(Aug)  Archive - September, 2008  (Oct)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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9-30	State research librarian encourages people to see films with West Virginia ties
9-30	Judge lifts injunction, allowing election law enforcement:  TV ads in state attorney general campaign at issue
9-30	Sixth annual Appalachian Heritage Day to be held Oct. 6, 2008.
9-30	CONSOL to pay $400,000 for water violations
9-30	Coal and the Campaign Trail
9-30	Research shows just how important and fragile forests are in global warming
9-30	State officials issue update on injured miners
9-29	Patriot Coal idles WVa mine
9-29	Lipstick on an Energy Pig
9-28	FLOW: The Film that Will Change the Way You Think About Water
9-26	Valley Fill Appeal Focuses on Corps' Analysis of Water Flow
9-26	W.Va. favors alternative energy, poll shows
9-26	Goodell: Americans ignorant of nation's coal dependency
9-25	Gore Urges Civil Disobedience To Stop Coal Plants
9-25	The Human Cost of Coal
9-25	Disagreements Over Mining, Fills Are 'Continuing Legal Saga'
9-25	Judges' Decision
9-25	Global warming pollution increases 3 percent
9-25	W.Va. judge allows Aracoma coal mine fire lawsuit to continue
9-25	W.V. Energy/Climate Survey: Most In State Do Not Favor More 'Subprime' Investments In Carbon-Based Fuels, Nuclear Power
9-24	Federal court hears appeal on W.Va. valley fills
9-24	Obama Declares Support For 'Clean' Coal  -  Obama, McCain try to top 'clean coal' promise: Camps trade accusations over who is serious
9-24	Federal Court hears appeal on WV valley fills
9-24	Army Corps makes mining appeal
9-24	Mountaintop removal issue in federal court
9-24	State judge among those to hear mining case
9-24	Reconsidering the Power to Move Mountains
9-24	Methane 'Fart' from the Earth Poses Enormous Global Warming Risk
9-24	Coal a tough habit to kick
9-24	Senate tax breaks bill extends alternative fuels credit
9-23	Another mining permit challenged
9-23	Another mining permit challenged: Together, the two Fola Coal operations would bury more than five miles of streams.
9-23	Groups target Clay-Nicholas mountaintop mining permit
9-23	WV Residents Outraged over PA Power Line Deal
9-23	Coal truck wreck shuts down U.S. 52
9-23	John McCain is not a friend of coal
9-23	State judge among those to hear mining case
9-23	UMW plans work stoppage over NRA filming
9-23	Utilities shrink coal's role
9-23	Officials want Co-Gen money back
9-22	Student coalition addresses implications of proposed power plant
9-22	Coal price hikes likely if mine ruling sticks
9-21	Candidates agree on mountaintop removal
9-21	Maynard e-mails ordered released
9-21	Dousing the Coal-Fired Plant
9-19	Janet Keating: Many suffer as result of illegal mining
9-19	Massey subsidiary ordered to reprioritize shipments
9-19	Kentucky miner killed at ICG mine
9-18	West Virgina Coal Field Residents Rally Against Mountain Top Removal
9-18	Country star criticizes W.Va. mountaintop mining
9-17	McCain: ‘I Do’ Support An End To Mountain-Top Removal, But Coal Companies Also ‘Doing A Much Better Job’
9-17	Mountaintop removal a presidential issue: Neither McCain, Obama support mining practice
9-16	14 protesters arrested at Virginia power Plant site
9-16	This is mountaintop removal. This is how to stop it.
9-18	Rally for Green Jobs
9-15	Trouble in coal country
9-15	Arrests Made at Plant Protest
9-14	Council of churches wants peaceful mining debate  -  WV churches seek peace, prayer in the coalfields
9-14	MSHA too busy for black lung rules, Stickler says
9-14	Book review: W.Va. author ties family stories together with wars
9-14	Phase out coal and burn trees instead, urges leading scientist
9-14	Wind-Power Politics
9-14	Study Finds Recent Global Warming Unprecedented in 1,300 Years
9-14	Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law  -  Coal Court: Did Greenpeace Help Planet By Defacing U.K. Coal Plant?
9-14	McConnell to push showdown over energy
9-14	Coal River Update: Coal River still standing, for now.
9-14	Coal is no blessing
9-14	The Truth about Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining
9-14	Co-Gen officials to hold meeting, provide report
9-14	Bayer delays triggered response 'chaos'
9-14	Global warming makes Tina Fey SNL Clinton-Palin parody
9-13	Residents contest strip mining near Cumberland stream
9-13	A War on the Future
9-13	Plan to build plant to burn waste coal progressing
9-13	Eve Ensler on Sarah Palin
9-13	Anything Goes, Apparently  -  A Notorious Lobbyist Is Sentenced
9-13	Melting permafrost may hasten global warming
9-13	British Court Rules Direct Action OK Because Global Warming Risks So Bad
9-13	Coal Exec Says Energy Crunch Needs Nuke Boost In 15 Years
9-12	Bees, Trees, Wind and Dynamite
9-12	Update on Coal River Mountain Wind: We’ve Gotta Keep the Pressure On
9-12	Global warming, not terrorism, shapes future
9-12	Proposed power line route maps posted online
9-12	Experts Discuss Influence of Money, Politics
9-12	22-Year-Old Mountaintop Coal Activist Honored With Prestigious Environmental Award
9-12	Evidence is much more than hot air
9-11	No blasting at Massey site yet, DEP says   -  Can Massey break the law with impunity?
9-11	Grass in Your Gas Could Reclaim Surface Mines; More than half-million doled out to research renewable energy future  -  Growing biofuels on old mine lands goal of project
9-11	Lawsuit filed over mine waste dumped in Ky. valley
9-11	Experts Discuss Influence of Money, Politics  -   Justice Benjamin draws recusal line in major W.Va. case
9-11	Blowing Mountains instead of Wind Mills in Coal River, West Virginia
9-11	Gubernatorial candidates differ on energy policy; both support health-care initiatives
9-11	Burning the Future on WVPBS Sept. 18th, 9:30 PM
9-11	Feds Pull Plug on Greenbrier Co-Gen Plant
9-11	Letcher County families win in dispute with coal company
9-11	Energy key issue in Mont. governor's election bid
9-11	Two Environmental Groups Allowed to Join Suit Against Power Company
9-11	Safety-sensitive
9-11	Mercury, a pollutant from coal-fired power plants, found in popular Kentucky lake
9-11	Court mulls water dispute in coal-bed gas drilling
9-11	Collapsed mine waste reservoir: Anger after 128 killed by huge China mudslide
9-11	Meat: Making Global Warming Worse
9-11	Not guilty: the Greenpeace activists who used climate change as a legal defence
9-11	Climate inaction 'costing lives'
9-11	Weather set to get 'harder' in future
9-11	Expert: Climate shift could hurt corn yield by hindering pollination
9-11	Bangladesh: A country on the frontline of climate change
9-10	Massey awaits permits that would doom wind project
9-10	Take Action: Help us ask WV Governor Manchin for “stay of execution” for Coal River Mountain
9-10	Jeff Biggers: Manchin can stop Bee Tree destruction
9-10	East Lynn Lake not on impaired list  -  Comment period extended
9-10	Crucial: Nation focuses on state
9-10	Pro-coal arguments make little sense
9-10	Cleaner coal stokes green debate
9-10	Gang of 16 gets flak on offshore issue  -  Dems' Offshore Drilling Plan Comes With Catch  -  Democrats Start on Energy Plan  -  House GOP Threatens Shutdown Over Drilling
9-10	Obama called 'friend of coal'   -  In Southwest Virginia, Obama cites importance of coal
9-10	Judge pulls plug on coal power plant referendum
9-10	Dozens dead in China as illegal mine waste reservoir collapses
9-10	In Haiti, a Disaster for the Global Warming Era
9-10	Transition Town movement offers positive ideas for low-carbon living
9-9	Massey blasting could end wind farm proposal - Massey to begin blasting at Coal River Mountain
9-9	Coal Company to Begin Destruction of Major West Virginia Wind Energy Resource   -   Raleigh County Mountain at Center of Coal Vs. Wind Debate
9-9	Impact of mine plan in Wayne debated  -  Mining could affect water quality at lake, geologist says
9-9	Environmental lawyer receives $250,000 award  -  Heinz Award to Louisville activist
9-9	Coal industry expanding, hiring
9-9	Underground CO2 a long way off
9-9	Lawmakers Talk Natural Gas
9-9	Mayfly Week: Mountain Tops Good For Mayflies
9-9	Coal-fired power projects pending in Michigan
9-9	Drilling takes center stage on Capitol Hill
9-9	Omar Grade School contamination
9-9	Palin: the real scandal
9-9	Tools to Expose Big Oil’s Influence on Our Political System
9-9	Coal: Don’t Believe What They Tell You on TV
9-9	Start planning now for federal limits on carbon
9-9	Hazardous Conditions...
9-9	Floods now an all-year danger, warn experts
9-9	The glaciers in the Pyrenees will disappear in less than 50 years
9-9	Uranium mining poses environmental risk
9-9	“CLEAN’ COAL – EXPERIMENT, HOPE OR LIE?
9-8	Greenbrier towns need not repay $6 million
9-8	Black Lung Stats (scroll down)
9-8	Stewart, Sinnette discuss views
9-8	China Sharply Brakes Coal Liquefaction Projects
9-8	Summit eyes carbon capture
9-8	Sides gear up for battle over power plant air permit
9-8	6 rescued, 18 trapped in Henan coal mine
9-8	Does global warming mean we're losing Lake Erie?
9-8	Shun meat, says UN climate chief
9-8	Jason and the secret climate change war
9-8	The fastest way to put the brakes on global heating (it's not George Monbiot's)
9-8	From plug-ins to planktonic algae, technology is part of the solution to climate change. But which technology?
9-8	Bangladesh seeks billions to fight climate change
9-8	Unexpected riches
9-7	Western Greenbrier Co-Generation Project -- Blame game begins in project's failure
9-7	Massey Energy CEO and WV Supreme Court Judge Prompt NY Times editorial: Too Generous
9-7	Coal company representative to meet with Wayne officials
9-7	Concerns over Baard coal-to-fuel plant aired
9-7	New mines, jobs lag as coal booms
9-7	Permit Process Was A Breeze For Carbo Power Plant
9-7	Beehive Collective Battling Mountaintop Removal
9-7	Green World-Changers: The Plenty 20 Green People And Businesses
9-7	Palin's energy experience not kind we need  -  Up for election: two competing visions of ‘change'   -  John McCain’s Energy Follies
9-7	Risking Armageddon for Cold, Hard Cash
9-7	Chasing nuclear energy windmills
9-7	Utahns can't afford the health cost of new coal-fired power plants
9-7	American climate scientist James Hansen explains why he's testifying against coal  -  Nature and Stop Kingsnorth Interview James Hansen about His Clash with Big Coal
9-7	Business and the Environment: The Challenge of Change
9-7	Arctic Ice Hints at Warming, Specialists Say
9-7	Science: Glaciers facing massive meltdown, says UN report
9-7	Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in USA
9-7	Spanish wine makers fight climate change
9-7	Shun meat, says UN climate chief
9-7	With smoke in our eyes, we can't see the fog
9-7	Climate change could stop corals fixing themselves
9-7	Tennessee: Carbon footprints
9-7	A changing climate of opinion?
9-7	The world we avoided
9-7	Freak hailstorm in tropical Kenya 'a foretaste' of climate change, says ecologist and theologian
9-6	MSHA: Test coal miners for drugs and alcohol; UMW and state resisted previous attempts at testing
9-6	Green World-Changers: The Plenty 20 Green People And Businesses
9-6	Redford hopes coal movies inspires citizen groups
9-6	The Silver Bullet
9-6	DARPA in search of alternative coal-to-JP-8 technologies
9-6	Johannesburg's Dirty Little Secret
9-6	Stop Charlie Wilson from poisoning the Sixth District !
9-6	13 trapped in 3rd China mine mishap in two days
9-6	Potluck highlights green living
9-6	Feds warn climate change could harm giant sequoias
9-6	As climate changes, will patterns of disease shift as well?
9-6	Asian pollution could spur U.S., European warming
9-6	Sea level rise by 2100 'below 2m'
9-6	Climate change threatens Kakadu National Park
9-5	Time: Coal-to-Liquid's Dirty Little Secret
9-5	Reporting on climate change from Alaska
9-5	Coal prices show signs of weakening
9-5	27 die in China coal mine blast: local official, state media
9-5	Wreck leaves U.S. 23 completely blocked for several hours
9-5	No time to lose on climate change
9-5	Strongest Storms Grow Stronger Yet, Study Says  -  Global warming likely to stoke more powerful hurricanes: study   -   Global warming making tropical cyclones fiercer: Study
9-5	Global warming forces Dutch to strengthen dykes
9-5	Seas to Rise Faster This Century
9-4	Feds pull out of coal-fired Western Greenbrier Co-Generation plant  -  Co-Gen project funding cut off  -  Feds drop clean coal power plant in W.Va.
9-4	W.Va. group honored for wind power proposal  -   Co-op America Announces 2008 Winners of Building Economic Alternatives (BEA) Award
9-4	Environmentalists can't corral Palin  -  RNC: Palin bullish on energy
9-4	MSHA seeks criminal charges in Crandall Canyon coal mine disaster
9-4	Court rejects some Ky. water rules
9-4	Raceway set to clear final hurdle today
9-4	Pa. coal region county partially switches to gas
9-4	Center Appeals EPA Coal-Fired Power Plant Permit; No Endangered Species, Climate Change Consideration
9-4	Nasa scientist appears in court to fan the flames of coal power station row
9-4	Geo-engineers, too, have a vital role in saving the planet
9-4	Massive Arctic ice shelf breaks away
9-4	Africa's "silent famine" deepens
9-4	Recent natural disasters amplify need for urgent action on climate change – UN
9-4	California lawmakers push for carbon-reduction planning
9-3	Coal plans go up in smoke: Environmentalists in the US have halted a huge new wave of coal-fired power stations. What lessons can Europe learn from them?
9-3	The Plenty 20 (Attorney Joe Lovett is one of the 20!)  -  The Plenty 20 awards for 2008
9-3	Ted Olson takes WV case before US Supreme Court
9-3	Coal Clean? Carbon Neutral? Billboard Misleads Public.
9-3	Protect nature: Don't sabotage law
9-3	Regulations reducing coal output, firms say
9-3	Wisc. debate: Cut mercury emissions 90% by 2015
9-3	Colorado not ready to crack down on carbon
9-3	Connecticut Youth Activist Network Newsletter
9-3	Chesapeake Energy in talks on Marcellus stake
9-3	Energy's Most Dangerous Game
9-3	Corporations buying power at conventions
9-3	Hurricanes, Floods Show Risks of Climate Change
9-3	Major ice-shelf loss for Canada
9-3	Arctic meltdown the real barometer of climate change
9-3	Aid Agencies Plan CO2 Offsets That Also Help Poor
9-3	Climate 'hockey stick' is revived
9-3	Transport Canada study puts price tag on social costs of cars, planes, trains
9-3	Erosion chewing up Canada's coastlines, researchers warn
9-3	Wider study shows spike in warming
9-3	Suspect: Global Warming
9-2	Lt Governor Mongiardo has wrong vision for Eastern Ky. mountains
9-2	Environmentalist Says "Clean Coal" Technology is a Myth
9-2	UMW workers, Democrats rally in Racine  -  Rockefeller targets McCain at Labor Day rally
9-2	At RNC, Clear Channel OKs Pro-Coal Ad, Removes UCS's
9-2	Doyle: No more coal in Madison
9-2	Big Coal sells its soul and goes topless
9-2	Residents near Chesapeake golf course fear fly ash runoff
9-2	McKinney/Clemente compared with Obama/Biden on US war policies, impeachment, energy
9-2	Public needs facts on Chesapeake Energy (scroll down)
9-2	Environmental regulations, concerns push back
9-2	Hawaiian plant is latest to convert from coal to biomass
9-2	Mexico's makeshift coal pits try to boost output
9-2	Coal banned from Mackay
9-2	Oil sands creating gold rush, conundrum
9-2	Extreme and risky action the only way to tackle global warming, say scientists
9-2	Heat: Hurricane generator
9-2	UN Calls for Urgent Action on Climate Change  -   UN climate plans vs. the poor
9-2	Next US president tipped to lead on climate change
9-2	Panel of experts at OAS warns of climate change impact in the Americas
9-2	Global warming: Sea level rises may accelerate
9-2	Climate Change Refugees Look to Australia, N.
9-2	Thawing permafrost likely to boost global warming
9-2	Temperature rises 'will be double the safe limit' for global warming
9-2	Dengue Reborn: Widespread Resurgence of a Resilient Vector
9-1	Cooper to start another year of Mountaintop Removal Roadshow
9-1	Candidates face coal conundrum: Barack Obama and John McCain will struggle to please both the coal industry and the greens
9-1	Coal and energy interest bribe "our" politicians
9-1	Forty-three mine rescue teams compete in Beckley
9-1	Machines replace miners: West Virginia had 125,000 miners in 1948 - but only 15,000 now, producing more coal
9-1	Deep-well Natural Gas Drilling a Concern for State's Water Quality
9-1	Belgium Restricts Local Food After Radioactive Leak
9-1	Canada pushing to exploit Alberta's oil sand
9-1	THE PENTAGON'S WEATHER NIGHTMARE
9-1	A BIG PROBLEM FOR CAP AND TRADE
9-1	THE MORAL CLIMATE
9-1	Global warming heats up tourist spots
9-1	For the first time in human history, the North Pole can be circumnavigated; Scientists warn Arctic icecap is entering a 'death spiral'
9-1	Greenland icesheet could melt faster
9-1	Ghana's grass-roots bid to save country's last forests