(May)  Archive - June, 2007  (Jul)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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6-30	The Opening March of the U.S. Social Forum  -  US Social Forum Day One: Thousands March in Downtown Atlanta  -  US Social Forum June 27 – July 1, 2007  -  "We're Living a Nightmare Called Katrina"
6-30	Boucher sells out to big coal interests  -  More coal-to-liquid insanity: Peabody looks into plant site in Sturgis, IN   -  Think tank urges Kentucky to use caution
6-30	Alpha Natural Resources Completes Mingo Logan Acquisition   -  Arch Coal, Inc. Marks 10-Year Anniversary on July 1  - CONSOL Energy Completes $1 Billion Senior Secured Loan Agreement
6-30	Pelosi Still Wants More Miles Per Gallon
6-30	Duke Energy Chairman Urges U.S. Senate to Adopt Cap and Trade System to Address Climate Change
6-30	This Baby Is Just Plain Ugly, Folks
6-30	Oil cost rises, coal shares net gain
6-30	Former Interior Department Official Sentenced to Prison
6-30	Climb it for the Climate
6-30	Gore's seven point pledge to cut global warming  -   Gore: Live Earth Concerts to Deliver Climate SOS   -  Live Earth Seeks Carbon Emissions Cut of 90 Percent by 2050
6-30	EU Plans How to Deal With Climate Change
6-29	MSHA report finds own performance ‘unacceptable’   -     Federal Inquiry Faults Mine Inspectors; Accountability Office Will Be Created   -  Report criticizes mine inspectors  - Mine safety inspectors missed problems at sites of fatal blasts  -  MSHA might discipline inspectors
6-29	Kentucky is cautioned on coal-to-liquid fuel plant; Analyst says there are major challenges   -  Democrats question Fletcher's motive for special-session call
6-29	Manchin declares drought emergency
6-29	Mel Tyree: Climate inertia can be overcome
6-29	Camping and live music make great weekend mix
6-29	Beltway Removal Mining  -   Hobet Mine Complex Overlayed on 38 US cities  -  Google Helps Nonprofits Conquer Google Earth
6-29	Global Warming Will Cause Rise in Death Rates   -    WHO: 77,000 Die Annually in Asia-Pacific from Climate Change
6-29	Live Earth Concerts to Deliver Climate SOS: Gore
6-29	Confusion Reigns Under Heaven
6-29	US House Passes Bill Affirming Global Warming Exists (House fails to pass bill doing anything about it...)  -  House Committee Defeats Increase to Gas Mileage Standards   -  Congress Wimps Out On Energy Policy
6-29	U.S. firms linked to Colombia militias
6-29	Boone man beats Massey in civil action
6-29	$404M Roane County Verdict Upheld
6-29	Coal plant unnecessary; conservation is a must
6-29	Byrd responds to stories about health 'head on'
6-29	Interior Department leases oil-shale mine in Utah
6-29	Global warming cited as Europe reels from new weather extremes
6-28	Mattea takes stand on coal, climate issues
6-28	Revealed: Bush EPA chief says she quit after Cheney rewrote coal power plant rules
6-28	Bob Murray, coal exec--Congress wants U.S. coal industry destroyed
6-28	Liquid coal sucks
6-28	2 coal-plant projects already in works; Need for special session on issue called into question - Kentucky has already committed millions to coal to liquid projects  -   Coal incentives not a rush job  -  Coal to liquid: Wave of future, or nod to past?  -  Coal-to-liquid fuels pose major problems
6-28	House Democrats at Odds Over Energy Bill Provisions   -  Group of Democrats Pushes Fuel Economy
6-28	Coal prices jump 17.5% this month
6-28	Magnum Coal pulls $350 mln bond sale -sources
6-28	6 workers hurt by lightning strike at Ala. coal mine
6-28	China’s Industrial Strength Boosts Demand For Coal  -   Arab energy giants eye coal imports
6-28	Carbon Price Won't Push Power Sector Away From Coal
6-28	Wildlife, Crops Hit by Southeast Europe Heatwave
6-28	India's Emissions May be Higher Due to Dams
6-28	World Cannot Afford Nuclear Climate Solution
6-28	Death Rates Will Rise Because of Global Warming
6-27	Cheney: Amending Environmental Laws to Benefit Business
6-27	Prison for Griles
6-27	Coal's Many Friends-coal to liquid will be back
6-27	If it acts like an outlaw, and talks like an outlaw, it's an outlaw
6-27	Google reaches out to non-profts with Earth Outreach  -  Google Earth Outreach Zooms In on Global Problems
6-27	Good news from the North Carolina Legislature
6-27	Family of miner killed in roof fall sues coal company
6-27	FutureGen Study Projects 300-Plus Jobs (invest those billions in truly clean (i.e. fossil-fuel-free) energy, jobs with a real future, not just some BS slogan created by coal industry execs that want more of your money, your water, your mountains, your air to keep their companies "profitable")
6-27	Deep underground CO2 storage considered
6-27	Chart of the Day: Arch Coal
6-27	Who gets to produce electricity is galvanizing the West
6-27	Environmental group blasts coal plant proposal
6-27	Georgia poised to pass tough mercury rule
6-27	Global efforts to substitute for oil: Learning by doing ourselves in
6-27	Tim Flannery: Ten predictions about climate change that have come true
6-27	Tree planting: A key weapon against global warming
6-27	Climate change and national security
6-27	Bogus Poll: 72 Percent Say Global Warming is Natural
6-27	British army chief: climate change could fuel conflict and terror
6-27	Climate Change Threatens North Africa Food Supply
6-27	Five More Die as Southeast Europe Sizzles
6-27	Poor Could See Slice of Carbon Offset Revenue
6-27	Schwarzenegger says US must cut emissions before China does
6-27	Swiss Climate Warming Fast
6-26	Paul Hawken: How to Stop Our Political and Economic Systems From Stealing Our Future
6-26	WV Public Radio: Coal-to-gas debate not over in Washington (scroll to 6/25 entry)   - Write or call Congressman Rahall--educate him on the perils of coal to liquid!
6-26	Still dying for coal
6-26	Letters to the Editor in the Charleston Gazette: Environment and growth compatible  -  Coal pollution not as bad a nuisance? (scroll down)
6-26	Letters to the editor in the Logan Banner: Rebuttal to Mr. Runyon  -  Mining (letters to the editor are great tools, please use them)
6-26	Outdoor Music Festivals (scroll to Mountain Keepers Music Festival)
6-26	Commentary on the Clean Water Protection Act
6-26	Miners avoid black lung screening for fear of losing jobs
6-26	Justices Loosen Restrictions on Campaign Ads
6-26	Byrd lands millions in funding for mine safety provisions
6-26	Cecil E. Roberts: Employee Free Choice Act would fix broken American labor law
6-26	W.Va. in ‘moderate drought’
6-26	King Coal Highway Project To Begin
6-26	New Power Plant Protest
6-26	People Power Trumps Dirty Power: Dominion Sees the Light, Pulls the Plug on Three Dirty Coal-Fired Plants
6-26	MOVING TOWARDS A MORATORIUM ON COAL: RECENT VICTORIES
6-26	Eastern Ky. coal operator sentenced to three years for fraud
6-26	Water Crisis: Oceans dying; Fresh water supply disaster
6-26	We’d better clear the air with China
6-26	Situation critical on climate   -  Greenland ice may melt much faster: U.N. scientist  -  Climate change concern grows
6-26	Greenhouse gas burial
6-26	Armies Must Ready for Global Warming Role - Britain
6-26	Desert Dust Cuts Mountain Snow, May Spur Warming
6-26	Scarce Water and Population Boom Leads California to "Perfect Drought"
6-26	Heatwave Causes Deaths in Greece, Romania
6-26	Dubai Eyes Middle East Carbon Trading Market
6-26	Gas blast kills at least 7 at Russian coal mine
6-26	European unity, leadership on climate change
6-25	Mountain Keepers Music Festival supports environmental efforts    -   Festival set next weekend at Kayford Mountain
6-25	West Virginia is leaving you: There is a limit to use, removal of resources
6-25	Government has duty to protect its citizens
6-25	Some Positive Energy: Now start talking about a carbon tax
6-25	Shadow hangs over China's boom  -  CHINA: WORLD'S POLLUTER-AMA
6-25	Driving home theory of peak oil
6-25	Global warming and economic growth
6-25	Rich nations blamed for global warming
6-25	Rising Seas to Destroy U.S. Beaches
6-25	US Climate Law May Linger Until Next President
6-25	California Air Board Adopts Greenhouse Gas Rules
6-25	Global warming threatens to dry up Ganges
6-25	India could check emissions and still record high growth
6-25	Flaming June? You must be joking
6-25	What Assures Consumers On Climate Change?
6-25	Too little, too late: Gore blames scientists for climate crisis; US could have acted sooner if experts had reached consensus
6-24	Toronto Star: The coal, hard truth
6-24	Planned Wise County, Va., coal-fired power plant will be focus of Monday protest
6-24	Black Lung: Dust Hasn't Settled on Deadly Disease
6-24	Colleges review carbon emissions--except it West Virginia and four other states
6-24	E. Kentucky politicians: fools for King Coal   -  Too-easy solutions
6-24	The case against subsidizing coal-to-liquid fuel plants
6-24	Coal Fuels A Debate Over Obama
6-24	New Site For A Possible Coal To Liquid Fuel Plant In Corbin
6-24	Bunning claims he was threatened over coal proposal   -  Moving at last  -  KENTUCKY POLITICIANS' ENERGY STRATEGIES IN DARK AGES
6-24	Representative Ed Markey: What role coal?
6-24	Reclaim mountains by reclaiming ourselves
6-24	Photographer Shelby Lee Adams focuses on capturing the truth in his native Appalachia
6-24	Eight killed in coal mine accidents in China
6-24	T Boone Pickens sells off his Massey and Arch stock
6-24	U.S. mayors pledge to fight global warming
6-24	Schwarzenegger says cities will lead climate change battle
6-24	Britain's Environment Agency: Go Vegetarian to Stop Climate Change
6-23	Pendleton wind farm blocked
6-23	Regulators OK rate hikes for electricity utilities
6-23	Mid-Atlantic power lines get key OK; Electricity feed would run 300 miles from John Amos plant into Md.   -   2 major new mid-Atlantic power lines get key endorsement  -  Power Line Aimed At Md.
6-23	Senate Passes Energy Bill But End Product is Far From Comprehensive  -  What's in the Senate energy legislation  - Senate votes for first rise in car fuel standard in 32 years  -  Renewable Energy's Alternative Ending  - Renewable Energy Tax Package Removed From U.S. Energy Bill
6-23	Wall Street Journal: Fights Loom on Energy Bill, Making Passage Uncertain
6-23	Coal truck kills man in car   -  One Dead After Coal Truck Accident
6-23	Coal-to-liquid folly: Let's tap the power of hot air (Citizens need sane energy policies--and we have to demand them!)
6-23	PPL-sponsored report finds no spill damage; Fly ash entered Delaware River in 2005. Critics charge report's denial of harm isn't credible
6-23	Former public radio host Bob Edwards winning praise on XM
6-23	Some UMWA members also members of OVEC
6-23	Rochester City Newspaper: Mining is destroying Appalachia's mountains
6-23	Massey presents environmental awards (this is just too much...who about Best Union Buster Mine? Most Blackwater Spills Award? Most Inspector Dodging Mine? Oh maybe, this whole thing was a late entry in the Vandalia Liars Contest...)
6-23	Knoxville coal company hopes to acquire Ala. company for $55M
6-23	Peak Coal Near On The Horizon
6-23	Group urges conservation of coal-bed methane water
6-23	Darfur conflict heralds era of wars triggered by climate change, UN report warns  -  UN: Climate Change Causes Darfur Slaughter
6-23	Campus Climate Challenge
6-23	Expert warns of serious health effects due to climate change
6-23	Global Warming Games
6-23	Half Of Bay-Area Businesses Have Made Adjustments Due To Global Warming
6-22	Activists aim to throw cold water on coal's revival
6-22	NPR's Fresh Air: Jeff Goodell: Big Coal's Dirty Secrets
6-22	Senate Adopts an Energy Bill Raising Mileage for Cars -   US Senate seeks fuel efficiency  -  Senate Passes Energy Bill   - Republicans block tax increases for oil companies
6-22	Solar power costs dropping, nearing competition
6-22	The Dirty Truth About Coal: Why Yesterday's Technology Should Not Be Part of Tomorrow's Energy Future
6-22	Coal truck death (scroll down to last entry)
6-22	Fletcher's fraud: Special Session on coal-to-liquid
6-22	Williamson Daily News--Mingo CTL project expected to bring 1,500 jobs (how about spending those billions on creating jobs with a future?)
6-22	The Economist: Can Montana's coal-loving governor be green too?
6-22	Liquid Coal a Slippery Business  -  Debate On Coal To Liquid Fuel Technology Continues
6-22	Coal states see boon in Air Force alt-fuel push
6-22	Then the whole agency is a crying shame...(and what about the fines--how much are they reduced when time to pay comes?)   -  MSHA threatens two Boone mines with sanctions
6-22	Coal Valley News: Judge rules against mine ponds
6-22	Boone man wins firing lawsuit against Massey
6-22	Don Blankenship Testifies During Massey Lawsuit
6-22	Synfuel puts $300,000 toward Raleigh judicial annex
6-22	Dems open campaign to 'Green the Capitol'
6-22	California is pioneer in fighting global warming
6-22	Sizing Up Big Business' Climate Footprint
6-22	Climate turns up heat on sea turtles
6-22	World Needs Rules for Burying Greenhouse Gases - IEA
6-22	W.Va. economy fizzles in first half of 2007
6-22	US Bishops on Climate Change
6-22	Economists: Climate change will cost N.C. billions
6-22	The Peak Oil Crisis: Approaching The Cliff
6-22	Bush Says US Could Build 30 New Nuclear Plants   -  UK May Have to Do Without Nuclear Power
6-22	China Says Exports Fuel Greenhouse Gas Emissions  - China bristles over greenhouse gas criticism
6-22	Drought feared as cause of war
6-21	Climate change and the fight for resources 'will set world aflame'   -  Global warming may uproot millions
6-21	Charleston Gazette: Study urges change in how coal funds spent; Report proposes more funding to study mining impacts on environment, safety  -  Link to pdf of report   -  New York Times and International Herald Times: Science Panel Finds Fault With Estimates of Coal Supply   -  Major Increase in Federal Research Needed to Determine Size of U.S. Coal Reserves
6-21	Federal Pond Ruling Troubles Coal
6-21	State Journal editorial: Energy in Demand; Coal on the Ropes; What we have here is a tyranny of the minority
6-21	Proposed legislation supporting coal-to-liquid technology is alive and well; Byrd, Rockefeller push for federal coal-to-liquid funding
6-21	No to Coal-To-Liquid Pikeville Rally
6-21	Mingo County CTL plant closer to reality
6-21	Coal still king in Pike County  -  Special session set for July 5 -  In Kentucky: No need for special session on energy projects  - Peabody considering coal conversion plant
6-21	21st Century energy . . .
6-21	Analysis: Coal debate continues in Congress
6-21	More coal-to-liquid insanity...Beckley Register Herald editorial: Liquefaction
6-21	Schweitzer's pet coal-to-liquids push taking a beating
6-21	Some Oppose Power Line Plan  -  House votes against amendment that would stop power lines
6-21	Massey CEO drilled on the stand
6-21	PSC may let utilities keep more secrets
6-21	Air pack shortage creates more headaches for mines
6-21	Alpha Natural Resources to Acquire Mining Assets from Arch Coal  -  Arch Coal to get $40 million for W. Virginia mine - Alliance buys more coal
6-21	China overtakes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter  -  Dutch researchers say China is now world's No. 1 emitter of carbon dioxide
6-21	Vermont colleges take lead toward carbon-neutrality
6-21	Global warming may be mother of all financial woes
6-20	W.Va. environmental groups file to join suit against Massey   -   Massey Coal Should Pay for Clean Water Violations  -  Environmental groups say they want to join lawsuit against Massey
6-20	National security drives focus on alternative fuel (gag! double the global warming gases equals national security? more mountaintop removal equals national security? The old adage is--when you can't sell something, wrap it in the flag. What dangerous, expensive, self-serving propaganda the purveyors of coal-to-liquid perpetrate!)
6-20	Take Action: Keep up the calls to the Senate--Knowing our Senators, coal to liquid is not dead yet!  They'll try again soon...Follow this link for a phone number for the Senate and some talking points on CTL, although the message on the Inhofe amendment no longer applies, the rest does  -  Senate rejects liquefied coal; Backers split over proposals; environmentalists hail votes  -  Liquid Coal Amendment Defeated on Senate Floor  -  Breaking: Senate fights off liquid coal  -  Coal-to-Liquid Provision Stalls  -  No liquefied coal in energy bill
6-20	Big tax on big oil advances in Senate  -  Energy Winds Shift in D.C.  -  Bunning Bets on Coal-to-Liquids (Lenny Kohm at Appalachian Voices sent this note yesterday as it happened-- Bunning amendment fails 39-55; Tester amendment fails 33-61!: Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., whose amendment would require the use of 6 billion gallons of liquefied coal a year by 2022, argued that coal was an abundant American resource that should be used to replace imported oil. A related amendment offered by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., would commit the government to $10 billion in loans for construction of plants that process coal into liquid fuel. WV's Senators voted against Bunning, for Tester.)
6-20	Rockefeller seeks $10 billion for coal-to-liquid technology  - Byrd Wants Help For Coal To Liquid Technology
6-20	Panel Supports Tax Breaks for Coal and Non-Oil Fuel  -  Senate Debates $32.1 Bln In Energy Incentives   -  National Mining Association Whine
6-20	Larry Gibson: Hope for Cecil Roberts’ help vanished in 3 years
6-20	Beckley Register Herald Letters to the Editor
6-20	USA Today: Put brakes on pricey plans to convert coal to car fuel; Process costs a fortune, gulps water, worsens global warming  -  Opposing view: Industry needs jump-start
6-20	Washington Post from June 19--Today's Hot Topic: Coal and Global Warming
6-20	Evansville Courier Press: Coal-to-Liquid Fuel--Unanswered concerns require study
6-20	Burning Tires and Liquid Coal: The Clinton-Obama Energy Plan
6-20	ENERGY CHOICE: CHANGE YOUR HABITS OR CHANGE PLANETS   - PUT BRAKES ON PRICEY PLANS TO CONVERT COAL TO CAR FUEL
6-20	Mine safety reform fight underway in Congress   -  Democrats propose mine safety laws
6-20	West Virginia economy lost steam in early 2007  -  Decline in coal, manufacturing slows state’s economy
6-20	West Virginia Day: Rooted in the mountains
6-20	Coal plant could mean a 12 percent jump in your electric rate  -  West Virginia IGCC plant pending approval  -  AEP seeks rate hike for Virginia customers to finance clean-coal plant
6-20	Massey Trims Size of Board to 8
6-20	Mountaintop removal in Canada: ‘Our’ fish will feel brunt of mining
6-20	J. Steven Griles did the crime but doesn't want to do the time  -  Will law-breaking Bushie get to live a Wonderful (out-of-prison) Outdoor World kind of life after all?
6-20	Kyoto Carbon Projects Mostly Sound - UN Official
6-20	U.S. blasts plan to dump iron dust in sea to absorb CO2
6-20	As glaciers melt and rivers dry up, coal-fired power stations multiply
6-20	It’s Time to Focus the Nation
6-20	Climate change: Scientists warn of ‘imminent peril’   - Climate change is an emerging threat to global public health
6-20	Is global warming making wildfires worse?
6-20	UVM Makes Pledge to Become "Climate Neutral"
6-20	Google Aims to Go Carbon-Neutral by End 2007
6-20	Canon Tops List of Climate-Friendly Companies
6-20	Our Superjumbo Will Save the Planet, Airbus Says  - Greenpeace Targets UK Airports in Heated CO2 Debate
6-20	Blast from the Past--July / Aug 1999 Mother Jones Magazine: Razing Appalachia
6-19	Purchase will expand CONSOL strip-mining in state  -  Consol buying West Virginia coal firm
6-19	Coal for gas tanks? Push for fuel could help Ky., but critics fear emissions
6-19	Energy a hot topic in Pike -  Incentives urged for turning coal into liquid fuel  -  Coal isn't an 'alternative' or worthy of subsidy
6-19	Leaders Gather In Pikeville For Energy Symposium (be sure to watch the video for images from the Kentuckians For The Commonwealth event held outside the symposium; members of OVEC and Coal River Mountain Watch joined KFTC in saying NO to liquid coal, yes to renewables and conservation --yes to a sane energy future!)
6-19	Autos, coal, utilities stall energy bill; Intense lobbying by the three industries threatening to derail quick action by Congress on legislation  -  US Senate Debates US$15 Bln in Energy Incentives
6-19	China Slows Coal-Liquids, Ethanol Push on Water Fear
6-19	Mountain removal consequences dire (Letters to the editor are great tools--please use them!)
6-19	Galperin remembered as strong advocate
6-19	Costs jump for AEP coal-gas plant in Mason, W.Va. -  AEP seeks rate hike to finance (not) clean (really dirty) coal plant   -  And ditto that in Indiana...   -  West Virginia IGCC plant could be online in 2012
6-19	Meigs County, Ohio debates pros, cons of proposed coal mine
6-19	Kentucky voters need to press for answers
6-19	Study: U.S. crude oil less toxic than coal
6-19	Black Lung doctor says disease may be making a comeback (pdf of WV Public Radio 6/18 story)
6-19	Ontario Promises to Close Coal Plants by 2014   -  Ontario Aims to Cut Emissions, to Shut Coal Plants
6-19	MSHA Puts Eight Mine Operators on Notice
6-19	Coal death lawsuit settled
6-19	National Academies advisory -- Future of Coal R&D
6-19	Russia's Thermal Coal Demand Seen Tripling by 2020
6-19	Gore Says US Business Woken Up to Global Warming
6-19	BHP Billiton to Take More Action on Climate Change
6-18	Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal (scroll down)
6-18	Washington Post editorial: Coal-to-Liquid Boondoggle-A risky solution to America's energy woes   -  Fueling profit out of coal
6-18	Si Galperin, former state senator, dies (Goodbye Si, we will miss you so very much!)
6-18	Feds, Blaming Poachers, Could Bar Ky. Ginseng Exports--Locals note deer and habitat loss to coal and timber companies have also had a drastic effect
6-18	‘Transmission Corridor’ proposal draws ire of many (scroll to 6/15 entry)
6-18	Coal is still coal
6-18	Democrats Press Plan for Energy Tax Reversal
6-18	Native American tribes speak out about climate change
6-18	Global warming to multiply world's refugee burden
6-18	Mediterranean to Get More Deadly Hot Days - Study
6-18	It's a bug's life as global warming hits Scottish gardens
6-17	Healing streams: Native brook trout could be part of recovered wilderness   -  Stream quality
6-17	Value people and land over coal
6-17	Truck dust is a health hazard
6-17	Coal Officials Disagree With Ruling On Sediment Ponds
6-17	Politicians spar over energy in Kentucky
6-17	Byrd pushes MSHA on implementing safety law
6-17	Debate heats up in US over coal fuel for cars  -  Before coal can solve our oil addiction, technology must make the transition process cleaner   -  Illinois' great energy hunt
6-17	Red tape threatens coal-to-diesel plant, backers say
6-17	The Folly Of Building Coal Plants
6-17	Plans to build Texas "clean" coal plant on hold   -   Texas company halts coal gasifying plant
6-17	Ranchers sue on CBM water
6-17	India (as elsewhere): Miners die, coal lobby mints money
6-17	A Sacred River Endangered by Global Warming
6-17	U.N. head links climate change, Darfur
6-17	Naples couple fought coal plant for the sake of the lake
6-17	Vivoleum is People!  - Protesters spring hoax on oil expo audience  -  Thrilling Energy Breakthrough: Vivoleum!  -    Q&A With the Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum   -  When the 'Yes Men' strike - Beware!  -  Pranksters disrupt oil patch conference  -  Yes Men Solve the Climate Crisis: Soylent Green  - Solving the oil crisis: "We need something like whales, but infinitely more abundant"  -  Exxon Proposes Burning Humanity for Fuel if Climate Calamity Hits -  Les Yes Men mettent le feu à Exxon !  -  Yes Men pull off hoax at Go Expo Energy Conference in Calgary  - Execs pranked in bizarre seminar  -  Saying "Yes, Man" to "No"
6-16	Environmentalists praise ruling on mining ponds; For now, Kentucky is not affected
6-16	KY proposal would give hundreds of $millions in tax breaks for coal-to-liquid   -    Incentives Plan For Coal-To-Liquid Plant Outlined   -  Target of energy incentives unclear; Peabody considers W. Kentucky plant
6-16	The Senate is moving energy legislation that undermines current and future efforts to save the planet
6-16	Debate Mounts Over Coal-to-Liquid Technology
6-16	Washington's Gift to Coal as Democrats Plan to Subsidize Coal Industry
6-16	Yes Men take on liquid coal  -  MEDIA STATEMENT  - Photos - Tribute to Reggie  -  Who Needs Petroleum When You Can Have Vivoleum
6-16	National Renewable Energy Standard Debate Will Likely Culminate in Tuesday Vote
6-16	Prison Time Is Urged for Griles   -  Do the crime? Then do the time. In Wonderful Outdoor World.
6-16	Electrician injured in Massey mine accident
6-16	Life in the "Billion Dollar Coalfields": Wells dry or tainted in part of Pike County; mining blamed
6-16	Obama Turns Cool on Coal
6-16	RAN confronts Bank of America on funding destructive coal mining!
6-16	Family Takes Climate Change Personally
6-16	Carbon footprint of rich twice that of poor
6-16	Mosquito Borne Diseases: The Dangerous Link Between Mosquitoes and Global Warming
6-16	UAE: Coming Up - World's First 'Zero-Carbon' City
6-16	Gore Calls G8 Agreement on Climate Change a Disgrace
6-16	Arctic plants have potential to adjust to climate change
6-16	Scientists study climate change and the Gulf stream
6-16	Coal Tech Company Hires Lobbyist
6-15	Tom Fitzgerald: Liquid coal wrong basis for Kentucky energy policy  -  What is energy independence?
6-15	Appalachian News Express: KFTC to hold rally Monday - Biofuels plant among topics at symposium  -  Carpools from Charleston, Williamson
6-15	Outsiders quit Massey board
6-15	Massey: Ruling Won't Affect Operations  -   Massey Energy Says Court Ruling Regarding Mining Operations  - Massey Energy Issues Mining Permit Litigation Update - Quick Facts
6-15	Federal Judge Upholds Clean Water Protection Act
6-15	Mine violation repeaters threatened  -  MSHA warns eight mines about repeat violations   -  MSHA chief says mine safety improving  - Richard E. Stickler: MSHA’s use of MINER Act has improved safety
6-15	Environmentalists ask Congress to cut coal
6-15	Global warming's Keystone Kops
6-15	Wall Street Journal: Congress Loves Coal; coal-to-liquid- biggest corporate welfare scheme in U.S. history  -  Ultra-Right American Enterprise Institute: The Road to Energy Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions   -  Consol wants government to back coal-to-liquids
6-15	John Kerry: The fight in the Senate  -   Senate Impasse Over Renewable Energy  -   A Wind-Powered Town, an Energy Bill and a Lot of Hot Air
6-15	Domenici Amendment Fails :D, but my senator is crazy
6-15	No Coal
6-15	U.S. Senate Says No to "Clean Coal" & Nuclear in RPS
6-15	Senate Plan Scales Down Fossil Fuel Use
6-15	World oil supplies are set to run out faster than expected, warn scientists; Scientists challenge major review of global reserves and warn that supplies will start to run out in four years' time   -   Mini review: A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
6-15	The Pentagon v. Peak Oil
6-15	A Kennedy Rant
6-15	China courts W.Va.’s coal technology experts
6-15	Coal industry sees technology as salvation  -   National Coal Council Calls for Increased Funding to Accelerate Development of Promising Carbon Dioxide Management Technologies (Big Coal wants more of your money so it can keep on killing your hometown and your planet)
6-15	Exxon attacks Greenpeace but says it wants to save the planet
6-15	World Utilities Aim For Lower-Carbon Energy
6-15	Southern Baptists deny anthropogenic climate change
6-15	Survey of Multinationals Reveals Need for Greater Action on Climate Change   -  Corporate Climate Change Attitudes Confound Consumers
6-15	Climate Change Could Wreak Havoc in Mideast
6-15	Cleveland Cliffs buys coal mining PinnOak
6-15	AEP backs greenhouse gas program
6-15	OK Supreme Court asked to block consideration of coal-fired plant
6-14	Mine ponds ruled illegal  -  Judge rules mine sediment ponds violate Clean Water Act
6-14	Dumping Coal on Capitol Hill  -  Obama says no to liquid coal!  - Obama sees the light ... a bit  - Obama, CTL, and opportunity costs
6-14	Stream degradation list remains divisive
6-14	US News and World report: Coal-to-Liquid Technology Entices Congress
6-14	Democratic Disarray on Greenhouse Gases May Let Bush off the Hook  - The Senate Energy Bill: Ignoring the 800-pound gorilla in the room  -  Senators at Odds Over Energy Requirement
6-14	Company is stepping back from coal gasification plant--cost too high
6-14	Bush administration lobbying against state's emissions plan  - Transportation Department Acknowledges Intervention in California Emissions Waiver Request
6-14	Barack Obama Endorses US Low Carbon Fuel Standard
6-14	America's Newest Political Prisoners: Charred SUVs and the End of Citizen Eco-Activism
6-14	TWO DIE IN KY AFTER CAR HITS THE BACK OF A COAL TRUCK
6-14	Corporate Chiefs, It’s Time to Go Green
6-14	Cows, Climate Change and Carbon Credits
6-14	EU's carbon trade 'set to fail'
6-14	Southern Baptists Take on Global Warming
6-14	Global warming, peak oil, and social justice
6-14	Climate Change Brings Toxic Moth to England
6-14	MTV in major climate change campaign
6-14	Arctic climate change challenge
6-14	Flash floods 'biggest climate threat to UK'
6-13	Manchin orders DEP to cut back stream list
6-13	Obama yields to a greener side  - Barack Backtracks On Liquid Coal Fuel
6-13	Coal to Liquid Insanity: Democrats Push Coal-to-Liquids Energy Plan   -  Senate Democrats Propose Loans for Coal-Based Fuel Plants   - Take Action: No to Coal-to-Liquid
6-13	6-12 Boston Globe Editorial: No subsidy for a filthy fuel  - Pittsburgh Post:  'Liquid coal' is a dangerous gamble -  Toronto Star carried edited version of Boston Globe editorial: Filthy fuel has no place in US
6-13	Groups warn against coal, shale subsidies
6-13	Wheeling Intelligencer editorial: Coal Liquefaction Plant Important (important to a newspaper that refuse to question Big Coal and political corruption)
6-13	The power of the coal lobby
6-13	Bipartisan corruption  -  Generosity for Griles?
6-13	Alexander fears wind mandate, poll says Tennesseans like turbines
6-13	Human cost will force countries to focus on climate change
6-13	Blame it on coal
6-13	Coal Use Rise Looks Bad for Climate Aims  -  Polluter coal is the fastest growing energy fuel  -  Role for coal 'continues to soar'
6-13	Tuvalu Envoy Takes Up Global Warming Fight
6-13	Taipower suspends coal-fired project on pollution concerns
6-13	FutureGen picks designer for clean coal plant (even if you clean up emissions, there is no such thing as "clean" coal. The pollutants that don't go up the stack don't magically disappear. Face it, 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, dirty when you "dispose" of the ash and it sure dirties up politics.)
6-13	The Bob Edwards Show receives National Press Club Award
6-12	EPA chief puts off emissions issue until 2008
6-12	Coal industry lies about mining effects (letters to the editor are great tools--please use them!)
6-12	Coal-to-liquid: It’s a Syn  -  CTL stupid compared to plug-in hybrids, say experts, people who can read  -  China’s expansive coal-to-liquids program may be doomed
6-12	Congress Turns to Energy, and Lobbyists Arrive   -  Senate, House Turn Focus to Energy Bills
6-12	Focus energy bill on conservation, research  -  Congress' Bill Has Bad Energy
6-12	Massey Energy says no sale as a result of strategic review
6-12	Granny D: What Do Subsidized Corn, A Militarized Border, and Finance Reform Have To Do With It?
6-12	Bringing the Message Home: Where Politicians and Academics Converge on Climate Change
6-12	Ancient innovations for present conventions toward extinction
6-12	Question the automobile  -   Cyclists Bare All to Protest Car Culture
6-12	US OKs Gas Drilling on Sensitive Colorado Plateau
6-12	Oil race at top of the world
6-12	Poor Nations Vow to Do "Fair Share" on Climate
6-12	For peat’s sake
6-12	Arctic chill warms up faster than predicted
6-11	Activists gather in nature to rescue it
6-11	Workshops show richness Eastern Kentucky retains, what it's lost
6-11	Taking our jobs (letters to the editor are great tools, p-lease use them)
6-11	Strip mining will destroy state (letters to the editor are great tools, please use them)
6-11	Treating oil addiction with a dose of harm
6-11	Wind industry weathering W.Va. setbacks
6-11	Future is grim for liquefied coal (hooray! then future is brighter for humans and other living beings...oh wait--this is only China--some of our so-called leaders still continue the insane push for coal-to-liquid. See the next two articles below.) - China to restrict ethanol, coal liquidification industries
6-11	Global warming bill heats up politics
6-11	Senator Jim Bunning: Liquid coal a cleaner response to energy problem (He wrote as he bellied up to the coal cash trough)
6-11	Fletcher in China seeking to drum up new business
6-11	USA Today: 45-year coal fire has nearly emptied town
6-11	Lawmakers Want Capitol to Go Green
6-11	The Democrats Lag on Warming  -  Why Washington Can’t Get Much Done
6-11	Melting Wash. ice caps show climate change  -  Glaciers melt from U.S. parks
6-11	Tuvalu: Global Face Of Climate Change
6-11	Energy prices must rise to fight climate change
6-11	China vows to fight climate change
6-11	Impure as the Driven Snow
6-11	Is carbon offsetting the solution? (Or part of the problem?)
6-11	Price of saving London from floods could exceed £20bn
6-11	Geoengineering -- A Quick Fix With Big Risks
6-11	Peabody Acquires Coal Reserves From CNX Gas in Exchange for Oil and Gas Properties
6-10	China may halt coal to liquid projects due to expense, climate, water energy concerns  -  China to restrict ethanol, coal liquefaction industries
6-10	Wrong path toward energy independence  - In a mine, all skin is dark  -  Coal-to-liquid industry taps controversy
6-10	The Doolittles' Silas House and Jason Howard use music to fight mountaintop removal mining
6-10	Festival speakers, including "Big Coal" author, promote environmental awareness
6-10	Miners Seek to Become Inspectors
6-10	Getting smarter about getting rid of toxic mercury
6-10	Crumbling Colosseum? Study says climate change threatens Europe's age-old monuments
6-10	Global Warming Bush, How to Call His Bluff
6-10	Global Warming for Dummies
6-10	Global Warming a Major Concern in Japan
6-10	Arctic way of life threatened by global warming
6-10	Global warming causing fast depletion of Shisham timber
6-9	Rahall and Mollohan Anti-Wind Energy Stance a Lot of Hot Air
6-10	Salty oceans provide early warning for climate change
6-9	USA Today: Environmentalists warm to Google Earth  -  Google Earth Maps Used To Power Nonprofit's Messages (OVEC is a partner in ilovemountains.org)
6-9	Asheville Critical Mass Confronts Bank of America for Coal Investments
6-9	Two Ways of Life Vie for the Future & How Capitalism Plundered a Continent
6-9	Air force Research lab touts possibility of coal-based jet fuel
6-9	Kozik Award Announced
6-9	Democrats Face Off Over Emissions Bill
6-9	Denying time and place in the global warming debate
6-9	U.S. Religious Leaders Assert Need To Act on Climate
6-9	Cities Take Lead On Environment As Debate Drags At Federal Level
6-8	The Indypendent: Mountain Justice Summer
6-8	U.S. Coal Facts
6-8	Corps Develops New Jurisdiction Rules; Changes could affect mining firms in W.Va.
6-8	Do-gooders doing Google Earth  -  Google Earth with a cause
6-8	W.Va. environment offers possibilities   -   ‘Coal mafia’ won’t stop protesters
6-8	U.S. to allocate coal tax credits on carbon capture
6-8	Forums to explain Kentucky energy initiative
6-8	W.Va. Approves Mine Communications Gear  -  Improving Coal Mine Communications
6-8 ?	Victims of mudslides trying to move forward
6-8	U.S. Compromise on Global Warming Plan Averts Impasse at Group of 8 Meeting   -  Yet Another G8 Farce  -  More on the G8 climate statement
6-8	Subsidies not answer to energy problems
6-8	Lawmakers Oppose House Energy Plan
6-8	Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Far Better Choice than Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Projects, Say Carnegie Mellon Experts
6-8	Conservation, alternate fuels will cut need for coal power plants
6-8	Global Warming Melts Andean Glaciers Toward Oblivion
6-8	Boiling the Planet: The looming climate crisis is no surprise…
6-7	Interests of the working man: Citizen group working to save W.Va.
6-7	American Scientist-Coal Futures: Will this energy standby truly last for centuries—or just decades?
6-7	Williamson energy program saves school system big bucks
6-7	States Urge US EPA to Tighten Rules on Coal Plants
6-7	Methodist conference focuses on gambling
6-7	EPA Loosens Wetlands Protections
6-7	Democrats may split along regional lines on looming coal to liquid legislation
6-7	Vehicle fuel from coal? Virginia Rep. Boucher pushing proposal, but its cost and impact on environment questioned
6-7	House committee chairman backs off wind turbine rules
6-7	Coal companies have abused W.Va.   -   We're not outsiders   (letters to the editors are great tools; please use them)
6-7	Menace: More warming proof
6-7	Bush Defends Climate and Missile Plans
6-7	Staying clear of coal  - Plan to build Everglades coal plant dead
6-7	Pa. to get $1.4B to reclaim coal mines
6-7	Effort to mine under Kentucky reservoir put on hold
6-7	Florida denies FP&L's bid for coal-fired plant
6-7	Lax CO2 Targets a Boon for Canada Oil Patch - Study
6-7	Ecuador Launches Campaign to Keep Oil Underground (now that is carbon sequestrations that works!)
6-7	Thunder? It's the Sound of Greenland Melting
6-7	GOP activist charged in Abramoff probe
6-6	A  'new deal' for Appalachia
6-6	Wheeling Pitt is suing Massey Coal.
6-6	FPL's plan for 'clean' S. Florida coal plant is rejected
6-5	Coal not the only valuable resource: West Virginia is blessed with essential fresh water
6-5	Big Coal, Big Labor too big to lose (Big Organized People fighting for their families will win; Big Reality of the truth about mountaintop removal and global warming must be too much for Big Wigs to face)
6-5	Coal's future: Fuel source faces environmental concerns
6-5	Coal-to-liquid fuel hot debate  -  Coal to liquids-silver bullet or coal-state pork? -   Sasol's CTL: as good as it looks?
6-5	Carbon Capture Makes US Coal Growth Uncertain
6-5	A Lack of Vision Keeps a Guy in the Coal Pits
6-5	Global warming already affecting New England
6-5	China Issues Plan on Global Warming, Rejecting Mandatory Caps on Greenhouse Gases
6-4	Readers' Digest: Life and death in Appalachia's coal country -   Slide show
6-4	Coal States See Boon in USAF Alt-Fuel Push -   Coal To Liquid Fuel Debate Continues  -  Push to build commercial coal-to-liquid fuel plant advances  -  A look at a proposed coal-to-liquid coal plant in East Dubuque, Ill.  -  Liquified Tax Dollars -  FACTBOX-The world's coal to liquids projects  -  High oil price, supply fears help turn coal to fuel
6-4	House panel chairman wants to protect flying wildlife from giant wind turbines (too bad he doesn't want to protect wildlife and humans from mountaintop removal coal mining)
6-4	Group hopes to halt power line project; Residents from four states hold first strategy meeting Thursday in Cumberland
6-4	Despite injuries, mine gets little extra scrutiny  -  State: record at mine with high injury rate "nothing exotic"
6-4	Coal industry keeps digging as pressure rises over climate woes
6-4	US coal producers break another production record
6-4	Usable water loss
6-4	US House Leader Wants to Pass CO2 Bill This Year
6-4	Investors push G8 on climate change
6-4	The World Must Isolate Bush Over Climate Change   -  Blair gives Bush coded warning on climate change as G8 tensions rise
6-4	Too late for 'luxury' of Kyoto delay, warns Blair
6-4	Bush's Trade Barriers to Climate Success
6-4	Bush Adds New Track to UN Climate Bid
6-4	Global Warming 'Is Three Times Faster Than Worst Predictions'
6-4	Nordics Launch First Global CO2 Reduction Contract
6-4	Global Carbon Market Gets Mixed Signals
6-4	'Ignoring global warming is a sin'
6-4	Global warming overheats Australian politics  -  China Issues National Plan on Climate Change
6-3	Lexington Herald Leader editorial: Liquid coal a new version of snake oil; Don't subsidize energy plans that would worsen global warming  -  Philadelphia Inquirer editorial: Coal as Motor Fuel--We're Not There Yet  -  The Spokesman-Review: Battle over coal-to-liquid fuels more controversy
6-3	MSHA citations detail Sago problems  -  Enforcement
6-3	Energy company’s threats hollow?
6-3	Blame it on coal: Texas leads in carbon emissions overall  -  STATES VARY WIDELY IN THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO GLOBAL WARMING
6-3	California Curbs Carbon Emissions With Energy Efficiency
6-3	Australia: 500 people protest Anvil Hill coal mine
6-3	Greenland ice melt speeds up
6-3	NASA chief's comments on global warming rise scientists' ire
6-3	Bush's Global Warming Foot-Dragging   -  EU Calls Bush Climate Plan 'The Classic U.S. Line'
6-3	On the Precipice of Virginia's Nuclear Future
6-3	Power groups get carbon billions
6-3	Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved
6-2	Environmental group ignored air pollution problems in area  -  Diane Bady: OVEC focuses on problems, causes favored by its members
6-2	Residents part of fight for mountains
6-2	Raleigh County Coal Mine Reopens
6-2	Fletcher hopes to lure coal-to-gas company
6-2	Bush Kills Off Hopes for G8 Climate Change Plan  -  Europe furious at US climate call
6-2	NASA administrator says stupid things
6-2	Fatalism will weaken fight to reverse global warming
6-2	Mercury from coal plants must be reduced, Senator said
6-2	Projection for coal-fired plant cost is up again
6-2	Progress Energy puts nuclear, coal on hold
6-2	Foundation Coal Taps Lobbyist on Energy
6-2	Australia: Hundreds expected at coal mine protest
6-2	Deals that can save you the Earth
6-2	Experts suggest current Global Warming trends could trigger Mass Human Extinction from a sudden Methane Cascade
6-1	The U.S. Social Forum: Our Best Bet to Turn This Country Around
6-1	Plaintiffs Step Back From Challenging Apogee Coal Mine
6-1	Beware a Wounded Beast  -  US Congress and coal companies favor CTL technology, but environmental NGOs and analysts doubtful
6-1	Environmental groups attack Bush's climate change proposals  -  Playing to the Crowd: Talk About Warming  -   Bush Proposes Talks on Warming  -  US seeks new greenhouse gas goals  - Bush merely 'stalling' on climate, say experts  -  Bush's 'new climate strategy'
6-1	Letters to the Editor: Mountaineers part of fight against Apogee (scroll down)   -   Author defends state out of love
6-1	Mattea is 'Living On Earth' (scroll down)
6-1	Groundbreaking for controversial Longview power plant (scroll to 5/31 entry)
6-1	State closes mine for missing air-pack deadline
6-1	Wheeling-Pitt Claims Massey Intentionally Shorted Supply
6-1	Efforts to restart Mohave Generating Station halted, report says
6-1	Group Pushes Power-Market Competition  -  Deregulation's Unkept Promise
6-1	Duke to push energy savings
6-1	China's Energy Rush Shatters Village; Coal Mine Tunnels Bring Down Homes Above
6-1	NASA chief says global warming may not be a concern
6-1	California, British Columbia agree to fight global warming together
6-1	The Problem with the Global Warming Skeptics
6-1	Belize Forest Hit By Warming Struggles to Survive  -  Islands Offer Sun, Sand and Climate Change Lessons
6-1	Scientists discuss warming's effect on boreal forest