(Jul)  Archive - August, 2007  (Sep)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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8-31	Fletcher signs bill on fuel-plant incentives  -  Ky. Governor Signs Coal Tech Bill -  Kentucky bill paves way for Peabody plant  -  Gov. Fletcher to sign energy bill
8-31	It was murder in the mines, expert charges  -  Outrage: There May Be No Blame For Coal Mine Collapse
8-31	State looks into mine safety drill
8-31	Federal agency appoints team with Sago experience to investigate Utah mine collapse
8-31	LA Times editorial: Cheap coal, dirty air
8-31	Coal ash under fire
8-31	Power plant under new rule
8-31	Which presidential candidate is standing up to Big Carbon?
8-31	Insurance giants size up state for workers’ comp coverage
8-31	Lack of rain might cause ‘very difficult’ fire season
8-31	Salt Lake powering a switch from coal to solar
8-31	Indiana's power mainstay is coal, says Daniels (can you say global warming?)
8-31	Cleaning up coal's bad rap (why not just admit coal will never be clean and help speed the transition to a carbon-free energy era?; Crane overlooks the harsh reality of mountaintop removal.)
8-31	Toronto Star runs New York Times editorial: Pushing for mountaintop mining  -  Research coal removal  -  Coal's true cost  -  Big coal reaps unregulated plunder
8-31	Arkansas: Coal Left Off Regional Future Power Report
8-31	New South Wales: Majority say no to more coal
8-31	Activists target Lake Erie coal ship  -  Activists arrested in coal plant protest
8-31	China coal mine blast leaves 12 missing
8-31	11th Hour not too late for Earth, says DiCaprio  -  For humans, midnight is near
8-31	Food Demand, Climate Change Strain Soils
8-31	Why the American West is out front on curbing greenhouse gases
8-31	Rich Countries Deadlocked Over 2020 Climate Goals
8-31	Overdosing The Earth
8-31	Merkel, Abe pledge to push for global treaty on climate change
8-31	50 ways to reduce your carbon footprint & make a difference
8-31	Global warming will get wetter yet – forecasters forgot the plants
8-31	Alaska global warming trip pairs evangelicals, scientists
8-30	Mining-Impoundment Check DEP Top Priority
8-30	EPA reviewing cancer risks of coal waste
8-30	Appalachian Grandfather Seeks Justice in NYC; School children & communities at risk
8-30	Who Will Rule? Citizens Movements Take On Corporate Power
8-30	AEP, Allegheny Energy Finalize Joint Venture
8-30	London Guardian op-ed: The great global coal rush puts us on the fast track to irreversible disaster
8-30	State Journal editorial: First Things First: Let’s Mine the Coal (let's pretend and even say cola is mined legally; let's pretend communities aren't up in air over mountaintop removal; let's pretend water isn't lost forever or poisoned; let's pretend the rest of the world will let us ignore global warming; and let's make sure out-of-state coal barons get richer while West Virginians are left with ecological and cultural ruin.)
8-30	Dynegy Chief Says U.S. Needs Coal (We need to aggressively begin the transition out of the carbon era; free up the Abandoned Mine Lands funds and put miners to work cleaning up the coal companies messes; promote renewable energy and stop subsidizing coal; envision the United Mine and Renewable Energy Workers of America.)
8-30	Coal will take us backwards
8-30	Kansas newspaper editorial: Coal plant at odds with renewable future   -  Tucson newspaper editorial: A power-plant debate heats up in Cochise County
8-30	I prefer my mountains as God made them
8-30	Bush Administration Skewed the Science of Mountaintop Mining
8-30	Rescue setback: Robot camera hits blockage just 10 feet from targeted mine shaft
8-30	Offsets Aren’t Enough; Two environmental groups cave in to Big Coal in Texas
8-30	Air Pack Thefts Concern Mine Industry
8-30	Massey Energy Shares Rise on Upgrade
8-30	Ind. Coal Plant Foes Gird Themselves
8-30	FirstEnergy Hit With Maximum Fine for Soot Emissions
8-30	Goodell's recent Washington Post column in St. Louis paper--King Coal: What it costs us  -  And Dallas News runs Froma Harrop's recent Providence Journal recent column
8-30	Predictions Off for Global Warming Flood Risk
8-30	Fighting climate change like crime
8-30	Climate change could be causing cougar attacks: expert
8-30	Mankind to Blame for Warming but Can Slow Damage
8-29	OHVEC activist gets national attention   -   Stop Mountaintop Removal
8-29	Peace activists assemble at City Hall
8-29	Speak Your Piece: Mountaintops Cut First, then Mountaineers' Voices   -  Important stream protection rule will be repealed by White House
8-29	Brave dissent: Thank legislators who said no to Peabody  -  On the hook
8-29	Common sense takes a hike: Two recent coal decisions could hurt Kentucky
8-29	A Conversation with WV Poet Laureate (see August 30 entry)
8-29	King Coal Q and A with Jeff Goodell: The problems of coal mining
8-29	Crandall Canyon, area miners may consider unionizing
8-29	Families Of Trapped Miners Rebuffed By Mine Safety Agency  -  Retreat mining should be banned
8-29	Coal welfare queens unite; Liquid coal coalition gears up to suck from the public teat
8-29	Duke Energy's proposed coal-gasification plant draws opposition
8-29	Big Coal's Unregulated Plunder
8-29	ICG borrows $30 million
8-29	Greenhouse gases fueled 2006 U.S. heat   -   NOAA Blames Hot Year on Greenhouse Gases
8-29	Energy Efficiency Seen Easiest Path to Aid Climate
8-29	Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change
8-29	E.Ky. ‘ideal’ for adventure tourism
8-29	TVA plant violated clean-air rules
8-29	Underground solidarity
8-29	Miners head to Illinois, Ohio after safety concerns close Utah coal mines
8-29	Gas Blast Leaves 9 Missing In South China Mine
8-29	'Green' Investments Key to Climate Fight
8-29	Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers
8-29	Flood-Soaked Queens Blames Development, Lagging Sewers and Climate Change
8-29	Building Consensus to Keep the Earth Cool After 2012
8-29	U.N Says Climate Deal in 2009 Ideal, But Complex
8-29	Lib Dems see zero-carbon Britain setting the global green agenda
8-28	Public Financing Would Mean Cheaper Elections
8-28	Write to your newspaper today--Coal Before Country?
8-28	Peace activists to host vigil in Huntington  -  Join tonight's rally against Iraq war
8-28	Coal Company Faces Environmental Lawsuit  -   Groups Charge Massey Energy with Thousands of Clean Water Act Violations
8-28	Take action: Fight Mountaintop Removal Mining
8-28	Jeff Biggers: Moving mountains to mine coal
8-28	Local church leaders talk global warming
8-28	Kentucky plans 'nature's playground'
8-28	Debate weighs views on coal, oil
8-28	Court Rules Californians Deserve $1.3 Billion in Energy Refunds
8-28	Loosening rules on mining technique will harm region
8-28	Carl Pope: A Pyrrhic Victory?
8-28	It’s Not Just the Environment  -   Mountaintop removal (scroll down)
8-28	Use Air Force Approved Miners Brand Vivoleum
8-28	Knowing your carbon impact increasingly important
8-28	Coal Plant Given Go-Ahead
8-28	What cost power?
8-28	UW Professor on National Coal Study Committee
8-28	A Rich Vein of Pricing Power for Coal
8-28	Underground Research into Climate Change
8-28	UN-backed global climate change meeting kicks off
8-28	Indonesia Hopes to Include Peat in New Climate Deal
8-27	New York Times: Ravaging Appalachia   -  Berkshire Eagle editorial--Deadly in so many ways
8-27	Charleston Gazette: More power lines, coal plants proposed  -  Sunday Gazette Mail--Power play: Opposition building to transmission line proposal; federal takeover of power-line review feared  - In Pennsylvania: The lines have been drawn
8-27	With coal production, cleaner skies could mean more landfills   - What is coal ash?
8-27	Coal plants are fueling debate on energy   -   Coal debate presents difficult choices
8-27	CARBON-FREE AND NUCLEAR-FREE: A DETAILED ENERGY PLAN FOR THE U.S.
8-27	Jeff Goodell op-ed in Washington Post: What It Costs Us   -  Join Live Chat with Jeff Goodell Today at noon Wastern
8-27	Obama--'We're tearing up the Appalachian Mountains because of our dependence on fossil fuels,' he said, sparking loud applause  -   Obama on energy for '08  -  Obama capitalizes on issue of experience
8-27	Mine Inspectors In Demand
8-27	Reid would like to see Mohave go solar
8-27	Trapped China miners dig out of collapse
8-27	Robotic Camera Lowered Into Coal Mine  -  Officials Reverse Course and Say the Search for 6 Utah Miners Will Continue
8-27	Don't buy industry's 'coal-is-cheap' mantra
8-27	Coal buyers should join safety effort
8-27	Fletcher is gambling
8-27	After oil supplies dry up, what's Plan B?
8-27	Connect the dots: Karl Rove's politics uber alles strategy and the Utah mine disaster
8-27	Bozeman Considers Coal Power, Controversy Continues in Montana
8-27	Wired News Q&A: Green Guru Paul Hawken
8-27	Latest round of U.N. climate talks focuses on business end of global warming   -  Major Shift In Investments Crucial To Responding To Climate Change, UN
8-27	Maps to highlight climate dangers
8-27	Climate, Biofuel New Challenge to Poverty Alleviation
8-27	Climate Fight Brings Mega Profits to EU Power Firms
8-26	US Out of Appalachia: Day of Action against Bank of America's Coal Investments
8-26	Power play: Opposition building to transmission line proposal; federal takeover of power-line review feared
8-26	Why does everyone assume that coal mining in Appalachia must continue?
8-26	MTR activists don't expect progress until the Bush administration is gone
8-26	King Coal’s Head Is Stuck Where The Sun Don’t Shine
8-26	Rule change puts mountains at risk
8-26	Enough with the old coal religion
8-26	As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes  - China: Pollution monster
8-26	Why not real issues?
8-26	Empowerment group looks into locating in city
8-26	PSC backtracks on Dominion audit
8-26	Nearly 300 workers laid off as Murray shutters Tower mine  -  Time for change: Crandall Canyon tragedy must bring reforms
8-26	Quarter-Degree Fix Fuels Climate Fight
8-26	Consumers "footing the bill" for climate change fight
8-26	Arctic sea ice at record low due to global warming
8-26	Chicago Climate Exchange to Offer Kyoto Contracts
8-26	Climate Change and the Threat to Pacific Island Nations
8-26	German Government Backs Measures to Battle Climate Change   -  Germany Plans Energy Savings Measures
8-26	Addicted to coal
8-26	Living Large While Being Green
8-25	National Day of Action Against Bank of America's Coal Investments, Aug. 31
8-25	Huffing ton Post: Blood Coal, Not "Clean Coal"
8-25	Wired Magazine: Bush Administration Declares War on Mountains and the People Who Live There
8-25	Courier Journal: Proposed strip-mining rule called threat to environment; Mining agency says it clarifies standards
8-25	Tom FitzGerald--Balance coal's demands against public's interests
8-25	Coal to liquids could have a negative impact
8-25	Jeff Goodell op-ed in Washington Post: What It Costs Us   -  Join Live Chat with Jeff Goodell This Coming Monday
8-25	Baltimore Sun editorial : Mining at any cost
8-25	Mine boss: Good, bad or ugly?
8-25	USA Today: Mining for coal safety
8-25	Kentucky Senate passes energy measure
8-25	Regulations for surface mining are proposed to change and environmentalist say water quality will suffer
8-25	Grist: No Peaking
8-25	Bush Administration Mountaintop Mining Rule Called a Disgrace
8-25	Surface owners’ group membership expands
8-25	AEP, Allegheny formalize joint venture to build transmission line
8-25	Coal truck strikes utility poles, overturns
8-25	Utah mine tragedy
8-25	Arianna Huffington: The deeper danger of Crandall Canyon
8-25	Can we save the mountains?
8-25	War Against the Appalachian People
8-25	Coal in China keeps towns alive, at deadly cost
8-25	A grim reminder that global warming is a catastrophe
8-25	Putting Aside Percentages - the Right Target in the Fight Against Global Warming is Carbon Neutrality!
8-25	Global warming poses grave threat
8-24	Mountaintop removal mining: Lonely opposition
8-24	Environmentalists muster to fight proposed rule changes on mining near streams
8-24	Government wants to give break to strip miners  -  New coal mining rules drop 'no harm' provision
8-24	Coal, Mountaintop Removal and the Line in the Sand   -  Criminal
8-24	Democracy Now: "What this Rule Change Amounts to is a Declaration of War Against the Appalachian People": Opponents of Mountaintop Removal Decry Bush's New Mining Rules
8-24	Sarasota Herald Tribune editorial: Removing mountains: Stop expansion of destructive coal mining practice
8-24	Lexington Herald Leader editorial: New axis of evil--Bush going after nefarious mountaintops
8-24	Louisville Courier Journal editorial: Learning to speak
8-24	NPR's Market Place: A change to mountaintop-mining rules?
8-24	Daily Kos: Trading on Disaster
8-24	Bush Administration Mountaintop Mining Rule Called a Disgrace  -  Mountaintop Removal Laws Expanded  -  New rules may change mining landscape
8-24	Lunatics are running the asylum
8-24	Take Action: Energy Independence (Or Energy Insanity? WV's draft energy plan focuses heavily on squeezing coal into liquid. Read the plan and comment: www.energywv.org/)
8-24	In These Times: Mining Rove’s Katrina Legacy
8-24	Utah mine disaster exposes bigger problems in overall worker safety in the Bush era  -    Mine Owner Has History of Run-Ins on Work Issues  -  Sliding from disaster to catastrophe
8-24	The Misery of China's Mines  -   China: Another mine flood, 8 missing
8-24	Massey Energy Shares Rise on Upgrade
8-24	Kentucky House OKs energy bill 87-10
8-24	Ritter Park to host Multicultural Festival
8-24	Utah Mine Boss: Days of Searching Ahead
8-24	Energy company starts building
8-24	When it comes to ginseng, call Robin (Individuals are rightly regulated in their ginseng harvesting, yet mountaintop-removal-practicing coal companies can forever annihilate massive swaths of ginseng habitat.)
8-24	Hawaiian Man Dies After Hot Coal Ash Dumped On Him
8-24	Violations raise questions on coal-fired plants
8-24	Forests key to climate change battle
8-24	Global warming to decimate China's harvests  -  Climate change to strain China food supply by 2030
8-24	California Benefits from New Regional Global Warming Goal
8-24	Australia First to Model Continental Shoreline Climate Impacts
8-24	Judge to Bush: Cough Up the Climate Change Reports
8-24	The winds of (climate) change
8-24	Climate fight must be won in developing nations-UN
8-24	An insult to voters
8-24	Coal's heavy cost
8-23	New York Times: Rule to Expand Mountaintop Coal Mining  - ENN: Bush Administration Would Ease Legal Limits on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining   -  The Top of Old Smokey Might be Gone   -  Grrr  -  International Herald Times: Bush's 'parting gift to the coal industry'
8-23	DOE classifies report that finds no advantage in touted carbon capture technology
8-23	Grist--Mountaintop removal mining: No respect for the hollow
8-23	West Virginia Public Radio: Book examines mountaintop removal in southern WV - Poet Laureate Irene McKinney essay on mountaintop-removal  (4:57)
8-23	Mountaintop removal land: Airport funding secured
8-23	Kentucky House OKs tax giveaways for fuel projects  -  Ky. running behind again   -   ENERGY BILL WILL ADD TO DAMAGE IN MOUNTAINS  -  Critics can't derail energy bill  - Energy Bill Means More Coal Needed
8-23	Boston Globe Editorial: Coal miner's nation  -- The United States cannot wean itself from coal overnight. But as Congress and all Americans chart the nation's energy future, coal's environmental costs, especially its contribution to global warming, have to be factored into the equation. So do those accidents in Utah, Indiana, and China. No other energy solution -- not wind, solar, nuclear, biomass, natural gas, geothermal, and certainly not conservation and efficiency -- takes a toll in lives and environmental destruction that is at all comparable to coal's.
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