(Feb)  Archive - March, 2008  (Apr)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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3-31	Appalachian Studies Association conference wraps up
3-31	Appalachian Conference Show Showcases Mountaintop
3-31	WV Coal Association president counsels patience, research and neighborly communication for communities affected by coal companies
3-31	Turn Off the Lights! - Earth Hour creeps across the globe  -  Worldwide event designed to raise energy awareness  -  Lights off around the world
3-31	Above ground, a golf course. Just beneath it, potential health risks.
3-31	Energy Companies Urge Greener Tech
3-31	Rising global warming concerns mean utilities face more obstacles to plans for new coal plants
3-31	US West Warming Faster Than Rest Of World - Study
3-31	Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate
3-31	In the Game of Coal Mining, the Environment Loses
3-30	Manchin plans no investigation of coal, health  -  Safeguard Health In Mining Regions
3-30	Author talks about Appalachian culture  -  Conference renews commitment to heritage  -  Rural care, recruiting focus of health care forum
3-30	Four W.Va. cities pledge to fight global warming
3-30	Rick Wilson: What if W.Va. started thinking of climate change policies that would be good for the state?
3-30	Va. can look to coal, or to a clean-energy future
3-30	Kathy Mattea: Coal  -  Mattea discusses latest album and issues that inspired it (scroll to 3/28 entry)
3-30	The cost of business as usual
3-30	What’s the Price of a Life in Modern Coal Mining?
3-30	Rahall discusses Route 10, coal tech and tourism
3-30	Clinton 'feels good' about Ind., Ky.
3-30	Venable: A most predictable response
3-30	Kansas: Lots of cash behind coal plant clash
3-30	Air Force leads push to liquefied coal fuel
3-30	Sundance film recounts coal plant battle
3-30	First cities go dark for Earth Hour
3-30	Consol CEO's compensation increases 13 percent
3-30	Kaine Says Coal-Burning Power Plant Is Necessary
3-30	Dominion Only Accepts Coal-Plant Facts It Wants to Hear
3-30	Safety fears shut down Tower mine
3-30	South Africa: Farmers in court bid to stop coal mining
3-29	Conference celebrates all things Appalachian, including music
3-29	Asking Again  -   Lawyers offer poll in bid for justice's recusal from Massey case
3-29	The History Channel's A-Historical "Ax Men" -- Clearcutting the History of Forest Destruction
3-29	Unchecked climate change = 125 million refugees in South Asia
3-29	Climate change now a UN human rights issue
3-28	Oral arguments in the latest mountaintop-removal court appeal have been scheduled for May 13 in the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals; Massey stockholders meeting same day, also in Richmond
3-28	Rail crossing accident kills Massey transport worker
3-28	WVU Press books named finalists in ForeWord's Book of the Year Awards
3-28	Students seek support of Clean Water Act from Congressman Carney
3-28	Coal is too destructive and dirty to be our best lasting energy solution
3-28	National Coal defends mountaintop removal mining
3-28	Mini movie reviews (scroll down to Burning the Future)
3-27	Amy Goodman: What the Government Doesn't Want You To Know About Global Warming
3-27	Suit aims to block Greenbrier plant
3-27	Popular topic makes WVU dissertation tops in downloads
3-27	Blankenship has created 'cancer on our courts,' Starcher says
3-27	AP to sue Supreme Court over Maynard records
3-27	Tenn.: National Coal clashes with environmentalists over bill
3-27	Tenn.: Mountaintop mining ban could meet federal standards  -   Tennessee wildlife agency prefers deep mining to mountaintop removal  -  New version of mining bill proposed
3-27	Ruling on Mercury Emissions Is Appealed -  Bush administration asks federal appeals court to rehear mercury emissions case
3-27	Kentucky: Senate questions coal severance
3-27	Citations issued in coal mining death
3-27	Kansas: Ratepayers at risk with coal plant, study says
3-27	North Dakota and Montana Senators: Coal’s future depends on capturing CO2 emissions
3-27	Canada: "Clean" coal could cost taxpayers too much, says NDP
3-27	Louisiana PSC approves SWEPCO's planned coal-fired plant  -  Environmental groups plan meeting about coal-fired plants
3-27	Ludington learns negative effects of coal-burning plants
3-27	Milton's Cultural Scene
3-27	Even Big Coal finds CEI ad offensive
3-27	Hutton's nuclear fantasy
3-27	Oilsands targeted by new U.S. law
3-27	Climate Change Threatens Amazonian Small Farmers
3-27	News of Rapid Glacial Melting Raises a Big Question for Presidential Candidates
3-27	Global Warming Turns Lake Tahoe Green
3-27	China: 9 killed, 5 missing in coal mine gas outburst
3-27	Chronic Illness Linked To Coal-mining Pollution, Study Shows
3-26	Charleston Gazette: Coal pollution and diseases linked in WVU study  - West Virginia Public Radio: Coal pollution, disease linked in WVU study  - Forbes: Study says coal mining can harm health  - Health News Today: Study Links Chronic Illness To Coal Mining Pollution  - Occupational Hazards: Coal Mining Pollution May Affect Public Health  -  More news outlets run the study news
3-26	Senate hopefuls differ on mining, agree on raise  -    Kanawha County candidates for the state Senate seats defend legislative pay increase; One newcomer campaigning on a platform of clean elections and prohibiting mountaintop removal
3-26	Our Suicide Mission with Coal
3-26	Focus on fossil fools; A different way to mark April Fools' Day
3-26	Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency official urges end of mountaintop coal removals
3-26	For Carbon Emissions, a Goal of Less Than Zero
3-26	State Awaits MSHA Decision On Seals
3-26	EKU: Earth Days Observance Includes Educational Programs, Hands-On Activities
3-26	Come back, Dennis Kucinich! These Guys All Love Coal
3-26	Clean water requires decisive leadership now (letters to the editor sections are one of the most read sections of the newspaper; please write a letter to the editor today!)  -  Mountaintop removal must stop
3-26	Mountain Justice Spring Break Takes the Cake
3-26	Narrows site ready to receive coal ash  -  Coal Ash Use In Giles County
3-26	Pittsburgh region receives $26M to develop "clean" fossil fuel technology  -  "Clean" coal to liquid fuel? Nope, not enough coal.
3-26	Kaine: Region on road to prosperity; Coal-fired power plant protestors beg to differ
3-26	British investment bank eyes Montana coal
3-26	How coal destroyed Welsh lives
3-26	Coal Mining Venture May Force Removal of Nietzsche's Remains
3-26	UK push for big nuclear expansion  -  Nuclear Power Debate Heats Up
3-26	Land Deal Could Open Alaska Wildlife Refuge To Oil
3-26	Modern Parable: The Alberta Tar Sands
3-26	Soot may play big role in climate change
3-26	Millions At Risk In S.Asia From Warmer World - Greens
3-26	Warming Seen Having Immunological Consequences
3-26	Slab Of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses Amid Warming   -  Global warming blamed for ice shelf collapse  -  Huge chunk of Antarctic ice shelf collapses  -  Vast iceberg breaks off Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctic
3-25	Run your car on coal? Maybe not; CTL fuels: still a bad idea
3-25	Article on mountaintop removal was insulting (letters to the editor sections are one of the most read sections of the newspaper; please write a letter to the editor today!)
3-25	Drinking water hard to come by for some
3-25	Businessweek: Mining industry spent $4.1M lobbying Congress, Corps, EPA and more
3-25	Herald Dispatch editorial: U.S. can't just turn off coal power  -  Kan.: New Coal Bill Emerges
3-25	Passover as If Earth Really Matters
3-25	Appalachian studies conference at Marshall (scroll to 3/25 entry)
3-25	New, life-saving technology unveiled at exhibition mine
3-25	Old company store to be stop on trail
3-25	Bangor News: Beaches and Mountains
3-25	Bank of America: Stop Funding Coal! - Charlotte, NC Banner Drop
3-25	Summary of Supreme Court Actions Monday
3-25	Drought And Flooding Seen For The US-NOAA
3-25	Black carbon: Soot from biomass burning, diesel exhaust has 60 percent of the effect of carbon dioxide on warming but mitigation offers immediate benefits
3-25	Scientists Seek Climate Clues On Antarctic Voyage
3-25	Australia facing threat of wildlife catastrophe  -  Climate change seen as last nail in coffin for native fauna
3-24	Science: FOREST TO RECLAIMED MINE LAND USE CHANGE LEADS TO ALTERED ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
3-24	Campaign finance has become constant fight for improvement
3-24	Raleigh County -- Residents say coal company trucks destroying pavement
3-24	MU to host Appalachian Studies Conference
3-24	Dominion purchase silences power line critic
3-24	Would you drink this? Beeson residents forced to use extraordinary means in procuring usable water
3-24	Coal trains create too much pollution (letters to the editor sections are one of the most read sections of the newspaper; please write a letter to the editor today!)
3-24	US to become a major exporter of coal in 2008
3-24	Mine Safety meeting coming to Logan
3-24	Coal exec says zero accidents realistic
3-24	Julie Pratt: It's not too late for our planet
3-24	April 22 at Lincoln Center: Mountain Top Removal
3-24	Black miners found hardship in Utah
3-24	Parks in Peril
3-24	UCSB Students Host National Conference on Global Warming
3-24	UN Security Council must act preemptively – on climate change
3-24	China becoming gold medalist in CO2 emissions
3-24	Lights go out to bring climate change into focus
3-23	Science: FOREST TO RECLAIMED MINE LAND USE CHANGE LEADS TO ALTERED ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
3-23	Fiction (coal industry PR, regurgitated): Mountaintop mining doesn't harm streams  (Please take the time to counter the coal industry's propaganda campaign--write a letter to the editor)
3-23	No stream pollution should be allowed  -  State must address water pollution  -  Let's not accept death of mountains  (letters to the editor sections are one of the most read sections of the newspaper; please write a letter to the editor today!)
3-23	Clinton’s coal dust-up
3-23	Getting ready for a gusher: Vast reservoir under West Virginia could hiss for decades
3-23	Suit seeks to force MSHA to tighten dust limit
3-23	World Water Crisis   -   Researchers outline obstacles and solutions for providing water in the 21st century  -  How to Find Out if You Use Too Much Water
3-23	USAF official: 'Guess what? We're going to burn coal'  - Fueling the Fourth Reich  -  Air Force wants to see coal fuel take off
3-23	Coal's probable future: dirty and costly
3-23	Worldwatch Institute: U.S. Environmental Groups Divided on “Clean Coal”  -- Environmentalists Say Low-Carbon Power Should Replace Coal Plants
3-23	More states step in to limit carbon emissions
3-23	Weaning off the 'juice'
3-23	Climate change 'is accelerating'
3-23	Digging Coal and Moving Mountains (scroll down)
3-23	Insecure About Climate Change
3-23	The Costs of Meat and Fish
3-23	The Art of Global Warming: Photographer Sasha Bezzubov
3-22	Air Force Prod Aids Coal-To-Fuel Plans
3-22	Justice for Sale
3-22	Biggers to Obama: Free Appalachia from coal  - West Virginia, Mountain Drama  -   Clinton, Obama Coal Comments Criticized by Environmental Group   -   Obama: Green Coal?  -  Diverse fans greet Obama in Charleston and Beckley (scroll to 3-21 entry)
3-22	The Rising Price of Coal
3-22	Kansas Governor Vetoes Bill to Allow Coal-Fired Plants; Permit Had Been Rejected on Global-Warming Grounds  -  Kansas Governor Vetoes Bill to Revive 2 Coal-Fired Plants
3-22	Virginia Law Requiring Use of Virginia Coal May Be Unconstitutional  -  Air Pollution Control Board takes over permitting process for plant
3-22	Murray coal company fined $420K for 'flagrant' violations  -  Murray-controlled Utah coal mine fined for explosive hazards
3-22	June 3: FX's '30 Days' sends Spurlock into coal mine
3-22	We will face a ruthless period of natural selection...
3-22	Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns minister
3-22	Lofty Pledge to Cut Emissions Comes With Caveat in Norway
3-21	Is Carbon Capture a False Hope for Coal? Even if the technology is made to work, it may not be cost-efficient in the long run
3-21	RUN YOUR CAR ON COAL? MAYBE NOT
3-21	WV Public Radio on Obama Visit - Obama pays visit to Beckley; Democrat discusses coal, energy, veterans, economic concerns at town hall meeting  -  Associated Press on Obama's visit  - Obama talks Iraq, economy in Charleston  -  2,500 festive supporters welcome candidate
3-21	Starcher seeks recusal hearing  -  W.Va. justice schedules hearing on Massey case
3-21	Environment polluted by blasting process (letters to the editor sections are one of the most read sections of the newspaper; please write a letter to the editor today!)
3-21	North Carolina Public Radio on "Mountain Top Removal"
3-21	Coal mining: When beauty and power clash
3-21	Residents in Boyd organize to Ky. fight landfill
3-21	Va. governor, AG appeal Energy Dept. decision on power lines
3-21	W.Va. considers tighter mine rescue team rules
3-21	Green Ink: Oil in Retreat, or High Prices Here to Stay?
3-21	Tell Hillary Bombed Out Mountaintops Don't Grow Back
3-21	Raise your concerns about new Duke plant
3-21	Maryland: Amended Bill For Emissions Cuts Approved
3-21	Business groups campaign against climate change bill
3-21	Climate Change Deepening World Water Crisis
3-21	Global Warming Bringing Spring Earlier
3-20	Tenn. legislators lobbied on mining bill by Mattea
3-20	Filming efforts to save the Appalachians in Mountain Top Removal
3-20	Jeff Biggers--Beyond Race: Obama's Green Opportunity
3-20	State voters welcome Clinton  -  Trading off jobs and lives for the 'economic necessity' of coal: Hillary Clinton gives tepid response on question about mountaintop-removal mining   -  Clinton: “Maybe there’s a way to recover those mountaintops . . .”
3-20	WV Public Radio: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to WV Public Radio (scroll to 3/19 entry)
3-20	Bloody Kansas: Big Coal’s New Battlefield  -  States’ Battles Over Energy Grow Fiercer With U.S. in a Policy Gridlock
3-20	Exporting -- Liquidating --our Mountains, Forests, Streams and Future: Coal Can't Fill World's Burning Appetite; With Supplies Short, Price Rise Surpasses Oil and U.S. Exporters Profit  -  An Export in Solid Supply
3-20	Cost of coal power is rising
3-20	Dutch opt for coal with carbon capture, not nuclear
3-20	Switch from coal to gas reduces carbon
3-20	Letting what market figure out the best way?
3-20	Environmental Group Claims Proposed Coal Plant Violates Constitution   -  Latest Duke coal plant challenge targets Appalachian mountaintop removal
3-20	Banks Hope to Expand Carbon Rules to Public Utilities
3-20	Energy bill good for Kentucky's future
3-20	Has Climate Already Passed Dangerous Point?
3-20	Icy Start, But 2008 May Be In Top 10 Warmest Years
3-19	U.S. Power Plant Carbon Emissions Zoom in 2007  -  Power plant greenhouse gas emissions increased 3 percent in 2007
3-19	Bill to increase tax paid on coal; Tenn. shouldn't be a 'cheap place to mine,' Bredesen says of effort
3-19	MU hosts Appalachian Studies conference
3-19	Massey mine cited for fatal accident in W.Va.
3-19	Senator Hillary Clinton On Coal
3-19	Appalachian solidarity Papal petition  -  OK Pope Benedict, We’ll see how serious you really are  - Don't wait for FEMA
3-19	Ky. Senate OKs bill to post GPS identifiers at mine sites
3-19	Toxic Water, Cute Little Kids, West Virginia
3-19	Thickest, Oldest Arctic Ice Is Melting - NASA Data
3-19	Views expressed on mountaintop removal
3-19	The green American road trip comes to Asheville
3-19	Against the grain
3-19	Kansan Stokes Energy Squabble With Coal Ruling
3-19	Anti-coal coalition urging Gov. Granholm to reject new power plants
3-19	Doyle Getting Tough On Coal Fired Power Plants
3-19	Illinois concerned about Indiana mercury
3-19	N.J. Firm Might Put Power Plant in N.Va.
3-18	Burying streams: New study finds small creeks play role in reducing pollution
3-18	When will water matter in Frankfort?  -  Making a molehill out of mountaintop removal
3-18	Mining coverage gets honorable mention in contest
3-18	Bastress Seeks To Improve West Virginia Supreme Court
3-18	Carbon capture and storage: a reality check
3-18	AEP clean-coal plant's future hazy after Ohio Supreme Court decision
3-18	Is there cause to hope about global warming?
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