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5-31	Judge orders end to selenium violations at Logan mine
5-31	W.Va. native Morgan Spurlock kicks off series with coal mining
5-31	Is Water Becoming the New Oil?
5-31	How Scarce Energy Resources Can Quickly Lead to Deadly Wars
5-31	18-year-old ICG worker dies at Barbour mine - W.Va. miner killed in ICG contract operation
5-31	David Roberts: We Can Beat Coal Co-Dependence!
5-31	Power line opponents wary of settlement
5-31	Where is coal-waste poison going?
5-31	Investigation completed
5-31	Coal is dirty
5-31	Coal-to-liquid: Ohio EPA conducts hearing
5-31	A Republican War Time Measure: coal to liquid fuel
5-31	Hansen: Governors aren't getting it
5-31	Brattleboro Reformer letter to editor: Benefitting from Appalachia's hardship (scroll to last letter)
5-31	Bush Administration Acknowledges Global Warming's Impacts: Forced by Court, Climate Science Agency Issues Overdue Report
5-31	UNDP, Japan to help Africa adapt to global warming
5-31	The Great Lakes, Under the Threat of Global Warming
5-31	Researchers: City Residents Produce Less Carbon
5-31	Coal-waste road coating could prove costly
5-30	Climate Destruction Will Produce Millions of 'Envirogees' - Report Says Significant Climate Change Ahead for US - Grim U.S. report predicts effects of warming on natural resources
5-30	Environmentalists win selenium case in federal court
5-30	"Clean" Coal
5-30	Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal (especially since there is no such thing as "clean" coal)
5-30	Excerpt from Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days TV Series: Mountain Top Removal
5-30	PSC considers transmission line compromise
5-30	Uncertainty surrounds next phase in stream protection debate
5-30	UK power giant says energy industry on the brink of radical change
5-30	Court reinstates $100,000 fine against Massey
5-30	Chesapeake dumps plan to build in city
5-30	Morgan Spurlock heads into the coal mine
5-30	Coal-to-liquid fuels in Kentucky
5-30	Removing mountaintop removal
5-30	Global warming to wreak havoc on U.S. crops and forests, report says
5-30	Best-selling Environmental Writer Turns Words into Action on Climate Change
5-30	Under Fire, White House Releases Report About Global Warming; Overdue Report Reveals Serious Health Consequences - White House: Humans “Very Likely” Causing Warming
5-30	Methane release could cause abrupt, far-reaching climate change
5-30	It's Cleaner Gas vs. Cheaper Coal
5-30	Coal Ash: Giles Citizens Continue to Fight Cumberland Park Project
5-30	Lobbying for the enemy of the human race
5-30	Hiking Schumate Hollow… or what’s left of it
5-30	Kathy Mattea to tour former Jefferson Co. jail
5-29	Richard Heinberg: Coal in the United States
5-29	Jeff Biggers: Obama's Audacity in Appalachia
5-29	Taking Mountain Top Removal Head-On, North Carolina Considers Ban - Bill Aims to Outlaw Coal Mined By Removing Mountaintops: Utilities Say Move Would Boost Costs - Mountaintop-removal coal outlawed in North Carolina?
5-29	DEP blames subsidence for 30-foot-deep hole in Fairmont yard
5-29	Greens demand coal mines health inquiry
5-29	Lexington, KY: 'Carbon footprint' is largest in nation
5-29	Chattanooga: Push to preserve signature views
5-28	North Carolina bill introduced to end mountaintop removal mining - WVVA TV: Proposed Legislation Against Mining In NC - Bill aims to outlaw coal mined by removing mountaintops
5-28	Raleigh County BOE discusses school safety
5-28	More coal-to-liquid insanity: Capito to seek ethanol-style mandate for coal-to-liquids
5-28	Boone miner in serious condition - Man Hurt in Mining Accident
5-28	Byrd did nothing to stop destruction of mountains
5-28	International Coal Group Acquires Powell Mountain Mining Operations in Kentucky and Virginia
5-28	Bank of America touts its eco-credentials but finances wrong projects
5-28	Thank you David Novack & Sundance
5-28	285 mines beneath Athens County threaten human, environmental safety
5-28	The Chemical Composition of Coal and Its Negative Impact
5-28	The Battle of Kansas Coal
5-28	Arch Coal Chairman and CEO to Speak at JP Morgan Basics and Industrials Conference on June 3, Live Webcast Available
5-28	Coal Money vs. Wind Power Redux
5-28	Highlands shafted
5-28	In Vermont, a Debate Swirls Around an Aging Nuclear Plant
5-27	Permit hearing 'dignified'
5-27	W.Va. congresswoman plans bill to promote coal-to-liquid technology - Governor Joe Manchin: Energy Costs
5-27	Wake Up, America. We're Driving Toward Disaster.
5-27	Agreement on 2020 target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions eludes G8 environment ministers
5-27	Crimes Against Nature
5-27	Scrubbers to Clean John Amos Emissions
5-27	Senate set to debate emissions cuts
5-27	Ocean Acidification and its Consequences on Ecosystems
5-27	Tennessee gov.: It's not just about money
5-27	N.C. Sheriff: CSX conductor crushed by coal
5-26	Lobbyists disclosures still comin'
5-26	Landowners pressured on gas leases
5-26	Solar land use: less than coal
5-26	More research needed on coal
5-26	US Greens Wary Of Ecological Cost Of Record Oil
5-26	Oil: A Global Crisis
5-26	Mountainsaver and MTR on CNN
5-26	Film Festival Going Green - Film for the Environment
5-26	Nashville: Green issues wither in session
5-26	G-8 ministers move toward emissions goal
5-26	Warm winds comfort climate change models: study
5-26	Ads target meat-eaters on greenhouse
5-26	Exxon Again Cuts Funds For Climate Change Sceptics
5-26	Australia: Longwall Mining branded a scandal
5-26	G-8 Pledge to Halve Global Carbon Emissions by 2050
5-25	Pols will go where money is
5-25	There Is No Such Thing As Clean Coal
5-25	In Appalachia, the mountains tell tales of geology
5-25	Plaintiffs celebrate royalty ruling
5-25	Energy fears spark new survivalist movement
5-25	Europe, and especially Germany, are banking on coal
5-25	Leaders told battle to stem global warming slowing - Japan, US to Urge G-8 Nations to Join Climate Change Fund
5-25	Running Out of Fuel, but Not Out of Ideas
5-25	U.S. government to file for license for nuclear waste dump
5-25	EUROPE: Going Nuclear Despite Warnings
5-25	China rescuers rush to reach trapped coal miners
5-25	Rising Seas Could Threaten Eastern Shore, Bay Islands: Report
5-25	CSS needs regulated guidance - WWF
5-25	Arctic ice shelf barely hanging together
5-24	Study says inaction on climate change could cost trillions - Global Warming Sticker Shock
5-24	CNN on mountaintop removal
5-24	Time for a Moratorium on Coal - CCS is a dangerous distraction
5-24	Court turns down natual gas firms', Massey's appeals - WV Supreme Court Rejects Appeals In Energy Cases - Massey Energy to continue to fight verdict
5-24	MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING: Environmental/Social Costs Disregarded
5-24	Mingo County energy center, highway projects moving forward - Mingo County Redevelopment Authority discusses progress of projects
5-24	W. Va. Governor To Propose Transmission Tax
5-24	Coal-to-liquid corruption: Peabody Energy shoveled $1.3M into 1Q lobbying
5-24	Google, Chevron Build Mirrors in Desert to Beat Coal With Solar
5-24	Appalachia the Scapegoat for America's Racism - Obama's Appalachia problem: It's not white people. It's coal.
5-24	Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report
5-24	USING HIGHER EDUCATION TO CREATE JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE APPALACHIAN COALFIELDS
5-24	Building a Future
5-24	Just-ended Tenn. legislative session had its winners and losers -Legislative session favored seniors, students
5-24	Group says S.D. parks in peril due to pollution
5-24	Should Citi Finance a New Coal Plant in Virginia?
5-24	Canada: Help protect Glacier National Park
5-24	1 dead in crane collapse at KC-area power plant
5-24	U.S. miners prosper as world demand for coal booms - China's coal demand has global effect
5-24	China's miners toil in misery
5-24	Italy Plans to Resume Building Atomic Plants
5-24	CLIMATE CHANGE STUDY POINTS FINGER
5-24	EARLY WARNING SIGNS AT THE GLOBAL WARMING CAFE
5-24	Climate change 'will cost Andes US$30 billion'
5-24	Big Coal makes deceptive phone calls on climate change legislation
5-24	UGA’s Odom School of Ecology Presents First Annual EcoFocus Film Festival
5-24	Massey Energy general counsel exercises options
5-23	Judy Bonds op-ed in Coal Valley News: No such thing as clean coal
5-23	Rivetting Essay on the MTR War in WV
5-23	Introducing the Clean Coal Smackdown - Coal IS Dirty!!!!!
5-23	Jeff Biggers--Hey Media: Lay Off Appalachia
5-23	Ukraine mine coal burst kills 4, 7 missing
5-23	Burying CO2 Vital In Climate Battle
5-23	Human Carbon Emissions Make Oceans Corrosive - Study
5-23	Alaska to sue to block polar bear listing
5-23	Air quality agency approves first-in-the-nation fees for emissions
5-23	Radical Solution to Climate Change: Global Dimming through Sulphur
5-22	Follow The Map
5-22	As Oil Prices Rise, Nations Revive Coal Mining
5-22	UMWA endorses Obama for president - United Mine Workers Union Backs Obama
5-22	The Gothic Politics of Hillary Clinton
5-22	Climate: Prepare for change
5-22	Real price of energy
5-22	Carbonoks Provides Safe Haven for Miners
5-22	The Environmental Crime No Politician Will Confront
5-22	Dirty facts about 'Clean Coal'
5-22	Jeff Biggers: They Came Down From These Hills and Made History--Yet Appalachia's role in the national culture is too rarely recognized
5-22	Kansas coal plant dust settles, but there’s more debate ahead
5-22	Split Over Carbon Capture Technology
5-22	Carbon "capture ready" means not very ready in the UK
5-22	Clock running out on irreversible climate change - Part II - Clock Running Out on Irreversible Climate Change – Part I
5-22	Warmer Climate Hurting Birds New IUCN Red List Shows
5-22	Human Impacts, Climate Change Pushing Species to Extinction
5-22	Premier Issue Of Environmental Justice Announced
5-22	Is it time to dig for victory again to help tackle climate change?
5-22	Ocean Acidification: Another Undesired Side Effect Of Fossil Fuel-burning
5-22	N.H.: Regional global warming initiative advances
5-22	Global warming: Forge new path, urges Nobel winner
5-21	Deformed fish in Mud River due to selenium, scientist says
5-21	US Military Launches Alternate-Fuel Push
5-21	Obama's Coal Stance, in Kentucky and Beyond
5-21	Kentucky can't afford coal propaganda; Let industry pay for so-called education
5-21	Multistate powerline opposed in filing
5-21	U.S. utilities mull Colombian coal imports for 2008
5-21	Coal company suspends efforts to build N.D. power plant
5-21	Golf course built on fly ash can reopen to public - Couple opposes use of bottom ash
5-21	Proposed coal plant pits economy vs. Navajo belief
5-21	Animated Map Brings Global Climate Crisis To Life
5-21	US carbon dioxide emissions up 1.6 percent in 2007
5-21	EU report calls for faster climate change curbs
5-21	Big investors seek stricter climate laws
5-21	Climate Change Hitting Bird Species, Shows Study
5-20	The Independent (UK): The mountain that lost its top
5-20	Full speed ahead on Prenter water
5-20	Artists for the Environment event set for Saturday in Charleston - More info
5-20	MSHA violations on rise at Alma No. 1
5-20	Group voices concerns over budget
5-20	Seder's mountaintop removal segment
5-20	Mountaintop removal on Air America
5-20	Execs, Politicians Scorn Energy Over-Regulation (let's all get out our tiny violins...)
5-20	Report: W.Va. mine worker may have cut live cable
5-20	Retelling the story of the Matewan Massacre
5-20	Kentucky fried agitprop
5-20	How is Coal Mining Harming the Environment?
5-20	Coal Investors Take Their Lump
5-20	Fly-ash bill gets unanimous approval
5-20	China's power plants running out of coal
5-20	Coal to remain backbone of energy supply - IEA
5-19	Lobbyist spending explored
5-19	Morgan Spurlock digs deep in third season of '30 Days'
5-19	Wall Street Journal: Coal Country Lacks Consensus on a Nominee
5-19	Twenty percent wind by 2030: Not if, but when
5-19	The end of coal?
5-19	CONSOL Energy Senses Strength in Future Coal Markets
5-19	Imagine West Virginia Promotes Coal Technologies
5-19	Gulf states may soon need coal imports to keep the lights on
5-19	Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck
5-19	A Tour of the Desecration: The Longest Walk is Taking Notes
5-19	Complex Climate Treaty Challenges Experts
5-19	Study says global warming not worsening hurricanes - Atlantic Cyclones May Decrease As Globe Warms
5-19	Global warming may change ocean biology
5-18	Man electrocuted at Aracoma's Alma No. 1 mine
5-18	Ten important questions for the candidates
5-18	BLASTING ADVERTISEMENT
5-18	Blankenship costs another man his job - After Massey Energy Affair, West Virginia Voters Vote Down Chief Justice
5-18	Polar bears
5-18	Buckeye Mining gets grant for coal transloading facility
5-18	Drilling for Defeat?
5-18	Why Are Big Greens Supporting Carbon Sequestration?
5-17	Survey of water to continue for five years
5-17	A Conscious Heart
5-17	Man Electrocuted in Aracoma Mine
5-17	On payday loans, diesel prices and coal subsidies
5-17	Company looks to build diesel plant in Kentucky
5-17	Three Strikes Against Kansas Coal Plants: Sebelius Vetos Again
5-17	Methane extraction threatens rivers, report says
5-17	Case against nuclear energy
5-17	Climate change and human extinction--are you ready to be fossilized?
5-17	'Science': nitrogen as important as carbon in climate change
5-17	Plans for new coal plants under fire
5-17	Climate change is affecting ecosystems
5-17	Why investors worship Old King Coal
5-16	Manchin post-mining panel to meet
5-16	Mining appeal moving along; Olson to argue Harman case against Massey before Supreme Court
5-16	Clean-Air Rules Protecting Parks Set to Be Eased - Coal Plant Pollution Threatens US Parks
5-16	Power line hearing moved to May 30 - What is Manchin’s role in power project?
5-16	Debate heats up over strip mined coal in East Tenn.
5-16	Clinton on the Record - When it Comes to Coal, No Simple Party Differences
5-16	Clinton and Obama pander their way through the coal states
5-16	The eternal cycle of liquid coal reincarnation
5-16	"Clean" Coal talking point: "Near Zero-Emission Free Electricity"
5-16	Is This Any Way to Hold an Annual Meeting? Blog journalist denied admittance to Massey Energy conclave