(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