(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