from coral reef collapse
4-4	Will Climate Change Kill The Amazon?
4-4	Two-Thirds of World Worried by Warming, US Lags
4-4	EU Moves to Cut Greenhouse Gas to Spur US, China
4-4	EPA Revives California Emissions Rule
4-4	Natural Resource Partners L.P. Acquires Northern West Virginia Coal Reserves From Western Pocahontas Properties
4-3	National Public radio: Justices Thwart Bush Team on Environmental Policy
4-3	National Public Radio: High Court Rebukes EPA on Emissions, Environment
4-3	US Top Court Overturns Duke Clean Air Law Ruling - Court ruling orders coal plants to clean up
4-3	Justices Rule Against Bush Administration on Emissions - Court Rebukes Administration in Global Warming Case - High Court Faults EPA Inaction on Emissions - Justices Say E.P.A. Has Power to Act on Harmful Gases - US 'must regulate car pollution' - Blow for White House over emissions
4-3	Supreme Court Ruling Opens Door For Global Warming Solutions, Duke Experts Say
4-3	The Court Rules on Warming
4-3	Senators want faster mine safety reforms - Mine safety: Tough action
4-3	Coal Mine Accident
4-3	UMWA president to lead Princeton rally
4-3	Protect Alaska's wild salmon
4-3	THE CLIMATE DIVIDE: Reports From Four Fronts in the War on Warming - Research: Global Warming Is Well Under Way
4-3	In an era of global warming, Dynegy's coal plant gambit puts investors and the general public at risk
4-3	Coal Plant Expansion Challenged by Conservation Groups
4-3	Sixty Minutes: The Age of Warming
4-3	In record dry spell LA fears the perfect drought
4-3	Wars of the world: how global warming puts 60 nations at risk
4-3	Seafood Poisoning on the Rise as Oceans Become Warmer, More Polluted
4-3	Driven to Extremes: Health Effects of Climate Change
4-3	California Legislature Flooded With Bills About Climate Crisis; Poll-driven politicians see need to tackle global warming
4-3	EU Slams United States, Australia on Climate Change
4-3	Russia Sees Ill Effects of 'General Winter's' Retreat
4-3	Why Growth Is Bad, Gardens Good and Cuba Key to Oil-Free Future
4-3	Methane - The Other Greenhouse Gas
4-3	Australia's Southwest Getting Hotter and Drier
4-3	Scientists, diplomats to finalize report on impact of climate change
4-2	Fly ash pond oversight by state agencies not comprehensive
4-2	Rescue chambers: Long time coming
4-2	Biodiesel catching fire in W.Va.
4-2	Massey Energy Will Review MSHA Report on Mine Deaths
4-2	Future of coal likely to remain burning issue
4-2	New treatment method planned for mine discharges
4-2	The dirty truth about `clean' water
4-2	Public Opinion Must Lead Climate Change Investors
4-2	Impacts of Climate Change - Reports by the UN Climate Panel
4-2	Judge advances global warming lawsuit - Judge allows climate change lawsuit against government to advance
4-2	Global warming could bring hunger, melt Himalayas
4-2	Climate change destruction 'to accelerate'
4-2	Researchers to probe climate change future
4-2	Panel identifies species impacted by climate change
4-2	In maple sugar country, creeping fears about climate change
4-2	Britons unwilling to change despite climate threat
4-1	Poor Nations to Bear Brunt as World Warms - Climate change could create 200m refugees
4-1	Breaches continue at Aracoma; Regulators missed violations before Massey mines fatal fire
4-1	Outlook on WV Public TV: Marsh Fork v Coal Industry (scroll to March 29 entry)
4-1	Coal mine widows prove powerful as lobbyists
4-1	Climbing the mountain
4-1	We're asking the KY gubernatorial candidates a series of questions
4-1	Allegheny seeks W.Va. approval for power line
4-1	Gazette wins national award for mine stories
4-1	Dispute with U.S. over B.C. coal mine heats up
4-1	Coal-free power
4-1	Rising temperature in UAE blamed on climate change
4-1	Six die in coal mine accident in north China - 108 coal miners die in Russia after blast at Siberia mine

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