(Jan)  Archive - February, 2008  (Mar)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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2-29	Coal-slurry spill blackens miles of Belmont Co., OH creek
2-29	Student coalition raise awareness through project
2-29	Burning the Future: Coal in America  -   Review of Burning the Future in New York Times
2-29	Fighting king coal: If you didn't care about mining's effects before, you will now
2-29	Bill to outlaw Mountain Top Removal - Take action NOW!
2-29	Why “clean” coal isn’t: Environmentalists say liquid coal can turn a Prius into a Hummer
2-29	Centre to host program on mountain removal mining
2-29	Plenty Magazine: Google Earth stops mountaintop removal in Appalachia (well, i think they mean attempts to help stop...)
2-29	Snow: Save the mountaintops  -   Update from folks fighting mountaintop removal in Tennessee  -  Classes focusing on region offered
2-29	Coal and gas fuel lively debate at energy summit
2-29	Bad News for Big Coal
2-29	Friends of Coal Put Out the Word
2-29	Why is McGraw a chamber target?
2-29	32 Coal-Fired Power Plants in 13 States Now Up in the Air After Major Court Ruling on Mercury
2-29	Parks less than pristine
2-29	Judge allows Narrows' coal ash debate to go on
2-29	Environmental groups blast ""clean-coal" plan
2-29	Developing Countries Get Help to Cope with Climate Change
2-29	Local couple lives their ideals at work, at home and in service
2-28	Mountaintop removal foes, supporters speak
2-28	Blair Mountain nominated for National Register of Historic Places (scroll to 2/28 entry)   -  PDF of story
2-28	Senate OKs McDowell landfill bill  - Tipping fee reduction depends on amount of trash  -  Senate kills Tier 2.5 status in late night vote  -  Senate panel kills last-minute gas bill  - Private-public roads funding bill sent on
2-28	WV High Court Hears Motions Over Coal Roads
2-28	US High Court Feels Exxon's Pain  -  Exxon Valdez Dispute Spills into U.S. Supreme Court
2-28	Did Turkey Point Again Take Florida to the Radioactive Brink?
2-28	Air Force Eyes Coal-to-Liquids Plant in Montana
2-28	Appalachia "Hammered" by Mining Practices  -  Appalachian Residents to Discuss Mountaintop Removal
2-28	Mountaintop Revival: Local evangelical Christians join environmentalists in an unlikely union to fight mountaintop removal mining in Tennessee
2-28	State govs embrace the range of 'alternative fuels,' from nukes to clean coal to biofuels
2-28	ICCR Report: Coal-Fired Power Plants Facing Risks, Uncertainties, Cost Hikes 'Comparable' to Those That Pulled the Plug on Nuclear Power in U.S.
2-28	N.C. fight over coal plant focused on mercury  -  S. Utah coal plant fires up its foes
2-28	Buffalo Creek survivors subject of painting
2-28	BP Backs Down, but Threat Remains
2-28	'Green' store becomes W.Va.'s largest Kroger  -  Go Green, Go Krogering...and Support OVEC  -  Fast and Slow
2-28	US coal mine resumes output after roof collapse
2-28	Climate change to hit fish stocks globally
2-28	Federal agencies to study climate change in Sequoia National Park
2-28	Climate Change 101: Are humans causing a mass extinction?
2-28	Mountaintop Removal: A Coal Crime Against Creation
2-27	Remembering the disaster at Buffalo Creek  -  Buffalo Creek disaster remembered
2-27	Coal Industry Spending on Election Ads
2-27	Coal plant to test capturing carbon dioxide
2-27	Clean elections are a no-brainer
2-27	Students on Spring Break to Put Heat on 'King Coal'
2-27	Stream saver bill stuck in Gooch's committee - again
2-27	Students have seized chances to make their voices heard
2-27	A blow to get at coal
2-27	McCloy, miner's family settle lawsuits over Sago
2-27	It's really come to this?
2-27	Rising energy prices create global climate conundrum
2-27	Valley fill bill
2-27	Burning The Future (2008) Presents Burning Issues  -  COAL INDUSTRY EXPOSÉ PREMIERES IN NEW YORK ON FEB. 29, 2008  - Burning the Future; What Is the Energy Future of the U.S.?
2-27	Plug-in cars could actually increase air pollution (unless they plug into solar panels...)
2-27	Environmentalists propose alternative to Clark County coal-fire generator
2-27	Even if it's cleaner, it's still coal
2-27	The danger behind coal-fired power plants
2-27	"Pristine" parks tainted by pollution, study finds  -  Trout bearing chemicals are even in our national parks
2-27	Serve up sushi... with a side of mercury?
2-27	Scientists warn of high levels of mercury found in Arctic ice
2-27	BP Drops Coal-Bed Methane Exploration Project North of Glacier Park
2-27	Alberta To Wait On Call For Oil Sands Moratorium
2-27	Flooded Village Files Suit, Citing Corporate Link to Climate Change   -   Eroding Alaska Native Village Sues Energy Companies
2-27	Rich Nations Should Agree 2020 Carbon Targets
2-27	UN Climate Head: US Stand a `nonstarter'
2-27	EPA staff sought influence of former chief on California warming law
2-27	West Virginia boils at 'inbred' epithet; movie casting director fired
2-27	Wall Street Banks Go Greener with Principles on Power Sector
2-26	Mountaintop removal mining subject of film set for Ansted tomorrow night
2-26	Cemeteries should be protected parcels  -  Cemetery bill in committee in Charleston
2-26	Conflict: Disturbing problem
2-26	Julie Archer: We could have clean elections in W.Va. for just $6 apiece
2-26	Leap Into Action: Mountain Justice Spring Break Part 1 Starts Saturday!
2-26	Saturday's front page of Toronto Star
2-26	Senate committee rejects miner whistleblower bill (scroll to 2/25 entry)
2-26	Brad Hash: The market is speaking and it's not saying more coal plants
2-26	Environmental Council Develops Its Own Energy Plan
2-26	Governing the United States of Coal; Urgent problem for coal-state governors: Power plants' carbon dioxide
2-26	Tax dollars shouldn’t pay to make liquid coal  -    Buffalo Creek Flood  -   Support bill to save W.Va. land -  Trucks and coal  (letters to the editor are great tools--please use them!)
2-26	Coal - jet fuel of the future?
2-26	Water, Water Everywhere and Nary a Drop to Drink
2-26	Huntington Herald Dispatch editorial: Coal's future is problem that must be addressed
2-26	Hickam creates scholarship to help miners' children
2-26	Dominion, opponents square off over multistate power line
2-26	Despite controversy, BP methane project is a go
2-26	Companies in race to provide fuel for US 'nuclear renaissance'
2-26	How swing state Ohio got nuked
2-26	Mountain Top Removal by Dominion Power: Creating Permanent Deserts in Deciduous Forests   -    Did you just contribute to blowing the top off a mountain?
2-25	Many readers slam paper for failure to cover anti MTR rally in Ky
2-25	LTE's: Method, not mining, opposed - Justice is dead in West Virginia
2-25	Governors: black coal must be part of green energy debate
2-25	Many Mountains. One Voice.
2-25	It's the economics, stupid; How to make the case against coal
2-25	Mass extinctions from global warming preventable, panel says
2-25	Buffalo Creek Library planning for anniversary
2-25	Even if it's cleaner, it's still coal
2-24	I Heart Mountains Day in KY–1200 people lobby to say, “Stop Mountain Top Removal! Save Our Streams!”  -  I Love Mountains Day
2-25	Mountaintop Removal: A Coal Crime Against Creation (video) -  Burning the Future  -  Why David Novack came to WV to make Burning the Future  -  Haw River doc on MTR nominated for Reel Current Award
2-24	Notes From a Granny On Fighting Coal!
2-24	Governors: Include Coal in Energy Debate
2-24	We could have clean elections in W.Va. for just $6 apiece
2-24	Energy policy: Environment merits attention
2-24	A Victory Near for Utilities in Kansas Coal Battle
2-23	Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains (includes video)
2-23	Timmermeyer: Science not used in removing waterways' protection
2-23	Justice Benjamin in Massey Energy: I’m Not Going Anywhere  -  Benjamin Declines to Withdraw from Massey Case
2-23	Committee cuts list of streams to be protected
2-23	Blankenship staying out of this year's elections  -  Massey CEO staying out of 2008 statehouse, Supreme Court races
2-23	Rise Up! West Virginia to show in Ansted Feb. 28
2-23	Biofuels from Cleared Natural Ecosystems Worsen Warming
2-22	Democracy, Brought to You by Coal  -  Can Anyone Spell Cartel?
2-22	Justice refuses to disqualify himself from Massey case; Benjamin says ($3.5 million) 'innuendo' not basis for recusal
2-22	Air pollution rose, but water cleaner in '06
2-22	Governors Try to Advance Clean Energy  -  Governors try to advance clean energy
2-21	Massey incest: Mining CEO so insinuated in W. Va. politics that they can't find judges to hear his case
2-21	It's always the public who pays   -  Starcher Steps Aside in Massey Case, Lashes Out at Court
2-21	'Renewal' spreads the environmental gospel
2-21	VA Students tell DEQ “Read my Lips, No More Coal”
2-21	Committee kills Manchin mining bill
2-21	Massey incest  -  Massey offers miners sweet deals
2-21	An even dirtier debate  -  Group screens documentary, hosts debate watch party
2-21	Protect the streams, protect the society
2-21	Dirty Dancing: Cleveland Talks About Going Green But Considers A 50-year Marriage To Coal  -  Ratepayer Risk: New Study, Internal Docs Show AMP Electric Costs Spiraling; Giant Ohio Coal Plant Price Nears $3.5 Billion; Other Financial Risks Loom
2-21	Carbon Emissions Cap-and-Trade Plan Faces Fight
2-21	Dire new warning on climate
2-21	Risk Of Permafrost Thaw A "Wild Card" In Warming
2-21	Mass extinctions on the horizon?
2-21	Scientists blame ocean dead zones on climate change
2-21	Shell Scales Back Proposed Arctic Drilling Plan
2-20	Climate Change Threatens Human Rights Of Millions – UN
2-20	Helmick wants stream deal done this session
2-20	The Nation: Mountaintop Removal Mining: Like a Third-World Autocracy
2-20	Ethics: Problem remains
2-20	High on the Mountaintop
2-20	10 Worst Corporate Polluters
2-20	Rendell, DEP win mercury fight
2-20	Ohio: Council upholds decision on plant
2-20	Tim Kaine burns national ambitions in coal furnace
2-20	At least some are speaking out against the Beshear budget
2-20	Kansas lawmakers pass bill favoring coal expansion
2-20	Coalbed methane: Court Allows Montana Suit Vs. Wyoming
2-20	West Texas may get clean coal plant
2-20	Canada's Oil Sands Emit More CO2 Than 145 Nations
2-20	Australia: Longwall mining study put on hold
2-20	Maryland Poised To Set Huge Cuts in Greenhouse Emissions
2-20	Wind Power vs. MTR - if it were your backyard what would you choose?
2-20	Razing Appalachia Revisited  -   Haw River doc “Mountain Top Removal” shown in Slovenia - coming to Cleveland
2-20	1,200 people come together in Frankfort to rally against mountaintop removal
2-19	Green Economics and New Thinking
2-19	Candidates debate judicial climate  -   Justice Maynard endorses recusal changes
2-19	Public workers gather in rally at state Capitol  - State workers demonstrate -  DOH, other workers rally at Capitol
2-19	Dave Cooper: Rise and protect Appalachia
2-19	Student Powered: A New Way to Focus the Nation on Climate Change
2-19	Hobet subject of lawsuit
2-19	U.S. retreats on cleaner coal
2-19	Kentucky seeks proposals for cleaner coal effort
2-19	Richmond, Virginia: Public hearing set for tomorrow on Dominion proposed coal plant
2-19	Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Gasoline
2-19	Raleigh, North Carolina: Nuclear, not coal, is plan at Progress
2-19	New mercury pollution laws in Montana  -  Handling mercury threat  -  Mercury debate rising; groups hoping for emission cuts
2-19	Nader Blames Bush Policies for Mine Collapses
2-19	Living in the Flood Zone
2-19	UK: Power plant u-turn over waste ash
2-19	Climate Change Has Major Impact On Oceans
2-19	Energy Execs Debate Whether Oil Crisis Looms
2-18	Tampa Tribune editorial: Put An End To Mountaintop Mining
2-18	Meigs resident shares concerns about proposed AMP-Ohio generating station
2-18	Judicial Rebukes on Clean Air
2-18	Nader Announces Release of Report on Coal Mine Safety
2-18	Opinion piece from former MSHA employee: MSHA employees take mine safety seriously
2-18	MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL'S TOLL ON KENTUCKY COMMUNITIES
2-18	Selflessness of all stripes honored in this year's 'Civies'
2-18	Coal is not the answer: New report says Nevada can meet energy needs without coal-fired plants
2-18	Closer scrutiny for Duke's coal ash  -   Va. bill could protect areas near coal ash fills
2-18	Kansas legislators can't avoid national debate over CO2, warming (West Virginia coal interests need to look to the future too and stop blaming environmentalists for ecological and political realties from beyond our borders...)
2-18	Efficiency Now Ahead Of US Carbon Rules: Utilities
2-18	Safety Subverted In China's Mines
2-18	Global warming may soon wipe out marine life in Antarctica
2-18	Why are oceans at risk from global warming?
2-18	Polar bears set to join US at-risk list
2-18	Adapting local ecosystems can soften impact of global climate change
2-18	Southern Ocean Rise Due To Warming, Not Ice Melts
2-18	Rich, poor and climate change
2-18	How Many Lightbulbs does it take to Screw Up a Mountain?
2-17	Amos plant emitting more than reported; 'Blue haze' inquiry uncovers discrepancies
2-17	Make West Virginia protected from coal (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
2-17	Flattening the mountains in nation's quest for energy
2-17	Feds nip state efforts to slash mercury
2-17	Burning the Future - a short film review
2-17	Kim Jarrell
2-17	Eliminating fossil fuels is cheap; A third of our military budget could cure our carbon addiction
2-17	Meeting will focus on future of Boone Forest
2-17	Heard Off the Street: Massey Energy estimates $240 million judgment will cost it $16 million
2-17	What Exactly is "Clean Coal?" (a dangerous public relations ploy)
2-17	Bush retreats on cleaner coal  -   'Clean coal' power had very dark future
2-17	Journalist was native of Shoals
2-17	Santee Cooper detects spill
2-17	Coal a missing component from Sunflower's latest ads
2-17	As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises
2-17	Canada’s Oil Sands A Massive Disaster: Green Group
2-17	China Warns Of New Wave Of Coal Mine Disasters
2-17	Warming threat to Antarctic marine life
2-16	Beth Walker tries to explain ties to Don Blankenship in Supreme Court race
2-16	Starcher recuses self from Harman/Massey case  - Bravo: Starcher, Maynard acts  -   Starcher withdraws from Massey case, calls on Benjamin to do same
2-16	Kentucky rescinds coal-conversion grant to Peabody; Liquid conversion plan hadn't advanced   -   State revokes Peabody grant; $400,000 canceled for lack of progress  -  State revokes Peabody grant
2-16	“Green Economics”: Turning Mainstream Thinking on Its Head
2-16	McKibben: Local Activism is Key to Fighting Climate Change  - Track Climate Change at Home With Project BudBurst
2-16	Sustainability's Soul
2-16	The Demise of FutureGen: The cancellation of a clean-coal project shows there's no silver bullet for climate change
2-16	Burning the Future: Coal in America--Release Date: Feb 29, 2008
2-16	Top Scientists Want Research Free From Politics
2-16	Time is up for coal: environmental analyst -  U.S. MOVING TOWARD BAN ON NEW COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS
2-16	AEP CEO sees crisis without more coal plants
2-16	US DOE quit FutureGen on funding, other issues
2-16	A sign of things to come?
2-16	Harlan mine co-owner barred as operator
2-16	Goldman Sachs Downgrades Four Coal Firms To Sell
2-16	The Real Clean Coal? Former Mine Becomes Clean Energy Village
2-16	Some who oppose the proposed Wise County power plant think Monday's hearing was stacked
2-16	West pressuring India to adopt expensive coal technologies
2-16	Canada: Coal mine opponents dig in for lengthy fight
2-16	Mining as a toxic issue
2-16	Atlanta, cities worldwide to protest global warming
2-16	Sony, others to step up fight against global warming
2-16	Global warming could invite sharks to Antarctica: biologists
2-16	Global warming threatens to redraw world's wine map: experts
2-16	I went to the mountaintop but it was gone
2-16	ilovemountains Mashup: You're Paying for Mountaintop Removal
2-15	Capitol rally backs ban on dumping mining waste over buried streams   -   Hundreds rally in support of "Stream Saver" bill   -   Capitol protesters call for end to mountaintop mining  -  Students among those lobbying for mountains  - Rallying for their cause: passage of bill to protect mountains  -  KFTC, others will rally for mountains at state capitol   -  I LOVE MOUNTAIN DAY, FRANKFORT, KY. SHAME ON YOU JIM GOOCH!! YOUTUBE VIDEO.
2-15	Virginia Tech Students send valentines to Kaine  -  Virginia Is For Mountain Lovers  -  Students send Kaine 'valentines' protesting Wise Co. power plant  -  Mountains losing their tops
2-15	'Overwhelming Majority' of 43,000 Comments Flooding Into Office of Surface Mining Oppose Stream Buffer Zone Rule Change  -  HNN includes photos
2-15	New Harman briefs seek reversal; State Supreme Court ruled in favor of Massey in 2007 appeal decision
2-15	New Judge Named to Wheeling-Pitt Case
2-15	Massey gas drilling unit agrees to pay for mine flood cleanup
2-15	Seven ideas lost on America
2-15	Utilities to Wall Street: Coal Still Rocks  -  Shell sees coal still a key energy source over coming decades  -  Coal doesn't have to be a dirty word, CEOs say
2-15	Lester Brown: The Brightly Dismal Future of Coal  The world is moving toward a political tipping point on the climate issue. If it comes soon enough, we may yet avoid catastrophic climate change.   -   Coal's time is up in US, environmentalist warns
2-15	In Pursuit of a Carbon-Free Economy
2-15	Coal Industry Exploits Kids To Spout Coal Propaganda
2-15	Power of cooperation — Dominion plant vital to economy, but lawmakers must listen to environmental concerns (See 'Seven ideas lost on America" above; No such thing as "clean" coal; the billions for the coal plant can instead go to job creation in truly clean energy development)
2-15	Mystery smell leads to startling discovery
2-15	'Coal River' book wrongly criticized -  Almost feel sorry for Blankenship (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
2-15	Meigs County (Ohio) woman to speak on effects of coal power plants
2-15	Word scene in Oregon: Author to speak about novel set in coal-mining country
2-15	Pennsylvania and longwall mining: Environmental groups reissue right-to-know request to state
2-15	Maryland: State, power industry oppose fly ash bill
2-15	California Rep. Waxman has questions about loans for Kansas coal plant  -  Coal-plant bill endangers environment in Kansas
2-15	After the coal rush: Spiking global prices of coal should make energy experts rethink the wisdom of depending on it for long-term fueling of electricity plants
2-15	Don’t believe Duke’s latest pitch
2-15	US Power Plant Costs Up 130 Pct Since 2000 - CERA
2-15	The Power to Say No
2-15	Climate change may dry up US water source
2-15	Gore warns on 'subprime carbon' industry
2-15	Ocean Dead-Zones May Be Linked To Global Warming
2-15	Altered State: Ten signs that Colorado's environment is heating up
2-15	Energy Saving Most Effective In CO2 Cutting - Report
2-14	Drilling suspected cause of flooding  -  DEP investigates mine flood
2-14	Miner granted immunity; Worker testifies in probe of deadly fire
2-14	Benjamin asked to withdraw from $240 million Massey case  -    Recusal-Go-Round Continues at West Virginia Supreme Court  - Plaintiffs say campaign support should disqualify Benjamin from appeal  -  Some Find Fault With Judicial Recusal Commission Proposal
2-14	Senate panel guts coalbed methane bill
2-14	Surface Owners Rally for 'Bill of Rights'
2-14	"When Miners March' - from manuscript, to book, to movie
2-14	Mountain Justice Spring Break Benefit: EARTH club to host Valentine date auction
2-14	Victim's father files wrongful death suit; PREGNANT WOMAN WAS KILLED BY COAL TRUCK LAST MONTH
2-14	Mankind can't afford more oil drilling-ex-BP exec
2-14	Coal gasification is a threat to health
2-14	Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes for the official Google Blog on mountaintop removal
2-14	Project would hurt state park's land and wildlife (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
2-14	Hearing on coal-fired power plant planned
2-14	Mining CEO: Coal Remains Vital
2-14	Oil Industry Begins Public Relations Campaign
2-14	U.S. misses second deadline to protect polar bears
2-14	UK health problems growing due to global warming
2-13	Ruthless: Slashing mine safety
2-13	Three homes threatened, one family evacuated after abandoned mine break  -  Seal breaks on abandoned mine, floods homes, road   -   Water breaks seal at abandoned Mingo County mine
2-13	Three Massey Energy subsidiaries honored by DEP and WV Coal Association (pass the barf bag, please ... Sure, The WV Coal Association congratulates coal's excesses, but what in the H*** is DEP up to?  Oh right, it is not the Department of Environmental Protection, but the Department for Every Polluter.)
2-13	Men Found 12+ Hours After Accident on Mine Property
2-13	Ohio students ask leaders to stop coal plants, and need your help!
2-13	Young WV Democrats Converge to see Mountain Top Removal
2-13	NYC and LA Premieres!
2-13	Depletion of the land (scroll down to last letter; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
2-13	Robert Kennedy Jr.:  You are connected to mountaintop removal
2-13	More CTL insanity: Liquid coal touted as good fuel bet if ethanol fails
2-13	Why energy dollars leave coal in the dust
2-13	Alpha Natural Resources reports lower fourth-quarter profit
2-13	Power plant opponents air their concerns at Department of Environmental Quality hearing
2-13	The great green land grab
2-13	Mountaintop Removal  -  I Love Mountains Day  -  On Coal and Appalachia
2-13	Las Vegas Water Source Could Run Dry By 2021
2-13	Climate Change May Kill Thousands In UK By 2017
2-13	Alaska: Areas threatened by climate change may get state fund
2-13	Explorers say fate of planet in our hands
2-13	Billionaires Bring Climate Change Action Plans to UN
2-13	Tiny Nations Seek Climate Help at UN
2-13	King Penguin Faces Extinction Due to Climate Change
2-13	True scale of C0² emissions from shipping revealed
2-13	Rivers Form Larger Component Of Global Carbon Cycling Than Previously Thought
2-13	Ruthless: Slashing mine safety
2-13	Three homes threatened, one family evacuated after abandoned mine break  -  Seal breaks on abandoned mine, floods homes, road   -   Water breaks seal at abandoned Mingo County mine
2-13	Three Massey Energy subsidiaries honored by DEP and WV Coal Association (pass the barf bag, please ... Sure, The WV Coal Association congratulates coal's excesses, but what in the H*** is DEP up to?  Oh right, it is not the Department of Environmental Protection, but the Department for Every Polluter.)
2-13	Men Found 12+ Hours After Accident on Mine Property
2-13	Ohio students ask leaders to stop coal plants, and need your help!
2-13	Young WV Democrats Converge to see Mountain Top Removal
2-13	NYC and LA Premieres!
2-13	Depletion of the land (scroll down to last letter; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
2-13	Robert Kennedy Jr.:  You are connected to mountaintop removal
2-13	More CTL insanity: Liquid coal touted as good fuel bet if ethanol fails
2-13	Why energy dollars leave coal in the dust
2-13	Alpha Natural Resources reports lower fourth-quarter profit
2-13	Power plant opponents air their concerns at Department of Environmental Quality hearing
2-13	The great green land grab
2-13	Mountaintop Removal  -  I Love Mountains Day  -  On Coal and Appalachia
2-13	Las Vegas Water Source Could Run Dry By 2021
2-13	Climate Change May Kill Thousands In UK By 2017
2-13	Alaska: Areas threatened by climate change may get state fund
2-13	Explorers say fate of planet in our hands
2-13	Billionaires Bring Climate Change Action Plans to UN
2-13	Tiny Nations Seek Climate Help at UN
2-13	King Penguin Faces Extinction Due to Climate Change
2-13	True scale of C0² emissions from shipping revealed
2-13	Rivers Form Larger Component Of Global Carbon Cycling Than Previously Thought
2-12	Gearing up for ‘I Love Mountains’ rally
2-12	Shepherdstown, W.Va.: Court candidates speak at forum  -  Some Residents Get Answers To Help Them Vote In Election
2-12	Gooch needs civics lesson on press freedom
2-12	Increased financing for coal uncertain; Many say there's no 'clean' use of fuel
2-12	Duke Energy won't build new coal-fired generators in NC, SC
2-12	Planned Virginia coal-fired plant vetted  -  Public speaks out on planned coal-fired plant in southwest Va.
2-12	Protesters in Somerset say no to coal gasification plant
2-12	Our daily acts have major consequences
2-12	What are We Going to Do with all this Coal?
2-12	Massey Energy CFO Exercises Options
2-12	Maine bill to limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal power plants
2-12	Global Warming: Sea Level Rise Could Be Twice As High As Current Projections, Greenland Ice Sheet Study Suggests
2-12	Global warming threatens king penguins, study reports
2-12	UN Chief Calls for Climate Change Action  -  UN Seek New Leaders on Global Warming
2-12	Insect explosion 'a threat to food crops'
2-12	Surge in Spending on Nukes a Grave Error
2-12	Beehive Collective is Searching for New Worker Bees
2-12	Bolt Mountain - Under Attack!
2-11	Kentucky: Mine expansion in middle of fight; Reclamation buries natural streams
2-11	Young Democrats tour mountain top removal site on Kayford Mountain
2-11	Bill opposes mountaintop removal   -   Legislation introduced to end valley fills in West Virginia
2-11	Clearly there is now a growing need for a special section at the bookstore on Mountaintop Removal...
2-11	Environmental groups charge DEP with protecting Hobet Mining  (see original Gazette story below, in links from 2-10)
2-11	Fly ash endangers the New River  -  Health risk from fly ash dumping debated
2-11	Help Save The Mountains
2-11	Age of 'Green Economics' is Upon Us - UN's Ban
2-10	DEP protecting coal industry on selenium, lawsuit says
2-10	Kentucky coal sludge dams: Danger zones lack emergency notification plans
2-10	Global Warming: Nine Things that Will Put us Over the Edge  - National Geographic projects stark global-warming future
2-10	Clean Power or Dirty Coal?
2-10	Coal has long been a destructive force (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
2-10	Washington Post review of "Coal River" -- An expose of a mining practice that reduces mountains to rubble   -  A West Virginia mountaintop denuded by coal mining
2-10	The Oregonian: Breezy style overlays deadly serious story
2-10	Strip Mining Black History Month
2-10	W.Va. needs to consider merit selection for judges
2-10	Van Jones: Focus On Green-Collar Jobs
2-10	Massey's Blankenship exercises stock options
2-10	Pennsylvania: Groups push for funding to revive polluted waterways
2-10	Jim Hansen: Climate scientist they could not silence
2-10	Waxman Subpoenas EPA on California Waiver  -  Congressman subpoenas EPA files on California ruling
2-10	Manitoba adds protection for polar bears
2-10	India's Climate Change Roadmap to be Ready in June
2-10	South Africa: Coal mining plans put fresh water at risk
2-9	Washington Post review of "Coal River" -- An expose of a mining practice that reduces mountains to rubble  -  Letter to the editor about "Coal River" and buffer zone ruling in New York Times -   San Diego Union Tribune: 'Coal River' cries a river over the devastation from mining
2-9	MSHA: Mines must create rescue teams  -  Federal regulator issues new rules that it says will improve coal mine rescues
2-9	Court: EPA must set power plant standards  -  Court rejects Bush's mercury emissions trading plan -  Bush mercury rules up in smoke  -  Bush Mercury Rules Overruled  -  Court Strikes Down Bush Policy Exempting Power Plants From EPA Regulations
2-9	Obama on Energy: Make it clean; make polluters pay
2-9	Ky. lawmaker strikes back at editorial writers, cartoonists  -  A cheer for HB 468
2-9	Citizen Action Group Capital Eye for Feb. 8  -  WVEC Green Legislative Update for Feb. 8
2-9	State must clean up roads around mines (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
2-9	Talk of exporting U.S. coal to Pacific on the rise  -  Global surge in coal demand sends prices north
2-9	Ruling may delay Pee Dee coal plant   - Mercury ruling hits coal plants in OK
2-9	SC Lt. Gov Perdue urges end to coal-fired era
2-9	Kansas House speaker pulls the plug on coal plant bill
2-9	Hearing on coal power plant on Nevada state line draws hundreds
2-9	Sierra Club goes to court over Sigurd coal plant
2-9	In Every House, Keys to Fight Climate Change
2-9	Larry Gibson at Kayford Mountain  -  The problem of mountaintop removal and ignoring nature
2-9	Jesse Johnson interviewed on radio: Jim Bohannon Show, 11 pm Friday
2-9	Maynard distances himself from another Massey case
2-9	Sen. Jon Blair Hunter introduced bill to ban valley fills in W.Va. legislature
2-8	Maynard recuses himself for third time  -   Chief Justice Maynard recuses himself from 3rd Massey case
2-8	Congress Sends Economic Aid Plan to Bush
2-8	Coal Industry Could Face Tax Increase
2-8	Kroger Cares program helps many groups (scroll down)
2-8	Coal to liquid: A blueprint for disaster (letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
2-8	Kentucky UU youth raise money to stop mountaintop removal coal mining
2-8	'Friends of Coal' drive sparks big reaction
2-8	Bad news for Giles County
2-8	Richmond fest to center on environment
2-8	Michigan citizens sue state to regulate carbon dioxide from coal plants
2-8	ICG reports $16 million loss
2-8	Banks to Consider Climate Before Investing in Coal
2-8	Clean coal seen likely to suffer delays in U.S.
2-8	Justice not served by death penalty
2-8	Shelling It Out
2-7	'Coal River' author at Taylor Books tonight for reading, signing
2-7	Bill would outlaw mountaintop removal  -   Bill to ban valley fills introduced  -  Proposed State Law Aims to Keep Streams Free of Mining Waste
2-7	Surface owners' rights legislation in House, Senate   -  Drilling Boom Spurs Legislation
2-7	Panel Proposed to Consider Recusal Requests  -  Interest growing in court reform
2-7	MSHA eliminates one method of sppealing mining citations  -  MSHA: Under 1% of coal penalties missed; Official: No willful misconduct on fines
2-7	Bush's budget request boosts coal and nuclear power; cuts funding for renewable energy
2-7	Charleston, WV: Tonight, 6 p.m. Taylor Books, 226 Capitol St., Michael Shnayerson reads from his book Coal River.   -   The Political Awakening of Michael Shnayerson
2-7	Charleston, SC hosts Dave Cooper's Roadshow: Hear about environmental impact of 'mountaintop removal' tonight
2-7	New Hampshire: Fiber show on exhibit at PEA
2-7	Maryland: Public comments requested on coal combustion byproducts
2-7	Global warming teach-in hopes to impact Marshall University campus
2-7	The Forging Of A Man
2-7	Citizen's lawsuit against coal company moves ahead
2-7	Rep Moran and Hundreds Say No To Coal!
2-7	Hope to save climate lies with civil society
2-7	Coal Prices May Double in Coming Years
2-7	Exxon Posts Record Profits on Oil Prices  -  How to Spend Exxon's $41 Billion Profit
2-7	Climate Change Becomes a US Republican Issue Too
2-7	UK to Spur Research Into Climate Impact on Poor
2-7	EU Energy Firms Dropping Projects Over CO2
2-7	LET'S CALL THE COAL THING OFF.
2-6	Missing MSHA fines up under Bush
2-6	Coal trucks crash in Louisa; one dies  -  Daughter sues over death of her mother
2-6	Increased training on miners' rights sought
2-6	WV Bottle Bill Uncapped
2-6	Dominion plant would be bad for Wise, Va.
2-6	1 of 2 coal ash bills remains alive in Richmond
2-6	Groundwater testing begun near Oakwood   -   Dredge use settlement reached
2-6	Chairman: FutureGen project probably dead without DOE funding
2-6	The Twilight of the Coal Era: 50 Coal Plants Scuttled; Wall Street Turns Off Money Spigot  -  "Clean" coal collapse 'undermines power sell-off'
2-6	Ky. aims for piece of emissions capturing coal plant
2-6	Massey, Equitable sued over fatal 2006 mine accident
2-6	Super Tuesday: what’s at stake?
2-6	Green Giant
2-6	AlterNet Posts Christian Science Monitor's review of "Coal River"
2-6	Governors to get anti-coal valentines  -  St. George residents fight coal-plant plan
2-6	Christians told: Give up carbon for Lent
2-6	Will Candidates' Green Talk Lead to Presidential Action?  -  The Indy’s Guide to the Primaries
2-6	New York State needs to attack mercury problem
2-6	Longwall in Australia: BHP acknowledges Nepean River cracks
2-6	The climate may be right for a global warming bill
2-6	"Tipping Points" Seen for Greenland Ice, Amazon
2-6	Spring's Sprung Early in Britain
2-5	Bush budget cuts coal mine safety
2-5	Richard Heinberg: The Great Coal Rush (and Why It Will Fail)
2-5	Banks set Carbon Principles for financing coal plants (time for ethics /principles for the entire coal industry...starting with an acknowledgment that mountaintop removal is too extreme a from of coal mining to be allowed to continue) -  Wall Street announces “Carbon Principles” - but what do they mean?    -  Banks to weigh CO2 emissions in power lending   -  Mark(et)ed for Death   - 'Carbon Principles' Another Nail in Coal's Coffin
2-5	Coal-to-liquid, biofuels: Are "alternative" fuels really cleaner?
2-5	Coal's Siren Song
2-5	Global meltdown: scientists isolate areas most at risk of climate change
2-5	Utilities Turn From Coal to Gas, Raising Risk of Price Increase
2-5	Huge natural gas field mile below Appalachia tantalizes drillers -  Opinion of spokesman for Chesapeake Energy: Natural gas vital to W.Va.'s energy independence
2-5	Take Action: West Virginia Surface Owners' Bill of Rights
2-5	Study Suggests That, Unlike in the ’70s, Energy Lessons Will Last
2-5	Advice on tuna, and other fish, with mercury
2-5	Denny's Crusade   -  Blogging for Appalachia
2-5	Tennessee Scenic Vistas Act  -  Lobbying from and for the mountains
2-5	North Carolina: Candidates focus on the environment
2-5	Energy Fast for Lent?
2-5	Study: Up to 60 percent of climate-related water trends human-caused
2-5	Parched: Arid Southwest
2-5	Scientists collaborate on Wisconsin climate change initiative
2-5	Global Warming Could Lead to Increase in Thunderstorms
2-4	A ROCKY START FOR "CLEAN COAL"  -  "Clean Coal" Turns to Cinders   -  Is Capturing CO2 a Pipe Dream?
2-4	Rain Forests Fall at 'Alarming' Rate
2-4	PLAN B 3.0: MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION
2-4	$20 million fine is not enough
2-4	Kroger Company on the Kroger Cares program
2-4	Filings give Dems edge in legislative, some statewide races
2-4	Group’s tactics make it look silly (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
2-4	Money Is the Real Green Power: The Hoax of Eco-Friendly Nuclear Energy
2-4	Global warming worsens water troubles in US West
2-4	Polar Bear to Be the First Species Protected Against Global Warming
2-4	World Urged to Help Poor Adapt to Climate Change
2-4	World's Big Polluters Note Change in US Climate Stance
2-4	Global Warming Crop Harm Predicted in Africa, Asia
2-4	Is Climate Change Making Us Sick?
2-3	A ‘Bold’ Step to Capture an Elusive Gas Falters  -  Dept. Of Energy Abandons FutureGen In Favor Of Smaller Initiatives
2-3	'Blue haze' inquiry narrows to John Amos
2-3	Widow sues Massey over death of miner in gas-pipeline explosion
2-3	Proposal would halt sealing abandoned sections of mines
2-3	Va. company says it will grow unpolluted fish at W.Va. farm
2-3	The Dallas Morning News: Michael Shnayerson pens an indictment of mining companies in 'Coal River'
2-3	Mountaintop removal's toll on Kentucky communities
2-3	Rise Up! West Virginia Going On the Road
2-3	Presentation examines impact of mountaintop removal mines
2-3	Pennsylvania says mining destroyed lake dam in park
2-3	World turns to us for coal
2-3	Kansas power plant  -  Coal rules legislative session
2-3	Global warming threatens to devastate the Mediterranean
2-2	WVEC Green Legislative Update for Feb. 1   - WVCAG Capital Eye, Feb 1 2008
2-2	Wars Dwarf Warming in US Budget
2-2	Living on Earth: Obama on Climate Change
2-2	U.S. mine safety agency OKs wireless-tracking system for mines
2-2	Maynard-Massey flap triggers recusal legislation
2-2	Concert's proceeds will fight mountaintop removal mining
2-2	Foreign demand prompts Massey to consider increased coal output  -  US coal export capacity will be stretched -experts
2-2	Coal miner Massey 4th-qtr profit falls
2-2	FutureGen "Cleanish Coal" Plant Cancelled
2-2	More coal-to-liquid insanity: Schweitzer touts coal-to-liquid plant
2-2	Michigan officials release plan for mercury reduction
2-2	Global-warming speaker sees challenge for nation
2-2	US Lawmakers Urged to Lead Global Warming Battle
2-2	Polar Bears Take Center Stage at Senate Hearing
2-2	Carbon Trading Must Be Globally Regulated
2-2	Forum: Green progress to speed up
2-1	MU hosts 'teach-in' on climate changes   - West Virginia University Joins 'Focus The Nation'  - Tech gathers for 'Focus the Nation'  -  News of Focus the Nation events -- from across the nation
2-1	Tell Massey Energy to End Mountaintop Removal Mining
2-1	Natural Systems Solutions to Global Warming
2-1	NLRB: Massey should rehire union miners  -  NLRB Seeks Injunction Against Massey
2-1	Mining company faces harassment suit
2-1	History, literature, mining books staple of WVU Press
2-1	Road show brings strip mining to ETSU students
2-1	Time to focus on new energy sources (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools; please use them!)
2-1	W.Va. could benefit from booming coal exports (coal barons could  benefit; people living in the shadow of mountaintop removal could suffer more; planet could fry...)  -  Peabody Energy Sees Piping Hot Global Market For Coal
2-1	Yellow Springs Says No to Coal
2-1	Rising price of 'clean coal'
2-1	Coal Becomes More Attractive, Given Hidden Costs of Imported Oil (past time for full accounting of hidden costs of coal)
2-1	Air Force pitches coal-to-liquids plant  -  Air Force touts clean energy
2-1	Hydrogen-Burning Hypersonic Airplane: Going Green at Mach-5
2-1	A Green Energy Industry Takes Root Under the California Sun
2-1	Duke Energy will build likely its last coal plant in North Carolina
2-1	Massey Energy Names New General Counsel; M. Shane Harvey Promoted to Position
2-1	Top West Virginia judge vacations with coal boss appealing legal verdict
2-1	CNX: A CBM and Shale Gas Play
2-1	Learning to Love Climate ‘Adaptation’: It's too late to stop global warming. Now we have to figure out how to survive it.
2-1	Climate change researcher suggests ways of adapting to changes
2-1	Warming oceans lead to more frequent hurricanes, says study
2-1	Climate change studies urge California, West to prepare for floods