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5-31	Pike County proclaims itself "America's Energy Capital"
5-31	EPA says coal to liquid could cause 119% INCREASE in greenhouse gases
5-31	Corporate America's Latest CounterAttack - The Long Con on Synthetic Fuels
5-31	Congress proposes massive subsidies to convert coal into diesel fuel - Big Subsidies for Big Coal
5-31	Public Questions Powerline in Monongalia County
5-31	Canadian coal exploration worries officials again
5-31	Coal Battle Hits Court
5-31	Mountain Justice Summer takes it out of the woods and onto the streets
5-31	Company breaks ground for first coal-fired plant in state since 1993
5-31	Bush Calls for Global Goals for Emissions
5-31	Say No to New Coal Plants
5-31	New Jersey has horrific global warming scenario
5-30	Moving mountains for profit
5-30	Family making progress, but still faces uphill battle
5-30	Three letters to the editor in the Charleston Gazette: Can we think beyond coal? - Warming calls for real protections - Deep mining preserves jobs (Letters to the editor are great tools, please use them!)
5-30	Blankenship merits more than just fine (Letters to the editor are great tools, please use them!)
5-30	Energy efficiency vs. liquefied coal: Which do you think Congress is subsidizing? - One more on liquefied coal - Global warming, peak oil, and coal-to-liquids
5-30	Repeat after me: "There is no such thing as clean coal"
5-30	Blocking Progress on Climate Change
5-30	Peabody Energy to invest in Rentech fuel plant; Coal miner pledges $10 mln toward future coal-to-liquids operation (but hey, ONE plant costs BILLIONS not to mention ONE plant uses mega amounts of water and produces CO2 out the wazoo, double the CO2 of oil) - Peabody supplies coal for liquid fuel
5-30	Researchers at M.I.T. estimate that it will cost $70 billion to build enough coal-to-liquid plants to replace 10 percent of American gasoline consumption
5-30	Prodded By Industry Lobbying, Self-Proclaimed Global Warming Opponents Now Pushing Coal
5-30	Coal-to-Liquids: Energy Security (without the security part)
5-30	Green Power? The federal government fuels coal-fired electricity
5-30	WV customers to help to pay for power line (scroll to 5/29 entry)
5-30	Damage From Climate Change May Cost Alaska US$10 Bln
5-30	Bush in hot seat on climate change
5-30	Make tax cuts permanent for hybrid car buyers
5-30	Merkel, Pelosi Say World Should Unite on Climate
5-30	Sweden Aims to Cut Greenhouse Gases 30 Pct by 2020
5-30	Our blind faith in oil growth could bring the economy crashing down
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5-29	Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process
5-29	Efficiency, Not Just Alternatives, Is Promoted as an Energy Saver
5-29	Coals friends take on its foes
5-29	Letters to the Editor in Logan Banner: Response to Roger Horton - Valley fills
5-29	States vie with US over emissions rules
5-29	Companys coal plant plans put in center of global warming debate
5-29	Global Energy Use Seen Rising 57% Through 2030
5-29	Companies Gear Up for Greenhouse Gas Limits
5-29	Carbon offsets challenged as fix for global warming
5-29	Pelosi: Climate Change Is a Reality
5-29	Kennedy critiques government and press on environment
5-29	Climate Inaction To Push Up Australian Power Costs, Study Shows
5-29	China shrugs off EU calls for climate change action
5-29	Ocean temp changes linked to humans
5-29	Germany Renews Criticism of US Stance on Climate Change
5-28	MSHA inspector still feels heat from Aracoma mine fire
5-28	Baptist Pastor on MTR
5-28	Harlan County Honors Coal Miners Killed In The Mines
5-28	Coal-to-diesel plant plan advances, grows
5-28	Coal plant's big plans draw fire
5-28	Australian bet on clean coal risks climate change
5-28	U.S. mayors face the music on global warming while Washington fiddles
5-28	How Will Climate Change Affect Arctic Predators?
5-28	Arctic, Tropical Islands Team Up for Climate Pact
5-28	Britain on Brink of Big Mistake, Greenpeace Says
5-28	More on White House Censorship of Global Warming Science
5-27	Permit switch, secrecy ended this one particular mine challenge; lawsuit continues - Read our lawyers' motion to withdraw preliminary injunction
5-27	Apogee knew its actions were illegal
5-27	Gaming donations up in legislative races, group says
5-27	Green Sabotage as "Terrorism"
5-27	Paperback Row (scroll down to the "Big Coal" entry. OVEC members are interviewed in this book and it includes an OVEC photo)
5-27	Mine for coal lore in Eastern Kentucky
5-27	Coal debate stalls Kansas plants
5-27	Coal power faces worrying climate
5-27	Death toll in Siberian mine blast rises
5-27	Engulfed by Climate Change, Town Seeks Lifeline
5-27	Climate change threatens wild relatives of key crops
5-27	UN Secretary General Urges G8 Summit to Act on Climate Change
5-26	Living on Earth: Learning In the Shadow of Coal
5-26	Living on Earth: Coal Country Crooner
5-26	Patty Sebok: Coal companies in state are endangering communities
5-26	U.S. Rejects G-8 Climate Proposal - US 'opposes' G8 climate proposals
5-26	Greenbrier plant debate spills over to commission
5-26	Coal is Not the Answer - National Public Radio: 'Clean Coal' Plan Draws Mixed Reaction - Great River Energy joins liquid-coal effort - Smart money's on biofuels, not coal-to-liquid fuel - The Dark Alternative
5-26	Kansas company's coal plant plans are in center of global warming debate - Canada: NDP leader blasts coal-burning plan - Johnson County health board opposes Waterloo coal plant
5-26	Price of clean coal power plant soars (use those billions on truly clean energy sources!) - Fresh call for clean coal
5-26	Critics question PPL report - Judge delays fly ash deal - Fly ash facts
5-26	Senators ask DOE to stand by nuclear research
5-26	United Kingdom: Options to cut CO2 emissions are top priority
5-26	Calif takes another step in fight against global warming
5-26	Look What You Did!
5-26	Japan eyes households, transportation in struggle to cut greenhouse gas emissions
5-25	Logan mining challenge withdrawn; Environmental groups say damage to streams already has been done - (Unfortunately our hands are tied on this one mine because the Corps secretly issued the permit and the damage has been done. Shame on the Corps for illegally issuing permits and holding out the false promise of jobs; shame on the coal companies for continuing to apply for illegal permits. Our fight to protect our members homes and communities and end mountaintop removal continues on the legal front. Lawsuits are but one aspect of OVEC works to end mountaintop removal. Organize! Join OVEC.)
5-25	The Economist: Battle of the mountain tops
5-25	UMW supports smallest cuts in emissions
5-25	Two op-eds in the Charleston Gazette: Groups want responsible mining - Mountaintop mining not destructive to W.Va. (this latter one written by a man who profits handsomely from selling the huge machines that replace miners and drive communities away and destroy the families' homeplace and our land and water)
5-25	Wind on mountaintop removal sites? (great idea if not one more inch of mountaintop removal)
5-25	Reclamation poor at mining sites
5-25	At last, WNC now has a congressman who is an environmental leader
5-25	U.S. lawmakers weigh using coal as transport fuel; experts worry about greenhouse gases
5-25	Power plant plan under scrutiny
5-25	Calif. Moves to Cut Coal Power Emissions
5-25	Kookaburra in the Coal Mine
5-25	Peabody hopes to find new outlet for coal from Black Mesa
5-25	Battle line on the northern border
5-25	Wales: Slurry nightmare for Meden Vale homes
5-25	A Carbon-Neutral House?
5-25	Global Warming Becomes Major US Campaign Issue
5-25	UN treaty official sees very encouraging signals on climate change
5-25	US Carbon Emissions Slip Seen Separate From Trend
5-25	Global warming to cause floods in China
5-24	A National Water Crisis Is on the Verge of Gushing (but West Virginia lets coal companies practicing mountaintop removal destroy groundwater and streams)
5-24	Congress Considers Changing U.S. Water Pollution Law - Take E-Action--Ask Congress to Support the Clean Water Restoration Act
5-24	High tech pours $5.2 billion into West Virginia, study says
5-24	Justice's contentious campaign lands big-time invitation
5-24	U.S. Carbon Emissions Fell 1.3% in 2006
5-24	To limit global warming, California acts to limit use of coal power
5-24	Westernport, MD residents air concerns over hillside strip mine proposal
5-24	MSHA sues Ky. coal mines over non-payment of fines
5-24	International Coal Group Continues Plans for Taylor County Mine
5-24	Coal Operators Keeping Up With Safety Changes (On site... How about the health and safety of folks living near mines?)
5-24	Coal plant is relic of the 20th century
5-24	Court Finds Against Coeur D'Alene Permit (ruling should have implications for mountaintop removal valley fills)
5-24	Whistleblowers Charge Retaliation; Seek Protection
5-24	Siberian coal mine blast kills at least 35
5-24	Climate change could spark spread of disease - Global Warming Alarms Infectious Disease Experts
5-24	Eco warriors plan massive disruption at Heathrow - Fly less to reduce carbon emissions: think tank
5-24	U.N. Braces for New Breed of Refugees
5-24	DC Region Checking Its Carbon Emissions
5-24	Developed countries most to blame for climate change
5-24	Marine life in hot water from climate change
5-24	Climate change: running rivers dry
5-24	Japan urges global target to halve emissions by 2050
5-24	Global Warming Blamed for Costa Rica Frog Die-Offs
5-24	Study Shows that Climate Change Could Harm Crops
5-24	Dems urge Bush not to weaken warming declaration
5-23	Massey shareholders reject global warming measure - Investors pressure Massey on emissions
5-23	Motion to Dismiss
5-23	Kentucky coal boss agrees to post bond for future safety fines
5-23	Stop building coal-burning power plants
5-23	Federal Loans Finance New Coal Plants
5-23	FirstEnergy Corp. repeatedly violated federal and state air pollution laws at coal-burning power plant in western Pennsylvania, according an environmental group
5-23	Arctic coalmining is a dream job, for some
5-23	Australian Researcher warns about Mass Human Extinction from Global Environmental Collapse
5-23	Global Carbon Emissions in Overdrive
5-23	Scorching Summer Forecast in USA
5-23	Global warming may worsen infectious disease
5-23	Dutch Keep Nervous Eye on Climate
5-23	Biodiversity in grave danger
5-23	Climate change threatens ocean's biggest mammals
5-23	Study: Climate Change May Imperil Plants
5-23	Award-winning film to be shown at First Presbyterian Church
5-22	Manchin enters debate about mountaintop removal suit (scroll to 5/22 entry) - Direct link to audio of West Virginia Public Radio story
5-22	Supreme Court battle won, but daily battles continue
5-22	Denise Giardina--Let us be clear: Mountaintop removal not about creating jobs
5-22	Massey to Vote on Emissions Report - Influencing Climate Change Policies
5-22	World CO2 output to rise 59 pct by 2030: U.S. - Coal is worlds fastest growing source of energy: Report - World CO2 emissions speed up since 2000 - Whither renewable energy?
5-22	Religious leaders unite to address global warming - US religious leaders urge action on global warming
5-22	Coal removal process harmful
5-22	Massey In Court Tuesday
5-22	Natural Resource Partners plans new coal plant for Eckman
5-22	Widows of Ky. Blast Sue Coal Mine Owner - Families sue over Darby mine blast
5-22	Tightening up seals
5-22	History comes alive: 87th anniversary of Matewan Massacre observed with play - Matewan Massacre reenactment a big hit in historical town
5-22	Pennsylvania DEP to Hold Public Meetings on Reauthorization of Federal Surface Mining Control, Reclamation Act
5-22	Federal Loans To Build Coal Power Plants Could Offset Efforts To Reduce Greenhouse Gases
5-22	Coal-to-liquids plant is considered - Federal coal-to-liquids study focuses on Illinois coal basin
5-22	Indonesia to produce synthetic fuel from coal
5-22	Putting the Brakes on the Coal Train
5-22	Ethanol plant will use waste coal as a fuel (neighbors had better hunker down and get ready for some big-time pollution)
5-22	A Green Report Card for the City--D+
5-22	Utah Joins Pact to Reduce Gas Emissions
5-22	Big Win for Alaskan Salmon; Setback for Pebble Mine
5-22	Railroads Bask in Buffett Favor
5-22	Expert: "Peak oil" will force changes
5-22	Can climate change get worse? It has
5-22	Japan to Unveil Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases
5-22	Schwarzenegger Accuses US Government On Warming
5-22	US Bids to Stop G8 Pushing for Climate Deal
5-22	Wildlife Federation: Warming Imperils State Flowers - Wild potatoes, peanuts at risk from global warming
5-22	Global warming and the vision thing
5-22	Did Smithsonian Alter Climate Change Show
5-22	Al Gore Has Big Plans
5-22	Climbers Face More Risks as Alps Crumble
5-21	Mountaintop visit opens eyes on energy waste
5-21	Preparedness: Lessons from Sago - Sago blast changed coal industry
5-21	THE SURVIVOR: Miner sees his life as a blessing and curse - Families' wounds run deep - Mine widows a driving force in safety law
5-21	Aracoma MSHA inspector details mine problems (scroll to 5-21 entry)
5-21	Why are taxpayers subsidizing coal power?
5-21	State approves bonds for power plant scrubber - New equipment to reduce emissions working without a hitch, plant officials say
5-21	Senators say coal and clean air plans aren't incompatible - Just say no to "clean" coal
5-21	Coal-ash controversy
5-21	Reenactment keeps story fresh and alive
5-21	Massey annual meeting set for Tuesday
5-21	Peak coal: sooner than you think
5-21	US Cooling Off to G-8 Summit
5-21	Trout seen as 'canary in coal mine on climate change
5-21	Dicaprio to Polluters: Go Green Now - Leo and 'The 11th Hour'
5-21	Animals, plants under threat from global warming
5-21	EU Farm Subsidies in Climate Change Spotlight - Report
5-21	Polar bears at risk as warming thaws icy home
5-21	Global warming real, say Aussies
5-21	A warning on global warming
5-21	Arctic takes brunt in dirty fight over oil
5-21	Global warming 'golden opportunity'
5-20	Bush Administration Ruling Throws Cold Water on Environmental Whistleblowers
5-20	That mine scared me to death
5-20	Racetrack lobbyists not biggest spenders
5-20	Federal funding increase could revive acid streams
5-20	Rahall proposes climate-change bill
5-20	Wendell Berry laments Jonathan Miller's withdrawal from Ky. governor's race
5-20	Minings effects misrepresented (Richard Cope needs to read the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on mountaintop removal. Mr. Cope needs to read Judge Chamber's ruling in which he describes in detail the positive, crucial ecological contributions of small, headwaters streams that are most often buried by coal operations. Judge Chambers writes, "Headwater streams, such as those at issue here, are typically found in forested hollows, the judge wrote. The forests supply organic material critical to the stream and life within it. Trees often produce a canopy covering portions of the stream, shading the water in the summer and providing organic matter, he wrote. This organic matter is collected within the headwater streams, broken down and transported downstream where it supplied much of the energy and material which support life and other ecological functions. The judge notes that headwater streams contain a variety of unique life forms, small bugs and aquatic creatures that break down organic material so it can feed life further downstream. When headwater streams are buried, the judge said, all of these functions are lost. If that's too much for Mr. Cope to read, he could at least read "U.S. judge cites alarming cumulative stream loss in decision." It would also behoove Mr. Cope to avail himself of all the information contained here.)
5-20	Exhibit focuses on mountaintop removal (photos)
5-20	Competition prepares smoke eaters for underground crisis
5-20	Chronicling an Underground Inferno (um...corporations are still ravaging the landscape...)
5-20	DiCaprio takes page from former v-p in producing, narrating Doomsday doc
5-20	Britain shreds planning rules to beat climate change
5-20	Climate change puts nuclear energy into hot water
5-20	UN Meeting in Bonn Moves World Closer to Action on Climate Change
5-19	Earths Natural Defenses against Climate Change Beginning to Fail
5-19	Regulators ignored Massey violations for years - Deal allowed Massey to keep selling coal to government
5-19	MSHA orders mines to raise seal strength - Emergency rules expected to fix problems found following Sago - Sago explosion continues to force changes
5-19	Coal plants belong in the nation's past
5-19	Arch Coal President Exercises Options
5-19	UW power plant's coal dust is polluting lake, DNR warns
5-19	As Blair leaves Washington, US hardens stance on climate change
5-19	Political climate changing on global warming
5-19	Deadlock at climate talks mars Kyoto hopes
5-19	Combating Climate Change: Building Better, Wasting Less
5-19	Climate change - responding to a global challenge
5-19	Countries Without Borders: How the War Against Climate Change Will be Won
5-18	Companies cant break laws for more profits (scroll down)
5-18	Logan County miners claim environmental group is out to destroy them (Rev. Robin Blakeman sent this comment to the TV station reporter: Why is it that your report allows the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) as a group of radical villains out to "destroy" our oh-so-vibrant state economy?? Let's be honest: most of the corporate employers we are discussing are multi-national fossil fuel extractive industries - they are the true "outsiders," trying to exploit the state - economically & physically. All of the OVEC representatives I've met and talked with - since returning to this area in order to try to help save some of the mountains I love - have lived in this state for a long time, some for generations, and are only trying to get fair enforcement of environmental laws - which are NOT being enforced for the coal companies! I, for one, am VERY glad that there are groups like OVEC who are working to save our mountains, and their long-time residents from the destruction caused as radical strip mines move from one mountain, to another, to another - leveling them all, and burying steams in the process. Do we honestly want a state that is "Almost Level"? I am grieving the loss of our state identification as "Almost Heaven," or "The Mountain State." How dare we dismantle these ancient, beautiful mountains and damage the eco-system of our region forever? I'm appalled at the proverbial 'blank check' our governor & other elected officials seem to be giving to these exploitative industries, and am even further alarmed that your news service did not critically examine these issues in the report on the coal mine rally.)
5-18	EPA deal saved Massey contracts with government - Massey Energy Addresses EPA Suit
5-18	Regulators ignored Massey violations for years (scroll to 5-17 entry) - United States Versus Massey Energy (pdf)
5-18	Longwall mining: Pa. takes legal action against Consol for cracked dam in Greene County
5-18	Feds may have most say on power line route (scroll to 5-17 entry)
5-18	Kentucky coal operators had been cited 10 times this month
5-18	Hunt begins for answers in deadly coal mine blast
5-18	Mine safety advocates not happy with refuge delays
5-18	Excited about safety?
5-18	Miner's widow files wrongful-death suit
5-18	Neighbors question power plant's policy on cleaning up coal soot
5-18	Coal terminal draws attention
5-18	Groups call coal plant a 'boondoggle'
5-18	Colombia Warlord Claims US Link to Funds
5-18	US Chided for Hindering International Efforts on Climate Change
5-18	Rapid rise in global warming is forecast
5-18	Claim: Exxon funding climate 'skeptics'
5-18	Climate Change Affects Southern Ocean Carbon Sink - Southern Ocean Saturated With Carbon Dioxide - Study
5-18	Kyoto nations seek deeper greenhouse gas cuts
5-18	Britain to Set Out Radical Energy, Planning Revamp
5-18	British National Grid Boosts Profit, Eyes Green Power
5-18	CO2 sponge losing ability to soak up extra emissions
5-18	UN Climate Adviser Seeks Fast Guidance for Cities
5-18	Uganda: Nobel Laureate Warns On Forests
5-18	Warmer Seas Threaten Rich Marine Life
5-17	Labor re-enters mining battle; Miners to rally over mountaintop rulings made in U.S. court - Miners Rally Against Court Rulings
5-17	Appealed MSHA fines often slashed, GAO says
5-17	Federal mine-safety fixes could take more than 2 years - U.S. coal miners unprepared for evacuation: GAO - BlastSeal Shown to Improve Coal Mine Seal Strength - Federal agency criticized on mine safety rules
5-17	Massey lawsuit reveals problems with DEP inspections
5-17	'Stop the exploitation' (scroll down)
5-17	Labor conference on global warming fails to address energy
5-17	Peabody Energy spins off Appalachian operations as public company
5-17	Coal-fired foolishness
5-17	Coal Is Plentiful, Dirty, And Likely To Remain Dominant
5-17	Analysis: Climate poses defense concerns
5-17	Top scientists urge quick G8 climate change action
5-17	Journal details how global warming will affect the world's fisheries
5-17	Arctic Islands Invite Tourists to See Climate Woes
5-17	Antarctic Snow Melted Across California-Sized Area, NASA Says - Antarctic surface thaw 'most significant' in 30 years
5-17	Blair Using Last Bush Visit to Urge Action on Climate
5-17	Africa Fights Climate Change But Already Suffering
5-17	Airlines urged to fight global warming
5-17	Australia's pain becomes a global symbol - Australian Water Crisis Could Be Worse Than Thought - Extremes likely to hit a warm Australia: expert
5-17	Australia: Climate threat in military's sights
5-17	Copyright fear hampers West's climate work in China
5-17	Carbon accounting must improve
5-17	UN Project Cuts Carbon Emissions in Rural China
5-17	The 7 biggest myths about climate change
5-17	DNR: UW plant dumps coal dust in Monona Bay
5-17	Calls for inquiry on coal mining water effects
5-16	Take E-Action to Help Stop Mountaintop Removal
5-16	Singular mission: Economic cornerstone of W.Va. under attack (Oh plu-eeze...energy security / economic security lie in diversifying our economy, ending mountaintop removal and realizing global warming demands we change. While you are talking about the benefits coal brings to our state, let's examine the fact that we are consistently one of the poorest states in the nation and let's have a full accounting of all the externalized costs of mountaintop removal on our state's economy.)
5-16	Tennessee group part of effort to end mountaintop coal mining
5-16	Global warming gases--deforestation a big factor
5-16	BrickStreet: Big-money operation
5-16	Local mines named in federal lawsuit
5-16	Any penalties should be below maximum, Massey says - Massey says many alleged violations involved other companies
5-16	Massey Energy to Webcast Annual Meeting
5-16	More coal-to-liquid madness: Funding allows county to dream big - Unified future: Optimism surrounds dual-state projects - Coal To Liquid Fuel Plant Coming To Eastern Kentucky
5-16	Bill Boyne: Putting profit above health
5-16	Investors warned against coal-to-gas power plants
5-16	Specialists say wind and coal don't mix
5-16	Appalachian Power takes over 4 McDowell utilities
5-16	Whos minding the mines?
5-16	Energy apocalypse 'five years away' - catastrophe can be avoided if governments develop sustainable energy sources
5-16	UW power plant's coal dust is polluting lake, DNR warns
5-16	Global warming 'our greatest peril'
5-16	Coal-fired Mr Climate Change
5-15	Massey downplays lawsuit - DOJ seeks over $1.6 bln in suit against Massey - Massey Falls After Analyst Report on Clean-Water Suit
5-15	Clash over coal continues in Washington (four OVEC representatives are in DC) - Don't believe hype about coal-to-liquid technology
5-15	White Buck sentencing delayed
5-15	Mountaintop mining is an offense to God
5-15	Author to attend Matewan re-enactment
5-15	Examining Resource Scarcity: Omniviolence and State Capacity
5-15	President's Executive Order on Energy Will Do Nothing to Promote Energy Independence
5-15	Bush 'responding' to Supreme Court
5-15	UN Climate Expert Hopeful on Environment Policies
5-15	Deforestation: The Hidden Cause of Global Warming - Slowing Deforestation Key to Climate Fight - Experts
5-15	Scientists Urge Half Of Canada Forest Be Protected
5-15	Africa Ill-Prepared for Climate Change Consequences
5-15	Gore's global warming fears
5-15	US Trying to Weaken G-8 Climate Change Declaration
5-15	Climate change: new global plan to tie in worst polluters
5-14	Climate change to make one billion refugees-agency
5-14	Faith leaders oppose mountaintop mining
5-14	Strip-mined off the map
5-14	MSHA preparing to release reviews of its own actions
5-14	Federal Loans for Coal Plants Clash With Carbon Cuts
5-14	Don't believe hype about coal-to-liquid technology
5-14	Surface mining is not clean coal
5-14	The presidential candidates and climate change
5-14	Germany's coal power plans threaten EU climate goal
5-14	More on peak coal
5-14	Yahoo Puts Marketing Muscle Into Climate Campaign
5-14	Summit into climate change opens
5-13	MSHA rule changes linked to Sago disaster - MSHA's lightning rod
5-13	Mining is quickly destroying 'home'
5-13	Lobbyists disclose lunchtime expenses
5-13	Little hope for mountaintops in Kentucky primaries
5-13	East Kentucky Power projects get go-ahead
5-13	U.S. Aims to Weaken G-8 Climate Change Statement
5-13	Missouri Floods Subside, May Have Been Exacerbated by Warming
5-13	Warming Triggers Alarming Retreat of Himalayan Glaciers
5-13	Mumbai Under Threat From Global Warming
5-12	Massey sued by Feds; Coal firm violated Clean Water Act more than 4,630 times, prosecutors allege
5-12	Mountaintop removal and clean water: Kinda at odds (Other groups organizing the DC trip include OVEC, Coal River Mountain Watch, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Earthjustice and more)
5-12	DEP drops plan to finalize stream list
5-12	Study calls for massive power lines; 300-mile line would be strung from St. Albans to Maryland
5-12	Chemical spill closes part of I-77; Tanker truck was headed for a coal mine in Wharton
5-12	Motion to Delay Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel/Massey Trial Denied
5-12	Lawmakers push for coal fuel - Obama Faces Test Concerning Coal Policy - Barack Obama is not serious about global warming - Lawmakers look at coal to break oil dependence
5-12	James River produces fewer CAPP tons, closes some mines
5-12	Judge tosses suit by Hopis contesting pipeline hearings
5-12	Law firm could get $3 million in coal case
5-12	Ten-year warming window closing
5-12	Spy Chief Backs Study of Impact of Warming on National Security
5-12	Corporate Shareholders Vote on Rising Number of Climate Resolutions
5-12	Budget cuts increasingly damaging to EPA - EPA diverts money from shared Superfund pool
5-12	LEDs Emerge to Fight Fluorescents
5-12	Just say no to 'clean coal'
5-12	U.N. Debates Wider Leadership Role on Climate
5-12	World mayors to meet in NY to fight global warming
5-12	NASA study: Eastern U.S. to get hotter - Stifling summers forecast by Nasa for US east coast
5-12	Vermont could clear way for new emissions rules
5-12	Climate change casts shadow over world agriculture
5-12	US 'bids to water down global warming declaration'
5-12	Global warming, nuclear power: double trouble
5-12	First round of Actions of Immediate Witness
5-11	From the license plate to the feeder (Janet is OVEC's co-director)
5-11	Sago Mine answers are closer, but still elusive
5-11	NLRB halts union election at Boone County mine
5-11	Dismay over Nuclear Solution to Climate Problem
5-11	Ky. gubernatorial candidates views on global warming differ
5-11	Well, If it makes ME lots of Money...
5-11	Confirmed: deforestation causes climate change (Mountaintop removal mining is the final clearcut!)
5-11	Suspicions Among Nations Hold Back Climate Pacts
5-11	UK power industry warns on high price of moving to clean coal (Even if you clean up air emissions, there is no such thing as "clean" coal. Face it--coal is filthy.) - Australian coal industry to spend $1bn on climate
5-11	WWF urges EU's 'Dirty Thirty' polluters to dump coal
5-11	Stifling summers forecast by NASA for US east coast
5-11	China Warns of More Typhoons, Floods, Drought
5-11	UN Climate Chief Says Time Short to Find 2012 Pact
5-11	At the UN, Germany Defends Its Burning of Coal, Makes Up By Buying Credits
5-11	New Report Assesses Opportunities and Threats to the Coal Liquefaction Industry in United States (Report leaves out ecological economics, toll on public)
5-10	US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up - US, Russian Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up, EU's Dip
5-10	Disaster avoidable, Sago investigators find - MSHA says cable likely carried lightning through Sago mine - Sealed coal mine sections draw attention
5-10	Federal report leaves Sago families dissatisfied
5-10	Lawmakers look at coal to break oil dependence; But the process emits twice the carbon dioxide as gasoline, making it more damaging to the environment
5-10	Rahall wants Bush to speed up coal technology - Congressmen Shimkus and Boucher introduce coal-to-liquid fuels legislation
5-10	Time to take a stand against coal companies
5-10	NLRB Looks Into UMWA Complaint
5-10	Monongalia officials vote against power line route
5-10	LEO endorsements in the 2007 gubernatorial primaries
5-10	Drummond Coal Connection?: Colombian Senator Alleges Assassination Plot
5-10	Coal- and Lignite-Fired Plants at the Top of Europes Dirty 30 List
5-10	Refining Riddle: Cleaner Fuels Make More CO2
5-10	Climate Change Threatens California Water Supply
5-10	Methane From Dams: Greenhouse Gas to Power Source
5-10	China keen to promote coal-bed methane mining
5-10	Moving Donkin coal by truck not acceptable to residents
5-10	Suit filed against Sioux City coal plant
5-10	Coal miner's environment report laughable
5-10	Climate change issue heats Capitol Hill
5-10	Envoy: Climate change must be addressed
5-10	Kyoto: The next generation
5-10	Health Effects of Climate Change in UK
5-10	Green Groups Dismayed As Flights Soar To Record High
5-10	Thinking Outside the Fox
5-10	ENN: Environmental Groups Ask U.N. To Take Stand Against Appalachian Coal Mining
5-9	Associated Press: Environmental groups ask U.N. to take stand against Appalachian coal mining
5-9	Think Switzerland: Mountains not impediment to economic success
5-9	Scientific American: Combating Climate Change: Scaling Back Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Keeping the Lights On
5-9	Sago factors go beyond lightning, experts say - MSHA Creates Two New Positions For Mine Disasters - Feds to unveil conclusions on Sago Mine disaster
5-9	Mingo County Redevelopment Authority lauded on CTL project - Take Action: No to Liquid Coal
5-9	U.S. attitude of indifference to climate change is immoral
5-9	WRI: Value Earth's Ecosystems or They Will Disappear
5-9	Board learns vo-tech center highest scoring in state (see last graph)
5-9	Massey Energy criticizes plea agreement
5-9	More Than 120 Million Tons of Solid Residues Are Produced in the U.S. Every Year When We Burn Coal for Electricity
5-9	UN program to fight global warming is target of criticism
5-9	IPCC notes link between insurance practices and climate change
5-9	Politics Trumps Science at US Fish & Wildlife Service
5-9	Study Ties Coral Disease to Warmer Oceans
5-9	Delegates Work on Climate Change Accord
5-9	China's mixed messages on climate
5-9	Oilsands dodging greenhouse gas crackdown: document
5-9	Blueprint for greenhouse gases
5-9	U.S. Coalfield Groups Call on U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development to Bar Abusive Coal Mining Practices Destroying Appalachia, Other Regions Around Globe
5-8	MTR at the UN this week - UN Delegates Living On the Front lines of Energy Extraction Speak Out - United Nations to Be Urged to Save America's Appalachia Region From Coal Mining Abuses
5-8	Moran sole VA sponsor anti-MTR measure
5-8	Massachusetts Challenges Federal Energy Rules
5-8	Miller drops out of governor's race
5-8	Obama Makes Push For Fuel Efficiency - Sen. Jon Tester Kills Liquid Coal Amendment
5-8	Migratory Birds, Whales Confused by Warming - UN
5-8	UN Urges World to Slow Warming After Grim Reports - UN Chief Urges Decisive Action on Climate Change
5-8	Global Community must deploy low carbon technologies now to tackle climate change
5-8	Curbing global warming won't bankrupt economy
5-8	China poses big challenge on warming
5-8	Wake Up, Global Warming Conspiracy Theorists
5-8	Coral disease linked to warming
5-8	Sale of Carbon Credits Helping Land-Rich, but Cash-Poor, Tribes
5-7	Mountaintop mining may tilt Ky. vote
5-7	In W.Va., thousands without fortified water (The Sammons are OVEC members, active in the Sludge Safety Project)
5-7	Find more realistic energy options
5-7	Putting a Price on Pollution
5-7	Coal-fired danger burns for clean-energy solution
5-7	Coal-fired plants slammed
5-7	Panel endorses mercury limits
5-7	Death Toll in China Mine Blast Rises to 28
5-7	Beating Global Warming Needn't Cost The Earth
5-7	Heat on parents to have fewer kids to cool planet
5-7	Governments meet on climate: "no excuse" for inaction
5-7	US Rejects 'High Cost' Global Warming Scenarios
5-7	Amid fears of global warming, China weighs profits, pollution
5-7	Creating More Accurate Climate Models Based On New Ice Cores
5-6	Desmond Tutu: Climate change is already destroying millions of lives in the poor world. But it will not stop there
5-6	EXPERTS: WE CAN REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE - IPCC: Mitigation of Climate Change Summary - How The World Can Be Saved
5-6	DEP selenium waivers for mines challenged
5-6	Chemicals, coal dust dont stop at fence
5-6	Writer defends forests
5-6	Running cars on corn, coal won't get us to environmental nirvana
5-6	In Southwest Virginia's Flood-Plagued Grundy, the Future Looks a Lot Like Wal-Mart
5-6	An interview with UT geology professor Mike McKinney: If we destroy the mountain, do you know how much electricity we get out of that mountain for the coal? An entire mountain provides an hour's worth of electricity for the U.S. That is insane by anybody's laws. So instead of respecting this icon of our area we grind it up, burn it for an hour's worth of electricity. And in the meantime, we've lost the most unique ecosystem east of the Mississippi. We've lost the fish, we've lost the plants, we've lost the birds--the migratory birds who breed here have no place to go. We've lost our cultural heritage, our Indian burial grounds, and shown total disrespect for nature.
5-6	20 miners dead, 10 trapped in central China coal mine explosion
5-6	Scientists issue warning of climate change death threats
5-6	UN scientists warn time is running out to tackle global warming
5-6	EU steps up call for action on climate change
5-6	Japan Pledges $2.1 Billion for Environment
5-6	Climate change could bring malaria to UK
5-6	Scientists put price tag on strategies to combat global warming
5-5	The Economist: Tackling Climate Change a Bargain - Nature: Tackling Climate Change Affordable
5-5	Carbon capture from coal not quick fix
5-5	Erik Reece Op-Ed in New York Times: A Beautiful Mine
5-5	Bi-Partisan Group of Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Save Streams, Rivers, Lakes from Waste Dumping - New Bill Would Halt Waste Dumping in Lakes, Rivers, Streams
5-5	Cincinnati Post: Degrading the land
5-5	eBacking and forthing with Don Blankenship
5-5	Faith and Culture: Christians have obligation to earth - Green Church
5-5	Debate On Mountaintop Removal Continues - Danielle Morgan Reports
5-5	King Coal Highway
5-5	Citizen concerned about speeding coal trucks
5-5	Play planned for Matewan Massacre
5-5	Cloudy Germany a Powerhouse in Solar Energy
5-5	Where There's a Way, There's a Will
5-5	Global warming can cause 400 mn to starve: Study
5-5	Environmentalists push for renewable energy, efficiency at climate change conference
5-5	IPCCs Climate Change Proposals Include Controversial Nuclear Recommendations
5-5	Beating global warming needn't cost the earth: U.N.
5-5	The Warming Challenge
5-5	Progress on Global Warming Is Questioned
5-5	Emissions deadline gone: UN
5-5	Experts say lifestyle changes key to fighting global warming
5-4	Air pollution in focus
5-4	Putting focus on diversity of species
5-4	Coal To Liquid Left Out-- Thank Goodness for the House Vote, Now...Call Your Senators to Make Sure They Do Not Vote for Coal to Liquid! - Panel advances ethanol substitute bill
5-4	The cost of coal on the environment
5-4	Free trade: Beware of sleaze
5-4	Climate: Foolish delay
5-4	'The message is: We have to do something now'
5-4	Delegates Reach Deal on Climate Change - Climate Panel Reaches Consensus on the Need to Reduce Harmful Emissions
5-4	Climate change solutions available now
5-4	Stopping climate change is possible, says WWF
5-4	Nature's carbon 'sink' smaller than expected
5-4	As the Climate Changes, Bits of Englands Coast Crumble
5-4	Top U.S. intelligence analysts studying climate change, but Republicans object
5-4	US top culprit of global warming
5-4	Officials warn about fish
5-4	Making Dirty Air Permanent
5-4	Sierra Club Sues UW Over Coal-Fired Power Plant
5-4	Malaria fear as global warming increases
5-4	Birth of a New Wedge
5-4	War Eating Climate Satellite Funds, Group Warns
5-4	Arctic Leaders Blame Warming for Wolves, Suicide
5-3	Religious leaders tour US coal mining sites, praying for end to mountaintop removal
5-3	Mel Tyree: Coal-to-liquid technology comes with too high a price - Judy Bonds: Turning coal to liquid is even worse (scroll down)
5-3	Ethanol bill prompts debate over coal as motor fuel - Liquid Coal Defeated by Senate Energy Committee - Senate Panel Approves Bill to Cut U.S. Gasoline Use
5-3	Coalfield Leaders Taking Mountaintop Removal to the U.N.
5-3	Federal researchers should increase study of coal mine disasters, safety
5-3	Coal Makes Move to Meet Demand
5-3	Commercial Power Users Fight Proposed Hike
5-3	Make up your mind
5-3	Energy Experts Debate Future Use of Coal
5-3	Mountainfilm in Telluride Finalizes Energy Symposium Roster
5-3	Advocates push to protect landmark
5-3	Old king coal hard to dethrone
5-3	Mercury output must be decreased
5-3	The First Step to Action on Climate Change is Facing Its Reality
5-3	Poor Nations Brake Greenhouse Gas Rise
5-3	Small, Unexciting Steps Can Make Big Climate Leap
5-3	From Campus: Getting educated on carbon offsets
5-3	Nuclear Power No Sure Cure for Climate Ills
5-3	US-Based Index Allows Bets on Global Warming Fight
5-3	Bangkok Faces Flooded Future, Expert Says
5-3	Arctic ice disappearing at alarming rate
5-3	Talks at Climate Conference Progress
5-3	Feeling Warmth, Subtropical Plants Move North
5-3	How surge in plankton may be the saviour of mankind
5-2	Blair Mountain rally promotes it as historic site
5-2	How to Stop the Planet From Burning
5-2	Support the Mountain Justice Spring Break Legal Defense Fund
5-2	Photographer who uses lens to expose mining shares her story
5-2	Response to Mr. Williams
5-2	NIOSH says mine shelter tests will take months
5-2	Deregulation of electric industry not working
5-2	US power utilities go back to coal
5-2	End of line for coal three activists in court
5-2	Clean coal company found guilty of breaching emissions limits
5-2	Uranium study shows impact of mining
5-2	Feds Clear Way for UT Oil-Shale Project
5-2	Thai scientists fear global warming could empty world`s rice bowl - Experts Target Rice As Climate Culprit
5-2	War Spirit Can Beat Climate Change - Prince Charles
5-2	UN Says Canada Silent Over Kyoto Targets
5-2	EU Urges Countries on Climate Change
5-2	Chinese Puzzle Bamboozles UN Climate Talks
5-2	Envoys Named to Lead Climate Change at UN
5-2	Another consequence of global warming ocean dead zones
5-1	Ohio Citizens Standing Up to Big Coal
5-1	Flying High With Coal-Based Fuel
5-1	Coals Energy Potential Is an Engineering Challenge Now
5-1	Your Questions: Carbon Power
5-1	Coal producers seeking U.S. help cleaning up
5-1	Rich in water, rich in promise
5-1	Contact legislators about water poisoning
5-1	Filson to sponsor conference on mountaintop removal mines
5-1	Big Coal
5-1	CEO says Massey likely won't bid on Peabody's Appalachian assets - Massey CEO gets $27 million, yet Massey picnic cancelled due to financial considerations
5-1	Recruiting Plankton to Fight Global Warming
5-1	Arctic Ice Retreating 30 Years Ahead of Projections
5-1	Greenhouse Gas CO2 Sidetracked in Oceans' Twilight Zone
5-1	Climate change will bring health risks
5-1	Nations Urged to Reduce Greenhouse Gases - Bush, EU leaders deadlocked on climate change
5-1	Germany in Losing Battle To Save Last Glacier
5-1	Australia: Coal miner fined over burst tailings dam

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