(Aug)  Archive - September, 2007  (Oct)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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9-30	Newsweek: The search for renewable-energy sources is making clean-tech jobs hot
9-30	St. Anthony Messenger: The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal
9-30	MountainFest a huge success, and Ohio is hoppin’
9-30	Bush's EPA Is Pursuing Fewer Polluters; Probes and Prosecutions Have Declined Sharply
9-30	Coal fired plants, a national Catch-22
9-30	Wendell Berry's still unsettled in his ways; Ky. writer discouraged but will vote  -  Day One: Gubernatorial candidates respond to environmental, energy questions
9-30	D.C. Area Outpaces Nations in Pollution; High Carbon Emission Blamed On Coal Plants
9-30	Can politicians solve climate change?
9-30	Bush Draws Fire at Climate Talks
9-29	WV holds hearing on energy plan (scroll to 9/28 entry)
9-29	Hearings set for Allegheny Energy power line
9-29	Slideshow: Cost of coal
9-29	Bringing Down the Mountains - a New book on Mountaintop Removal Coal mining
9-29	Rising Oil Prices Seen Pushing Costs Higher For Coal Miners
9-29	Record coal prices hammer power generators
9-29	Air Force Sees Promise in Coal-Based Fuel for Aircraft
9-29	Mingo County's economic future discussed
9-29	King Coal Highway workers shorted
9-29	News on Ann & Catherine Pancake - new novel, Black Diamonds wins another award
9-29	Gubernatorial candidates respond to environmental, energy questions
9-29	'Clean' coal? What about the carbon? TECO's new plant will emit tons
9-29	'Clean coal' plants increase problems with ash waste
9-29	Panel seeks fly-ash rules
9-29	Green group to target banks financing coal projects
9-29	Griles begins prison term
9-29	Europeans angry after Bush climate speech 'charade'  -  Greenpeace Activists Protest US Inaction on Global Warming  -  Climate Change: Filling the Bush Gap
9-29	Clinton Initiative Inspires Utilities, Bank to Fight Global Warming
9-29	College Hosts Town Meeting on Coal
9-29	Calling All Citizens: Demand Action on Global Warming
9-29	Split Over Global Warming Widens Among Evangelicals
9-29	Lose the battle? Make more of it? Wha...?: Nations must fight climate change like terrorism, Rice says
9-28	Manchin energy plan criticized at hearing
9-28	Residents Fight in Court to Protect Their Homes and the Streams of Appalachia from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
9-28	Conservative court goes green?
9-28	Mountainfest aims to increase coal mining, energy awareness
9-28	Letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!: Family’s heritage turns into a nightmare (scroll down)
9-28	MSHA and the law
9-28	At Its Session on Warming, U.S. Is Seen to Stand Apart
9-28	Turning back the clock
9-27	Reuters: Mountain mining called "genocide" of Appalachia
9-27	Boone mine permit wrangling continues
9-27	Kanawha circuit court sides with Massey on Marsh Fork  -  Massey Energy press release: Circuit Court Sides with Massey Energy in Coal Silo Case  -  Circuit Court sides with Massey Energy in coal silo case  -  Massey Can Build Coal Silo
9-27	Va. court refuses to review Massey defamation case
9-27	Roanoke newspaper editorial: Act now to protect our mountaintops; Mountains need not be decimated to extract coal and support jobs
9-27	Marshall art gallery exhibit exposes environmental impact
9-27	Letters to the editor are great tools--please use them!: Wild, wonderful’ should be a reality   -  Coal bad for future (scroll down)  -  What if there were no more hills to look up to?
9-27	Mining Misery: Death underground--IS OUR DEPENDENCE ON COAL WORTH THE STEEP PRICE WE PAY?
9-27	King Coal Highway, school site coming along   -  King Coal Highway supporters seek fed funding for progress
9-27	FPL Sees Renewables Soon Competitive With Coal
9-27	Poll: Pessimism widespread over environment; Bush and Congress get failing grades
9-27	Ask politicians to join Step It Up 2 and explain their stance on climate change
9-27	Far from the Coalfields, Bank of America Can't Hide Dirty Investments
9-27	Writers on the Range: When it comes to subsidies, coal wins
9-27	Energy Action Digest #1
9-27	China's Hydropower May be Global Warming Time Bomb
9-27	EU Struggles to Walk its Talk on Climate Change
9-27	ENERGY BILL NEGOTIATIONS AT CRUCIAL STAGE
9-27	Plan uses taxes to fight climate change
9-27	Climate talks draw world's biggest polluters
9-27	Climate change spurs industry restructuring: survey
9-26	Mine seal rule passed  -  W.Va. Orders Mines to Reinforce Seals
9-26	Digging Into a Coal Controversy
9-26	Miners and politicians struggle with coal mining safety
9-26	Closing of coal plants feasible, study says
9-26	Warming: Genuine menace  -  Global warming demands response
9-26	Climate change skeptic tells West Virginia not to worry
9-26	Coalition opposes power station  -  Environmental groups pledge to fight Dominion coal plant
9-26	Utah Mine Country, After Disaster, Tells Panel It Fears Overregulation
9-26	Coal mine industry, regulators seek ways to curb growing thefts
9-25	Mine safety: Who's watching?
9-25	Miners And Politicians Struggle With Coal Mining Safety  -  House Subpoenas Mine Documents  -  Panel to Consider Stronger Regulation of Utah Mines  -  Subpoena demands records on Utah mine
9-25	World energy revolution needed for climate: U.S.
9-25	Australia's PM Goes Green, Opponents See Red
9-25	What should Congress do with the toughest parts of federal energy bills? Toss (i.e., just let big energy do as they please)
9-24	Renewable Energy, National Security and Social Justice
9-24	‘Open For Business’ goes beyond slogan
9-24	U.S. Court of Appeals reverses $600 million Peabody Coal decision
9-24	Big Coal Wants Big Federal Bailout
9-24	Battle over climate change is being fought in world's courts
9-24	Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming
9-23	'Hillbilly' plays fair with Appalachia
9-23	Arch Coal subsidiary sued over damaged house; Lawsuit cites explosions at Logan mine
9-23	Decades of history inspire Tom Breiding's new CD
9-23	MSHA behind on Southern W.Va. mine inspections; Agency ‘initiative’ deliberately stopped some complete reviews
9-23	City man trains for ‘Inconvenient Truth’
9-23	Coal miners cheated by companies, BrickStreet
9-23	Final Plans For Underground Communication
9-23	What should Congress do with the toughest parts of federal energy bills? Keep  - Toss
9-23	Report: Coal Ash Contaminating Pa. Water  -  Activists: Coal ash harmful
9-23	China coal mine blaze kills three, traps 15
9-23	Foreign companies keen to tap China's coal deposits
9-23	Kentucky Women Writers Conference
9-23	Petitions don't hasten coal miner stamp creation
9-23	Bush Plans No Policy Shift as Nations Begin Debate on Post-Kyoto Accord  -  Bush Seeks Global Warming Process
9-23	U.S. not ‘on track’ in global warming, U.N. says
9-23	Ozone deal called boost to fighting climate change
9-23	10,000 historic sites at risk from climate change
9-23	‘Fertilising’ oceans with iron may combat climate change
9-22	Julian Martin op-ed in Herald Dispatch: MU, WVU should be friends of our mountains, not coal
9-22	Earth Island Journal: Moving Mountains--The Human Costs of Our Coal Economy
9-22	Congress probing EPA approval of Uintah County coal-fired power plant
9-22	Staff Seeks Delay in Hearing on Proposed Power Line
9-22	Link Between Air Pollution, Stroke Gets Clearer
9-22	Summer Sea Ice Melt Larger Than Texas and Alaska
9-22	Stop coal, stop global warming, says architect
9-22	Extending the reign of King Coal
9-22	Tidwell responds to scientists responding to Tidwell
9-22	UN negotiator urges steps on climate change
9-22	Climate Change Spurring Dengue Rise, Experts Say
9-22	Controversial Anti-Climate Change Consensus Paper Rejected
9-22	New push for corporations to report climate-change risk
9-22	Two barrels of oil are used for each one found. $100 oil anyone?
9-22	Australia Uses Lasers to Check Antarctic Sea Ice
9-22	Pope to make climate action a moral obligation
9-21	For the miners: Kathy Mattea's new album digs into Appalachia's heart  -  Concert
9-21	Ann Magnuson: Mountaintop Removal Turning West Virginia into Almost Hell
9-21	Church to screen mining documentary
9-21	Writer of New Mining Novel Visits
9-21	Jury: Coal mine creates road hazards
9-21	Caputo: ‘Put a face on the coal industry’
9-21	Out of Appalachia
9-21	Mine theft leads to accident
9-21	Mountaintop removal destroys communities
9-21	Drought drops groundwater reserves to near historic lows
9-21	Regulators may face battle turning S.C. fly ash pond into strip mall
9-21	Utility accepts record EPA fine; E. Kentucky Power to pay $11.4 million
9-21	"Trust me" elections in Kentucky (and elsewhere)
9-21	Boron levels detected in private well sampling
9-21	EPA to Supreme Court: Take a hike!; EPA gives permit to new Utah coal plant; Waxman cries foul
9-21	Toronto: A bright energy future without coal or nuclear
9-21	Enviros Challenge Proposed Coal Gasification Power Plant
9-21	Coal Bed Methane Pain
9-21	The time has come to deal with emissions from coal plants
9-21	Effort to Get Companies to Disclose Climate Risk
9-21	Global warming may melt Indian economy
9-21	Arctic ice ebbs to record level - U.S. scientists
9-21	Climate change could decrease rice yields 40%
9-20	"Too Late to Avoid Global Warming," Say Scientists
9-20	Coal industry asks for still more handouts, and Washington lends an ear
9-20	Revised mining rule heartens industry, worries environmentalists
9-20	Rahall wants answers on mine inspections  -  Rahall asks MSHA to investigate missed inspections   -  Arch Coal mine earns best safety record
9-20	Beshear again presses Fletcher in debate
9-20	Coal industry owns many in our state
9-20	Hope for a coal-powered future darken by the day
9-20	Minnesota: Let’s focus on control of coal
9-20	Seattle: Coal Power: Make the case
9-20	Big Stone II events may signal end of coal era in Dakotas -    Big Stone pullouts leave coal-fired electricity's future in question
9-20	Calif. lawmaker chides EPA for approving coal plant
9-20	Environmentalists split over Duke plans for plant
9-20	Poor, polluted -- and dead: So a Texas power company can make a few dollars, Georgia officials will endanger our children
9-20	Utah Miners Update  -  Utah mine panel wants safety input from coal country residents
9-20	Wyo leaders demand AML funds
9-20	Vote on Fly-Ash Disposal Put Off
9-20	New landfill surprises neighbors
9-19	Creek or pit for slurry? Ohio EPA weighing mine company's request
9-19	Burning the Future
9-19	New Study Reports Pennsylvania Groundwater Contamination from Coal Ash  -  Study questions safety of Schuylkill coal-ash disposal  -  Groups question use of coal ash as fill  -  Report criticizes dumping of fly ash in mines  -  Talk delays fly-ash vote
9-19	Grand jury indicts Ky. coal company  -  Coal company charged indicted for making road unsafe
9-19	Moving mountains
9-19	Groups to protest coal gasification plant
9-19	Utilities withdraw from power plant project
9-19	Duke plan pits green vs. green  -  Duke Power plan fuels debate  -  Coal-fired power plant request generates concern, public hearing
9-19	Regulators press Alaska Railroad for better coal dust control
9-19	COAL! - Its Dirty and Everyone Knows It!
9-19	No More Coal?
9-19	Beyond 'Green Shopping'
9-19	States tackle global warming -  Virginia Joins the Battle
9-19	SEC Pressed on Climate-Change Disclosures
9-19	How climate change will affect the world
9-18	Judge asked to block Boone mine permit  -   Groups ask judge to halt valley fill
9-18	Feds missed inspections at Logan mine
9-18	UMWA President Lays Recent Mining Deaths at the Feet of the Bush Administration
9-18	What happens when the coal is gone? Area officials to look at post-mine land development
9-18	Middle ground hard to find with property rights
9-18	White House Push For Oil, Gas Turning A Red State Purple
9-18	BofA warns credit crunch to hurt investment bank's third quarter
9-18	Mountaintop removal hardly positive
9-18	Reece to receive Chaffin Award
9-18	Coal-fired power stations 'poison fish with mercury'
9-18	One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax
9-18	Warming threat disclosures sought  -  New York Subpoenas Five Energy Companies for Climate Risks  -  SEC Pressed to Require Climate-Risk Disclosures
9-18	Judge rejects California's global warming lawsuit
9-18	Tackling climate change isn't about guilt
9-18	Climate change tops future humanitarian challenges: Annan
9-18	PACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE QUIETLY QUICKENS
9-18	11th Day for Global Warming Fasting
9-18	The siren song of denial
9-18	Country From Ozone Success, a Potential Climate Model
9-17	Majority of American Against Ripping the Tops off Mountains for Coal - Poll shows opposition to change in mine buffer zone rule  -  Survey: 65 Percent of Americans Oppose Mountaintop Removal  - Treehugger
9-17	The Hightower Report: GIVING AWAY APPALACHIA
9-17	Frederick News Post editorial: Rocky Mountain low
9-17	EnergyBiz Insider: Earth Shattering New Proposals
9-17	Mountaintop Pillage  -  Mountaintop Removal Approval?
9-17	Miner Found Dead In Logan County   -  1 Killed in West Virginia Coal Mine
9-17	Worker killed in fall at Pleasants County power station
9-17	Utilities Pare Down Lists of Coal-Fired Plants; Since the beginning of 2006, at least two dozen coal-fired plants have been canceled and another three put on hold  -  Senator Reid: Decline of Coal Power Plant Construction Nationally Should Be a Message to Nevada
9-17	Cuomo Probes Power Companies' Disclosures on Coal
9-17	Energy demands can be met as coal use is reduced
9-17	‘Coal-synergy’ — Partnerships vital for Expressway
9-17	Work for Mountain Justice Spring Break 2008
9-17	Bluegrass-area legislator keeps trying to pass law limiting mountaintop-removal mining  -  Mountains 'good for looking at' but don't put food on table, mining advocate says (guy must not know how to hunt or harvest...or think about anything but short-term profit)  -  The Economics of Mountaintop Mining
9-17	Foes of mountaintop mining, rebuffed at local and state levels, taking fight to Washington
9-17	Jen Osha's Response to "The coal scare: Be afraid..."
9-17	Groups ready for coal ash report  -  EPA seeks comment in review of fly ash
9-17	Chinese coal producer to make liquid fuel in 2008
9-17	10 things we can do: Rebuilding civil society  -  Power Shift's Ring of Fire
9-17	Tim Flannery on climate change
9-17	Climate change latest invasion
9-16	Take Action: Stop Proposed Rule Change to Make Mountain Top Removal Easier!
9-16	Mountaintop Pillage
9-16	Fly ash deposit at mine to stop
9-16	WHO Sets Sights on Global Warming as Health Issue  -  Man is to blame for global warming, US admits   -  Global Warming Plus Smog Equals More Bad Air Days
9-16	Arctic ice melt opens Northwest Passage   -  Melting ice clears Northwest Passage
9-16	WSJ spins coal to liquid differently from Malmstrom ctl supporters
9-16	Vital Signs: Record Resource Consumption Depletes a Warming World
9-16	Photos: What Global Warming Looks Like
9-16	Coal must overcome ‘unsafe’ perception  -  The coal scare: Be afraid -- be very afraid  -  Jen Osha's Response to "The coal scare: Be afraid..."
9-16	New Jersey man leads hunger strike
9-15	Power line hearings likely delayed
9-15	Justices OK wind farm in Va's Highland County
9-15	NIOSH reports black lung rates double since '97
9-15	U.S. climate office called inadequate on many levels
9-15	The coal-to-liquid tycoons  -  Sasol mulls new CTL plants in China
9-15	‘Coal-synergy’ — Partnerships vital for Expressway (and continued profit for King Coal)
9-14	U.S. can't write off coal, Manchin says
9-14	Spike in black lung cases reported
9-14	Groups Fight Bush Plans to Expand Mountain Top Coal Mining (feature story on Free Speech Radio News)
9-14	Global Coal Demand May Lift U.S. Cos.
9-14	Coal to liquid plant near Roundup may face delays  -  Governors discuss incentives for cleaner coal
9-14	Study: Cutbacks Imperil Climate Research
9-14	Climate Change Threatens World Food Production, Says New Study  -  Experts: Climate Change Puts Sea at Risk
9-13	Thumbs Down for Mountain Top Removal: Survey to Show Public's Views About Coal Mining Rule Shift That Could Level 700 Mountains Over Next 10 Years
9-13	Mountaintop-removal mining destructive
9-13	King Coal’s Last Gasp?
9-13	Utilities Pare Down Lists of Coal-Fired Plants
9-13	State Supreme Court upholds verdict against coal company
9-13	Mine safety
9-13	Pittsburgh-area residents sue state DEP, demand fly ash cleanup
9-13	Coal mine fires generating CO2
9-13	Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
9-13	Series showcases live author works readings (Ann has written a novel about Mountaintop removal mining)
9-13	World Crops Could Decline 16 Pct Due to Warming  -  Experts: Climate change puts sea at risk
9-13	Global Warming Impact Like ‘Nuclear War’  -  The ‘Feel Good’ Approach to Climate Distortion
9-13	Governors look at carbon issues
9-12	Big Coal, anti-wind
9-12	Big Coal Tries to Recruit Military to Kindle a Market
9-12	Kathy Mattea on Mountaintop Removal
9-12	Appalachia - My Journey to Understanding
9-12	House asked to delay probe of Utah mine (may interfere with administration's whitewash)
9-12	Environmental special: Fuel's gold  -  Biofuels Offer Cure Worse Than the Disease - OECD
9-12	Stop MTR Summit in Bryant Park, NYC  -  Appalachian Grandfather Seeks Justice in NYC
9-12	Action needed to tackle global warming and its affects: UN  -  FAO Warns Climate Change Could be Major Threat to Food Security  -  Expert says climate change will spread global disease
9-12	Group sues, says power plant study did not consider global warming  -  World may exceed dangerous global warming limit
9-11	Group launches project to provide free help to miners
9-11	New Rules to Promote New Coal Would Cook Planet
9-11	Investor files second shareholder lawsuit against Massey
9-11	Invest in Our Future, Support the Youth Delegation of Conscience
9-11	The Rape of Appalachia
9-11	Move to identify climate change security hotspots
9-11	Arctic Ice Continues Record Melting: Arctic Ice the Size of Florida Gone in a Week
9-11	EPA seeks comment in review of fly ash
9-11	Kennedy emphasizes importance of taking care of the environment at first annual Freshman Convocation  -  Rushing into coal
9-10	Gallery: Mountaintop Mining Ravages Appalachia
9-10	Bush administration pushes for looser mining regulations
9-10	Mining method a moral issue
9-10	Blankenship could influence WV Supreme Court election  -  GOP not counting on Blankenship in 2008
9-10	CTL follies
9-10	In Pure Arctic Air, Signs Of China's Economic Boom
9-10	State studies turning wood chips into liquid fuel (scroll down)
9-9	A Legacy Bush Can Control
9-9	Christians against coal mining
9-9	Do-it-yourself energy: Backyard power generators popping up all West Virginia
9-9	Energy to Burn
9-9	Turns out toxic heavy metals are, um, toxic
9-9	Forward residents say DEP fly ash cleanup insufficient  -  Coal ash can pollute underground water, create health risk
9-9	National Public Radio: CD Celebrates Music from the Coal Mines
9-9	Massey plans to focus on metallurgical coal, exports
9-9	Officials at an Abingdon, Va., coal symposium agree the industry needs to continue, just more environmentally friendly
9-9	Most polar bears could be lost by 2050
9-9	Category 5 warning about global warming
9-9	Sydney Declaration on Climate Change and Energy  -  APEC Officials Agree on Global Warming...Without Targets  -  APEC sets voluntary goals to curb climate change  -  Pacific Rim climate deal is no laughing matter for green activists
9-9	Pollution casts concern over some fishing holes
9-9	U.S. Coal-Prices mostly softer as demand weakens
9-9	Wyoming stripe mine: Coal mine cited in haul truck accident
9-9	Report identifies centuries' worth of unleased coal in Powder River Basin (Hey, let's use carbon sequestration--leave that coal in the ground!)
9-9	Coal miners find solidarity far beneath the earth
9-9	Mining Misery: Jeff Goodell's Washington Post article reprinted in The Buffalo News
9-9	Simple steps on road to tackling climate change
9-9	Australia: Coal mine's approval draws climate criticism
9-8	Washington Post--Coal River by Michael Shnayerson tops non-fiction "Most Anticipated" books list
9-8	The Plain Dealer: Congress should put a stop to mountaintop-removal mining - an editorial
9-8	Truck Driver Injured at Boone County Mine
9-8	Comments on Bill Moyers segment on mountaintop removal and coal slurry injection
9-8	Manchin signs metal bill
9-8	Life lessons
9-8	Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes
9-8	National parks hit by global warming
9-8	New tool to fight global warming: Endangered Species Act?
9-8	Polar Bear Population Seen Declining
9-7	Tonight on PBS: 'Bill Moyers Journal' on religious resistance to mountaintop-removal mining
9-7	Charleston Gazette editorial : Coal-to-liquid--much research needed   -  CTL hearing report: My testimony to Congress on liquid coal
9-7	Coal Industry Future Uncertain Without Carbon Capture
9-7	After delaying action against climate change, Big Coal is now scheming to cash in
9-7	Feds ID huge coal reserves
9-7	No More Coal ad in New Yorker magazine
9-7	King Coal rules: Kentucky regulators serving wrong master
9-7	Coal Bowl helps destroy mountains (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them! Fortunately, Robin's letter was in the Herald Dispatch today to counter this tripe from the WV Coal Association:)  -  FOC propaganda  -  Corporate greed destroying W.Va.
9-7	Coal mining destroyed wells: After 30 years, Naoma residents get clean water
9-7	Strip mine fire damage at $5M
9-7	Jerry Mander & John Cavanagh in The Nation: Beyond 'Green Shopping'
9-7	MSHA proposes changes to mine rescue team regs
9-7	SaskPower shelves clean-coal project (they figured out there is no such thing as "clean" coal
9-7	Coal Mine dangers
9-7	Montana officials looking at Malmstrom for coal-to-liquid fuels plant  -  Rehberg promotes synthetic fuel plant
9-7	Loudon Times: Moving Mountains
9-7	Monthly Panther: Indigenous Rights, Coal Activism & more!
9-7	Option update: Coal producers active - Massey to Focus on Metallurgical Coal
9-7	Model educator wins award
9-7	Consol Energy, Synthesis Energy Systems To Investigate Gasification Of Waste Coal
9-7	Bowie power station announces plan to run solely on clean natural gas instead of coal
9-7	Drought predicted to spread across Australia and the United States
9-7	Climate change hits federal land and water: report
9-7	NOAA Scientists Say Arctic Ice Is Melting Faster Than Expected
9-7	Drought predicted to spread across Australia and the United States
9-6	New Book: Mountaintop Removal Comes with High Human Cost in WV (the book features the work of OVEC, WV Highlands Conservancy and Coal River Mountain Watch) -  More info on the book
9-6	Byrd criticizes mine safety officials  -   Union Official Says Utah Mine Was Unsafe
9-6	OSM Proposes Changes on Stream Buffer Zone Rules
9-6	Fuels for the Future: Romm's Testimony to Congress
9-6	Financing Questions Pose Problems for Coal-To-Liquid Projects; Rentech Inc. Sees Economic Opportunity in Mingo County  -  Energy Policy: Getting Burned
9-6	The State Journal--Coal Under Pressure: Industry consolidation appears possible as companies cope with challenges
9-6	Hartford Courant editorial: Mountaintop Mining Rules   -  The Ledger (Florida paper): Stop Decapitating Mountains
9-6	Coal industry puts miners, environment at risk
9-6	New ICG mine expected to produce 1.4 million tons per year
9-6	Corporate greed destroying W.Va.
9-6	Big Oil Firms Talk Up Carbon Capture, But Do Little
9-6	US coal reserves on Govt lands total 957 bln tons
9-6	Appalachian Grandfather Seeks Justice in NYC
9-6	Earth Justice Calls on the EPA to Clean Up Coal Ash Dumps
9-6	BrickStreet’s competition comes to town
9-6	EF! Protest: Since 2005, Bank of America has facilitated nearly $1 billion in loans to Massey Energy and Arch Coal
9-6	Energy Kills. Energy Cures.
9-6	The Difference Between the Parties Is As Deep As a Coal Mine
9-6	Mines Crumble Under Kansas Town
9-6	Peabody closer to full commitments for output from planned plant
9-6	ND Wary of Renewed Uranium Interest
9-6	Climate Change Refugees
9-6	Global Warming to Hit Africa Hardest - UK Scientists
9-6	Loss of Arctic Ice Leaves Experts Stunned   -  Ice-Free Arctic Could Be Here in 23 Years
9-6	Birch Trees To Edge Out Aspens In Warming World
9-6	Time: Can the World Improve on Kyoto?
9-6	Burning desire to put coal industry out to pasture
9-6	APEC rift opens over climate change debate  -  Deadlock at APEC summit over climate change
9-6	Reduce carbon emissions the painless way
9-6	Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
9-6	Climate, Conscience, and Atmospheric Carbon
9-6	Take Climate Change Seriously, Pope Urges
9-5	Pennsylvania to Host Largest East Coast Solar Power Plant
9-5	MSHA missed inspections before Mingo mine fatality  -  Miner killed in Mingo County mine accident  - Roof collapse blamed in miner's death
9-5	Mining Group Spent $1.7M Lobbying
9-5	Lawmakers Get Ready To Revisit Energy Bills (see above...)
9-5	Pentagon eyes synthetic fuels
9-5	Larry Craig's 'wide stance' on coal and timber
9-5	Voice of America: Better Communication Would Be One Mine Safety Solution
9-5	Reprints: Mount Stripmine?   -  Coal industry needs oversight
9-5	Letter to the editor in New York Times: Mountaintop Mining
9-5	Coal Ash Pollution Contaminates Groundwater, Increases Cancer Risks - Coal ash can pollute underground water, create health risk
9-5	NRG officials: IR power plant fly ash pile is stable
9-5	EPA sides with Sierra Club; E. Kentucky Power must prove need for high-sulfur coal
9-5	Rescuers Pull 12 Bodies From China Coal Mine
9-5	Calif. Heat Wave Blamed for 14 Deaths
9-5	Focus the Nation Joins Schools in Climate Change Collaboration
9-5	Kings of the coal habit
9-5	3 court cases for climate change
9-5	Business to Push Carbon Pricing at APEC
9-5	New Chickpea Helps Turkish Farmers Adapt to Global Warming
9-5	Growth In Carbon Emissions Slows
9-5	Hurricanes are getting stronger -- thanks to global warming!
9-5	Brazil cool on Bush's global warming meeting
9-5	Money Matters in Reactor Project Debate; Financing, Rather Than Safety, Appears to Be Key Factor in Whether Plans Proceed
9-4	Washington Post: Coal Rush Reverses, Power Firms Follow; Plans for New Plants Stalled by Growing Opposition  -  Coal plant may hurl Utah into climate fight
9-4	Coal insider reveals the truth about carbon sequestration
9-4	Mingo County Miner Killed
9-4	Coal blasting is like terrorism (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools, please use them!)
9-4	Speakers decry state of economy at labor rally
9-4	Seminary teach-in to ponder assault on environment
9-4	Boston Globe editorial: Mount Stripmine?
9-4	Kansas City paper: Satisfying U.S. energy needs should not involve defacing Appalachia
9-4	John Edwards and Mountaintop Removal
9-4	Penny Loeb book out now - Moving Mountains - worked with Bob Gates
9-4	Froma Harrop's op-ed reprinted in New Hampshire paper: Coal is not the energy answer
9-4	Logan County vet to assist in polar bear survival
9-4	Times Atlas shows effect of global warming
9-4	National Public Radio: Arctic Businesses Learn to Adapt to Climate Change
9-4	Global warming will bring more 'Felixes'  -   Connecting the Dots: Extreme Weather and Global Warming  -  Here We Go Again: Global Warming and Hurricane Felix
9-4	Did Global Warming Aid 2007 Summer Movie Box Office?
9-4	WWF says Asia-Pacific coal rush worsens global warming
9-4	Climate activists chain themselves at Australian port
9-3	Mary Wildfire: Clean energy? Coal-to-liquids promise an expensive, polluting scam   -  Clean energy? National lab gaining on country’s energy issues
9-3	Blasting the Mountaintops for Coal (6 Letters to the Editor in New York Times)
9-3	America's dependence on coal comes at a high cost (Jeff Goodell's recent Washington Post op-ed in Kansas City newspaper) - Clean Coal or Dirty Coal?
9-3	'Clean coal' is an oxymoron
9-3	Nation's Governors Pursue Clean Energy Future (Not WV and KY Governors!)  -  Ohio's Appalachian governor remembers his coal roots
9-3	Edwards describes stands on health care, energy, Iraq
9-3	UMWA Goes With Edwards  -  Steel, Mine Workers Unions Back Edwards
9-3	Testing Time on Energy
9-3	McAteer v. Lauriski: The difference between the two parties is as deep as a coal mine
9-3	Mine deaths: China disastrous  -  12 missing after China mine explosion  -  China Takes "Urgent" Energy Challenge to Masses
9-3	Why Are Some Environmental Groups Caving to Industry?
9-3	A few good bets at Charlotte's film fest (Scroll down to "Sunday" for info on the documentary "Mountain Top Removal')
9-3	YouTube offers window into oilfield
9-3	Goal: Debunk Appalachia stereotypes
9-3	Environmental activists tie themselves to coal-carrying conveyor belt in Australia  -  Protesters occupy Australian power station
9-3	The new dirty energy
9-3	Home grown apples can save the planet...
9-3	Talks on climate change impact in Africa
9-3	How to Counter Climate Change
9-3	New Study From NASA Predicts More Severe Storms With Global Warming
9-3	Global warming disrupts Inuit hunting life
9-2	MSHA: ‘Tough questions’ need answered; Computer model found mine plan in Utah lacking
9-2	King Coal Thanks Bank of America  -  Houston r.a.n. targets Bank of America center successfully today
9-2	Cartoon: Earth Removal Mining
9-2	Murray's blustering could mean bigger mine disaster
9-2	Satisfying U.S. energy needs...
9-2	A Reprieve For Greenbrier Plant Project
9-2	Taxpayers should not pay for coal plant (scroll down)
9-2	W. Va. editorial says mining coal should be easier -- Was this found on a stone tablet?
9-2	Ohio: Coal summit, festival to feature state lawmakers
9-2	Ark. regulators consider global warming in power plant case
9-2	Power plant decides to burn natural gas instead of coal
9-2	Attenborough highlights the dangers of global warming
9-2	US official declares end of search for 6 coal miners
9-2	Between Hungry People and Climate Change, Soils Need Help
9-2	Climate change ticks ever closer
9-2	Impact of climate change would be felt among outdoor enthusiasts
9-2	Hydropower sees peril, promise in climate change
9-2	Scotland prepares to fight climate change
9-2	Death, taxes, extinction
9-2	What might global warming mean for Washington
9-2	New Study Links CO2 to Paleozoic Extinctions
9-1	Record highs set for August
9-1	Fill ‘er Up… With Planet-Busting Liquid Coal
9-1	Red Blood, Black Rock
9-1	Locals Protest Bank’s Loans To Coal Mines  - Activists plan downtown anti-coal rally
9-1	Report about earlier 'bump' disregarded
9-1	State rejects all mine communications plans
9-1	Search for 6 men trapped in Utah coal mine indefinitely suspended
9-1	Residents: No more coal plants
9-1	Ontario aims to kick out coal by 2014
9-1	Mining operations’ legacy a mother lode of acid drainage
9-1	Beyond Wind and Solar, a New Generation of Clean Energy
9-1	Mercury endangers songbird populations
9-1	U.N. Climate Talks End in Cloud of Discord
9-1	More severe U.S. storms will come with global warming, NASA researchers say
9-1	Global warming – who pays and when?
9-1	Climate change and N. America farms to be studied