(Nov)  Archive - December, 2007  (Jan)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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12-31	NOAA: 2007 a Top Ten Warm Year for U.S. and Globe
12-31	Burning the future
12-31	Peter Montague: The Basket Our Eggs Are In
12-31	Wall Street Journal: Coal-to-Chemicals Projects Boom in China
12-31	Digging Coal and Moving Mountains
12-31	Nuclear Power Gets Boost from Candidates  -  The burning question of nuclear energy
12-31	Alaska: Clean elections drive big money out of state politics (same thing could apply here in West Virginia)
12-31	Rescue effort ends in China coal mine accident, 19 confirmed dead
12-31	America: Step up on climate change
12-31	Washington State: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions could save the state millions of dollars
12-31	Looking Reality in the Eye
12-30	The Secret Library of Hope
12-30	Erik Reece--2007: year of recognition
12-30	Rise Up! West Virginia - first 2008 WV film masterpiece
12-30	Isaac Wohl: Market can stem global warming
12-30	2007 a Year of Weather Records in US
12-30	EPA is to reveal greenhouse gas papers
12-30	Opposition stirring against new reactors
12-30	A plea for population control to save the Earth
12-30	China coal mine blast kills one, traps 18
12-30	Wildlife 'needs help' in climate change exodus  -  UK species 'must move to survive'
12-30	The climate threat to Japanese rice
12-30	'Green fatigue' leads to fear of backlash over climate change
12-29	In Bush's Final Year, The Agenda Gets Greener (yeah, right...)
12-29	Plan scrapped to capture CO2 from coal plant  -   Energy Northwest ditches project to bury emissions
12-29	Panel studies firefighting, detection rules for mines
12-29	Mine safety chief
12-29	Solar Energy Vs. Mountaintop Removal
12-29	Hearing set on releasing bond money for polluted coal mine
12-29	Agency proposes $220,000 fine over electrical accident at mine
12-29	Kentucky's '07 coal production down
12-29	Nuclear Plants Raise Leukaemia Threat
12-29	Scientists debate climate modification
12-29	Globalization Is Fueling Global Warming
12-29	In California, climate change will transform the land, lifestyles
12-29	Antarctica's Adelie Penguins Extinct in a Decade?
12-28	Bill McKibben in Washington Post--Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million
12-28	Charleston Gazette--PSC testimony: Power line plan lacking  -  Power line plan to impact streams (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)
12-28	Coal-to-liquid insanity propagated in Bluefield Daily Telegraph editorial: Coal-to-Liquid — Plan pushes energy independence
12-28	USA Today: Plans for at least 8 clean coal plants hit snags -  New developments in solar power make 'clean coal' look even dumber
12-28	Appalachian coal production declines
12-28	Day should honor rare cancer victims
12-28	Nuclear power is making a comeback, and TVA hopes to lead the way with its first new reactors in 30 years. But can it really solve our energy problems?  -  Another shot for nuclear
12-28	Truthout posts Boston Globe article
12-28	Shell taps into coal methane in China
12-28	Green City: Climate change could spark more wildfires
12-28	Strange clash   -  Let California experiment  -  EPA's 'uniformity' standard incredible
12-28	Climate Change's $75 Billion Bill   -   Latin America hit by record number of disasters, says UN   -  Extreme weather affects UK wildlife  -  Natural catastrophes will grow with climate change: re-insurer  -  Global warming brings busy year for UN disaster teams
12-28	Japan urges China to sway global issues
12-28	What I want for 2008
12-28	Vic desalination plant to be probed
12-27	National Labor Relations Board decision on Massey Energy (pdf)
12-27	Countdown begins to Focus the Nation
12-27	Americans need to think beyond coal (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)
12-27	Common Dreams carries yesterday's Boston Globe article  -  Appalachian Struggle Sparks More Than Debate
12-27	Tech could reduce coal facilities' emissions
12-27	Climate Change Gives Rise to New World Order
12-27	Virginia nears third year without a mine death
12-27	UN issues warning of critical food shortages
12-27	Climate change ‘is taking its toll on wildlife’
12-27	Weather extremes: records broken in heat waves in North America, Europe
12-27	Human greed is a threat to the planet, warns Williams
12-27	Sue the EPA for earth's sake
12-27	The world is not a warehouse to serve our greed, Archbishop tells worshippers
12-27	Parasites are the hidden face of climate change across Scotland
12-26	Boston Globe: Coal's ascent is igniting a debate; W. Virginians split over costs, benefits
12-26	Coal to liquid insanity: Manchin sees a CTL future
12-26	Dave Cooper: Mountaintop removal sites are poor building locations
12-26	Coal PR effort repeated in Bluefield Daily Telegraph
12-26	Metro News gushes with Bill Raney: Cleaner Coal Industry (coal is dirty when you mine it, dirty when you haul it, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you dispose of the ash and it sure dirties up politics)
12-26	South Carolina is a battleground in the debate over America's coal future...Cheap. Abundant. Clean?
12-26	Japan Mines `Flammable Ice,' Flirts With Environmental Disaster
12-26	China Promises to Promote Clean Energy  -   China says is no threat to world energy security
12-25	Toward a People's Agenda for Climate Justice
12-25	RFK Jr. says environment and democracy are intertwined
12-25	New training program a 'boot camp' for would-be coal miners
12-25	Cooling Earth's Climate as a Matter of Faith
12-25	Hundreds seeking coal jobs at reopened western Ky. mine
12-25	Progress Energy sells coal operations
12-25	Peabody Keeps Digging
12-25	Survey: 2 of 3 Iowans would back freeze on coal plants
12-25	After collapse, Utah mine's fate unclear
12-25	The price of fighting global warming
12-25	Doomsday Tourists Visit Global Warming Hot Spots
12-25	SCIENTISTS FEAR GLOBAL WARMING responsible for unprecedented camel deaths in North Africa
12-24	STEENKOOL RAMP VOOR LANDSCHAP EN MILIEU
12-24	The Worst Courts for Businesses? It’s a Matter of Opinion
12-24	Coal Truck Lawsuit Settled
12-24	Coal's grasp tightens on Va.
12-24	BC mine could harm wildlife, scientist finds
12-24	Deep Debate Over Miners' Safety Training
12-24	'Clean coal' isn't clean to land, people (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)
12-24	Bush Faces a Long Legal Battle With California  -  California to Sue US for Denying Emissions Waiver  -  States vow to back Calif. against Bush
12-24	Energy Crisis Won't 'Wait for the Market'
12-24	Some doubt plant will happen
12-24	It is irresponsible for the US to dodge the fight on global warming
12-24	Senator Inhofe: Please define “Prominent Scientist”
12-24	Eating Beef More Destructive to Environment than Driving a Car
12-24	Climate change hits poor harder
12-24	‘Church must act on climate change’
12-24	UN Sees No Climate Change Solution Without US
12-23	Politicians must act for Bali climate negotiations to succeed
12-23	Congress To Probe Denial Of Emissions Law  -  Schwarzenegger versus Bush in Californian battle of gas-guzzlers
12-23	Iowans Want Energy Conservation Before New Coal Plants
12-23	Opponents of coal plant in SW Ark. ask for rehearing  -
12-23	My Top 10 Energy Stories of 2007
12-23	Climatic Chain Reaction Caused Runaway Greenhouse Effect 55 Million Years Ago
12-23	As Earth Warms Up, Tropical Virus Moves to Italy
12-23	China Grabs West’s Smoke-Spewing Factories
12-23	Global warming, far away and up close
12-22	NASA Earth Observatory: Coal Controversy in Appalachia
12-22	Sundance Channel to show new WV coal film
12-22	New film focuses on mountaintop removal in W.Va.
12-22	Book club and author forum
12-22	Global-warming deniers destroying our state (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)
12-22	Coal is the least viable energy option for future   -   Opponents of coal plant seek CO2 limitations
12-22	A Huge New Coal Plant -- Your Tax Dollars at Work
12-22	Columbus Dispatch: Cutting-edge refinery is on track; $5.5 billion plant would make liquid fuel out of coal
12-22	The Dirty Truth About Liquid Coal (scroll down)
12-22	Coal industry kicks off a PR campaign aimed at influencing lawmakers
12-22	2007: The beginning of the anti-coal era
12-22	Multiple states will sue over EPA decision to not let California regulate vehicle emissions  -  EPA staff say they were excluded from waiver decision; suspect Cheney's involvement
12-22	More on the 'scientific' attacks on global warming
12-22	Climate change poses challenge to preventive medicine
12-22	For New Orleans, for the survivors of Katrina, for climate justice
12-21	Coal River: An American Story  - and on Amazon - But try to buy at your local book store!
12-21	State adds fish advisory for selenium
12-21	The Albertalachia Syndrome: Peak Oil, Ecocide and Injustice
12-21	Court urged to rehear Massey judgment  -  Rehearing sought for overturned $76.3m Massey judgment
12-21	US Congress Has Big Appetite for Energy Issues   -  Mitch McConnell's Extreme Unction
12-21	Lead or Get Out of the Way
12-21	Teacher receives MAC grant for book about mountaintop removal
12-21	Coal company keeps miners on street for holidays
12-21	Ohio coal-to-liquid insanity: Synthetic-fuel plant plans advance
12-21	Va. ignores mercury threat  -  Poison In The Pee Dee
12-21	Show Me the Clean Coal
12-21	Text of (P)resident Bush's news conference
12-21	Petition seeks protection for seals
12-21	At Fox News Special Report, Dishonesty is Editorial Policy: The Rancid Political Grapevine
12-21	Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds
12-21	Archbishop of Canterbury - climate change action a moral imperative for justice
12-21	We must acknowledge global warming, and act
12-21	China Says US Must do More on Climate Change
12-21	Business interests scramble to cash out at Bush’s candy story
12-20	E.P.A. Says 17 States Can't Set Emission Rules  -  EPA Denies States the Right to Fight Global Warming  -  EPA: Nay
12-20	Coal-to-liquids technology gets appropriations boost  -  Bill contains $17M for area projects
12-20	WV Coal Association's Bill Raney: Coal Missing From New Energy Plan
12-20	Bush, Suboleski, and Blankenship
12-20	Safe drinking water gets harder to tap
12-20	Pa.: Donegal OKs ban on coal mining
12-20	Politics blocking drilling, family says
12-20	New Power Plant Aims to Help Coal Clean Up (To avoid catastrophes on the front end of coal-use, we need an end to mountaintop removal coal mining)
12-20	IGCC's Future Hinges on Workable Carbon Framework
12-20	High-Tech Mining Makes Coal King of Fossil Fuels, But Is It Clean?
12-20	Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste
12-20	This Is a Novel About Dirt  - Kenyon Review
12-20	LOBBYISTs GO SHOPPING (scroll down)
12-20	Speak up for the people, mountains of S.W. Va.
12-20	Nix coal plants, green groups tell Nevada
12-20	Pa. to get big funding boost for mine cleanup
12-20	Climate Sanctions Sought Against US
12-20	Joellen Sbrissa: U.S. must do its part to reduce emissions
12-20	Many religious leaders back climate-change action
12-20	San Francisco to Adopt Global Warming Offset Plan
12-20	UN Ice Bridge is Reminder of Melting Antarctica
12-19	Adopt tougher belt standard, panel tells MSHA
12-19	House Sends President An Energy Bill to Sign  -  Weak, gutless Democrats, sneering, oil-loving Republicans and cars that belch and shrug  -  Have we lost more ground than we gained?
12-19	Not the bill to take home to mother
12-19	Feds release $274 million for cleanup projects at abandoned mines
12-19	Manchin on coal-to-liquid
12-19	Illinois lands clean-coal plant (as long as there is mountaintop removal, there is no such thing as "clean" coal)  -  Pressure on to make sure FutureGen power plant will work
12-19	Thirteen stories of coal getting stiffed
12-19	Taking the coal train to oblivion (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)
12-19	Barge facility will hurt the river area (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)
12-19	Natural Resource Partners buys W.Va. coal reserves
12-19	N.J. sues Reliant coal plant over emissions
12-19	Henry Payne: Even if man were warming the globe . . . (nice bunch of mentions of Exxon-Mobil funded climate change deniers and renewable energy denouncers)
12-19	Lugar says energy security should be priority (read: let coal companies and complicit agencies blast away the Appalachian mountains)
12-19	The World Ignores Climate Change At Its Own Peril
12-18	What's in the water at Prenter?
12-18	Coal-to-liquid lies and insanity: Rockefeller News Release - U.S. Senate Endorses Rockefeller Proposal for Coal-to-Liquid Development   -  The U.S. Congress, always willing to be shilling
12-18	Massey miner dies two weeks after 40-foot conveyor belt fall - Man dies of injuries from conveyor belt fall at Massey-owned mine
12-18	Massey settles lawsuit in Boone mine death
12-18	Stan, Stan, He's Not Our Man -  Nominee's Company Had Safety Violations
12-18	Boone County leads state in coal production
12-18	FutureGen winner to be named today  -   Officials to Pick Site for Coal Plant  -  Plans for pollution-free coal plant move forward with site selection (then, plans for coal-extraction-destruction also move forward)  - New Type of Coal Plant Moves Ahead, Haltingly
12-18	11 groups ask Duke to ditch plant efforts: Environmentalists ask company to instead boost energy efficiency
12-18	Utahns rally against Nevada coal plant
12-18	Canada OKs limited review of mine plans
12-18	Edwards writes legislation calling for new federal study of coal plant emissions
12-18	Power Plant Has Two Longtime Foes at Odds Again
12-18	Let's remove big money from campaigns
12-18	Wheat price tops $10 per barrel, sets new record
12-18	US Pours Cold Water on Bali Optimism
12-18	Ten Takeaways from the Bali Climate Change Summit
12-18	Sea-level rise this century could be twice IPCC's predictions, says research
12-17	Bo Webb op-ed: Company officials spin, distort the truth about mining
12-17	Mining practice opposed by most (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)
12-17	PSC says multistate line won’t help
12-17	Mandate 'green' technology in state buildings
12-17	Mansion fund mail expresses concerns
12-17	Steven Griles
12-17	New Tracking Systems Soon In Place At West Virginia Mines
12-17	Experts rethink coal  -  Industry must participate in march toward low carbon future
12-17	Group to Ask for Expanded Inquiry of the Power Markets
12-17	Oceans’ Growing Acidity Alarms Scientists
12-17	It’s Too Late for Later
12-17	China axes 13 coal power plants, cites pollution
12-17	Coal-to-liquid insanity: Chinese coal-to-liquid project may start earlier
12-17	More action after Bali talks  -  Simple Numbers to Shape Climate Talks  -  Bali a step back from the abyss  -  Climate change Agreeing upon a timetable
12-17	US concern on climate change deal not warranted: Sibal  -  Small group of US (Exxon-funded) "expert" insist global warming not man-made
12-17	George Monbiot: We've been suckered again by the US. So far the Bali deal is worse than Kyoto
12-17	Voters duped on plant's true cost
12-16	2007 Among Top 7 Warmest Years, Arctic Melts - WMO   - In 2007, Polar Ice Cap Vanished at Record Clip
12-16	No Day at the Beach in Bali; High drama leads to compromise at climate conference  - A Look at the Bali Climate Change Plan -   Climate Plan Looks Beyond Bush's Tenure   -