(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   -  Bali Forum Backs Climate 'Road Map'  -  US sets terms for climate talks  -  Ambitions are fine, but climate change needs drastic action  -  UN chief welcomes outcome of UN Climate Change Conference in Bali  -  UN climate change conference concludes with adoption of Bali Roadmap   -  US Wary of Global Warming Framework  -  190 nations join hands to fight global warming - Al Gore Lays Blame for Bali Stalemate on US
12-16	As China Goes, So Goes Global Warming
12-16	Case for power line weak, PSC experts say
12-16	International Coal Group VP's opinion: Environmental activists are obstructing W.Va.’s future
12-16	Silas House: Making an invisible region visible; Mining coal, but with integrity
12-16	George Hohmann's opinion: Cheap power has its rewards (coal-fueled electricity is not cheap when all the externalized costs--poisoned air and water, global climate change, pollution-related illness, black lung, ecological destruction--are factored in. We need a full accounting of the true costs of coal)
12-16	Energy nominee drawing fire; WATCHDOGS BLAST EX-MASSEY EXEC OVER VIOLATIONS
12-16	Officials must balance commercial, residential use of river
12-16	Activists, McGinty meet on coal ash
12-16	Sundance Channel Acquires Eleven Documentaries to Premiere as Part of THE GREEN
12-16	Sierra Club focuses on mountaintop mining (scroll down)
12-16	China: Coal mine owner detained for gas blast that killed 105
12-16	Coal mine mixed blessing for Indians; Venezuelan natives get schools, roads, libraries and environmental damage
12-16	Immediate action needed to save corals from climate change
12-16	Kyoto Pact Good for Australia's Uranium Miners
12-16	Climate Change Poses Dangerous Health Risks - WHO
12-16	Indigenous People Fear Double Climate Hit
12-16	California Greenhouse Gas Law Prevails in US Court
12-16	Republican Candidates' Views on Global Warming
12-16	No better age is coming, we can only try to protect what we have
12-16	Wyoming, Montana senators push to smooth abandoned mine payments
12-15	BaliBuzz: U.S. Finally Dragged Kicking And Screaming into UN Climate Deal  -  Countries Agree to Write New Climate Action Pact  -   Nations Set Timetable to Revive Climate Treaty
12-15	Poor Nations Demand Green Technology
12-15	Still time to Stop Billions in Coal/Nuke Subsidies
12-15	Senate Skirmish Over US Greenhouse-Gas Regulation
12-15	Congress Walks Out on Renewable Energy  -  Industry Flexes Muscle, Weaker Energy Bill Passes   -  The Senate's soft energy bill - Senate energy bill: Tough fuel standards in, renewable package out
12-15	W.Va. Governor, Massey CEO Settle Suit   -  Threat Lawsuit Expected to Cost WV Taxpayers More than $1M  -  Federal Lawsuit Against Manchin Is Dropped
12-15	Coal-to-gas not a long-term solution, economist warns
12-15	Coal-to-liquid insanity: Pike judge visits nation's capital to promote energy  -  USAF ADVANCING WITH PLANS FOR SYNTHETIC FUEL PLANT AT MONTANA BASE
12-15	Can a West Virginian housewife teach us to stop mountaintop removal?
12-15	MUSIC OF COAL
12-15	W.Va. coal contributes to global warming (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)
12-15	Coal likely to boost U.S. 2007 carbon emissions
12-15	Residents fear fly-ash dump
12-15	Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars
12-15	A season to fight coal
12-15	Council delays vote on barge facility
12-15	Acidic Seas May Kill 98 Percent of World's Reefs by 2050
12-15	Edwards tells coal miner's story
12-15	Carbon's rocky road
12-15	Coal Day in Hell
12-15	'Clean' coal? What a joke
12-14	Manchin praises new state energy plan
12-14	Big Coal's Dirty Plans for Our Energy Future (with shocking photos)
12-14	DEP rejects drilling in park
12-14	Coal Ban May Avert `Point of No Return,' Climate Scientists Say
12-14	Bush taps former Massey executive for DOE seat
12-14	Minority of Senate Kills Efforts to Repeal Billions in Tax Giveaways to Big Oil
12-14	Coal-bed methane air standards
12-14	Deal to fight deforestation agreed at climate talks
12-14	World poised to sign climate deal
12-14	Global Warming = Military Issue?
12-14	The Biggest Global Warming Crime in History
12-14	Global warming alert over coral reefs
12-14	WV Gov. Joe Manchin, King Coal’s Friend in Court
12-14	Carbon myths
12-14	Church presents film on mountaintop removal coal mining  -  "Black Diamonds" documentary
12-14	Innovation tips
12-13	Charleston Gazette: MSHA’s Stickler near term’s end
12-13	Washington Post: Close Senate Vote Expected on Energy Bill
12-13	The State Journal editorial: Coal Industry Finds a Friend in Court
12-13	The State Journal: W.Va. Met Coal Producers See Increasing Demand
12-13	Roanoke Times editorial: Choking on the politics of coal  -  U.S. agency objects to proposed power plant
12-13	Chicago Tribune: 2 states, 1 big coal windfall  -  FutureGen announcement date draws fire from DOE
12-13	Faces of Mountaintop Removal
12-13	Daily Kos: Wreck the Planet, Win a Prize!
12-13	Sundance Channel Acquires Eleven Documentaries to Premiere as Part of THE GREEN
12-13	Dear Ann Pancake or anyone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Ann Pancake
12-13	Sheboygan Press: Stop use of mountaintop coal (Letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)
12-13	GE May Get U.S. Gas Turbine Boost Over Dirtier Coal
12-13	Wall Street Journal: Peabody Looks to Develop A Coal Mine in China
12-13	Nuclear Power's "Green" Credentials Under Fire
12-13	Climate Change Drying Up Mountains in Western US
12-13	Ban Ki-Moon's Speech at UN Bali Climate Talk  -   Noteable Quotes at Bali Climate Talks   -  UN's Ban Urges 2009 Deadline for Climate Deal
12-13	EU and U.S. trade charges of blocking Bali talks  -  U.S. defends environmental steps
12-13	Hard Choices on Climate Can Wait for Next President
12-13	DJ Mary Mack
12-12	Ominous Arctic melt worries experts
12-12	Pity West Virginia: The backlash against coal has not made it to the halls of power in WV
12-12	WV Public radio: PSC staff, consultants oppose WV power line (scroll to 12/11 entry)
12-12	Appalachian Power Wants Customers To Pay For New "Green" Plant
12-12	Black lung on the rise in W.Va.
12-12	McConnell gets a lump of coal
12-12	Two critical (but tentative) green victories hang in the balance  -   The Widening Chasm on Energy  -  GOP Fights Energy Bill  -  Democrats in Senate put energy challenge to Bush  -  Senate dims lights on renewable energy proposal
12-12	Testimony of Kentucky author Silas House on a mountaintop removal tour
12-12	Treading water: Activists and state representatives try to protect streams from mining waste
12-12	The coal face of global warming
12-12	Hard Choices on Climate Can Wait for Next President, Aides Indicate
12-12	Mine owners warned on safety violations
12-12	Off-Peak Laundry? Pricing Power by the Hour
12-12	Wyoming, Montana senators push to smooth abandoned mine payments
12-12	Australia: Coal is becoming a dirty word
12-12	Climate talks: Time to act is now, says UN chief
12-12	Bali Break Through in Climate Change Talks
12-12	World Bank Starts Deforestation, Climate Change Funds
12-12	Gore accuses US of blocking at Bali
12-12	Yet Another Report Reveals: Bush Manipulated Climate Science, Suppressed Scientists
12-12	PM's message to US: world wants the rich to fight global warming
12-12	Climate warming threatens Antarctica Penguins
12-11	It's too late to stop climate change, argues Ross Gelbspan -- so what do we do now?
12-11	George Monbiot: The real answer to climate change is to leave fossil fuels in the ground; All the talk in Bali about cutting carbon means nothing while ever more oil and coal is being extracted and burned
12-11	UN Talks Drop 2020 Greenhouse Gas Cut Targets   -  UN Climate Talks Under Pressure to Drop 2020 Goals  - US Balks at Bali Carbon Targets  - Row over 2020 emissions goal sours Bali climate talks  -  World Needs Robust Climate Pact for Security  - Finance Ministers in Bali Count Climate Costs  -  Bali UN Climate Talks and Goals
12-11	Gore Nobel Lecture: Time to Make Peace With the Planet  -  Gore Urges Bold Moves in Nobel Speech
12-11	What are the most important elements in a climate bill?
12-11	Democrats' report: White House misleads on climate
12-11	Appalachian Power signals partial compromise on power plant
12-11	Mingo County CTL plant plans move ahead
12-11	Bomb the Mountains to Bomb the Deserts: Eastern Kentucky Could Provide Air Force Fuel
12-11	Strengthen seal rules, MSHA urged
12-11	Lexington company gets MSHA warning  -  20 Companies Warned by Mine Agency   -  MSHA identifies 20 repeat violators of health and safety rules
12-11	Federal judge approves AEP settlement over acid rain
12-11	Message From the Wannabe Green Community to the Future President of The United States
12-11	Governor Beshear--Good luck in a most challenging job  -  Banker to head Kentucky's environmental cabinet
12-11	How the Senate Tide Turned Against Wind and Solar
12-11	Pennsylvania illnesses related to environment, researchers say
12-11	Wyoming: Uncertainty scuttles 2 coal-based power projects
12-11	Texas: Coal plant phase out
12-11	Utah: Accessible coal getting scarce
12-11	Australia: Little future for coal power
12-11	Australia: Mine coal dust a worry for locals
12-11	Peabody Energy Joins China's 'GreenGen' to Develop Near-Zero Emissions Coal Plant
12-11	Energy, Carbon Concerns Put Spotlight on Uranium  -  Westinghouse Sees UK Nuke Decision as Watershed
12-11	'The biggest environmental crime in history'   -   Grabbing for oil: U.S. thirst powers push for Canada fuel   -  Big Oil lets sun set on renewables   -  The pipeline dream lurking in Canada's wild
12-11	Big Oil to Sign Iraq Deals Soon
12-11	New study shows world's protected areas threatened by climate change
12-11	Animals, plants need help adapting to climate change
12-11	Climate change spawns bugs, drought
12-11	Mass Youth Climate Action
12-11	Climate Missing from US Election - Gore
12-11	Africa: Climate Change - Heating Up Conflict
12-11	Spain Unveils Green Home Plan to Beat Global Warming
12-10	WV MetroNews: Backgrounder On Valley Fill Permits  - Daily Mail editorial: Regulating mines is for legislators; Courts are not the proper forum for making rules in such situations (Hello Daily Mail? The rules have been made and the rules are routinely broken by agencies and coal companies--hence the move to the courts.)
12-10	Pure water: DEP's Shortsighted shortcuts
12-10	Hearing set on AEP power plant
12-10	Circus Maximus: the clown car of American politics
12-10	Environmental group, state clash over the use of fly ash
12-10	Child Cancer Risk Higher Near Nuclear Plants - Study
12-10	US Senate Blocks Speedy Vote on House Energy Bill
12-10	U.S. rejects stiff 2020 greenhouse goals in Bali  -  2 top polluters oppose caps in Bali   -  Rich-poor divide on climate costs
12-10	UN Climate Chief Says Science Clear, Move On  -  Developed Nations Must Cut Emissions, UN Draft Says
12-10	Nobel Laureate Gore Sees Hope in "People Power"
12-10	California Sets Key Global Warming Target
12-10	Climate Change and Human Rights
12-10	CLIMATE CHANGE: Forests Could Cool or Cook the Planet
12-10	Climate change could heighten tensions, conflict worldwide
12-10	Proposed coal-fired plant carries huge hidden costs
12-10	Coal still major threat to climate
12-10	Experts: climate change threatening glaciers in Nepal
12-10	European Protesters Demand Action on Climate Change
12-10	US Farms Could Earn $4 to $6 Billion/Year For CO2
12-10	Combating climate change will create decent work
12-9	Sago blast possibly far more powerful than first reported
12-9	Scenes from the Monongah memorial
12-9	Residents: mine reclamation efforts won't return area to normal
12-9	Gee statement possible in lawsuit
12-9	Wyoming panel approves coal-to-liquids plant permit
12-9	Pollution health risks in our midst   -  Idaho, Nevada reservoir trout found with elevated mercury levels
12-9	China mine blast leaves 40 dead, 74 trapped
12-9	World Climate Change Protests Kick Off
12-9	Malaria Climbs Into Warmer Highlands
12-8	Senate rejects far-reaching energy bill - Senate To Rework Ambitious Energy Bill  -  Bayh, Lugar help block energy bill   -  GOP Gets Its Way on Energy, Too  -  US Senate May Vote On Pared-Down Energy Bill Next Week
12-8	Eastern Kentucky's greatest resource is its people
12-8	Massey announces coal reserves acquisition
12-8	Beshear bid raised record $7 million
12-8	Episcopal Church change allows Denise Giardina to be a deacon again
12-8	Troubled mine may be auctioned
12-8	"Clean" coal still a distant vision (actually, there's no such thing as long as there are mining methods like mountaintop removal)
12-8	Montana: Siting permit OK'd for coal-to-liquid operation  -  Crow leader outlines plan for fuel plant
12-8	Rocky Mountain Power: No new coal-fired power plants for next decade  -  Utah Coal Plants Taken Off Table  -  PacifiCorp unplugs coal-plants plan
12-8	BPU scraps plans for coal-fired plant in KCK
12-8	Coal fires burn in Wayne National Forest
12-8	Public meeting to address proposed coal plant
12-8	Train carrying coal derails near Evansville
12-8	Europe knows US can mine coal, but can it deliver?
12-8	Group touts seaweed as warming weapon   -  Scientists at climate conference tout the lowly seaweed as global warming solution
12-8	Cut GhGs or Face Extreme Events - Scientists
12-8	Coral 'facing extinction'
12-8	Island states urge far tougher U.N. climate goals
12-8	Demonstrators across the world call for urgent action to stop 'climate change catastrophe'
12-7	Manchin joins Massey, industry in mine ruling appeal
12-7	Kentucky: Mountaintop Removal Permit Challenged
12-7	Kentucky: Beshear names four to cabinet  -  Two new appointments raise ethics concerns
12-7	Scientists issue dire climate change warning  -  Scientists Beg for Climate Action  -  US Under Mounting Pressure at Bali
12-7	Major Global Warming Bill Headed for Senate
12-7	Greens Take Heart at Final Energy Bill   -  Broad Energy Bill Passed by House  -  White House renews veto threat after House passage of energy bill  -  Details on the House Energy Bill  -  Energy In Da Hooouuuse!
12-7	New Sago suit cites S. African oxygen bottle maker
12-7	Hearings on Mason County coal-fired plant to begin
12-7	WV Public TV Outlook: Energy Plan (transcript in a pdf)
12-7	Monongah: 100 years later; Dead workers from America’s worst coal mine accident honored
12-7	EPA's rule on coal plants' mercury emissions challenged  -  Maine joins fight against EPA mercury rule  -  EPA Plan to Evade Required Cuts in Mercury Pollution Challenged in Court by States
12-7	Missouri central in coal plant debate
12-7	1920 Matewan Massacre site could join U.S. parks system
12-7	Legislators listen to opposing opinions as they ponder choices
12-7	UK students sit in, but president gone
12-7	AML money comes with a catch for Wyo.  -  Lawmakers object to distribution of abandoned mine land money
12-7	Coal mine blast toll rises to 105 in China
12-7	Green Jobs" to Outweigh Losses From Climate Change
12-7	Thunder, Hail, Fire: What Does Climate Change Mean for the US?
12-7	WSJ Launches Luddite Attack on Climate Scientists and Al Gore
12-7	Plants and animals already falling victim to global warming
12-7	Bali meeting to set timeline for climate change deal by 2009: UN chief
12-7	Positive aspect of climate change - it could generate jobs
12-7	Up to 60 pct of Amazon at risk from climate change: WWF
12-7	US, poor nations won't pledge binding cuts in Bali: UN
12-7	Vulnerable Communities Worldwide Adapt to Climate Change
12-7	Global warming to burn Aussie farmers
12-6	West Virginia Public Radio: Summit focuses on future of coal (scroll to 12/05 entry)   -  The State Journal: Manchin Urges Nonpartisan Approach to Energy
12-6	Miner death suit begins in Boone
12-6	House Ready to Vote on Big Energy Bill
12-6	A Look at Senate Global Warming Bill -  State Carbon Plans May Stall US Climate Bill
12-6	Scarred: Monongah disaster  -  Click here to see the Dec. 7, 1907 edition of The Charleston Gazette (pdf)   -  100 Years Later
12-6	More coal-to-liquid insanity: Rentech moves up timetable for Natchez project
12-6	Drilling rig worker killed in Boone County
12-6	Gas blast at China coal mine, 96 feared dead: Xinhua
12-6	Returns On Investment
12-6	Kentucky still lags behind, but the Bluegrass could change yet
12-6	Robinson's value: UK needs smaller forest for research
12-6	Scientists issue declaration at Bali
12-6	Climate change can create jobs: UN
12-6	What Bali Means for Carbon Markets  - What's on the Table at the Bali Climate Talks?  - Bali Talks Won't Agree Carbon Capture - UN Official  -  Poor Nations Seek to "Climate Proof" Economies  - UN Bali Climate Talks Skirmish Over China, India
12-6	Flood Risk Faces 150 Million in Cities By 2070 - OECD
12-6	'Out of Balance' Climate Film Targets ExxonMobil
12-6	Germany to Outline Laws for 40 Percent CO2 Cut
12-6	Global warming may heat up conflicts, too
12-6	"Cannabis hemp 'key' to climate change": Canna Zine
12-6	Emissions-cutting efforts haunted by specter of ecological imperialism
12-5	Coal preparation: Leaders focus on industry’s future, climate crisis and carbon challenges  - Making a case for coal, U.S. energy states demand - Energy summit to emphasize importance of coal -  States Say Feds Need To Help Or Get Out Of The Way (just kill us now)
12-5	How will you ride the slide?
12-5	Coal clouds over climate change talks  -  The energy battle
12-5	Lawmakers get real close view of mountaintop removal  -  Politicians see effects of mountain top mining
12-5	Miner Injured In Prep Plant Fall
12-5	Preliminary Construction Starts On Waste-Coal Power Plant
12-5	State officials order removal of fly ash, arsenic in Forward  -  State blames utility, water authority for ash slide
12-5	Energy Dept. Fined Over Nuke Site Spill
12-5	USA facing increase in severe storms, study says  -   Global Warming Likely To Increase Stormy Weather
12-5	US must act fast to slow climate change
12-5	Small Step, Big Victory on Energy
12-5	Ted Glick: 91 Days and a Victory in Sight
12-5	Climate Fund Falls Far Short
12-5	Climate group: Next president must act quickly on global warming
12-5	Seattle Wants Builders To Account for Global Warming
12-4	Talking Energy (actually, talking you know what...and no one who isn't in denial of climate change is welcome to attend)
12-4	EASTERN KENTUCKIANS GIVE STATE LEGISLATORS A TOUR OF MOUNTAINTOP MINING  -  Members Of The House Appropriations Committee View Mountaintop Removal   -  Ky.: Lawmakers Tour Mining Areas
12-4	No Scowl for coal destruction?  (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools...please use them!)  -  Article contains misguided thinking  - New energy source (scroll down)
12-4	White House warns of possible energy bill veto  -  Renewable Fuel Compromise Key to Bill
12-4	All about coal--a necessary evil (is killing the planet for our gadgets really necessary?)
12-4	An early gift for miners
12-4	Power Outages Forecast For Md.; Likely Brownouts, High Rates Blamed On Deregulation
12-4	TECO coal case gets high court hearing
12-4	Andrew Revkin: Stuck on Coal, and Stuck for Words in a High-Tech World
12-4	Critics target coal plans
12-4	For Investors: Ten Insights on Carbon Policy
12-4	China's Draft Energy Law to Up Reserves
12-4	El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido - the people united will never be defeated
12-4	US Business Carbon Slash Hoax Fools Some Media
12-4	Historic vote on global warming
12-4	Naughty" Nations In A Coal Lot Of Trouble In Bali  -   At Bali conference, climate change victims note aid is tiny fraction of needs   -  UN environment body urges prompt actions to adapt to climate change  -  Technological innovation vital for tackling climate change  -  Europe offers steeper greenhouse gas cuts  -  High Stakes on a Greenhouse Gas Conference in Bali  -  High Stakes on a Greenhouse Gas Conference in Bali
12-4	Kyoto's Failure Haunts New UN Talks
12-4	Water shortages are likely to be trigger for wars, says UN chief Ban Ki Moon
12-4	Asia-Pacific nations urge awareness on water issues under climate change
12-4	Global firms ask leaders to agree on climate change framework
12-4	Join The National Campus Energy Challenge! -   Students do their part for Earth
12-4	China urges major powers to cut CO2 by 25-40%
12-4	Climate change means tropics are much bigger
12-4	Climate cause fires ice cream guru
12-4	US Says Seeks New Climate Deal, Rejects Kyoto
12-4	Climate change may wipe some Indonesian islands off map
12-4	Forests, the Great Green Hope?
12-4	Experts say 25 percent of US birds at risk
12-4	Missouri man dies after plunge into Wyoming coal mine
12-3	Bali Talks To Seek Global Climate Deal In 2009  -  Bali Talks Aim To Jumpstart Climate Change Fight  -   Main Players At Bali Climate Talk  -  From LiveEarth To Bali: A Year Of Climate Gathering  - World leaders to discuss steps to save planet  -  Indonesia Hosting Global Warming Talks  -  In Bali, new urgency for a climate change accord
12-3	UN: US Key to Any New Climate Pact  -  UN Panel Lays Out Risks, Solutions To Warming
12-3	Gov. Manchin Wants Series of Liquid Coal Plants
12-3	Carbon Storage Gains Support  -  Boston Globe editorial: Capture carbon, but then what?
12-3	Another suit filed over fatal mine fire
12-3	The Monongah Disaster: Book plumbs causes, effects, even new death toll in 1907 blast
12-3	Coal mines are also our concern
12-3	Energy-Hungry India Eyes Role As "Wind Superpower"   -   India's need for coal is growing
12-3	Nine die in coal mine blast in China
12-3	Peabody in talks with Chinese coal firms on joint exploration
12-3	China 'very likely' to be coal net importer in 2008  -  China, India Urged to Curb Energy Use
12-3	Corporate lobbyists scramble to milk Bush for all he’s worth
12-3	Scary climate change stories in video and in words
12-3	Alaska island, residents, losing ground to global warming
12-3	Expanding Tropics Could Spur Storms  –  Tropical Belt Widens as Global Climate Changes, Researchers Say
12-3	Climate Change May Wipe Some Indonesian Islands Off Map
12-3	Bangladesh Says Needs Aid To Adapt To Warmer World
12-3	India To Tell West To Shoulder Climate Change Burden  -  Rich countries urged to come clean on climate change
12-3	German Minister Warns Of Climate Change Peril
12-2	Manchin sticks with liquid coal in energy plan (Herholdt's comments are outrageous--the environment and energy extraction and energy use aren't related? )
12-2	As mining increased, MSHA cut staff
12-2	Mine cleanup fund ‘rapidly’ going broke
12-2	New York Times: Business Lobby Presses Agenda Before ’08 Vote  -  Slate: The Call of K Street
12-2	Take Action: Energy Bill
12-2	Country singer Kathy Mattea, raised in coal country, grows up to be an environmentalist
12-2	Could power lines lift economy?  -  You would foot the bill (scroll down to middle entry on power lines)
12-2	Thousands Enjoy Early Christmas  -   Massey Energy Christmas Extravaganza (here kiddies, have some cheap plastic crap as a replacement for your blown up mountains, buried streams and poisoned water...)
12-2	Co-Gen plant
12-2	Coal becomes an art form in heart of W.Va. coal country
12-2	Coal dust problem could raise CU bills
12-2	Conference the world's 'last chance to avoid catastrophic global warming'  -  What's up with the climate conference in Bali?  -  Summit Plans Global Climate Deal
12-2	Time magazine: Can We Save the World by 2015?  -  10 years left to reverse climate change: UN
12-2	Keeping ahead of climate change
12-2	The People We Have Been Waiting For
12-1	Teens to host program Tuesday on effects of mountaintop removal
12-1	In This Election, an Energy Opportunity
12-1	West Virginia Public Radio: Google teams with environmentalists on mountaintop removal (scroll to 11/30 entry)
12-1	Lawmakers Set Deal on Raising Fuel Efficiency
12-1	Dec. fire offered warning, suit charges; MSHA says Aracoma showed ‘reckless disregard’ for safety rules
12-1	Coal's desperate campaign for survival; A multi-million dollar ad campaign tries to convince Americans that coal still rules
12-1	Wyoming: CTL plant ready to move forward
12-1	More coal-to-liquid insanity: W.Va. senator proposes coal research program: Rockefeller in Parkersburg   - Rockefeller says U.S. not safer today than before 9-11  -  Ohio senator says better economy on the way - Community leaders share ideas, problems with Brown
12-1	Take Action! Tell Congress NO! coal-to-liquid
12-1	Coal use called greatest threat to our climate
12-1	How Much Money Do You Give to the Coal Industry?
12-1	Novel gives breathing room to riveting W. Virginia coal stories
12-1	UVA Students Hold "Die-In" Against Coal Energy
12-1	Kentucky advanced-coal project obtains air permit  -  Idaho Project Switches to Coal Gasification  -  Rally a preview of real celebration  -  Finalists await call on FutureGen's location  - Washington State Rejects Coal Gasification Power Plant
12-1	Kan. Court Takes Coal Plant Dispute
12-1	Collapse in mine safety, report says
12-1	Gambrills family suit claims water fouled by dump  -  Fly ash suit a relief from fears, plaintiff says
12-1	Beijing seeks foreign coal
12-1	Ukraine Blast Injures Miners
12-1	Calif. leads, struggles with emission-capping plan
12-1	Rich nations must do more on climate change: Prince Charles
12-1	Ecologist lectures on implications of 'A World Without Oil'