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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: Weve 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
 
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
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 Oils Influence on Our Political System
9-9
Coal: Dont 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 McCains 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
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
 
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
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
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
 

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