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 News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues

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4-30
WV Public Radio: WV environmental activist wins Goldman Award
4-30
 
EPA vs. Corps: Mountaintop removal fight heats up
4-30
Bayer tank that blew up in Valley lacked permit
4-30
State Supreme Court rejects power line case  -  TrAIL power line considered by Supreme Court
4-30
West Virginia's air gets failing grade
4-30
Massey subsidiary cited in 2008 electrocution
4-30
Massey reports 25 percent revenue increase; Coal firm plans to cut wages, benefits of workers   -  Massey in the news  -  Massey cuts pay amid slack coal demand  -  Massey plans 6% average pay cut
4-30
Jeff Biggers--Mr. King Coal's Neighborhood: Washington DC, Won't You Be My Neighbor?
4-30
Richard Bradford: Call halt to destructive mountaintop removal (scroll down)
4-30
Winnie Fox: Coal industry uses language to mislead
4-30
Harts women tell stories through pictures
4-30
EPA withdraws permit for Navajo coal plant
4-30
EPA Moves To Reconsider NM Coal Plant Permit
4-30
Brooks: SC shouldn't accept coal mined by mountaintop removal   -  SC lawmakers speak out against mountaintop mining
4-30
Obama Administration Pushes to Reverse Mining Rule
4-30
Altering mountains
4-30
'Safe' climate means 'no to coal': About three-quarters of the world's fossil fuel reserves must be left unused if society is to avoid dangerous climate change, scientists warn.
4-30
World's largest economies start push for agreement on climate
 
4-30
NASA scientist warns of climate change
4-30
Wal-Mart takes on coal?
4-30
Lewis ousted as BofA chairman, remains as CEO
4-30
Fly Ash Golf Course Sparks Lawsuit
4-29
Mine Protesters Appear In Court
4-29
No change: Obama DOJ backs pro-coal court ruling
4-29
US Army Corps Asks Court Not To Rehear Mountaintop-Mining Case
4-29
Put mining under the rule of law
4-29
Obama's First 100 Days of Coal: A Few Honest Words, Please
4-29
U.S. Dept. of Interior Vacates Bush-era Stream Buffer Zone Rule Change
4-29
Climate Change Hitting Entire Arctic Ecosystem, Says Report
4-29
Lawmakers Consider Bill To Change Water Quality Standards
4-29
Project Coordinator/Coalfield Organizer, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
4-29
Live chat about the Bayer CropScience explosion
4-29
Feds come to fired miner's defense
4-28
Obama plans for mountaintop removal buffer rule unclearMountaintop removal: Whats Obama going to do? - Obama seeks reversal of mountaintop mining rule - Did you hear? Ken Salazar likes coal - Mining rule on waste rock to be challenged in court - Bush Rule Allowing Coal Waste Valley Fills 'Legally Defective' -   Enviros to Obama: Enforce the law  - Obama moves to reverse Bush buffer zone rule changes  - Obama seeks reversal of mountaintop mining rule  -  U.S. seeks to end Bush mountaintop coal mining rule  -  Obama plans to reverse Bush rule on mountaintop removal  - Obama Administration Seeks Reversal of Mountaintop Mining Rule - Interior Hopes to Reinstate Mountaintop Mining Controls  - Clock runs out on another midnight regulation  - Salazar Wants to Return Mountaintop Coal Mining Rule to Previous Wording  - Officials move to overturn mine waste dumping rule  
4-28
Obama considering tougher rules for power plants
4-28
Appalachian Power overstated expenses, advocate alleges
4-28
Will Sen. Rockefeller Snub or Praise Goldman "Green Nobel" Prize Winner?  -  Will Senator Rockefeller honor pro-mountain environmentalist Maria Gunnoe?
4-28
Voice of America: Goldman Environmental Prize Awarded to Seven People From Around the World  -  Seven Activists Honored For Improving Environment in Their Nations
4-28
Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Open Up in Exclusive Interviews
4-28
Bayer Destroyed Evidence in Institute Explosion
4-28
Kathy Mattea says be aware of your appetite for energy
4-28
'60 Minutes' Blows it on Coal Segment  - 60 Minutes Confirms that the Clean Coal Smoke Screen Continues
4-28
Boxer: EPA should regulate coal-fired power plant waste
4-28
Clinton says US no longer AWOL on climate change
4-28
Listener comments - April 27, 2009
4-28
Seven arrested hanging banner at Major Economies meeting in DC
4-28
KY Sierra Club Takes Aim at Limiting Mercury Pollution
4-28
Energy Summit at UVa-Wise
4-28
State in a race to cut carbon dioxide emissions
4-27
OVEC to host MTR ground tour on Tuesday with award-winner, Maria Gunnoe
4-27
W.Va. election ad bill could resurface
4-27
Coal's push for carbon storage an impossible dream  Drilling begins at test site in western Kentucky
4-27
Oil, Coal, Auto Industry Lobbyist Lied About Global Warming For Years
4-27
Coal ash regulation bill faces opposition
4-27
Kentucky's carbon footprint
4-27
Report claims new coal plant will lead to higher rates
4-27
Coalition to study cutting coal plants' greenhouse gases
4-27
Marshall Student Makes MIC Her Project
4-27
Rallying to run Boulder's coal plant without the coal
4-27
Wild and Wonderful at Tribeca
4-27
North Union residents in the dark about coal fire status
4-27
Caring for the earth
4-27
Ocean Acidification Risks Mass Extinction of Sea Life
 
4-27
SE Asia will be hit hard by climate change
4-26
Maria Gunnoe on the death of a stream
4-26
Heres a speaker worth hearing
4-26
Safety lapses led to fatal blast at Bayer  -  Bayer endangered lives, Carper tells Congress
4-26
Blair: What a debacle 
4-26
60 Minutes: The Dilemma Over Coal Generated Power
4-26
Changing beliefs: Study shows attitudes about 'new economy' in W.Va.
4-26
Mingo commissioners appeal to U.S. Rep: ...Help our coal miners
4-26
Error upends Manchin's "alternative" energy bill
4-26
Speaker stirs up East Kentucky conference with comments on coal
4-26
Time to use our God-given energy alternatives has arrived
4-26
This week on Sierra Club Radio: 1) Maria Gunnoe and Yuyun Ismawati, two of the winners of this year's Goldman Prize, the premier international award for environmental activism
4-26
Beehive Design Collective share stories of activists
4-26
Climate change forces (Inuit) to abandon village
4-26
Study links wildfires in Sierra to climate change
4-26
Energy Group's Scientists Saw Warming-Gas Link
4-26
Newt King Coal & Other Big Oil Buffoons  -  Newt: Climate Bill Huge Mistake, Lets Go For Green Coal
4-26
Global warming deniers took a page from the tobacco industry
4-26
How coal ruled our province
4-26
Massey foreman set to enter plea to safety charge
4-26
Authors' roots give weight to argument  -  For Silas House, plays have become commentary
4-26
Drinking Water Threatened: TVA Tries to Hide Information About Water Contamination from Massive Coal Spill
4-26
Anti-Mountaintop Removal Lockdown Depicted on Foxs House
4-26
Mountaintop removal coal mining is danger
4-26
Nature crusader draws links between greening the globe and saving the world
4-26
Virginians get it on green issues
4-26
Science removed from the chains of ideology
4-25
Public Radio International's Living on Earth: Defending the Mountains
4-25
Author to address subject of getting children involved in nature
4-25
An interview with Green Nobel winner Maria Gunnoe
4-25
Dust from coal trucks poses Appalachian health threat -- study
4-25
Deeds done to get coal are often evil
4-25
Appalachian Expert Calls to End Surface Mining  -  Kentucky scholar calls for end to surface mining  - UK professor gives coal crowd something to talk about
4-25
Bayer: Marginalizing chemical plant safety?   Community looks for answers in Bayer explosion  -  Capitol Hill lawmakers question Bayer's motives
4-25
Where does Obama Stand on Mountaintop Removal?
4-25
OSM(RE) search: Obama cast a very wide net
4-25
Lillelund: These people are fighting for you
4-25
2009 Goldman Environmental Prize Awarded to Grassroots Environmentalists
4-25
The Accidental Environmentalist
4-25
Mountaintop removal bill among enviro legislation being debated
4-25
Being green is being conservative
4-25
Momentum is growing across West Virginia to stop mountain top removal mining
4-25
Arch Coal cuts more production   -  Consol Energy 1Q profit soars, beats expectations
4-25
Cap and Giveaway
4-25
New coal-fired power stations to be built in the UK must have carbon capture and storage facilities
4-25
Tallahassee Film Festival Winners
4-25
Authors' roots give weight to argument 
4-25
Columbus residents celebrate 'green' service
4-25
The Gospel Of Green
4-25
Deadly sins taking toll on the Earth
 
4-25
Legislator shifts tactic on mining
4-25
Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change
4-25
Bolivia: Water People of Andes Face Extinction
4-25
California regulators approve low-carbon fuel standard
4-25
Former VP Gore Backs U.S. House Global Warming Bill
4-25
Fire is an important and under-appreciated part of global climate change
4-25
Climate change causing many rivers worldwide to shrink
4-24
Residents turn out to blast Bayer for explosion, secrecy  - Investigators: Safety bypasses 'became the norm' at Bayer plant
4-24
UMWA to Congress: Go slow on greenhouse reductions
4-24
Obama still leaning toward insider for OSM(RE)?
4-24
OVEC organizer Maria Gunnoe Wins Goldman Environmental Prize
4-23
Richard Louv: Explore the great outdoors  - OVEC hosts Rich Louv this Sunday
4-23
Obama urges US to lead world on renewable energy  -  Obama talks up wind power, green jobs on Earth Day
4-23
Energy Regulatory Chief Says New Coal, Nuclear Plants May Be Unnecessary
4-23
Kathy Mattea: Mining a seam
4-23
ABC's Brian Ross Owes President Obama, RFK Jr. & America an Apology
4-23
Grist--The Goldman Prize: True tales of bravery
4-23
WV Public News Service: "Green Nobel" Winner: WV Should Mine Coal The Right Way
4-23
Facing South: Leader in mountaintop removal fight wins prestigious environmental award
4-23
Newsweek Web Exclusive--Judy Bonds: Slaves to Industry
4-23
Road Show Targets Mountaintop Removal Mining
4-23
ABC News7: Goldman Prize winners honored in SF
4-23
Creative Loafing: Mountaintop removal mining foe wins major environmental prize
4-23
Sierra Club sues East Kentucky Power
4-23
Coal industry is destroying Appalachian communities through mountaintop removal
4-23
AlterNet: Goldman Prize Names World's Most Amazing Grassroots Environmental Leaders
4-23
Music professor chants funeral mass for destroyed mountains
4-22
RFK Jr. Blasts Obama as 'Indentured Servant' to Coal Industry
4-22
WVDEPs Huffman goes off on Obama EPA
4-22
Bayer safety lapses 'could have eclipsed Bhopal'  -  More to come on the Bayer explosion
4-22
Boone Standard: Boone woman wins international environmentalist award
4-22
Photovoice women tell community stories, identify needs through photography  -  Photos by Harts women on display in Chapmanville
4-22
Truthout reprints Wall Street Journal article: Woman Wins Environmental Prize for Fighting Mining Problems
4-22
Manchin tries again - "I don't know for the life of me what they'd find wrong with it"
4-22
NC House Committee to debate mountaintop mining ban - NC: Push against mountaintop coal stalls
4-22
RAN: Mother Gunnoe: Mountaintop Removal Organizer Wins Goldman Environmental Nobel Prize
4-22
Eco Friendly: The Power of the Individual
4-22
Mining.com news: Mountaintop mining activist wins global award
4-22
African rainforest activist wins international Goldman prize
4-21
DEP chief irked by EPA interference
4-21
Dozens arrested after Duke protest  - 44 arrested during a protest against Duke Energy in uptown Charlotte
4-21
UMWA supports Blair Mountain listing
4-21
A Test Case For The Future Of Mining (all of the interested parties--what about the people deeply impacted / poisoned. driven away by this extremely destructive form of coal mining?)
4-21
West Virginia Coal Miner's Daughter Wins Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize While Gee Rakes In Cash From Mountaintop Removal
4-21
Worldwatch Institute: Dont Blast Away My Home
4-21
Wall Street Journal: Woman Wins Environmental Prize for Fighting Mining Problems
4-21
Discover magazine blog: Winners of the Environmental Nobel Prizes Fought for a Cleaner Planet
4-21
Tampa Bay Times: Mountaintop mining of coal is efficient, but environmental effects criticized
4-21
It's Getting Hot in Here: Maria Gunnoe Wins Prestigious Goldman Award for Fighting Big Coal!
4-21
The Gazz Movie Blog: Congrats to Maria Gunnoe, winner of 2009 Goldman Award, in many films
4-21
2 Suriname men win global environmental prize
4-21
Kiosztottk a zld Nobel-djat: leteszlyes fenyegetst is kaptak a nyertesek!
4-21
Nḥn giải cao quý vì mi sinh
4-21
Global Feminist Blog: The 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize
4-21
The Rural Blog: West Virginia activist receives environmental prize for fighting mountaintop-removal mining
4-21
10 Environmental Disasters to Remember on Earth Day
4-21
Indigenous groups hold Alaska climate change talks
4-21
Critical Turning Point Can Trigger Abrupt Climate Change
4-21
North Carolina: Legislators to look at destructive coal-mining process
4-21
Tennessee: Measure to relax rules on selenium pushed by coal industry
4-21
Clean Air Act and Climate Change: Killing old coal plants?
4-21
California broils in record heat
4-21
Film fest Tuesday night for Earth Day Eve
4-20
Front page of Charleston Gazette today: Boone County woman wins award for fighting big coal
4-20
Associated Press: Mountaintop mining activist wins global award
4-20
Seven Grassroots Leaders Win World-Renowned Goldman Environmental Prize
4-20
BBC News: In pictures: The Goldman Prize 2009
4-20
Democracy Now: Goldman Environmental Prizes Awarded
4-20
Grist: Gunnoe gets Goldman
4-20
Indonesian Activist Wins Top Prize For Campaigns Against Pollution
4-20
Mine Worker Punished for Trying to Form a Union
4-20
Greenhouse gases can be hazardous to our health
4-20
Jeff Biggers - Earth Day Atonement: 10 Environmental Disasters to Remember
4-20
Islands Could Disappear, Energy Secretary Warns Island Nations
4-19
Charleston Gazette: Boone County woman wins award for fighting big coal
4-19
Coal Tattoo: Congratulations to Maria Gunnoe
4-19
San Francisco Chronicle: Coal miner's daughter save mountaintops
4-19
Jeff Biggers--Mother Gunnoe: Mountaintop Removal Organizer Wins Goldman "Environmental Nobel" Prize
4-19
Antrim Caskey: GUNNOE WINS GOLDMAN FOR WEST VIRGINIA
4-19
USA Today: 6 named for $150K Goldman Environmental Prizes
4-19
BBC: 'Green Nobel' for forest champion
4-19
Reuters: Six activists win 'Environment Nobel'
4-19
Congress weighs far-reaching global warming bill
4-19
EPA greenhouse action paves way for coal plant limits  - EPAs climate finding ticks off industry, energizes enviros and congressional leaders
4-19
Bayer meeting to be held Thursday evening
4-19
Forum to note challenge to coal
4-19
Lawmakers forge alternative to cap-and-trade proposal
4-19
Water considered a sacred resource
4-19
Authors' roots give weight to argument
4-19
Goldman Prize boosts Bay Area environmental groups year-round
4-19
Seis activistas de todo el mundo ganan el "Nobel Medioambiental"
4-19
Un Gabonais parmi les laurats des prix Goldman de l'environnement
4-19
Ecologia, sei attivisti vincono "il Nobel degli ambientalisti"
4-19
Goldman Environmental Prize Recipients Saluted by Asia Foundation
4-19
Treehugger.com: 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize Honors Grassroots Leaders
4-19
Nobel dell'ambiente, sette premiati
4-19
Marc Ona Essangui figure parmi les laurats des prix Goldman de l'environnement
4-18
EPA Says Greenhouse Gases Pose Threat To Public Health  -  EPA declares fossil fuel emissions a threat to health, environment  - A Danger to Public Health and Welfare - Blair Mountain information
4-18
State says it didn't mean to request Blair Mountain delisting  - Friday roundup, April 17, 2009 - State Clarifies Position on Blair Mountain  - Supporters want WVa labor site to stay on register
4-18
Lets make a deal: Was plea a bargain for Massey?
4-18
Aerial tour will help understand strip mining (scroll down)
4-18
Jeff Biggers: Our chance to spare mountains
4-18
Fact check: Capito, climate change and the carbon cycle
4-18
DEP gives Mingo hybrid (that is coal-to-liquid) plant good air review
4-18
Prioritizing Climate Solutions
4-18
Feds get tough with mines owing fines
4-18
Ansted Health Society asks residents to complete survey
4-18
EPA ruling may affect planned coal plant
4-18
Va. High Court Rejects Coal Plant Challenge
4-18
Nashville firm joins coal ash lawsuit  -  TVA seeks dismissal of coal-ash flood lawsuits
4-18
Climate action will cost and benefit consumers
4-18
China mine blast leaves 18 dead
4-18
Kathy Mattea mines 'Coal' at Troy Music Hall
4-17
Mountaintop removal: Powellton permit appealed  -  Groups continue to fight Bridge Fork mine permit
4-17
Make History: Sign the National Trust Petition to Save Blair Mountain from Mountaintop Removal
4-17
Fresh oversight for coal mining
4-17
Protests against Massey continue    -  Five more ticketed in Massey mine protests  -  Activists hang EPA stop MTR banner on Massey mine, arrested
4-17
Manchin touts W.Va. coal - DEP Pleased With EPA Visit
4-17
Is water linked to illnesses?
4-17
Save Kentucky's mountains
4-17
Massey idles mine, lays off hundreds
4-17
Our Moral Obligation
4-17
Capito disputes need for swift climate action
4-17
Sea Levels Are Rising: It's Time to Decide Which Coastal Cities Are Worth Saving
4-17
Spam "Produces 17 Million Tons of CO2"
4-17
Aluminum companies protest AEP rate hike in WVa
4-17
Citizens action founder says coal-fired plants cost lives
4-17
Bunning's funding raises concerns
4-17
Mine managers fined for violating safety laws
4-17
Celebrating the Earth 'Green' events abound as Earth Day draws near  -  Earth Day Film Festival set for April 22
4-16
EPA in Charleston to discuss halted mining permits  - EPA, WVa, coal officials resume mining talks
4-16
Women's photo stories document life in WVa
4-16
We are destroying state history
4-16
From Iraq to Appalachia: Ronald Teska explains why two places half a world apart share similar experiences--because both are occupied territories of American energy companies.
4-16
Security smokescreen hinders chemical plant inquiry
4-16
Judge approves Aracoma plea deal in fatal fire Massey subsidiary fined $2.5M for fatal mine fire  -  Aracoma sentenced to $2.5 million criminal fine
4-16
PATH power line pushed back a year  -  High-voltage Mid-Atlantic power line delayed
4-16
Book focuses on mountaintop removals impact on communities, people
4-16
Cliffside protests coming to Charlotte
4-16
Police raid dozens of homes as climate change activists arrested
4-16
Plaintiffs double in suit against TVA over spill
4-16
The Meaning of Anti-Coal in West Virginia
4-16
Mountaintop Removal Road Show comes to Danville
4-16
Rahall Sorts Details on Cap and Trade Policies
4-16
Bill Would Remove Some Tennessee Waterway Protections
4-16
U.S. greenhouse emissions rose 1.4 percent in 2007: EPA
4-16
Roane man laments spill, Brockovich and firm update community
4-16
Mountaintop-removal mining too destructive
4-16
Peabody 1Q earnings are expected to increase Peabody's 1Q results miss analysts' forecasts  -  TECO's Coal Business Looks Lumpy
4-16
New look at coal mining after visit to reservation
4-16
70 percent emissions cuts needed to avert worst of climate - change  -  Massive emissions cuts can save Arctic ice: study
4-16
Energy Secretary Chu, on Power Sources Old and New
4-16
EPA To Take On Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming
4-16
White House Watching Climate Change Legislation Unfold
4-16
New warning over 'catastrophic' sea level rise, scientists claim
4-16
Climate change is 'biggest stress' on ocean, senator says
4-16
Birds may have to fly an extra 250 miles because of climate change
4-16
Climate change may wake up 'sleeper' weeds
4-16
Climate change behind falling crop production
4-16
Study shows climate change could kill Nevada state tree
4-16
UM Holds Activities To Celebrate Earth Week
4-15
Massey urges shareholders to defeat measures
4-15
Coal miners burned in layoffs  -  How much will changes in coal industry affect Boone County?
4-15
Politicians do nothing about coal damage
4-15
Judge considers company's plea in fatal WVa fire
4-15
New jobs coming to Catlettsburg carbon plant; Tougher environmental regulation should mean more long-term jobs in eastern Kentucky
4-15
The Kansas Coal Fight Continues
4-15
U.S. worried about environmental damage to Flathead River
4-14
Where do our elected officials stand on Blair Mountain?
4-14
EPA Back In WV On Coal Issue EPA Officials Coming Back to West Virginia
4-14
Things are tough all over: Massey cuts Blankenships pay  - Massey Energy CEO's compensation drops 17 percent
4-14
Whats Capitos view on global warming?
4-14
Capito warns coal is under fire; Congresswoman says mines in jeopardy if EPA continues to regulate  (continues? is this woman for real? what a shill for Big Coal...)  Capito heads to mine for coal education
4-14
Washington Post on mountaintop mining
4-14
The EPA's welcome crackdown delays a permit in Virginia
4-14
For Alaska's Inupiat, Climate Change and Culture Shock
4-14
Change at OSM
4-14
Legislative roundup on mining issues
4-14
Massey sentencing: Fact-checking the companys filing
4-14
Summit focuses on gas drilling, water quality
4-14
May session offers Manchin chance to revive agenda
4-14
Powerline won't help W.Va.
4-14
TVA ash ponds lie in flood plains
4-14
Montana coal reserves  -  Coal mines leases could mean riches for Montana
4-14
114 arrested before protest near UK power station
4-14
Steep emissions cuts take a chunk of warming with them study
4-14
Tallahassee Film Festival starts Wednesday
4-13
House in hot water after dismissal
4-13
Cliffs to slash coal output, affecting 355 jobs
4-13
Coal is Filthy
4-13
Electric Utilities: Coal vs. Renewables
4-13
Old Dirty Coal Power Plants and the Unfinished Business Of the Clean Air Act
4-13
India Rejects Calls For Emission Cuts
4-13
Rich countries must deepen carbon cuts: UN climate chief
4-13
The Civil Heretic
4-12
4-12
Session runs out of time on key measures  -  Nuclear power left out again  - Lawmakers Kill Several Bills on Final Day
4-12
OSM 'at a crossroads,' Rahall says
4-12
Utility Rejects Many Requests as It Buys Land Tainted by Tennessee Coal-Ash Spill
4-12
Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines
4-12
Blowing Up Coal Plants
4-12
Coal mine lays off 65 workers in Jefferson County, AL
4-12
Australia may have climate lessons for the U.S.
4-12
Chinese drywall poses potential risks
4-12
Americans must make painful sacrifices now to stop Earths rush to climate Armageddon
4-12
Chu wants labs to work on energy, climate change
4-12
Will Climate Change Whip Up Global Wildfires?
4-12
Climate change will set back ozone layer recovery: NASA
4-12
Global warming threatens Joshua trees
4-11
Washington Post: Future Grows More Hazy For Mountaintop Mining
4-11
Boone, Wyoming mines idled; 600 laid off  - Mines being idled; nearly 600 affected  -  Massey idles WVa coal mine, lays off 300 - Slow economy reduces demand for coal: Pinnacle mine cuts 290 jobs
4-11
Small chemical leak reported in South Charleston
4-11
Chemical valley: Who is protecting the residents?
4-11
DEP to cite Dow over foam in Kanawha River
4-11
Rahall to Obama: Give OSM(RE) a shot at reform
4-11
W.Va. Coals Chris Hamilton: Intercepted again!
4-11
W.Va. House leaders: Lets not talk about wind vs. coal  - WV House Committee Gag Order: No Stinkin' Green Jobs or Responsible Mining Debate! - West Virginia House committee kills resolution on Coal River Mountain wind farm proposal
4-11
McDowell County excited about new federal prison
4-11
The buzz about coal industry
4-11
Evening With The Mountain Keepers
4-11
More than 70 properties bought near TVA's ash spill
4-11
Progress on Global Warming Remains Elusive
4-11
Global warming 'urgent threat,' Hillary Clinton warns
4-11
Global warming reports: poor prospects for corn ethanol
4-11
Studies: climate change could doom Calif crops
4-11
Climate change: The need to stay under 350
4-11
Forecasting A Warmer World
4-11
Climate Change Leads To Major Decrease In Carbon Dioxide Storage
4-11
Wildfires seen responding to climate change
4-11
Restructuring in the Face of Climate Change
4-11
Carbon capture and storage is not being widely built today; the primary problem--it is expensive
4-11
Colo. power generator reviews long-term coal plans
4-11
Renewal: Stories From America's Religious Enviro
4-11
Climate change hits Australia first, and hard
4-11
Will climate change spread disease?
4-11
Obama climate adviser open to geo-engineering to tackle global warming
4-11
Alaskas Changing Climate
4-11
On Thin Ice
4-11
Earth's Arctic Freezer Turning Into Hothouse
 
4-11
Seals and robotic subs monitor Antarctic climate change
4-11
Global warming could take bite out of Midwest corn, report says
4-10
Obama gets 2 more weeks on mountaintop removal
4-10
EPA objects to more mining permits  -  EPA objects to 3 more surface coal mining permits  -  EPA puts brakes on 3 more mountaintop mining permits  -  EPA Asks Corps to Revoke Ison Rock Ridge Permit - YAY! EPA to Start Cracking Down on Mountaintop Removal
4-10
Blair Mountain letters show coordinated opposition campaign
4-10
Maps, markers and Marsh Fork Elementary School II
4-10
Clean Water Act making waves
4-10
PBS' NOW: Can Coal be Earth-Friendly?
4-10
Aracoma foreman pleads guilty to not doing escape drills - One Massey foreman down, more to come?
4-10
Massey employees should act more civil (scroll down to second letter)
4-10
Journalism should defend downtrodden (scroll down to second letter)
4-10
Wharton coal mine lays off 65 miners
4-10
TV tonight in PA: PBS beautiful look at Appalachia
 
4-10
'Mountain Top Removal' director to introduce film
4-10
Gov. Gregoire must lead Washington beyond its reliance on coal  -  State's secret deal with coal plant sparks outcry
4-10
Dont let coal hold Kansas back
4-10
Residents protest proposed coal plant through hair testing
4-10
Navajo Nation loses Supreme Court bid for coal money
4-10
Getting serious about mercury
4-10
Dissenter on Warming Expands His Campaign
4-10
More fuzzy math? How GOP estimates carbon tax impact
4-10
Writing for change: Program to stress activisms importance
4-10
The world's saddest environmental photographs Man's Greatest Crimes Against the Earth, in Pictures
4-10
Trees on Fire
4-10
TVA says saving voice mails taxing system
4-10
Fellow Washington Post columnist challenges George Wills climate denial
4-10
Global warming endangers U.S. corn production, study says
4-10
White House seeks consumer aid in climate plan
4-10
U.S. plays down hopes at climate talks
4-9
EPA objects to more mountaintop removal permits - EPA Gets Back in the Saddle on Mountaintop Mining Permits  -  EPA asks Corps to revoke Virginia coal mine's nationwide permit
4-9
Death by Coal in Prenter, WV 
4-9
In Areas Fueled by Coal, Climate Bill Sends Chill
4-9
Who is Glenda Owens, and should she run OSM(RE)?  - Obama and OSM(RE): Citizens will oppose insider
4-9
Actress mourns loss of Appalachian mountains
4-9
Kathy Mattea returns to the Weinberg Center for her Moving Mountains Tour
4-9
Polar Regions feel the heat of Climate Change
4-9
EU: Earth warming faster
4-9
Ohio EPA warns of mercury in some area fish
4-8
More info trickling out on Blair Mountain
4-8
Court rules against Navajo Nation in coal case
4-8
W.Va. high court hears Massey coal silo fight  -  Maps, markers and Marsh Fork Elementary School
4-8
Experts: Earth Warming Faster; A Trigger for "Dangerous" Change?
4-8
Democracy Now: Leading Activist Mike Roselle Continues Fight Against Destructive Coal Mining
4-8
Mountaintop removal
4-8
The Goals Coal silo heads back to Supreme Court  -  WVa court hears case of coal silo near school
4-8
Letter to Senator Robert Byrd: Save My Home
4-8
Jeff Biggers: Where's the National Outrage on Blair Mountain? Gov. Joe Manchin and Bilbo Legacy
4-8
Hey Diane Sawyer: Acclaimed 4-part PBS Series Premieres on Why Appalachian Mountains Matter  -   PBS's 'Appalachia' examines region's heart and soul - Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People (Review)  -  PBS' beautiful look at Appalachia
4-8
Obama looks at climate engineering
4-8
Professor examines complexity of environmental disasters
4-8
Steps forward and questions for TVA
4-8
Wells near ash-topped road to be tested
4-8
New Yorkers Blow the Whistle on Dirty Coal
4-8
Global-Warming Fears Abound As Large Ice Shelf Breaks Loose
4-8
Senator wants to pursue landowners rights in oil, gas drillings
4-8
 WV Judge's Settlement May Fund Drinking Water
4-7
Coal industry cuts more Boone jobs
4-7
Agreement reached in Boone County well water dispute
4-7
Give OSM credible leader
4-7
Congressman Nick Rahall Comments on Mountaintop Mining Permits
4-7
Blair Mountain can't be taken off historic list, professor says
4-7
Manchin says he had nothing to do with Blair Mountain decision
4-7
State moves to delist Blair Mountain from historic register
4-7
Don Garvin: Energy bill's plan is flawed  -  Peak coal, goat ropes and Manchins energy bill
4-7
Coal country residents have true grievances
4-7
EPA places mountaintop removal mining under tighter scrutiny
4-7
W.Va. 61 at East Bank opens after mine blowout
4-7
Satellites Show Arctic Literally on Thin Ice - Trends in Global Warming  - EU: Earth warming faster - Global Warming Increasing Faster Than Projected
4-7
Save coal mining jobs: stop new MTM
4-6
The price of unchecked greed
4-6
Patriot Coal announces production cuts 
4-6
Energy Risk - Mining Practice Stirs Passions
4-6
Alaska assembly to take up mining regs
4-6
Obama pledges US lead on climate change
4-6
Small Islands Urge Deep CO2 Cuts, Fear Rising Seas
4-6
Shell in Court Over Alleged Role in Nigeria Executions
4-6
Authors Latest Work Is A Monster Of A Book
4-5
Climate clock is ticking  - 'Zero chance' of imminent change on US climate legislation
4-5
Dear Sen. Byrd: Restoring mountains could be your greatest legacy
4-5
Photos voice the feelings nine women have for Lenore
4-5
Manchin Orders Review Of State Judicial System - Public Financing for Supreme Court Races Killed in Senate Judiciary Committee - Governors Opposition Slows Public Financing Bill
4-5
Putting Lipstick On a Pig II
4-5
Surface owners rights bill another casualty
4-5
Weak demand for coal (see last paragraph)  -  In Coal We Trust?  The Epitome of Denial ...
4-5
Transmission Tax Fizzles While PROMISE Cap Advances
4-5
Longview Power Studies Acid Mine Drainage Cleanup
4-5
DEP Seeks Comments on Marcellus Guidance, Permit Addendum
4-5
Spring Break 09-Journey Through Appalachia
4-5
Ashley Judd brings hope to the world's most impoverished
4-5
Recession may delay U.S. bill on emissions limits
4-5
Study: Cool Spells Normal in Warming World
4-5
Climate change threatens Channel Islands artifacts
4-4
WV PBS to air documentary on Appalachias environmental history  -  Spacek narrates PBS documentary on Appalachia
4-4
Photo exhibit tells stories of communities using art
4-4
Mountaintop removal: Citizens meet with White House
4-4
Rep. Rahall: W.Va most productive coal seams likely exhausted in 20 years
4-4
Fixing OSM(RE), Part 2: Green jobs for the coalfields
4-4
Corps fires back again; seeks Goodwin clarification  -  New leadership for the Corps
4-4
Calling out the GOP on cap-and-trade
4-4
Myth: Pricing carbon will destroy the economy   -  Republicans claim carbon bill impact on families that is off byno kidding98%
4-4
Arctic Ocean to lose ice cover in 30 years - Antarctic Ice Shelf Disappears, Arctic Melting Rapidly
4-4
Patriot Coal output cuts add to US slide
4-4
Sebelius holding coal cards
4-4
4-4
Sheryl Crow, Big Kenny, Emmylou Harris and others team for Music Saves Mountains  -  Music Stars on Mountaintop Removal: Keep the 'Country' in Country Music
4-3
Court to Obama: Show your cards on mountaintop removal
4-3
End of an era: Closing the door on building new coal-fired power plants in America
4-3
Coalfield Developers Cite Challenges for Future Growth (how about clean water?)
4-3
Capito says Dems are trying to kill coal
4-3
Patriot Coal to idle more mines "until the market recovers"
4-3
House considers extending selenium deadline for coal industry
4-3
Tomblin stresses importance of coal mining - Senate Supports Coal  - Worried About The Future Of the Coal Industry
4-3
W.Va. House resolution supports Coal River wind farm
4-3
EPA To Return
4-3
Governor Hopes to Work with EPA 
4-3
Officials say court decision on EPA cost-benefit analyses will help state   -  U.S. court upholds power plant cooling water rule
4-3
Grammy Stars Unite for New Campaign: I Ain't Gonna Play Mountaintop Removal   -  Sheryl Crow Leads 'Music Saves Mountains' Campaign
4-3
Saving Blair Mountain: The Battle Against Mountain Top Removal
4-3
Governor praises Buffalo Creek mine
4-3
Louis-Rosenberg explains dangers of Mountain Top Removal Mining
4-3
Tennessee's Dirty Data   -  TVA Claims Water Near Fly Ash Spill Safe for Recreation, Tests Disagree TVA planning ash spill health monitoring, research  - 100 Days Later, Ash Spill Questions Linger for Tennessee Valley Authority - Roane County residents worry about summer water fun  - Angry residents grill officials about coal ash - Oak Ridge group to study ash spill - Financial pressures could impact TVA rates
4-3
New study gives spur for "clean coal" schemes  -  Indiana companies eye stimulus funds for 'clean coal'
4-3
Mountaintop removal destroying our state
4-3
Local writers report that Somethings Rising
4-3
Scientists Develop Systems to Rescue Trapped Coal Miners
4-3
Scientists take another stab at nuclear fusion
4-3
Kingston ash cleanup costly for TVA
4-3
Judge refuses to give TVA more time on clean air
4-3
Coal plant measure poised for another veto round in Kansas
4-3
National Parks Seek to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Workers, Visitors
4-3
Undermined school displaces students
4-3
Climate Bill Could Override Regional Efforts
4-3
Climate Change May Cost California Billions
4-3
Tearing down mountains for coal
4-3
Obama: U.S. To Lead On Climate So China, India Follow
4-2
State Journal: Senators Co-Sponsor Bill to Restore Clean Water Act
4-2
State Journal: Coal Hears Alarm  
4-2
Appalachian coal mining loses yet another round; this time in federal court
4-2
Governors Opposition Slows Public Financing Bill
4-2
The price tag for adapting to climate change
4-1
Manchins mountaintop removal meeting  -  EPA meets with WVa officials on mining concerns
4-1
Obama EPA got early start on mountaintop removal
4-1
Senate gives nod to Manchins energy portfolio
4-1
Bush environmental chairman is now coal cheerleader
4-1
4-1
What caused the East Bank blowout?  - East Bank road closed for several more days
4-1
Court decision prevents dumping of coal mine waste in US waters
4-1
Maps That Draw a Line on Energy Projects
4-1
Friends of Coal license plate bill passes Senate
4-1
More on the public finanancing bill for Supreme Court races
4-1
Catos scientific rebuttal on climate change
4-1
Kingston Spill One of Many, Environmental Group Says
4-1
Labor Unions and Environmental Groups Join to Endorse Climate Change Legislation
4-1
Judge voids easier WV mountaintop mining permits

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