(Jul)  Archive - August, 2008  (Sep)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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8-31	East Lynn mining proposal questioned  -  Economic impact of coal lease cloudy for Wayne  - Bureau of Land Management’s draft report for East Lynn Lake mining proposal  -  Corps of Engineers’ written response to the draft report  - Map detailing the proposed mining area
8-31	Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Allegheny Energy remains on course with plan for power line in Washington, Greene counties
8-31	CALHOUNER'S URGED TO ATTEND RALLY OPPOSING HIGH-VOLTAGE LINE
8-31	Ohio: Port authority working to buy land for proposed Baard coal-to-liquid plant
8-31	Beckley mine museum depicts conditions in early coal mines
8-31	Sherritt delays plan to build coal gasification plant in Alberta
8-31	FPL touts nuclear energy as a renewable source
8-31	Methane gas oozing up from Siberian seabed: Swedish researcher
8-31	Arctic Ice May Reach Lowest Level on Record in September
8-31	Palin questioned whether global warming is melting Arctic ice
8-31	Oil Group Joins Alaska in Suing To Overturn Polar Bear Protection
8-31	Time bomb in Arctic
8-31	Audubon announces fall schedule
8-30	The Enduring Allure of ‘Clean Coal’
8-30	Democrats Want Obama to Grow a Green, Clean Energy Economy   -   Democratic Nominee Obama Vows to Defeat Climate Change  - Energy, Environment Will Be Central to McCain-Palin Campaign - -  Sarah Palin: Tough on polar bears  -  Palin backs oil drilling in wildlife refuge  Palin - Not Convinced on Global Warming
8-30	September Washingtonian magazine: Trouble in Coal Country (not online)
8-30	Capito Gets $524,035 From Oil, Gas, Coal; Congresswoman's Spokesman Says Contributions Don't Drive Public Policy  -  Capito Likens Coal to Kryptonite; Congresswoman Says It Could Have a Negative Effect on OPEC Oil
8-30	Faith-Based Eco-Action
8-30	Massey must rehire ex-Horizon miners
8-30	Allegheny Power seeks rate increase
8-30	Impact of Mountaintop Mining/Valley Fill on the Stable Carbon Isotopic Composition and Concentration of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in Headwater Streams
8-30	“Phase out energy subsidies” – UN
8-30	A Mainstream Environmentalist Calls for a Radical Shift
8-30	As wildfires spread, so does the red ink
8-30	Polar Bears Observed On Risky Open Ocean Swims
8-30	Sea-Ice Melt Imperils Walruses, and Economy Based on Them
8-30	Europeans urged by Nordic nations to protect Arctic
8-29	State probe continues in death of McDowell strip-mine trucker
8-29	Text of Barack Obama's acceptance speech  -  Al Gore's speech at Invesco Field  -  Inside Obama's green plan for energy and the economy
8-29	Chasing The Clean Coal Dragon:  A DNC Lobby Adventure
8-29	Xcel agreement dims coal's future, critics say  - Now The Good News
8-29	Latest filing in coal mine fight
8-29	China suspends all but two coal-to-oil projects
8-29	Nader assails coal burning during visit
8-29	Coral reefs need new protection to survive global warming
8-29	Lessons from Climate Camp
8-29	Meltdown in the Arctic: Polar icecap shrinking at an alarming rate
8-29	How the summer of shale changed the natural gas game
8-28	Some upset with mining agreement
8-28	The Battle to Save Coal River Mountain   -  The Life or Death of a Mountain   -  earth wind fire : energy consumption
8-28	Wind vs. Pundits
8-28	Coal Heats Up as a Political Issue
8-28	Wake Up, Democrats: Send Dirty Coal Packing
8-28	Kessler wants coal pledge from Obama-Biden ticket
8-28	The Democrats' Clean Energy Choice
8-28	Text of Rockefeller’s speech  -  Dems can take W.Va., Jay says -  The Corporate Convention
8-28	Rebuttal to Sen. Rockefeller's speech   - The myth of "clean" coal
8-28	West Virginia Coal Film Festival comes to Morgantown, Shepherdstown and Charleston
8-28	Ecocide in Appalachia
8-28	Discipline coming in Utah mine disaster; MSHA chief seeks Crandall Canyon report transcripts
8-28	Business leaders discuss challenges, opportunities in energy, education   -  State chamber opens annual summit
8-28	Coal officials reach out to new generations (while ignoring the peril of our generation--climate change)
8-28	National forests ordered to transfer funds; Fires force parks to move money to cover costs
8-28	Bush Administration Ignores Science-based Recovery Plan, Removes West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel From Endangered Species List
8-28	Arctic sea ice drops to second lowest level on record
8-28	Going veggie can slash your carbon footprint, study says
8-28	Not-So-Permafrost: Big Thaw of Arctic Soil May Unleash Runaway Warming
8-28	Global Warming Examiner
8-28	Dispatch from Denver: Making Climate Change the Issue
8-28	State climate panel urges action (no, not the state of West Virginia; here the governor wants to build carbon dioxide plants (coal-to-liquid))
8-27	MSHA 'belt air' rule too weak, UMW says   -  Read more about belt air
8-27	Weekend in Wise
8-27	Please make switch to wind power, W.Va.   -  This is in response to Mr. McIlmoil's letter
8-27	Day 1 DNC: The ‘Clean Coal’ lie is everywhere
8-27	Rahall sees Obama as dedicated to ending war in Iraq
8-27	Schweitzer Speech Energizes the Convention
8-27	Alliance to focus on energy, overseas investing
8-27	Study predicts big impact for Mingo project (big impacts include massive release of greenhouse gases, more devastating extreme extraction (mountaintop removal), massive use of water, and a massive use of energy that makes the whole idea of squeezing coal into liquid nuts)
8-27	Crude Substitute: The Folly of Liquid Coal
8-27	Crow coal-to-lquid plant may use too much water
8-27	Rescue teams compete at mine academy
8-27	We Can't Break the Oil Addiction By Drilling for More Oil  -  Burning Down the House to Keep Warm
8-27	Drilling boom revives hopes for natural gas
8-27	Ken Hechler Honored for Protecting Coal Miners from Black Lung
8-27	States vary coal-based fuel offers
8-27	The Pitzers Keep Playing
8-27	Women of the ELCA lead the way
8-27	West Nile threat looms again in W.Va. county
8-27	Open cast mining in United Kingdom: Widow of man killed by coal truck seeks inquiry
8-27	Power-Sector Emissions Of China To Top U.S.
8-27	Lexington’s footprint on Norway’s glaciers
8-27	Scrapping Fuel Subsidies Can Help Climate
8-27	Climate Change Linked to Longer Pollen Seasons
8-27	Psychologists rally to fight climate change
8-27	Rising sea buries village
8-26	Biden brings focus on energy policy to Democratic ticket
8-26	Advocacy Group Makes $1.7M 'Clean' Coal Push  -  Interest groups join the party with top Dems   -  Execs Representing Coal-Fueled Electricity Industry Available for Comment On-Site During Democratic Convention
8-26	Liquefied-coal industry gains momentum (If so, then fried planet closer to reality)
8-26	Air Force to re-evaluate coal-to-liquid fuel project at Malmstrom
8-26	Green Election Issues 101: Global Warming
8-26	Shareholders Vote for Climate Change Resolutions in Record Numbers
8-25	Fifth Mining Death Could Result In Additional Training
8-25	Jesus would cry for mining destruction (scroll down)
8-25	Big coal's big time lobby
8-24	Coal Film Festivals around the state this fall
8-23	Restore Power to the People
8-23	Coal-Dusted Water
8-23	Train strip miners for new, stable jobs (scroll down)
8-22	West Virginian advocates push to build a wind farm on a proposed mountaintop removal site
8-22	Compromise comes out on top
8-22	Support windmills in West Virginia, not mountaintop removal, valley fills
8-22	Hearing Delayed On Massey Energy Insurance Coverage In Suit
8-22	States Vary Coal-Based Fuel Offers
8-22	Coal Forum Focuses on Future of Energy
8-22	Massey Energy Releases Inaugural "Corporate Social Responsibility Report"
8-22	Wind power or mountaintop removal?
8-21	Deal reached in mountaintop mining dispute; notice remains in question
8-21	Mary Wildfire: Coal-to-liquids is bad for environment and W.Va.
8-21	Winning with wind: Hope for Coal River Mountain
8-20	Aspen hosting green forum starting on Thursday
8-20	Coal Forum seeks middle ground between environmentalists, producers
8-20	ICG settles Sago lawsuit; Cases still pending in 8 deaths
8-20	Fixing High Oil Prices (Oil company propaganda from an "EnergyBiz Insider")
8-19	Dueling PR campaigns compete for coal's fate; One backs industry, other likes wind power  -  Wind to keep the lights on in the state?
8-19	How Wind Farms May Really Replace Coal Mining -  Wind resources  -  Make the Coal River wind farm a reality (scroll down)
8-19	Coal forum discusses W.Va.'s role in energy debate
8-19	Coal-to-liquids is bad for environment and W.Va.
8-19	Coal burning may make food supplies toxic  -  Coal's toxic legacy to the Arctic
8-19	Rockefeller Can Promote Coal
8-19	Carbon dioxide storage test begins in SW Va.
8-19	Coal king Peabody cleans up
8-19	Black lung anniversary celebration planned
8-19	Chamber cheap shot
8-19	Does Coal kill Hope?
8-19	Appeals court upholds sentence of coal operator
8-19	Dominion on the hook in fly ash dispute
8-19	Understanding air pollution in the mountains
8-19	China: 17 miners confirmed killed in coal mine accidents
8-19	Rich Urged to Set Deep Climate Cuts, Without US
8-19	Stark warning on Britain's shrinking coast
8-18	Mingo County: Projects on track
8-18	Mining opportunity drawing hundreds to western Kentucky
8-18	The sacrifice-free election strategy
8-18	Don't forget to invite the artists to your next protest!
8-18	Letters to the editor in the Charleston Gazette: Power line foes deemed irrelevant - Wind power leaves hills unchanged
8-18	Letter to the editor in Beckley Register Herald (scroll down):  Let’s lead the way into clean energy future
8-18	Blast in China coal mine traps 24 miners
8-18	Put yourself in a new cosmology
8-17	Going Solar Goes Mainstream
8-17	Forget seven generations: Tribes gamble on coal, despite climate risks
8-17	Waste coal in PA: DEP says Robinson plant must limit pollutants
8-17	Alaska: Battle over mining reveals strange bedfellows
8-17	Scientists tie warming to heavy rain
8-17	Increased risk of catastrophic wildfires: Global warming's wake up call for the Western US
8-17	Energy: How dirty is your power supplier?
8-17	Farms in Brazil and India must adapt or roast in heat
8-16	Hobet mine permit deal approved; Layoffs averted at mountaintop-removal site on Boone-Lincoln county line (Gov. Manchin is trying to look like he cares about community members here, but his meeting had no influence over what has happened. The Corps issued the permit and the coal company began destroying the streams immediately--without any public comment time. The Corps and companies have made this  move before--once the streams are destroyed, the Corps no longer has jurisdiction over the waters in question, so our legal challenge over the destroyed streams also destroyed. However, the larger lawsuit over the Corps illegal permitting continues, as noted in this story. We are trying to get the Corps to protect the public interest by giving timely notice to the public when it issues these (illegal) permits and then allowing a 30-day public comment period.)
8-16	$1.4 million grant to fuel UK's coal-to-liquids study  -   Reps. Rogers, Davis Secure $1.425 Million For UK Coal-To-Liquids Research  -   Researchers Get Coal-to-Liquid Funds
8-16	Air Force pushes environmentally dangerous coal-to-liquid plants; Coal industry to rake in enormous profits
8-16	Giant solar project in California rivals coal plant
8-16	Virginia coal seam injection test first
8-16	Chandler says Iraq war unsustainable
8-16	Arkansas: AEP Ark coal-plant construction faces new hurdles
8-16	Climate change to fuel wildfires in West
8-15	Hobet permit doesn't limit selenium  -   A Precarious Position At Best
8-15	Coal rally set for Monday
8-15	Manchin: 'Improper collusion' -   Trust was compromised, ethicist says of Manchin; Governor defends brief in DuPont case  -  Manchin defends friend of court brief on behalf of DuPont
8-15	Coal in the crossfire
8-15	Feds ink $400 million settlement with SRP over coal-fired plant pollution
8-15	High Prices Are Driving Increased Extraction of Oil and Other Fossil Fuels
8-15	Clean up coal plant, regulators say
8-15	Algae could help cut coal plants' carbon emissions
8-15	Norway Agrees US$60 Mln Carbon Capture Research
8-15	Aspen Hosts Fifth Annual American Renewable Energy Day
8-15	Chesapeake wants Dominion to help pay for fly-ash fallout
8-15	DEQ officials gather to discuss how to regulate fly-ash use
8-15	Ceremony Formally Marks Construction Start at Wise County, Va., Power Plant
8-15	Shell Rebuked For ‘Greenwash’ Over Ad For Polluting Oil Project
8-15	Georgia: A Blow to U.S. Energy. The plans of the U.S. and Western oil companies for expanded pipelines in the Caspian region may well be a casualty of Russia's attack
8-15	Signs of the clime: warming in Va. yards
8-15	Climate Change Is Already Affecting the West's Water
8-15	Call For Better Protection Of Older People From Climate Change Impact
8-15	Climate change causes birds to lay eggs early
8-15	Climate Change Threatens German Flora
8-14	Hobet Mining warns employees of layoffs; Court order blocks extension of mine  -  Battle Over Mountaintop Removal Renewed  -  Groups try to block Hobet expansion
8-14	Raleigh County Mountain at Center of Coal vs. Wind Debate
8-14	Permit Process Could Be a Challenge for Coal-to-Gas Plant
8-14	New Drilling Efforts Raise Questions  -  Gas Drilling Raises Water Well Concerns
8-14	Coal-to-liquified: Air Force may abandon coal-to-liquids fuels program
8-14	Carbon sequestration frustration
8-14	Post-Carbon County: Clean energy comes to the coalfields
8-14	Is Your Congressperson in bed with King Coal?  -  Follow the coal money
8-14	Longview Developers Revise Water Cooling Plan
8-14	No environmentalists in state delegation
8-14	Kentucky Governor Favors Mountaintop Coal Removal
8-14	U.S. coal assets attracting overseas buzz
8-14	Coal is called crucial to U.S. energy needs
8-14	Meeting pores over fly-ash regulations
8-14	Xcel gets more time to address ash pit concerns
8-14	Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration
8-14	More coal-to-liquid insanity: Bunning talks energy during meeting with BG chamber  -
8-14	Award-winning author Van Hook dies
8-14	Calif. to review global warming effects of highway
8-14	New Climate Task Force Will Help Secure New York City
8-14	Candidates Call Climate Change An 'Urgent' Priority
8-14	Climate Change Threatens One In Five Plant Species In Germany
8-14	Fred's Footprint: The best solution to climate change
8-14	Why Carbon Offsets Backfire
8-14	Scorching summer days to sizzle more by 2100
8-13	Injunction blocks mountaintop mine expansion
8-13	ICG mine shut down after accident
8-13	Real improvements needed now for safety of miners
8-13	W.Va. coal policy to highlight Aug. 19 meeting
8-13	Lower coal-truck weight limit
8-13	Va. regulators examine fly ash regulations
8-13	Eight Strikes and You’re Out
8-13	Kaine urges regional approach to climate change
8-13	21 U.S. CITIES TO MEASURE AND REPORT CARBON EMISSIONS
8-13	Russia’s vast energy supply worries U.S.
8-12	Meltdown In The Arctic Is Speeding Up
8-12	Judge blocks Hobet mine expansion
8-12	50 march in Richmond for tighter energy regulation -  SE Convergence locks down at Richmond Bank of America  -  Climate Justice Action in Richmond Va
8-12	Backwater Blues: West Virginia Governor Manchin Subsidizes Climate Change and Economic Irrelevance
8-12	Governors to develop Southern energy plan
8-12	Coal River Mountain Wind Project Big Hit at Charleston's MoveOn Meeting
8-12	US pushes clean coal effort (there is no such thing as "clean" coal--coal is dirty when you dig it, dirty when you prep it for marker, dirty when you haul it to the power plant, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you "dispose" of the ash and it sure dirties up politics!)
8-12	Kentucky: Coal-To-Liquid Fuel Plant Is Closer To Being Built -  High hopes for Big Shoal; Congressman tours proposed CTL site in Pike County
8-12	Montana: Coal-to-liquid plant raises dust concern
8-12	20 teams to compete in mine rescue contest
8-12	Coal doublespeak: It's cheap, so give me money!
8-12	AEP leader: Coal is here to stay
8-12	New Mexico: Coal plant is a statewide health threat
8-12	Global warming threatens indigenous peoples
8-12	Climate threat to Brazil’s soya exports
8-11	When coal's gone, what then? (scroll down)
8-11	Greens Not Turning Blue
8-11	An End To Mountaintop Removal Mining?
8-11	THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX EMBRACES COAL-TO-LIQUIDS
8-11	More than soil, species make Robinson Forest special
8-11	Ted Turner, Lester Brown highlight ARE conference -  Renewable energy event in Aspen to last three days this year
8-11	The coalface of climate change  -  Four arrested over Kent power station protest
8-10	The Era of Catastrophe? Geologists Name New Era After Human Influence on the Planet
8-10	Suit challenges Hobet mine expansion; A new federal court lawsuit is trying to block expansion of Hobet Mining's sprawling complex along the Boone-Lincoln County line
8-10	Fight over coal mine continues
8-10	Missing data on Chesapeake fly ash leaves an incomplete picture
8-10	Water: West Virginia blessed (except for coal company practices of mountaintop removal an coal sludge "disposal" destroying our water)
8-10	The canary in the mine--Brook trout in West Virginia
8-10	Energy sector going all-in with DNC
8-10	Energy problems ahead for whoever is next president
8-9	In coal-rich W.Va., governor to push renewable energy projects to make coal more credible (Huh?)
8-9	Coal to Liquid Plant Plans Begin
8-9	Mammoth Power Plant Taking Shape
8-9	Coal electricity prices: the new gas prices
8-9	Climate change will increase extreme rainfall, says study
8-9	Fish highly susceptible to airborne mercury
8-8	Coal-to-liquid plant gets $200 million in tax breaks
8-8	PSC process on TrAIL unfair: Approval by the West Virginia Public Service Commission of Allegheny Power's TrAIL project is a sad day for West Virginia
8-8	Contaminated water lasts after coal is gone (scroll down)
8-8	State Web site to display lobbyists' spending
8-8	The Military-Industrial Complex Embraces Coal-to-Liquids
8-8	Renewable energy comes into focus
8-8	Consider voting in GOP primary to oppose mountaintop removal
8-8	Flood wins after five candidates in Democratic stronghold tout their ‘progressive’ credentials at forum
8-8	Dingess ones step closer to getting water system
8-7	"Clean" coal technology would rely on the continuation of brutal methods of extraction
8-7	AMP hearing becomes divisive
8-7	Liquid coal is worst form of energy  (Letters to the editor allow your voice to be hear--please write them!)  - Coal is ruining our country, kids' futures  -  Dominion Uses Play As Ploy
8-7	Heavy hitters ask U.S. Supreme Court to take appeal on Caperton vs. Massey decision  -   ABA Among Five Groups Urging High Court to Hear Judicial Recusal Case
8-7	Opposition raised to Flathead valley mine
8-7	Cracked crystal ball
8-7	W.Va. cites Consol in fatal coal mining accident
8-7	County extends ban on fly ash
8-7	Massey says new capital may pay for lawsuit
8-7	Climate-Change Program to Aid Poor Nations Is Shut
8-7	Will Grasslands Overtake U.S. Forests Due to Warming? (we know mountaintop removal destroys forests and establishes alien ecosystems of grasslands)
8-7	Protecting natural forests crucial for climate change (we know mountaintop removal destroys forests and establishes alien ecosystems of grasslands)
8-7	Anger at Police Raid on Green Camp Ahead of Coal Protest
8-7	A How-To Manual for Large Cities to Build Climate Resilience
8-7	Fellowship in Alaska provides front-row seat to the effects of global warming
8-7	Updated predictions on NW climate change
8-6	Rahall gives president advice on converting coal to liquids   (Read: Dude, go for it. Bomb the mountains, poison the water, fry the planet. West Virginia can lead the way!)  -  Congressman: Coal-to-liquids venture not easy (Drats! some people are going to point out the truth about coal-to-liquid)
8-6	Meanwhile, in Colorado: Utility plan sees future in the sun  -  Solar power plants on the rise
8-6	Transmission line approval shapes WV energy future
8-6	Decentralize energy; no new mega-power lines! NEF: 100 months to climate change tipping point (unless we act now as if our lives depended on it--because they very well may)
8-6	Obama, McCain diverge on policies to solve energy woes  - McCain wants coal to play a big role in U.S. energy  -  Obama's Big Environmental Mistake
8-6	Mongiardo has limited (stupid) view of mountaintop removal mining
8-6	Legal groups blast W.Va. justice in Massey case
8-6	Mine blast survivor says safety chambers could save lives
8-6	AEP buys coal W.Va. reserves
8-6	Year after Utah mine collapse, many failures clear
8-6	There And Back Again
8-6	"This is Funked Up: Music for the Mountains"
8-6	Massey Energy plans to raise $850 million
8-6	Longing for Blue Skies
8-6	Climate change takes toll on waterways
8-6	Advocates urge action on mine refuge chambers
8-5	Judge Halts Wise County Logging
8-5	Manchin wants utility to back power line tax  -  Governor Says State Will Benefit from TrAIL   -  PATH Project Next For Public Viewing
8-5	ABA, groups urge high court to grant Harman appeal; Benjamin shouldn't have heard Massey case, groups argue   -   Massey Energy: The CEO as Tough Guy
8-5	Coal's future is safe - but what about the climate?
8-5	Moore's 20-year mess of corruption
8-5	"Christian" TV: Mingo’s CTL project profiled on The 700 Club
8-5	Renewable Energy Is More Promising for Jobs than Dirty Coal
8-5	Aug. 15 is deadline to apply for 'Covering Climate Change and our Energy Future in Rural America'
8-5	Joel Pett rails on MTR-loving Mongiardo
8-5	Eco-terrorism, not
8-5	Eric Roston on Colbert
8-5	Ky. coal company prepares to offer stock publicly
8-5	Green groups drop opposition to Texas coal plant
8-5	Climate Change in Action in Greenland
8-5	The stakes could not be higher. Everything hinges on stopping coal
8-5	The WMD That Really Should Be Worrying Us: If al-Qa’ida was unleashing this weather of mass destruction, we would do anything to stop them
8-5	How to Survive the Triple Whammy of Energy, Food and Climate Crises
8-5	Climate change could cost N.J. billions
8-5	Record Heat Forces Closure of Canada Arctic Park
8-5	Sierra warming: Climate change puts heat on high country
8-4	New mining case just latest conflict of interest, critics say
8-4	"Clean" coal starts with extraction
8-4	March 2006 National Geographic article now online: When Mountains Move
8-4	Chester cites uncertainty over coal
8-4	Electric Utilities Cope With Impact of Higher Coal Prices
8-4	Get Ready to Itch and Sneeze
8-4	Climate report forecasts smaller, hotter Maryland
8-4	Traditional forests endangered by climate change and disease
8-3	Judge seals mine selenium report
8-3	Power line fight not over; Sierra Club says it will appeal to state Supreme Court
8-3	Dominion plans new gas pipeline
8-3	Obama Says Energy Compromise Is Necessary
8-3	Coal country needs outsiders' protection
8-3	King Coal Commits Crimes Against Humanity
8-3	AEP energy plan calls for three-year rate increases
8-3	The Pathetic Local Justifications of Mountaintop Removal
8-3	A Push to Wrest More Oil From Land, but Most New Wells Are for Natural Gas
8-3	Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans’ Decline
8-3	The Climate Costs of a Glass of Milk
8-3	Oak and ash in retreat as UK hots up
8-3	UK: Protests Against New Power Station
8-3	Heard off the street: Big Coal taking it on chin
8-2	PSC approves TrAIL power line; 500-KV supply path will run across Northern W.Va. from Pa. to Va.
8-2	The Next Buffalo Creek?
8-2	Wis. governor says no to coal for power plants - -  Doyle: Eliminate Coal Use at State-Owned Power Plants
8-2	Can big-money interests spend millions to put their chosen judges on the bench, then reap bigger millions in favorable court rulings by those judges?   -  High Court Review Sought On Judicial Disclosure
8-2	Landfill-power plans questioned; City Council will be asked to give methane plant developer a no-bid lease
8-2	Appalachian Mountains: old and in the way - Ky. workers, pardons and mountains
8-2	Feds lower recoverable coal estimate in Wyo. field
8-2	What really happened in the mine at Crandall Canyon
8-2	Senators unveil bipartisan energy plan
8-2	Massey Energy mulls further expansion in Pa., Ky.
8-2	Mingo officials weigh in on mine safety controversy
8-2	Study: Climate change could cost Kansas $1 billion
8-2	Spain cuts speed limit and turns out lights
8-2	Creation itself under threat from environment damage, church leaders say
8-2	The climate change smokescreen
8-2	Melting ice threatens Arctic park
8-2	State Senate, District 8
8-2	Despite sceptics' noise, scientific consensus is growing
8-2	Dutch climate warming up faster than world average
8-2	Climate change to cause surge of 'envirogees'
8-1	Bush's "Sprint to the Finish" Means More Dirty Coal  - Same Coal Story
8-1	Morning Barf-o-Gram: At West Virginia resort, Bush praises coal power  -  Bush says coal part of his "sprint to the finish" (to finish off the planet)   -  Bush embraces coal  -  Transcript: President Bush Addresses the 2008 Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Coal Association   -  Bush focuses on domestic energy in speech to coal group
8-1	W.Va. blasts MSHA mine refuge plans  -  Proposed mine rules criticized
8-1	Consol is certain of coal-to-gas plant's economic viability (ecological viability is nil)
8-1	Morning Barf-o-Gram II: Jay Rockefeller, Shelley Moore Capito vouch for coal's power to Congress   -  Bush eight years late on energy, Byrd complains
8-1	Morning Barf-o-Gram III: Ky. Lieutenant Governor Mongiardo touts mountaintop removal mining  -  Mongiardo stresses coal in Pike speech
8-1	Activists targeting Louisa
8-1	New Machine Helping To Mine Coal In North Central West Virginia
8-1	Massey posts 2Q loss; lawsuit cited
8-1	Giles residents group earns award
8-1	The Tar Sands and MTR Podcasts
8-1	New Mexico: Power Plant Permitted  -  EPA approves air permit for Navajo power plant
8-1	Diseases, heat-related deaths likely to spike from climate change