(Dec)  Archive - January, 2008  (Feb)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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1-31	UN: Climate Change May Cost $20 Trillion
1-31	US Scraps Futuristic Coal Plant  -  Plan for Carbon Storage Dropped; Energy Dept. Scraps FutureGen Alliance  -24 Hours After Touting Clean Coal In SOTU, White House Drops Ambitious Clean Coal Project  -  U.S. Drops Coal Project; 'Clean' Power Plant Loses Bush Support Amid Rising Costs
1-31	John Grisham disses Blankenship, WV court (scroll to 1/30 entry) - Transcript (pdf) of WV Public Radio story
1-31	Miners Protest Kroger  -  KROGER PROTEST-  Details on obtaining your Kroger Cares gift card to support OVEC--without adding to your grocery bill
1-31	Friends of Coal Push New Message, Outreach
1-31	Walker Machinery's Luv Bug
1-31	Attorneys general seek stop to coal plant
1-31	Mining Accident in Raleigh County
1-31	Haze incident reveals flaw; Officials feel communication was inadequate
1-31	Muhlenberg County, Ky: Fuel Frontiers, Shaw to build coal to liquid plant
1-31	Artists bring their politically-charged art to Java Joint
1-31	New 'Green' Energy from Dirty Sources : Efficiency Greenest of All
1-31	The Right Click
1-31	Daryl Hannah Launches Her New Website!
1-31	China weather chaos a sign of things to come: experts
1-31	Climate Plans by New York, Florida Prod U.S. on Global Accord
1-31	Why Maryland must fight global warming now
1-30	Tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern time: Tune in to The 2 percent Solution and Focus the Nation!    -  Finding solutions to climate change goal of nationwide event
1-30	Unpunished: Mine safety violators
1-30	"Clean coal" plant loses funding  -  Energy Dept. Might Drop Support for FutureGen Power Plant - Ill. Lawmakers Will Fight for Coal Plant   -  PastGen
1-30	Jeff Biggers: Stripmining Black History Month
1-30	Justice recuses himself again; Maynard off Wheeling Pitt, Massey case  -  Maynard Hopes Controversy Over Vacation Ends With Receipts
1-30	Senate debates merits of appointed versus elected judges
1-30	Electing judges, with cash   -  Novel linked to state election
1-30	Massey watch
1-30	Measure offered to protect landowners in gas, oil drilling
1-30	Mountaintop removal commercials bug reader  (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!) - Coal companies trample opposition   -  This 'Free speech' gives favor to corporate rights
1-30	Vanity Fair: Q&A: Michael Shnayerson, Author of Coal River
1-30	WVU Press announces top 10 list of recent best-sellers
1-30	Take a trip to the mountains   -   Mountaintop removal comes to Louisville
1-30	Duke fires up coal plant plans
1-30	“Please don’t burn even more coal, S.C.” say eight other states
1-30	Boucher Needs to Wean District Off Coal
1-30	New CBM water treatment plant nears completion
1-30	1-10-year US coal export deals possible: CONSOL CEO  -  Consol profits hit hard by coal mine disruption
1-30	Bush moots international fund to promote clean energy sources  -  Bush to commit $2 billion to climate change fund
1-30	Questions surround Giles partnership
1-30	Saying Goodbye To The Oil Age  -  Oil scarcity has 'snuck up on us', expert says
1-30	Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
1-30	Scotland aims to lead world in global warming battle
1-30	Climate Change Links 2008 Champions of the Earth
1-30	US Climate Talks Must Focus on Emissions Curbs - UN
1-30	Leading Dems Are in King Coal's Pocket
1-30	25 confirmed dead in N China coal mine blast
1-29	MSHA urged to detail problems with assessing fines
1-29	Pressure mounts on coal king: Don Blankenship is the man who destroys mountains
1-29	Christian Science Monitor - How the mountains of Appalachia disappear; Michael Shnayerson profiles one valley's battle against mountaintop mining    -   'Coal River' author to sign books here
1-29	Chief justice Maynard offers credit record on trip
1-29	Coal prospects uncertain but not glum
1-29	Pressure mounts on coal king
1-29	CENSORED
1-29	Proposed coal power plants hit snags
1-29	US looks to old Herr Kohle for energy security
1-29	Maynard makes W.Va. look foolish (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
1-29	Va. state senator: Lobbyist helped write column
1-29	Va. bills would give communities a voice in fly ash debate
1-29	Vermont Students Lead National Teach-In on Climate Change
1-29	Air Pollution Control Board not satisfied with Dominion coal-plant proposal
1-29	The Preservation Predicament
1-29	The health externalities of coal
1-29	SEA competes to reduce Main Campus' carbon footprint
1-29	Bush To Appoint Coal Industry Champion To Head Consumer Safety Commission
1-29	Bush administration should rethink environmental policies
1-29	Bush Touts Iraq Progress, Economic Plan
1-29	Is America Coming Back?
1-29	Toxic West Virginia: Mountaintop Removal- Episode 1
1-29	Nothing New for Environment in Bush State of the Union
1-28	MSHA discovers forgotten penalties
1-28	‘Clean elections’ bill gains support
1-28	W.Va. Met Coal Producers See Increasing Demand
1-28	Documentary director shines light on coal mining industry
1-28	Interview with Mike Papantonio  -  Mike Papantonio  Interviews Antrim Caskey
1-28	Massey-Maynard photos highlight controversial rule
1-28	Logan County flood project set to begin (the office holders continue to deny the role mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining plays in increasing sedimentation and flooding)
1-28	Clean Coal's Dirty Little Secret
1-28	Value of U.S. House's Carbon Offsets Is Murky
1-28	Coal losing its luster
1-28	Teach-ins tackle climate change
1-28	No war, no warming, round two
1-28	Maldives Builds Barriers to Global Warming
1-28	Forget yield, crops need to be climate-proof
1-27	Charleston Gazette: Mine fines routinely ignored; MSHA leaders promise reforms
1-27	Media consign global warming to back burner
1-27	Blue haze mystery starting to dissipate
1-27	Massey appeals $220 million verdict from Northern Panhandle
1-27	Mike Tidwell: Dominion Power's Dirty Plans for Virginia
1-27	Boucher needs to wean district off coal
1-27	Technology won’t help us to live without water
1-27	Can new technology make coal a green fuel for the 21st century? (Coal is filthy, from extraction, to cleaning for market, to transportation, to burning, to "disposal" of the ash, to mucking up politics.)
1-27	Legislators should look at workers' comp (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
1-27	Ona company develops mine tracking system
1-27	Navajos seeking a fresh power source; Tribe split over coal plant or renewable energy sources
1-27	Permit approved for new Duke Energy power plant  -   Proposed Power Plant Receives Air Permit  -  State gives green light to coal plant
1-27	Ky. OKs Cash Creek
1-27	With the dollar down, coal exports through Hampton Roads heat up
1-27	Peabody revives Wyo's advanced coal ambitions
1-27	New report on mercury-laced tuna exposes reckless regulatory policies by land and by sea
1-27	Great Lakes' Lower Water Levels Propel a Cascade of Hardships
1-27	Global Warming: Time Lapse Photography Slideshow
1-27	Antarctic glaciers melting more quickly
1-26	Water Shortage, Warming Threaten Stability   -   As Supplies Dry Up, Growers Pass on Farming and Sell Water
1-26	Maynard files to run for another term; Justice under fire for photos with Massey CEO
1-26	Odor, haze linked to power plant emissions, DEP believes
1-26	In Appalachia, Mountaintop Removal
1-26	"Coal River" makes New York Times' Book Review Editors' Choice
1-26	EPA Director Called Before Senate  -  Environmental Punishment Agency  -  EPA chief grilled over California rejection
1-26	Corporate Priests and Moron Jokes
1-26	Let's stop ignoring damage from mining
1-26	Man dies after being struck by dump truck at power plant
1-26	South Africa: Coal-to-liquid at least 60% more greenhouse gas intensive than conventional oil refining
1-26	South Africa will ration electricity, increase prices and encourage a switch to solar energy
1-26	China Halts Coal Exports Amid Shortage
1-26	Wales: Coal mine closes with celebration
1-26	Shell Admits Cheap Oil Is Running Out
1-26	Penn State joins largest teach-in in US history  -  We don't need no thought control
1-26	Scientists update climate change position
1-26	Himalaya Magnify Global Warming Impact
1-26	Climate change causes new 'epoch'
1-26	Climate change to hit health above economy   -  Is climate change making us sick?
1-26	Global warming prompts some lifestyle changes
1-26	Europe climate targets strong signal to others-UN
1-26	US pushes its climate change agenda despite criticism
1-25	Passing the Buck on Environmental Damage: Sixty percent of ecological services are degraded or being used unsustainably
1-25	Listen to Michael Shnayerson, Joe Lovett, Judy Bonds on NPR's Diane Rehm Show
1-25	Gazette: Court votes unanimously to rehear Massey case   -  Associated Press: In wake of photos, recusal, Supreme Court to rehear Massey case  - New York Times: West Virginia: Reconsidering an Energy Ruling
1-25	EPA Chief Defends Shielding of Global Warming Papers   -    EPA Staff Finds Emissions Threat  - EPA Staff Backed California Pollution Waiver - EPA Expected to Lose Calif Emissions Suit
1-25	If coal is so good, why is W.Va. still poor? (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
1-25	NIOSH study backs mine shelters
1-25	STOPPING COAL IN ITS TRACKS
1-25	Elisa Young
1-25	How Successful Are Coal Front Groups?
1-25	New films, web films and audio films of 2008
1-25	Westernport mayor warns of strip mines
1-25	UN Calls Water Top Priority
1-25	Climate legislation may be easier next year, but it won't be easy
1-25	My Other Car is a Bright Green City  -  The Peak Oil Crisis: The Future of Cars
1-25	Gore Says "Changing Light Bulbs" Not Enough
1-25	Global Warming by the Numbers; Economic opportunity and a clean energy future
1-25	To climate deniers — Need for change is now
1-25	Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns
1-24	World is on the verge of a water crisis (but in West Virginia, so called leaders are allowing the coal industry to bury streams, poison groundwater and destroy our future)
1-24	Charleston Gazette: Group to study post-mining land use; Gov. Joe Manchin wants a team of state officials and economic developers to study ways West Virginia can better use former mountaintop removal mine sites
1-24	Ky. bill would ease safety requirements for smallest surface mines
1-24	Mountain Justice Spring Break is a comin’!
1-24	Take Action: Tell the government, look before you mine!
1-24	Bastress Blasts Maynard-Blankenship Vacation  -  Maynard Urges Standards for Judges  -  After Massey Case, Prof in Court Race - Another Round of Caperton-Massey
1-24	Clean streams: Valuable for the future
1-24	Power from coal is old way to go  -  Clean-coal technology is a true oxymoron (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
1-24	Hearings begin in Aracoma Mine fire case
1-24	Herald Tribune (Fla.) editorial: Clean coal's dirty secret
1-24	Moratorium on Coal Financing
1-24	Louisville Film Society Presents “Mountain Top Removal” @ The Clifton Center, 1/31
1-24	Melton among participants in 'Gathering for Justice'
1-24	Environmental Groups Critical of Proposed Power Plant
1-24	If you want affordable, clean energy, look beyond coal
1-24	Tuna Troubles
1-24	State regulators: Utah should inspect coal mines without delay  -  Families of Utah miners killed plan suit
1-24	Boucher for Obama
1-24	RWE says EU plan threatens coal as fuel
1-24	Armed Forces Face Strain of Climate Change
1-24	Coal-fires science: Ready to ignite around the world
1-24	Climate change ‘will lead to warfare over food and water’
1-24	Hurricanes and global warming devastate Caribbean coral reefs
1-23	Starcher asks for probe of court; Photo of Maynard with Blankenship raised questions   -  Starcher asks Court to preserve Maynard-Blankenship evidence  -   Justice Calls for Investigation in Massey Energy Case  -  Justice Seeks Probe in Massey Case
1-23	Sago coal hauling trial to start  -  Trial of coal hauling suits to begin
1-23	New budget includes more MSHA inspection funding
1-23	Bigger, safer lock opens at Marmet
1-23	Art on "reclaimed" mountaintop removal sites
1-23	Take Action: Coal Ash Threatens Your Drinking Water
1-23	Massey CEO had money left over (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
1-23	Tax breaks would spur cleaner coal plants, backers say (give us your money, let us destroy the mountains as we see fit)
1-23	Nevada: Coal plant debate intensifies
1-23	Coal truck accident in KY
1-23	If the world embraces nuclear energy, where will the deadly waste go?
1-23	US Censors Arctic Scientists’ Findings as it Prepares for Oil and Gas Auction
1-23	Dozens of New Satellites Planned to Monitor Climate
1-23	Study: Warming May Cut US Hurricane Hits
1-23	UAE Carbon Storage to Cost US$2-$3 Bl
1-23	World forum debates climate change   -   World Economic Forum to Talk About Food Prices, Climate Change
1-23	Climate change trade war
1-23	EU to Present Far-Reaching Plan Against Climate Change  -  EU to tackle climate change with windmills, heavy costs for polluters
1-23	More coal-to-liquid insanity: Wyoming gov. states case for energy  -  Freudenthal wants AML money spent on research, coal plant road
1-22	Strip mines denounced
1-22	New film targeting mountaintop removal hits home  -  State supreme court controversy
1-22	Starcher stepped down from ’96 case; Motion cited campaign contributions; high court debate to resume Thursday   -
1-22	The 'Spike' Maynard case: Justice undermined
1-22	US officials to learn about life after coal
1-22	Memo to OMSL?
1-22	Ed Wiley, Field Recordings #1
1-22	DEP says enforcement effort still behind
1-22	New book attempts to expose the dirty side of coal
1-22	The carbon question
1-22	Bodman Sees Nuclear Energy as Global Alternative
1-22	Red Cross Says Climate Change One of Greatest Threats Facing Humanity
1-22	Big Coal Turning Kids Into Pushers This Primary Season
1-21	Cost of business
1-21	Proposed plants face opposition in Meigs
1-21	Justice Benjamin Will Stay On Massey Case -  Maynard expected to face more questions about Massey ties  -  Harman joins bid for Maynard’s recusal
1-21	Author unearths the impacts of Appalachian mountaintop removal
1-21	EU carbon plans seen hurting coal plants  -  UK coal plants face double blow on CO2 permits
1-21	Coal agit-prop heats up
1-21	Companies try to anticipate carbon capture future
1-21	Scientists call for sharper cuts in carbon emissions
1-21	States combat global warming
1-21	China Coal Mine Blast Kills 20
1-20	DEP still behind on pollution monitoring; No citations or fines issued for mine water violations in late ’06, early ’07
1-20	Massive forest preserve planned
1-20	Warning of recession, Jay launches campaign
1-20	West Virginia Says "NO MORE!"
1-20	First Chapter of ‘Coal River’  - New York Times Sunday Book Review: Mountains Into Molehills
1-20	State's judicial ethics reputation sullied by friendship
1-20	Ross Gelbspan: Big Coal Spending $35 Million to Gut Candidates' Climate Positions  -  Coal Industry Launches $35 Million Ad Campaign   -  Coal: $35 million of Astroturf
1-20	Billionaire Mars fights coal push in Montana
1-20	Nuclear Revival Rekindles Waste Concerns
1-19	Benjamin in, Maynard out of Massey cases  -  'Spike' Out but Benjamin Refuses to Recuse  -  West Virginia Judge Steps Out of Case Involving a Travel Companion  - Coal operator surprised by justice’s recusal from case  (more stories below)
1-19	Cost of business  -  Outlaws and friends
1-19	New York Times Sunday Book Review: Mountains Into Molehills
1-19	Jeff Biggers: The Coal Truth on Candidates
1-19	Coal won’t be a viable energy option forever  -  Coal propaganda is just plain silly (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
1-19	Cabot Oil & Gas sues state over Chief Logan drilling rejection
1-19	WV Citizen Action Group Capital Eye   -  WVEC Green Legislative Update
1-19	LA Times: Coal is no longer on front burner   -  The politics of coal - John Edwards Calls For Ban On Coal-Fired Power Plants
1-19	The Coal War
1-19	Save the stream bill supporters hopeful this year
1-19	Art Preview: Artists unite over global concerns for 'Deliciously Disposable Earth'
1-19	Burning the Future: Coal in America
1-19	My Oh Monaco  -  W.Va. Justice Removes Himself From Case  -  Maynard withdrawing from Supreme Court case after vacation photos with Blankenship released  - Silly Elliott   -  Post-Christmas Lumps of Coal for Massey Energy
1-19	Massey Business  -  A Record Fine, But That Doesn't Mean It Isn't a Slap on the Wrist   -  Massey Energy to Pay Huge Penalty for Clean Water Act Violations $20 Million in Fines for Illegal Pollution
1-19	All sides must make their cases in riverfront barge dispute
1-19	Environmental groups want more time for public comment on proposed Wise County, Va., power plant
1-19	More coal-to-liquid madness: Ohio EPA says BAARD permits moving along  -   Schweitzer shares ideas on proposed plants and energy issues
1-19	Crandall Canyon bombshell: Months before deadly cave-ins, owners knew of structural woes
1-19	Water group to prosecute U.S. firm
1-19	New coal plant could endanger our health
1-19	What Can a New President do from Day One on Global Warming?
1-19	Climate change interventions are long-term investments
1-19	Global warming video from MIT
1-19	Scientists To Preview New Climate Change Research
1-19	Oil Demand, the Climate and the Energy Ladder
1-18	$20 million fine, improvements part of Massey deal; feds believe company will now have to change  -  Coal Company Hit With E.P.A.’s Largest Civil Penalty  -  Mining Giant to Pay $20 Million EPA Fine  -   Massey agrees to $30 million pollution settlement   -  Historic penalty for coal co.’s water violations   -  Massey settles EPA water lawsuit  -  Coal company agrees to record fine for polluting streams  -  Massey Settles with EPA on Water Quality Matters  -  EPA and Massey settle water pollution lawsuit (scroll to 1/18 entry)
1-18	Martin spill by far the worst offense  -  Violations no surprise to Massey neighbor  -  E. Ky. slurry spill spurred action
1-18	Maynard agrees to step down in Massey case  -  Justice Maynard Off Massey Case  -  Justice Maynard recuses himself from Massey case (scroll to 1-18 entry)
1-18	Justice Benjamin added to request for recusal  -   Harman joins bid for Maynard's recusal in Massey case  -   Harman wants recusals from Maynard and Benjamin  -  Justice: Appearances matter
1-18	Future of clean stream list uncertain; State has worked on anti-degradation policy for years  -   DEP seeks to protect area streams with rule change (DEP and certain legislators seeks to do whatever the coal industry wants...)
1-18	Coal Industry Plugs Into the Campaign
1-18	Injured coal miners deserve their benefits (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
1-18	Annual Symposium Focuses on Future of Coal (but not future of people, planet)
1-18	Officials deem Energy Expo successful
1-18	Louisville KY Film Festival
1-18	Aracoma: Two Years Later
1-18	Interior officials: Oil drilling off Alaska won't harm polar bears  -BP is Alaska's top climate polluter
1-18	Norway Says Aims to Go Carbon Neutral by 2030
1-18	Climate change forces car manufacturing rethink
1-18	Climate Registry nears 1st US emissions reporting
1-17	Coal Producer Agrees to Pay $30M  -  Massey Energy to Pay Largest Civil Penalty Ever for Water Permit Violations   -  Coal Producer Agrees to Pay $30M
1-17	Blankenship, Maynard flap underscores W.Va.'s small-town nature  -  Appearance is everything
1-17	Democrats Pass Mine Safety Bill -  Tougher coal mine standards advance  -  Miner safety bill expected to pass House
1-17	Wheeling-Pitt Watching Case Involving Chief Justice, Coal Boss
1-17	Columbia Gas expansion OK'd
1-17	Haw River “Mountaintop Removal” showing around US
1-17	The Precarious Future of Coal
1-17	Texas Is Biggest Carbon Polluter
1-16	Charleston Gazette: Mining impact on species review sought
1-16	Herald Dispatch: Maynard trip raising more questions  -   Associated Press: Maynard admits Monaco meeting  -  Associated Press: WV Judge's Photos Bring Call for Removal  -  MetroNews: Justice Maynard Responds   -  WV Public Radio: Pictures of Maynard and Blankenship raise ethical questions (scroll to 1/16 entry)
1-16	White House threatens to veto House Democrats' mine safety bill
1-16	WV Citizen’s Energy Plan
1-16	Toughen mine safety
1-16	Coalitions geared to block U.S. coal development
1-16	Big Coal Gets Wired: With A Little Help From Its Friends
1-16	Perils of valley fills from mountaintop removal (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
1-16	Pa. bill focuses on bituminous mining
1-16	Moment of Truth: U.S. Department of Energy to Issue Final Determination on PA Waste Coal-to-Liquid Fuels Project
1-16	Neighbors share coal ash concerns
1-16	Lifestyle changes can curb climate change: IPCC chief
1-16	New Report Finds Colleges Hold Important Keys to Solving Climate Crisis
1-16	Climate change aids nuclear, despite safety fears
1-16	Climate change harming seas
1-16	UK: Climate Change Impacts Coasts
1-16	'Catastrophic' climate change looms for European birds
1-16	New test for developers in Maine: climate change
1-16	Global warming to impact health: study
1-16	Record warm summers cause extreme ice melt in Greenland
1-15	Charleston Gazette: Coal operator says photos show Maynard should not hear appeal  -  New York Times: Motion Ties W. Virginia Justice to Coal Executive   -  Associated Press: Harman Uses Photos to Challenge Massey  -  Legal Newsline: Justice's relationship with CEO questioned again, this time with photos  - MetroNews Radio: Court Filing Claims Blankenship and Maynard Vacationed Together
1-15	Dave Peyton: Something about this TV ad bugs people
1-15	Roanoke Times: Strip mining foes switch tactics; Several groups are petitioning to make strip mining subject to the Endangered Species Act  -  Strip mining foes petition federal government
1-15	Huntington City Council--Vote unanimous against barge facility
1-15	Associated Press: Coal Plant Foes Look to Courts for Help  -  Coal-powered plants under fire around the country
1-15	Coal share of power generation said to fall
1-15	Rise Up West Virginia - The People
1-15	Big Push Against Warming
1-15	Desperate symptom? Polar ice melting
1-15	Canada Inuit Rap US Greens for Polar Bear Campaign
1-15	Antarctica Lost More Ice in Last 10 Years   -  Antarctic'ed Off
1-15	Global warming spreads disease
1-14	Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica
1-14	Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va.: Burning coal cleanly a must for its future...
1-14	...FutureGen: The cost of coal progress   -  FutureGen's future hazy
1-14	New barge facility isn't type of development the riverbank needs
1-14	Tiff of the Titans!   -  Mining Industry Revenge On MTR Lawsuit Victors (scroll down)
1-14	Raleigh County man injured in coal mining accident near Odd
1-14	Strong Action Urged To Cut Md. Energy Use
1-14	Philadelphia Inquirer: Word nears on 'liquid-coal' plant
1-14	Energy demand drives focus on coal
1-14	Coal-to-liquid insanity: World conference on conversion of coal into petro product
1-14	Canada Oil Sands Projects Flunk Green Test - Groups
1-14	WMO to Seek Satellites to Monitor Climate Change
1-13	Kroger ties to environmental group upset mining industry (Kroger allows any 501-c-3 non-profit group to use this program)   - Stick it to the men   -  Walker Cat and MTR opposition
1-13	WVAH: MOUNTAINTOP MOVIE
1-13	Julian Martin: Liquid coal will be costly, too
1-13	Two sluggers in coal's corner
1-13	Gas plant developers fight TrAIL power transmission line
1-13	Bob Hamburg--Energy proposal falls short: State ignoring sensible solutions
1-13	Miners Caught in Western Va.'s Spiraling Rates of Painkiller Abuse
1-13	For Rahall, highway, climate legislation looms big  -  Rahall: 'Ts' keys to growth
1-13	(No) Future Gen: Coal plant alliance floats funding fix
1-13	US coal terminal shutdown roils Atlantic trade
1-13	Tier 2.5 is about stopping pollution  -  Property owner demands Tier 2.5 (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
1-13	Utah's coal reserves raise a burning question
1-13	Kansas: Coal plant likely to be hot legislative topic
1-13	Montana panel won't stop coal fired power plant
1-13	With Nuclear Rebirth Come New Worries
1-13	Sending Carbon Dioxide To Sea
1-13	Warming menaces Alaska villages; Rising temperatures, tidal erosion create urgency to relocate
1-13	Kazakh Mine Blast Death Toll Rises to 30
1-13	China Closes 11, 000 Mines in Crackdown
1-12	Focus the Nation, save the planet -- now!
1-12	Study Says Environmental Factors Shaping New Global Economy
1-12	DEP looking at mine inspection budget gap
1-12	Living on Earth: Power Struggle
1-12	5 Myths About Breaking Our Foreign Oil Habit
1-12	Britain Starts New Push for Nuclear Power
1-12	Chinese coal mine accidents kill 3,786 last year, down 20.2%
1-12	Japan Plans US$10 Bln Aid to Fight Global Warming
1-12	Climate Change Killing Caribbean Coral
1-12	Tu B'Shevat: The Most Important Day Of The Year
1-12	Riding With Larry
1-12	Coal River: A Look at Mountaintop Mining
1-11	Groups release environmental goals
1-11	LaBelle Theater hosting Saturday premiere of "Rise Up West Virginia"
1-11	Hilltop standoff
1-11	MSHA on track, Stickler says
1-11	Manchin continues push for coal   -  Manchin bill responds to coal mine thefts
1-11	Manchin budget includes funding for Blackwater Canyon purchase
1-11	Miner looks to capitalize on U.S. election
1-11	Debt, tax cuts, health crisis worry Jay  -  Rockefeller stresses new focus on domestic issues
1-11	Barf bag anyone? DEP praises improvements by coal industry - Mountaineer Guardian Awards Given to Three Massey Energy Mining Operations
1-11	Coal Is The Fuel Of The Future (Delusion is the fuel of the coal industry)
1-11	Chinese coal gets American interest, big returns spur mine investment
1-11	Mountaintop removal opposed (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
1-11	High court may review petition against Massey
1-11	Suit filed over federal agency plan for southwest energy corridor
1-11	US coal mine to reopen after roof collapse
1-10	Power line was to get more coal, witness tells PSC  -  PSC Opens 11 Days of Power Line Hearings  -  Allegheny Counters Property Value Arguments   -  PSC opens hearing on $1.3B power line  -  Land Owners Speak Out Against Five-County Power Line
1-10	Utilities Amp Up Push To Slash Energy Use
1-10	Text of Gov. Joe Manchin's State of the State Address
1-10	2008 legislative session gets under way  -  Lawmakers hear merits of 'responsible government'  -   Teachers, students, officials react to State of the State  -   Manchin stresses university research  -  Manchin sees positive trends as lawmakers open 2008 session  -  Research, economic development and pay raises in Manchin budget  - Energy opportunities are touted  -
1-10	Award-winning environmentalist Judy Bonds speaks her mind
1-10	Coal company questions justice's relationship with Massey CEO
1-10	High court may review petition against Massey
1-10	Battelle researchers say they can clean streams polluted by abandoned coal mines
1-10	NASA official raps coal-fired plant  -   NASA climatologist: Coal plant would be "waste of money"
1-10	Air Force, community will meet to discuss coal-to-liquids plant
1-10	Environmental Warfare: Bush Admin goes to work for Fossil Fuel interests
1-10	Mars Fights to Protect Earth from Big Coal
1-10	Climate change 'rewriting business'
1-10	Japan plans $10 billion aid to fight global warming
1-10	As arctic ice melts, South Pole ice grows
1-10	Alarming Levels Of Mercury And Arsenic Found In Chinese Freshwater Ecosystem
1-10	FTC Asks If Carbon-Offset Money Is Well Spent
1-10	Will Nations Build on Climate-Change Momentum of 2007?
1-10	SLOWLY but surely, the climate-change clock is ticking
1-10	Climate change contest launched
1-10	Fighting false solutions
1-9	Manchin to tout coal-to-liquid plants in address; Developers already looking for sites for five proposed facilities
1-9	Coal-to-Liquid means More Mountaintop Removal
1-9	State court to hear Greenbrier wind power case
1-9	Legislative committee doubles size of protected-stream list
1-9	PSC hearings on multistate power line start Wednesday   -  Utility, state agency reach agreement on power line   -  Power line deal includes free electricity for some  -   A Compromise On A Power Line   -  WV PSC prepares for lengthy hearing on high voltage power line (scroll to 1-8 entry)
1-9	"Surface" coal mine accident kills Letcher man   -   Kentucky reports first mining death of year in U.S.   -  Worker killed at Arch Coal subsidiary mine   -  Coal Truck Driver Killed in Ky.
1-9	$3 million from Byrd
1-9	UMW blasts Stickler reappointment as MSHA chief
1-9	WVU Board of Governors
1-9	Coal River by Michael Shnayerson
1-9	Monday's temperatures broke records across W.Va.
1-9	Malmstrom being considered for coal-to-liquid plant
1-9	Pier settling slows US coal exports - CONSOL
1-9	In Greenland, Ice and Instability
1-9	From False to Real Solutions for Climate Change
1-8	Mountaintop removal now featured on NASA site
1-8	Power line deal includes free electricity for some
1-8	Back and forth: Mine safety in limbo  -  Regulation, Bush-style
1-8	Report raises concerns of airborne fly ash
1-8	Pa: Public meeting set on Greene County mine expansion
1-8	Illinois: Coal mine resistance building steam
1-8	Coal policy in Montana put in limbo
1-8	Candy Billionaire Fights Energy Firms
1-8	US Delays Decision on Polar Bears and Global Warming
1-8	Local legislators look ahead for what they hope will be busy but short session
1-7	Key issues awaiting lawmakers  -  Controlling emissions crucial to coal industry
1-7	Emissions-free coal plant's cost worries feds
1-7	Winfield plant working to reduce emissions
1-7	Strife in the Coalfields  -  Whither The Wise Power Plant
1-7	PETA members notice Sen. Byrd's support of mountain top removal
1-7	Appalachian Coal Heat Up
1-7	Climate change makes water the new oil
1-7	The hidden holocaust -- our civilizational crisis, part 3: The end of the world as we know it?
1-7	Climate change endangering US salmon
1-7	Global Warming Hits China
1-7	Polar Bears Vie With Oil for US Government Focus
1-6	MSHA misses deadline for mine rescue rules
1-6	Kentucky: 'Serious fiscal situation' awaits legislators  -  Renewable power, conservation head list
1-6	Plain Dealer: Shnayerson's Coal River' examines ills of mountaintop mining
1-6	Lexington Herald Leader: Life, death and lessons in the mountains
1-6	Elkins scientist finds many Himalayan ice floes melted
1-6	Coal-money greed will leave nothing (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--please use them) -  Mountaintop mining causes big problems  -  More solar items should be produced (scroll down)
1-6	Company plans to burn waste coal
1-6	Global warming's political winds leave energy producers wary of coal
1-6	Substantial challenges ahead in 2008
1-5	Stickler back in at MSHA; Bush designates W.Va. native acting mine safety chief  -  Bush decides to retain nation's top mine-safety regulator
1-5	STOP THE DINOSAURS, LET THE SUN SHINE IN
1-5	OVEC introduces Kroger card campaign  -  Support OVEC With a Kroger Gift Card
1-5	Pancake's powerful mountaintop removal novel
1-5	On This Earth: A site out of sight   -  Carbon-capture project to begin in Illinois
1-5	Author events in Louisville (see last entry)
1-5	See Allan Tweddle's Letter to the Editor in this batch of LTEs to Energy Biz Insider
1-5	Court reform to coal: Leaders look ahead (more like leaders look to past and attempt to prop up that fossil fool, ole King Coal)
1-5	Good for the Gorge, but what about the people?
1-5	Mercury poses brain-damage risks   -  Not much region can do about mercury problem, officials say
1-5	Sludge cleanup eyed for summer
1-5	Rising CO2 levels tied to increasing human mortality
1-5	Grass could help save the world
1-5	2007 was Huntington's 9th driest year
1-5	Virginia Firm Buys West Virginia Aqua, Shifts Production to Salmon, Trout
1-5	British government to decide on coal plant
1-5	Alarming Weather and Global Warming
1-5	Global Warming Melting "City of Ice"
1-5	Plan B — How to Stop Global Warming
1-4	Have We Gone Beyond Dangerous Carbon Levels?
1-4	Stickler out at MSHA
1-4	Kentucky Reaches Low in Coal-Mine Deaths
1-4	Company says it developed wireless system for miners
1-4	Each Degree of Global Warming Linked to 20,000 Deaths a Year
1-4	Group wants coal-waste site closed; Activists say they found toxic ash on homes, playgrounds by dump   -   Fly Ash Air Levels Too High, Some Say
1-4	Coal-to-liquid insanity: Wall Street Journal--Asia Looks to Coal As Oil Price Surges
1-4	More than coal: Engineer says Kentucky must broaden its search for new energy sources
1-4	Anger and Blame After Deadly Flood in Northwest (hmmm...sound familiar? Mountaintop removal is the ultimate, permanent deforestation)
1-4	Kansas voters agree with decision to block construction of coal plants, poll says
1-4	FPL stands to gain from proposed bill; Utility has spent big to push tax-cut plan
1-4	UK: Pressure on Brown to veto coal-fired power station
1-4	A great book  -  Pick of the Lit (scroll down to "Strange As This Weather Has Been")
1-4	Citizens Petition to Halt Flawed U.S. Nuclear Plant Relicensing
1-4	Alaskan Sea Drilling Plans Condemned
1-4	Global warming goes to court
1-4	Climate change 2007 – a year in review
1-4	2008 to be in top 10 warmest years say forecasters
1-4	A critical shield against global warming
1-4	Raleigh man struggles for water; groundwater had been polluted by nearby coal mines
1-4	VCU students to hold environmental film festival
1-4	Mountaintop Removal Controversy in Appalachia
1-4	Forests failing in carbon relief role
1-4	Record Heat Parched Southern Australia in 2007  -  Hot, and here to stay  -  Australia Hit by Floods, Fires Amid Global Warming   -  This drought may never break
1-4	Pork Purveyors, Lamb Lobbyists, and Poultry Pushers Are Harder on the Environment and the Nation's Health Than Gasoline, Alcohol, and Tobacco, Says PETA
1-3	Eastern Kentucky: Corps suspends mine-expansion permit for review  -  Corps orders mining expansion halted
1-3	Silly coal commercials are not fooling anyone (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them)  - YouTube Has One of the Commercials
1-3	Team Finds New Way to Strip Mercury from Water
1-3	Coal's other mess: The solid waste
1-3	Captive audience bill needs work, delegate says
1-3	Coal companies may help build parts of expressway
1-3	Boston Globe: Coal-to-gas plan drawing fire
1-3	Checking the numbers
1-3	Hope Frazier, former executive editor for SoCal newspapers, dies
1-3	Time to Educate the Coalfields Out of Poverty, Disease
1-3	Is capturing and storing power plant emissions a realistic answer to climate change?
1-3	UK--New coal: the battlelines are drawn  - Hansen letter to the prime minister: your leadership is needed
1-3	Is $100-a-Barrel Oil Good or Bad?
1-3	Alaska oil exploration to begin
1-3	Nature and Man Jointly Cook Arctic
1-3	California and Coalition Sue EPA Over Global Warming Law
1-3	Arctic Warming Faster Above Ground Level, Study Finds
1-3	Global Warming May Reduce Carbon Sink Capacity In Northern Forests
1-3	2007 will go down as the warmest on record for South Australia, Victoria, NSW and possibly Tasmania - but the year was also one of extremes
1-3	Big Coal's Dirty Plans for Our Energy Future
1-3	Former miners oppose bond release
1-3	Foundation Coal appoints new president
1-3	Fire in coal pits spreads panic in Asansol
1-2	Mel Tyree: Cooperation needed to avert global climate disaster
1-2	Sago 2 years later: Safety efforts lag; 67 U.S. miners have died since West Virginia coal disaster  -  Federal figures show 32 coal miners killed in 2007
1-2	The Man Who United Labor and the Environment
1-2	Coal mines' neighbors live, sleep in fear
1-2	Western Kentucky city forms coal task force, draws ire of environmentalists
1-2	'Clean coal' is still coal
1-2	Uranium Lode in Va. Is Feared, Coveted
1-2	The One Environmental Issue
1-2	Of Two Minds on Polar Bears  -  Do polar bears need U.S. protection?
1-2	Report Finds Deforestation Offers Very Little Money Compared To Potential Financial Benefits
1-2	Time to get serious in the global fight against climate change
1-1	Joseph Oliverio Announces Plans to Run for Governor
1-1	Arkansas Public Service Commission denies rehearing on $1.3 billion coal-fired power plant
1-1	New wells, barrier wall considered in fly ash plan
1-1	Oil in North Dakota Brings Job Boom and Burdens
1-1	Netherlands Has Another Record Warm Year in 2007