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3-31	W.Va. coal slurry study could take another year - Fight Continues For Clean Drinking Water
3-31	WV Senate to hear new info about Sludge Injection Study today
3-31	Charleston Gazette: Goodwin blocks Corps from issuing streamlined mountaintop removal permits - Enviros Win Injunction Against Mountaintop Removal Mining - Mountaintop removal ruling bans nationwide permits - Federal Judge Rules on Valley Fill Permits - Big news: Judge halts streamlined mining permits
3-31	National Public Radio: New EPA Review Prompts Anxiety Over Mining Jobs
3-31	National Public Radio: Removing Mountains
3-31	Will Mountaintop Removal Bite the Dust?
3-31	Jeff Biggers: Rednecks and Greens Announce Victory at Blair Mountain
3-31	Cemetery bills in Legislature to protect dead from living
3-31	Mountaintop removal: Back to Richmond?
3-31	Mountaintop removal in cameras lens
3-31	Ban on mountaintop mining favored
3-31	Dead on Arrival: Tenn. Legislators Refuse to Ban Mountaintop Removal Mining Again
3-31	More of the hidden costs of coal: Feds to Fund Mine Clean Up - Clean-Up Continues on East Bank Mudslide
3-30	Torrents of water burst from old mine, cascade down hillside - Slide forces closure of W.Va. 61 in East Bank
3-30	Blair Mountain added to National Historic Register - Breaking news: Blair Mtn. named to Historic Register - More on Blair Mountain
3-30	Tensions High as EPA Reasserts Mining Authority
3-30	State Bar Irony: Brent Benjamin and equal justice
3-30	Winds of Change Evident in U.S. Environmental Policy
3-30	EPA mining review met with anxiety, anger in one W.Va. county (very one-sided article; no-one who is not make short-term gain at long-term cost to all of us is interviewed for this story; the moral wrong is destroying communities, water, forest, mountains and our future for a quick buck.)
3-30	Manchin, Massey Executives to Hold Meetings With EPA Officials This Week - Massey hopes for clarity from EPA on fate of Logan operation
3-30	The Virginian-Pilot editorial: End the Scourge of Mountaintop Mining
3-30	Mountaintop removal gets more scrutiny
3-30	Mountaintop removal, coal and your Sunday paper
3-30	Mine Blowout Reported In Southeastern Kentucky - Mine cited after blowout releases thousands of gallons of water in Leslie
3-30	Senators Alexander and Cardin introduce bill to end the dumping of mining waste into streams
3-30	Obama and mountaintop removal: Fixing OSM(RE), Part 1
3-30	DEP put on a tight leash on abandoned mine pollution
3-30	Tell Gordon Gee To Resign From Massey Energy's Board Of Directors
3-30	Coal is killing America
3-30	Obama starts climate change forum for big economies
3-30	U.S. to Host Forum on Climate Change
3-30	Forest owners can sell carbon credits for their trees
3-29	Matthew Masson: EPA's plan to enforce law on mountaintop removal won't be the job-killer that industry predicts - Mining industry leaders express concern about mountaintop removal issue - West Virginia (coal barons) uneasy about move by EPA
3-29	Coal: Laid off by mechanization; Jobs should not trump mountains
3-29	New York Times: Trying to Limit Disclosure on Explosion
3-29	Students deliver clean water to Prenter residents
3-29	King Coal vs. The Mountainkeeper
3-29	Huntington Herald Dispatch editorial: Quick EPA review of mountaintop mining needed
3-29	Chattanooga newspapers editorial: Mountain-top mining brake
3-29	Radical conclusions from Powershift
3-29	Obama Administration Moves Against Mountaintop Removal
3-29	Earth Hour 2.0 a Success
3-29	Obama praised for climate change policy - New approach for US in global climate change talks
3-29	Searching for connections
3-29	Among Climate Scientists, a Dispute Over Tipping Points - Tipping Points and the Climate Challenge
3-29	South Carolina: 2 coal plants state's top polluters
3-29	Whats Alaska got to do with mountaintop removal?
3-29	Fly-ash dump worries residents
3-29	EPA challenges to coal waste risks, stirs activism - while Corzine and Obama target energy reform
3-28	World prepares for big switch-off; Millions of people worldwide are being urged to switch off lights for an hour, in what is described as the biggest climate change protest ever attempted - Darkest Hour on Earth Highlights Human Resolve -Earth Hour: Lights out everybody, for global energy conservation
3-28	Leslie County mine permit approved; environmentalists appeal to Obama
3-28	Living on Earth: EPA Eyes Mountaintop Removal Mining - Coal Tattoo on Living on Earth
3-28	EPA: Mixed signals
3-28	NC5 Investigates Strip Mining In Tennessee
3-28	Intercepted: W.Va. coals master plan
3-28	Jeff Biggers--His Eyes Are on the Spadaro: Coalfields Need Jack Back at MSHA or OSM
3-28	Aracoma foreman to plead guilty in fire investigation - Massey foreman set to change plea in WVa fire
3-28	Bill Targets Mountaintop Mining
3-28	TN: The Guy in Charge of Protecting the Environment Really Wants to Destroy It
3-28	Three Mile Island still haunts U.S. nuclear industry - Three Mile Island, 30 Years Ago - US Eyes Nuclear Rebirth After Three Mile Island
3-28	The 'clean' coal myth
3-28	Chesapeake residents to file $1 billion lawsuit over fly ash - 400 residents sue Dominion, developer over fly-ash site - Use of coal ash in Va golf course prompts suit
3-28	Dueling Coal Ads
3-28	Environmental opposition chills plans for coal plants
3-28	Kansas Senate leaders expect coal vote next week
3-28	Strike ends at Drummond's Colombia coal mine-union
3-28	Climate changes Europe's borders and the world's
3-28	The Future of Climate Change: How to Teach Children to Conserve
3-27	Manchin says EPA review of permits not out of ordinary; Governor says scrutiny poses no immediate threat (but mountaintop removal does!) - EPA Officials To Visit West Virginia
3-27	EPA objects to another mountaintop removal permit - More from Manchin on mountaintop removal
3-27	Scientific American on (the stupidity of ) Turning Coal to Liquid Fuel - Meanwhile in WV: WV HB3081 - to provide tax incentives to the first operational coal-to-liquid plant built in the state
3-27	High court denies Massey brief filing in Harman case
3-27	Time to write the obituary for this mining practice
3-27	(Let's check in at later to see if these trees actually grow where there is no soil, to see if we have the biodiversity and understory we once had (studies say it will take a minimum of 500 years for the forest to recover post-mountaintop-removal... Oh, and planting trees does nothing to 'mitigate' for burying streams, and poisoning ground and surface waters...) UN lauds effort to reforest Appalachias mountains
3-27	Hightower Lowdown: OBAMA & CONGRESS CAN END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL
3-27	Religion's View from Appalachia: Only God Should Move Mountains
3-27	Switching off for Earth Hour
3-27	The Nation: The Dirt on (Dirty) Coal
3-27	DC Rising Tide Disrupts Coal-to-Liquids Conference
3-27	PSC delays decision on AEP rate hike request
3-27	School Bus Accident Sends 20 Children to Hospital
3-27	WVa Supreme Court agrees to hear e-mail FOIA case
3-27	Environmentalists Praise EPAs Rejection of Permits
3-27	Mountaintop Removal Gains Momentum as a Faith Issue
3-27	HB1536 - Maryland: Department of the Environment - Licensing and Permitting Prohibited for Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
3-27	Hawk Gives His Position On Mountain-Top Mining
3-27	How Global Warming Threatens Millions in Bangladesh
3-27	Natural Resource Partners raises $200M
3-27	So long coal, for 5 more power plants
3-27	Coal ash burns at Allanson
3-26	Corps escalates mountaintop removal mining fight; Agency reinstates permit in Kentucky - Corps approves permit for controversial mine - Corps to EPA: Try this permit on for size
3-26	(Coal barons exploiting) Coal region worried about EPA mine permit reviews - Massey CEO Responds to EPA Action
3-26	Charleston Gazette editorial--Obama's EPA: Follow the law
3-26	Lexington Herald Leader editorial: Tide has turned
3-26	SENATORS CARDIN, ALEXANDER INTRODUCE BILL TO END THE DUMPING OF MINING WASTE INTO STREAMS - Senators one-up EPA on mountaintop removal
3-26	Rocky IV: No change needed on mountaintop removal - Byrd: Enforce the law, but every jobs counts
3-26	Rahall on EPA on mountaintop removal - Rahall warns: Hey Big Coal--Don't scare our people about mining permits
3-27	KY: Beshear seeks clarification of EPA mining policy
3-26	EPA announcement takes center stage at W. Va. Senate meeting
3-26	Matt Wasson: Mountaintop Removal Blow-Back
3-26	UMWA to EPA: Lets talk - UMWA President On EPA Order
3-26	W.Va. leaders say balance (that is ignore communities and environment, give ole King Coal anything he wants) key to keeping mountaintop mining permits
3-26	Mr. Manchin goes to Washington - Manchin Meets with White House Officials On Mining Permits - Manchin meets with White House officials on mountaintop removal
3-26	WVU researcher says EPA has legitimate mountaintop removal concerns
3-26	PA: EPA giving closer look to mining proposal; Firm seeks to bury streams, wetlands
3-26	EPA mountaintop removal letters: A study in contrast
3-26	Mountaintop removal or something completely different?
3-26	Coal Share of US Electricity Falling
3-26	NETL Building Hydrogen Production (using coal) and Dispensing Facility at Yeager Airport
3-27	TN: Bredesen proposes tighter regulation of coal mines
3-26	EPA Classifies Global Warming as Public Danger - EPA Presses Obama To Regulate Warming Under Clean Air Act - The price of greenhouse gases
3-26	TVA ash spill lawsuits vary
3-26	EPA Responds to TVA Fly Ash Catastrophe
3-26	Giles Co. residents continue attack on supervisor
3-26	Tire Industry: The Mining Industry Has a PR Problem
3-26	Mountaintop removal in the news
3-26	Poets spotlight concern over mountaintop removal
3-26	ENVIRONMENT: Has Mountaintop Mining Peaked?
3-26	What gives any company the right to rip mountains apart?
3-25	EPA on mountaintop removal: Whats it all mean? - EPA issues clarification on mountaintop removal notice
3-25	Gazette: Manchin heads to White House on mountaintop removal - Obama EPA starts crackdown on mountaintop removal - Breaking news: EPA cracks down on mountaintop removal - Reactions to mountaintop removal crackdown
3-25	WV Public Radio: EPA's mountaintop removal actions -- what do they mean? - EPA says bulk of permits will not raise environmental concerns - Mountaintop removal scrutiny thrills enviros, scares industry - EPA expresses new concerns over mountaintop removal
3-25	Mountaintop removal reaction from coal officials, coalfield residents, politicians
3-25	Beckley, WV newspaper: Environmentalists happy, coal officials puzzled by decision
3-25	EPA review of mining permits signals policy shift - EPA To Scrutinize Mountaintop Coal-Mining - EPA Turns Mountaintop Mining Permitting Upside Down - EPA puts brakes on mountain mining permits - E.P.A. Plans Closer Review of Mountaintop Mining Permits - EPA says it could block mountaintop coal permits - EPA delays hundreds of mountaintop mining permits - EPA puts mountaintop mining projects on hold - EPA to scan mountaintop coal mining permits sharply - Hope is alive in the mountains and valleys of Appalachia Obama
3-25	Jeff Biggers--Change is Gonna Come: EPA Halts Mountaintop Removal Permits
3-25	Patriot Coal settles with environmental groups - Patriot Coal to pay $50,000 to settle clean water case - Coal Company Settles Lawsuit Regarding Toxic Mine Waste
3-25	Stopping selenium
3-25	That other mountaintop removal case
3-25	EPA Takes on Mountaintop Mining
3-25	Coal gets a jolt from EPA decision
3-25	Obama speaks on mountaintop removal
3-25	ATSDR: Poor steward of public health
3-25	Robert F. Kennedy Jr. op-ed in the Washington Post: Hope in the Mountains
3-25	Town curbs reliance on mountaintop removal
3-25	Illinois governor signs coal-gasification bill - Daniels signs coal-gasification measure into law
3-25	Volunteers to plant trees Friday (get some lipstick on that corpse!)
3-25	EPA Ruling Another Step in Long Slow March
3-25	WV dumping ground for Maryland coal waste
3-25	BCs Most Endangered River Needs Permanent Protection
3-25	New breed of activists shine light on ash spill
3-25	TVA buys homes, land affected by coal ash spill valued at $9.5M
3-25	EPA vows action on coal ash dumps, but Iowa may be left unprotected - Sludge Spill Exposes Vulnerability Of Other TVA Plants
3-25	Ohio State's Gee wears 2 energy hats - Gee to lead university energy collaboration - Ohio State president fights for green energy, has coal-mining interest in Virginia firm
3-25	Regulating toxic waste
3-25	Obama AML plan: Green jobs for the coalfields
3-25	Rudd Welcomes Obama's Resolve to Address Global Warming
3-25	Global Warming and Ecosystem Species Richness
3-25	Texas coal opponents call for a temporary moratorium on new plants
3-25	EPA says warming dangerous
3-25	Great American Taxi to drive through Denver's Bluebird Theater
3-24	Obama still vague on mountaintop removal
3-24	Obama officials in 'transition' on mountaintop removal rules - Mountaintop removal: Back in Chucks chambers
3-24	Journalist claims restraining order bars her reporting
3-22	WVa hearing postponed for Massey protesters
3-24	I'd Rather Go Naked Than Burn MTR Coal: Abolitionist Movement Grows
3-24	State Civil War vet's grave moved for mining
3-24	Greed Can Move Mountains
3-24	Clean Water Protection Act: The Best Bet for Ending Devastating Mining Practices
3-24	Eric Reece: Kentucky's poorest counties are also nation's saddest
3-24	Holler Poets Series finds unlikely home to quench a literary thirst
3-24	Beehive Design Collective addresses the future
3-23	A turning point for mountaintop removal?
3-23	Obama AML plan: Green jobs for the coalfields
3-23	Earth Hour: Power down for 60 minutes on March 28
3-23	Climate change comes to your backyard
3-22	Where does Obama stand on mountaintop removal?
3-22	Is storing coal slurry in mines truly safe? - Data on Coal Process Meager
3-21	The Technology to Scrub Out Carbon Dioxide Is Within Reach, but It Costs Too Much Money and Consumes Too Much Energy
3-21	Friends of Coal license plates?
3-21	Critics question safety of storing coal slurry
3-21	Clean Elections Update
3-21	Friday roundup, March 20, 2009 - Anti-Sludge Bill Introduced
3-21	Taking on Coal Power: The Movement to Shut Down the Coal Industry is Not Waiting for Congress or Barack Obama
3-21	What to do with toxic coal ash? - TVA had planned ash mountain in Kingston - Turning toxic coal ash into bridges, buildings
3-21	Two More Signs the Coal Industry Is Caving to Reality
3-21	Energy Firms Buying River Rights Add to Competition for Scarce Resource
3-21	Club Coal Leader Among Rolling Stone's Top 100 'Agents of Change'
3-20	Coalfield residents release slurry study - Findings on coal slurry spark call for ban in W.Va. - W.Va. lawmaker says coal slurry findings back up his call for ban on injection - Citizen slurry study II - WSAZ: Citizens' Sludge Safety Report Set for Release - Coal slurry tests show high levels of arsenic, lead
3-20	Is Access to Clean Water a Basic Human Right? - Coping in a World of 'Peak Water'
3-20	Obama mountaintop removal decision coming very soon
3-20	Nancy Sutley: 30 Years of Betrayal Later, End Mountaintop Removal Now
3-20	Report: Alternative energy and mountaintop removal endangering birds - Energy quest endangering birds
3-20	Mountaintop mining fight heads to Washington
3-20	Miner wins $2 million in Massey verdict
3-20	Peter Horton to write, direct 'Coal River'
3-20	Pull a Prank that Packs a Punch on Fossil Fools Day 2009
3-20	New head of NOAA says science will guide policy
3-20	Obamas opposition reshapes the conversation on nuclear energy
3-20	Coal titan plans giant Hoosier mine
3-20	Ketron protests mountain-top removal - "Only God Should Move Mountains"
3-20	Transmission Tax Offers Consumer Rate Relief But How?
3-20	Forevergreen's film screening raises awareness of mountain top removal
3-20	Dredging to Begin on Massive Sludge Spill
3-20	Congress, Obama face crucial decision on mountaintop coal mining
3-20	Report: Alternative energy and mountaintop removal endangering birds
3-20	Clean Coal--The Ultimate Oxymoron
3-20	Students cited by police in Spring Break protest
3-20	Global warming leaving its mark on polar bears - Climate Change Seen as Top Threat to Polar Bears
3-20	GOP chair denies global warming
3-20	Power Shift, or how I spent my spring break
3-19	Big mountaintop removal hearing on Monday
3-19	Independent lab tests: Metals in W.Va. coal slurry - Citizen slurry study - Scientists: Tests show metals in state's coal slurry
3-19	W.Va. DEP seeks comment on drilling guidelines
3-19	Students fight mountain top removal
3-19	Leaked Memo: EPA Planning Historic Action on Global Warming in April
3-19	Tennessee law would end mountaintop coal mining
3-19	Byrd wants to slow climate action again
3-18	Obama pressed for mountaintop removal ban; environmental groups and coalfield residents are pushing the Obama administration this week to take action to block new mountaintop removal mining permits in Appalachia
3-18	Whats Obama gonna do about mountaintop removal?
3-18	Bulldozers, Explosives Raze Mountains as West Virginia Groups Ask Obama Administration for Relief
3-18	Kentuckians Take Mountaintop Mining Debate to Capitol Hill
3-18	Stimulus Money Puts (Dirty) Coal Projects on a Faster Track - ATTN Matthew Wald at the NY Times: Does This Look Like "Environment-Friendly" Coal to You?!
3-18	Why clean coal is years away - Why 'Clean' Coal Is Years Away
3-18	Stop Mountaintop Removal
3-18	Obama Tries to Draw Up an Inclusive Energy Plan
3-18	Selenium: Its the new mitigation bill
3-18	Help Coming To West Virginia Communities With Bad Water
3-18	Don't Destroy People To Power Homes - Appalachia's Best Hope for Ending Mountaintop Mining
3-18	Mine safety tax cut proposed
3-18	Ask the Expert: Anti-Coal Activist Elisa Young
3-18	Headwaters Gathering shines spotlight on local climate change
3-18	AP still going after Maynard's e-mails
3-18	Courtroom tied up with suit filed against Independence Coal
3-18	EPA Announces New Action To Prevent Coal Ash Releases
3-18	Tenn. Senate passes rules for coal ash storage
3-18	Coal ash dust on road worries residents
3-18	Research Shows Coal Burning Responsible For Arctic's Heavy Metal Pollution
3-18	Bikers Ride To Protest Mining
3-18	Coal Mine Forgets Where They Moved Great-Grandmas Grave
3-18	Are waste-coal power plants making us sick?
3-18	Study: Northeast faces most US sea rise - Warming to make N.Y. vulnerable to storms: study - Global Warming Could Claim $100 Billion Worth Of California Real Estate
3-18	Global Warming Exceeding Worst-Case Scenarios
3-18	Europe, US to work together on global warming
3-18	Australia: Climate woes hit flagship species close to home
3-18	Five Global Warming "Tipping Points"
3-18	Ceres Climate Change Coalition Adds Three New Members
3-18	Minimize car use to combat global warming: Scientist
3-18	Climate Migrants Flock to City in Bangladesh
3-18	Emission Mitigation Failure: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
3-18	China seeks export carbon relief
3-18	Climate science: A call to think big - and think policy
3-17	Massey permit revision upheld - State Surface Mine Board Upholds Massey Blasting Permits - WVa board upholds mine plan for mountain
3-17	American's Cry for Clean Water
3-17	Tar and Feather ....
3-17	Md. senator seeks wider review of coal ash sites
3-16	New York Times editorial: Appalachias Agony
3-16	Justice Rolls Down Like Clean Water: Big Coal on the Ropes, Knock Out Calls Coming
3-16	If Bredesen Won't Save Our Mountains, Maybe Obama Will
3-16	Mountaintop mining fight heads to Washington
3-16	MSHA targets 15 mining operations
3-16	Plant's bid to dump smokestack pollutants into Mon is under fire
3-15	14 Protestors Arrested At TVA Headquarters In "Die In" - Anti-coal protests continue with TVA march - Rainy March in March - TVA Headquarters - Tennessee residents worry about their health after coal-burning spill
3-15	Mass Rally and Civil Disobedience to Stop the Cliffside Coal Plant. Join the Cliffside Climate Action April 20 Charlotte, NC
3-15	Time to end business as usual for toxic coal industry
3-15	Coal and climate change
3-15	Obama administration may revive carbon-capture project
3-15	Tom Friedman on coal
3-15	(Dirty) coal showdown at hand
3-15	Number of PACs hits record
3-15	Cyclists ride hundreds of miles to protest mountaintop removal
3-15	It's Time to Stop Moving Mountains in the Name of Energy
3-15	Meeting set to probe August explosion at Bayer plant in Institute - Probing the Bayer blast - Safety board secrecy?
3-15	85% of the Amazon rainforest may be lost due to global warming
3-15	Sea Level Rise Due to Global Warming Poses Threat to New York City
3-15	Prince Charles: World at a defining moment over global warming
3-14	Today: TVA protest planned
3-14	Energy and Commerce Committee Announces Investigation into Bayer CropScience Explosion
3-14	Climate change is a huge threat, warn scientists - Scientist: Warming Could Cut Population to 1 Billion
3-14	Legislature Enters the Fray on Carbon Cleanup
3-14	FutureGen was NeverGen from the start - Hey Sen. Durbin: FutureGen Dogs Bark, Green Caravan Moves On
3-14	Mountains, Machinery and Lock Downs
3-14	Can the Power of Oprah Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining?
3-14	Appealing the power line
3-14	Byrd Directs Funding to West Virginia University
3-14	W.Va. Senator drinks 'coal slurry' to highlight water risks
3-14	New Scrubber Goes Online at AEP Plant
3-14	With or Without Carbon Capture, Coal-to-Liquids Are Climate Change Disaster
3-14	Feds give initial approval to Crow coal plant
3-14	New Coal Plants Would Create Nearly 18 Million Tons of Waste Annually - Report: Coal plants would make Mo., Ill. filthy -DNREC: Remove sludge pile - State dismisses coal-ash appeal
3-14	All coal ash isnt created equal
3-14	Tanker crashes into Williamson home
3-14	Feds target coal-fired pollution
3-14	Worldchanging Interview: Ethan Schaffer on Power Shift 2009
3-14	Numbers Dont Add Up for Dukes Weak Permit
3-14	Do we really want to give Big Coal a Blank Check with Our Money?
3-14	Residents raise questions about pipeline at forum
3-14	Carbon sequestration measure raises question of eminent domain
3-14	Environmental agency says Texas leads nation in production of coal ash waste
3-14	Va. fly ash standards board largely industry insiders
3-14	Scientists are grim, economists more optimistic about climate change's effects
3-14	Buoyed by US, UN chief sees climate deal this year
3-14	Time to Change "Climate Change"
3-14	Peabody closing eastern Illinois coal mine
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3-13	Irreversible climate change warning - World faces 'irreversible' climate change, researchers warn - World's leading scientists in desperate plea to politicians to act
3-13	James Kotcon: We must confront climate change
3-13	Senator drinks 'coal slurry' to make a point
3-13	Prenter is having big water problems
3-13	Heed the global call with Lights Out on March 28
3-13	Two Coalfield Authors Discuss Their Nonfiction Works at Taylor Books March 22
3-13	Rush for coal plants slows to a stagger - Another Nevada coal plant project bites the dust
3-13	Broad Energy/Climate Bill Could Reduce the Role of Coal
3-13	Shocking: Record power hike
3-13	Mike Roselle: Why is the environmental movement so timid?
3-13	Push to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Would Put a Price on Emitting Pollution
3-13	On Climate Change, Henry Waxman Wants Congress to Act Now
3-13	Bill delays selenium compliance until 2012 - Stalling selenium: DEP says bill goes too far - DEP opposes selenium limit delay for coal companies
3-13	Power Company Considers Suit Against Activists
3-13	Gaffe could revise plans for innovative coal plant
3-13	The Quarrel Over Coal Ash Waste - Ash watershed-day
3-13	Coal Consequences
3-13	W.Va. says coal drove big export surge in 2008 (exporting, wholesaling our future...)
3-13	Hiding the Costs of Coal
3-13	Peabody May Get (No Such Thing as) Clean-Coal Plant That Bush Rejected
3-13	Still more from Mike Roselle
3-13	Finally Standards for Coal Ash... Just in Time? - Maryland Fly Ash Spill
3-13	Greenpeace report: Ditch nukes, fossil fuels
3-13	U.S. stimulus package may have left coal in the cold
3-13	$5.5 million approved to study rare cancer in Pa.
3-13	Climate change effects seen in Antarctic winds
3-13	STOP FISK "COAL" ELECTRIC Pollution of Plisen , Chinatown
3-12	W.Va. bill puts freeze on coal slurry injection - Stop slurry injection? - Bottoms Up: W.Va. Senator Drinks Homemade "Coal Waste" on Senate Floor - WV, OH & KY Deemed Among "Filthiest 15"
3-12	Slurry injection moratorium bill introduced
3-12	DEP won't back bill to delay selenium pollution limits
3-12	Judge OKs coal company move of cemetery
3-12	Oprah May Hook Up With Ashley Judd On Mountaintop Removal - Oprah: Mountaintop Removal's Worst Nightmare - Ashley Judd: Q and A Live
3-12	W.Va. among states with growing coal-ash concerns
3-12	Living on Earth: Turning up the Heat on Coal
3-12	More coal money in budget bill
3-12	Tax the power lines?
3-12	Women take lead, save planet
3-12	Hightower Lowdown: Corporatist Court Favors Mountaintop Destruction (scroll down)
3-12	Sea levels rising twice as fast as predicted
3-12	100 Actions in 50 Days Call on Obama to Power Past Coal - It takes a village to stop razing Appalachia
3-12	Living on Earth: Killing for Coal
3-12	Acidic seas fuel extinction fears
3-12	Global warming may trigger carbon 'time bomb', scientist warns
3-12	On Climate Change, Henry Waxman Wants Congress to Act Now
3-12	Leaked EPA draft highlights new research on climate risks
3-12	Researchers warn that sea levels will rise much faster than expected
3-12	Portion of McDuffie Coal Terminal Temporarily Shut Down
3-12	Toxic Chinese drywall accused for health problems in Canada, U.S.
3-11	Manchin hopes power line tax will raise $135 million a year
3-11	Forest Service ignored concerns about drilling
3-11	PATH protest planned for today
3-11	Bill encouraging county-mine company cooperation advances
3-11	WV SB509
3-11	New doc on Coal River struggle
3-11	Energy Dept. Said to Err on Coal Project
3-11	EPA considers requiring greenhouse gas reporting
3-11	Landmark film, Black Lung - A History to be released on DVD
3-11	New drug, alcohol policy sought for miners
3-11	Report: S.C. Bound for Bigger Coal-Ash Danger - EPA review includes 14 Indiana coal ash sites
3-11	Saving cemeteries from mining
3-11	Potomac River mostly spared from Md. fly ash spill
3-11	Groups Rally for Coal Ash Regs, EPA Responds - EPA plans new coal-ash rules in wake of devastating accident - EPA says coal ash oversight is coming
3-11	Ashley Judd Speaks up for the Mountains -- on Daily Kos
3-11	Power plant protest underscores coals dangers
3-11	Sea Levels Rising Faster Than Expected: Scientists
3-11	Carbon Capture Tech Needs More Support: Coal Industry Group
3-11	Boston landmarks to go dark for climate campaign
3-10	Cemeteries around state give way to mining, timbering, development - This story ran in other papers with the headline: As coal firms expand, graves go missing - Complete story in the Columbus Dispatch - Audio slideshow
3-10	Ooops! Another coal-ash spill - 4,000 gallons of coal ash sludge spills in Potomac - Coal ash spill upriver of Washington DC delivers message in new way
3-10	Raleigh judge extends ban on protests at Massey sites - Anti-mountaintop removal activists banned from protesting - Judge extends order to restrain protests - Activists set to defy ban on WVa mining protests - Massey gives protesters what they want
3-10	Saving coalfield cemeteries
3-10	How much coal do we have?
3-10	AEP explains huge rate increase request
3-10	EPA to propose coal ash regulation by end of '09 - TVA Submits Corrective Action Plan for Ash Spill Recovery - Coal Ash Disclosure Hits Utility - Rahall to move coal-ash legislation - Pardon my ash - Ash use fails essential test
3-10	Arrested TVA Spill Activist Out of the Can and Other Coal Ash Atrocities
3-10	Dredging ash spill could release selenium, poison fish
3-10	Wrong way to promote tourism
3-10	Catherine Pancake to speak Wednesday at MU Graduate College - Filmmaker to Speak Wednesday to Graduate Students
3-10	2 KY mining bills hit roadblocks
3-10	National Policy Will Shape State Energy Debate
3-10	What the Press Didn't Tell You About the Largest Youth Movement in Decades (Part Two)
3-10	Bredesen Wrong About Coal Compensation, Environmentalists Say
3-9	Hearing today on Massey protests
3-9	State reduces taxes on some coal reserves
3-9	Cost Is Chief Barrier to Clean Coal (not to mention extraction and "disposal" methods--there is no such things as "clean coal" and never will be)
3-9	HR 1310: Return of the Clean Water Protection Act
3-9	US climate activists lead by example
3-9	The Financial Times Gets Clear on Coal
3-9	Letter showed some wrong assumptions (scroll down)
3-9	Never Waste A Good Crisis, Clinton Says On Climate
3-9	New fly ash tests, familiar concerns
3-9	Report: 8 trapped Pa. miners settle their lawsuits
3-9	Report says global warming forcing shift in migratory pattern
3-9	Arch Coal to Buy U.S. Mine From Rio for $761 Million
3-9	Utility causes dust-up for using coal ash on road
3-8	Administration Plans New Regulations on Coal-Ash Ponds
3-8	Coal plants checked by enviro campaigns, costs
3-8	AEP to Ask State for 43 Percent Rate Increase - AEP wants 18.4 percent rate increase - AEP seeks 43 percent rate hike
3-8	True patriot believes in peoples rights
3-8	WV Groups initiate Efforts to Protect Family Cemeteries
3-8	Let me count the reasons why spending billions on a coal -to-fuel plant is a bad idea
3-8	Maryland: Debate smolders over coal ash safety
3-8	The illusion of clean coal: The world is investing too much cash and hope in carbon capture and storage - How long do we wait for clean coal? (forever. because it does not, nor never will, exist)
3-8	Scientists to issue stark warning over dramatic new sea level figures
3-8	Antarctica is heating up fast, a Kansas researcher and other scientists warn
3-8	Climate proxies up
3-8	Lawmakers eye changes to W.Va.s bench selection process
3-8	Why your grandchildren may not see this
3-8	Not worth the risks to health, environment - Using state's resources effectively, efficiently
3-8	U.S. Energy Secretary Pledges To Fight Global Warming
3-8	Carbon trade wrong, says Lord Browne
3-8	Activist arrested at coal ash site
3-8	Specter would fund study of cancer cluster
3-7	Le massacre des Appalaches
3-7	Carbon Storage Still a Decade Away, Expert Says
3-7	Green Power Struggle - Washington new center of global warming battle - Washington protesters push 'clean energy,' protest coal use - Thousands Storm Capitol Hill in Largest Protest Against Global Warming - Kentuckians protest over way coal used
3-7	Students Guide the Way as University Rids Itself of Coal Stock - A Jesuit school says no to Massey stock
3-7	Its back the Clean Water Protection Act
3-7	Ashley Judd campaigns against mountaintop removal mining
3-7	Bredesen: I'd Like to Ban Coal Mining, but Won't Try
3-7	Appalachian Mountains preservation hits a double in N.C. Legislature
3-7	Man resident hit, killed by coal train
3-7	Fishing with a Friend of Coal
3-7	Five More Arrested Protesting West Virginia Coal Mining
3-7	Coal industry campaign needs to come clean
3-7	A sound way to limit coal plants
3-7	US Senate: EPA Must Immediately Regulate Coal Ash Disposal - TVA May Stop Using Ash Ponds in Kingston
3-7	Mining case shows sooty side of big-money judicial elections - U.S. Supreme Court Hears Caperton Case
3-7	Waterkeeper Alliance unveils anti-coal campaign
3-7	RFK Jr. sticks it to Bill 30
3-7	Indie Rock Band Trees On Fire Lets Out A Rebel Yell Hoping To Build A Better Planet
3-6	House Bills Seek Cemetery Protection - Thursday is West Virginia History Day
3-6	Residents voice concern over Marfork plant to DEP
3-6	Stalling on selenium again
3-6	The Economist: Carbon capture and storage--trouble in store
3-6	Five more arrested protesting Massey Energy mountaintop removal, blasting near sludge dam above Marsh Fork Elementary - Despite court order, protests continue
3-6	Jeff Biggers--Operation Appalachian Spring: Sit-in Coal Campaign Blooms
3-6	Congressmen, Jesuits and Ashley Judd target mountaintop removal - Judd joins fight - Ashley Judd continues mountaintop removal activism
3-6	Supporters Try Again for Mountaintop Fill Bill
3-6	Al Gore: Your Heroic TVA Watchdogs Are Being Arrested
3-6	UMD volunteer at coal ash spill site arrested for no apparent reason
3-6	Agencies defend ash spill response - Senators to EPA: Regulate coal ash - Watching your waste
3-6	Maple Coal lays off 51 at Kanawha-Fayette mine
3-6	Mountaintop mining a destructive practice; N.C. electric utility customers are blowing up mountains
3-6	Manchin To Create Committee On Courts - Is this free speech or elections for sale? - Campaign Contributions - Benjamin, Blankenship and reasonable people - Supreme Court's Judge-For-Sale Case Is Just The Tip of a Larger Iceberg
3-6	Harlan camp cancels environmental groups' reservations
3-6	Three Somervillians at climate change protest in Washington DC
3-6	Coal and climate change Can king coal clean up?
3-6	Utility cancels $1.8 billion Iowa power plant
3-5	Black Waters No More: Clean Water Protection Act Reintroduced - Congress Moves to Protect Waterways
3-5	"Green" Funding for Coal Power Plants Criticized
3-5	Examine the causes of poverty
3-5	Judge issues order to stop protests against Massey Energy
3-5	Groups seek EPA rules on waste - 109 Groups Urge EPA Administrator Jackson to Regulate Coal Ash
3-5	Global warming protest at US capitol today (couple days ago now...)
3-5	Climate Change You Can Believe In - Capitol Power Plant Protesters Declare Victory - In snowy DC, thousands protest against coal power - Mass Disobedience in DC
3-5	The Canadian oil sands dilemma
3-5	Mountaintop removal mining hits new heights in environmental destruction (yup, that's an OVEC photo)
3-5	Massey wants court to review Benjamin's votes - Supreme Court Hears Judicial Bias Case - The Benjamin-Blankenship transcript - Justices Hear Arguments on Money-Court Nexus - P ost-Gaming the Massey Energy Arguments - Tough day for both sides of judicial recusal case - Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Harmon Mining Case - When should judges step aside? Justices weigh case - Supreme Court justices considering new judge standards - Supreme Court Divided Over Judicial Bias Case - Massey-Benjamin Case before SCOTUS - Justice Not for Sale - Benjamin's votes scrutinized
3-5	For Indian tribes, economic needs collide with tradition
3-5	Filmmaking Coen brothers take on "clean coal"
3-5	Kentucky: Friends of Coal License Plate
3-5	Utility gets OK to dredge coal ash in Tenn. river
3-5	Climate change protest disrupts flights at Aberdeen airport
3-5	Carbon Cap-and-Trade Could Increase Coal Usage
3-5	Clean coal?
3-4	Justices clash over Benjamin case; Supreme Court debates fairness, campaign money - Spotlight: State on display
3-4	Enviros urge EPA to regulate coal ash
3-3	Democracy Now--Capitol Climate Action: Mass Civil Disobedience in D.C. Against Use of Coal at Capitol Hill Power Plant
3-3	The only way were going to solve the climate crisis is by coming together and taking action, like this...
3-3	Jeff Biggers: Thousands Converge for Capitol Climate Action Against Dirty Coal
3-3	Thousands protest against coal in front of D.C.'s Capitol Power Plant -
3-3	Biggest Ever Civil Disobedience on Climate at Congressional Power Plant
3-3	Youth Find Hope in Economic Climate Shift
3-3	Associated Press: Thousands rally for legislation on climate change
3-3	News coming in from the Capitol protest
3-3	Blankenship, Benjamin and judicial ethics argued before Supreme Court - High court to decide when judges should step aside - State justices release Benhjamin's figures as case goes to U.S. Supreme Court
3-3	Should judges step aside when campaign cash is involved?
3-3	Protesters not the only ones filling up Washington
3-3	Scientists urged to step to plate on climate politics
3-3	DC rally wants Capitol to come off coal - Climate concerns spur power plant protest
3-2	Washington Post: Young People to Swarm Capitol With Green Agenda - A starry night at Power Shift
3-2	Bill McKibben: The Carbon Addicts on Capitol Hill
3-2	Top NASA Climatologist Leading Climate Change Protest
3-2	More on the Capitol Power Plant - West Virginians to participate in Capitol Climate Action in D.C. Monday - D.C. rally wants Capitol to come off coal
3-2	The Guardian: Capitol Hill coal power plant targeted by environmentalists
3-2	Case May Define When a Judge Must Recuse Self - WV SUPCO Race to be Publicly Funded? - All about Benjamin and Blankenship - Scotus to eye W.Va. case focusing on campaign cash - Cases with Texas justices' big campaign donors raises question: Does money rule the courts? - Plaintiff speaks out in Caperton v. Massey Supreme Court case
3-2	Power Shift is What Democracy Looks Like
3-2	Obamas Backing Raises Hopes for Climate Pact
3-2	Civil disobedience to combat climate change
3-2	Capitol Power Plant Protests Heighten Danger for Coal
3-2	U.S. Capitol Power Plant cleanup is a struggle
3-2	House drops 'carbon neutral' plan
3-2	Judge orders halt to Massey protests
3-2	Some states picking economy over environment regs
3-2	Environmentalist spots possible coal ash violations
3-2	Why lots of folks are excited about Steve Chu
3-2	Water fears surround mining plan
3-1	Risks of Global Warming Rising: Is It Too Late to Reverse Course?
3-1	Climate change in Southern Appalachians: Take it seriously
3-1	Obama Tells Powerful Lobbies: Bring It On
3-1	West Virginians at D.C. coal protest
3-1	Massey seeks to stop protests - Massey Slaps Climate Ground Zero with T.R.O.
3-1	W.Va. mining case could shape US judicial races - Top court to hear W.Va. judicial bias case Tuesday
3-1	45 mine workers laid off in Clay County
3-1	Georgia: College Students Lobby State for Green Jobs, against Mountaintop Removal
3-1	North Carolina: An unhealthy alliance
3-1	Ash-pond pollution hits EPA radar
3-1	Obamas Greenhouse Gas Gamble
3-1	Drought 'Oddities'
3-1	Climate scientist will deliver warning on warming

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