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7-31	Access to family cemetery at James Creek blocked
7-31	Court orders hearing in coal slurry case
7-31	DOH to conduct meeting about two Logan roads
7-31	Coal production must drop, stockpiles dwindle, Consol CEO says -
7-31	Peak Coal: Will the coal run out before CCS works?
7-31	Check out this incendiary coal industry rhetoric: Coal Counties Endure New Generation of Mine Wars
7-31	Tenn. paper blasts area miners for boycott - Tennessee's Senator in a Nutshell
7-31	Ash shifts down river
7-31	Swine flu’s little helper
7-31	Alpha, Foundation shareholders set to vote on deal
7-31	New MTR book: We All Live Downstream
7-31	Economic downturn hits coal industry
7-30	Standing Up for Their Heritage - Video: Journey Up Cook Mountain
7-30	One Man’s Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Mining
7-30	Video: People & Power
7-30	Ken Hechler: From activist to hell-raiser
7-30	Some straight talk on CCS from AEP
7-30	Mining protesters deserve protection - Ignore climate change at your peril - Hoping no one has to mine coal (scroll down)
7-30	African American Environmentalist Association Supports The Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 1310
7-30	Building a Climate Movement from the Seat of a Bike
7-30	Massey rehires miners to meet demand from Asia - Coal miner Massey Energy sees chance to boost exports
7-30	Blackout: Heinberg on dwindling coal reserves and the siren song of “clean coal”
7-30	Sierra Club urges members to visit Tennessee
7-30	Save the Cerulean Warbler - Stop Mountaintop Mining
7-30	Congressman wants TVA oversight
7-30	Beijing closing coal plants in environmental move
7-30	National Academies: U.S. energy at a crossroads
7-30	Once-Hot Coal Piles Up as Demand Cools
7-30	Climate activists in denial
7-30	Restoration no fix for mountains destroyed by coal mining
7-30	Coal-burning issue
7-30	TVA Duplicity Re: Coal Ash Spill
7-30	Dominion asks judge to throw out $1 billion fly-ash suit
7-30	Study finds coal mining a financial burden to communities
7-30	Arctic tundra hotter, boosts global warming: expert - Study: Global warming speeds CO2 release
7-30	Report Sees Dire Future for Warming's Impact on U.S. Transport
7-30	Global Warming Could Uproot California's Fruit, Nuts
7-30	The Germans’ heralded carbon capture plan? Pumping it directly into the atmosphere
7-30	The Case of the Disappearing Rabbit
7-29	Worker killed at Samples mountaintop-removal mine - W.Va. mine worker killed in truck accident - One man dead after 'lizard' truck backs into a pond - Worker killed at Samples mountaintop removal mine
7-29	New lawsuit: Water violations should block Fayette permit
7-29	WJU gets EPA grant to test coalfield environmental concerns - Wheeling Jesuit to study southern WVa environment - Six Appalachian Communities to Benefit from EPA Grant
7-29	Coal producers cope with sluggish demand - "Experts": Coal industry facing dismal future
7-29	Environmental groups join fight against PATH
7-29	'Old Baldy' proposed as new W.Va. nickname - 'Old Baldy' Now Nickname for Mountain State - Group Against Mountaintop Mining Proposes New Nickname for WV - Environmentalists Nickname W.V. "Old Baldy"
7-29	Sign petition to save the Clean Air Act
7-29	IG slams TVA: Coal-ash dangers ignored, then covered up - Audit pinpoints TVA's problems - Auditor: TVA lawyers limited ash spill report - Coal ash cancer concerns
7-29	Preventable ecological calamity in North Carolina
7-29	Environmental lawyers, pollution watchdog urge scrapping of coal-ash dumpsite deal in S. Cebu
7-29	Massey reports profit in tough climate
7-29	Miners union challenging no-chewing tobacco policy
7-29	US and China sign memorandum on climate change
7-29	Unchecked Climate Change Would Result in More Heat Waves, More Flooding, and Reduced Crop Yields in Minnesota, New Report Finds
7-29	Emissions of 3 big China power firms exceed UK -report
7-29	W.V., Ky. miners boycott Tennessee over proposed mountaintop removal restrictions - Lop off mountains to mine coal? No
7-29	Coal remains as malevolent as ever
7-29	Cerulean Warblers Return to the Same Winter Habitat
7-29	Music for the Mountains
7-28	World Will Warm Faster Than Predicted in Next Five Years, Study Warns - Climate Change to Force 75 Million Pacific Islanders From Their Homes
7-28	Letter from Europe: Foreign Disbelief of Topless America
7-28	The Top 10 Bogus Statements (BS) in the US Climate Debate - Just Getting a Climate Bill Out of Committee by December a Good Start: Sen. John Kerry
7-28	Consol gets OK to expand coal slurry dam in West Virginia
7-28	Groups Intervene to Stop Transmission Lines for Coal Plants
7-28	Inside coal industry meeting: Global warming just a scare
7-28	Ask Reps to Vote 'Yes' ; For Clean Water
7-28	Burning the Future: Coal in America
7-28	Berea to host Kentucky Social Forum
7-28	Coal miner Alpha's net plummets, shares tumble - International Coal 2Q profit falls on weak demand
7-28	Study: Coal Vapors Linked to Lower IQs
7-28	Mining ban would protect Smokies' waters - Cardin & Alexander Seek To Ban Mountain Top Removal
7-28	Birds in the News 180 -- Back in the USA Edition
7-28	Australia mulling more coal support in carbon plans
7-27	Tree Huggers Converging on Dollywood to Teach King Coal a Lesson
7-27	Coal use keeps costs high for Appalachians
7-27	King Coal
7-26	Mine operators not restoring mountains, OSM report finds
7-26	Coal River Valley deserves better; a challenge to debate
7-26	Weekend news and commentary
7-26	Miners Boycott Tenn. Over Alexander's Bill
7-26	Mountaintop removal debate less action film, more Greek tragedy
7-26	Ten Dirty Things About Big King Coal
7-25	Massey drops recusal lawsuit against W.Va. Supreme Court
7-25	Dangerous conditions close Massey Pike Co. mine
7-25	Mountains are a national treasure
7-25	Don't Blow It
7-25	The End Of Fossil Fuel
7-25	Coal on the slide as renewables top 11 per cent of US power mix
7-25	New NIOSH study links coal dust, emphysema - Emphysema, coal dust directly linked - Need another reason to dislike our heavy use of coal?
7-25	Energy Dept. won't back loans for Ill. coal plant
7-25	Mercury and Power Plants - State warns about eating fish from some Ky. waters
7-25	Charlotte's coal ash ponds near drinking water source
7-25	Crackdown on coal ash
7-25	Coal Ash Spill Among Worst Eco-Disasters
7-25	New Study: Global Warming Threat to Colorado River Supply
7-25	CO2 implicated in mass extinction of life
7-24	Mingo County judge stays on Massey case - W.Va. judge denies Massey conflict, won't withdraw
7-24	Friday roundup, July 24, 2009
7-24	Insurance companies are listed in Prenter suit
7-24	Thompson bars illegal acts from protesters
7-24	Harman case could be decided without new hearing, lawyers say
7-24	Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Stream Damage Could Take 1,000 Years to Fix
7-24	Special guest blog exclusive: Why surface mine?
7-24	The dissonant sound of learning
7-24	Violence Escalating Against Anti-Coal Activists
7-24	“We’ve destroyed the very place that we love” - Tennessee coal miner
7-24	Nancy Sutley, Head of Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality, speaks on Mountaintop Removal - Jeff Biggers: Abetting Historicide: Does Nancy Sutley's Regulatory Banter Cover Up Crimes Against Coalfield Residents?
7-24	Kentucky Coal calls off their call for a national boycott of Tennessee - Tennessee-Boycotting Kentucky Coal Co.: Nevermind
7-24	Corps of Engineers takes a harder look at Surry coal plant
7-24	Coal giant offers cash for biggest clean rival - Power Generation - Big Coal Bids For Big Green
7-24	Kennedy's power play
7-24	Peabody appoints Robert Malone to board
7-24	Films on Stripmining and Mountaintop Removal Mining
7-24	Waning Pacific Clouds Suggest Global Warming Feeds Upon Itself
7-23	Thumbs up, thumbs down
7-23	What ever happened to Approximate Original Contour?
7-23	WV Council of Churches urges peace in MTR debate - Church group calls for peace in the coalfields
7-23	Coal Production Down, Unlikely to Rebound Soon
7-23	Climate and CCS debate: Coal can’t have it both ways
7-23	Where’s the prosperity for W.Va. from coal? - Miners are out of line with their boycott
7-23	Black lung tragedy
7-23	Another train wreck update: Conflicting info on injuries
7-23	Pike County mine ordered to close
7-23	Alpha Natural defends Foundation deal
7-23	Grading a Climate Bill, Part 2 - The Climate Bill Shouldn’t Give Coal a Free Pass - Grading Senate websites reveals a lack of transparency on climate and energy
7-23	Why MTR Restoration Fails (Correction--photo by Vivian Stockman, www.ohvec.org)
7-23	Ranking state's most powerful sports figures
7-23	Coal-ash dams to get yearly checks
7-23	Fly Ash Environmental Injustice in Perry County Alabama?
7-23	Of Congress, Coal Plants and Biomass
7-23	Is it time for the Feds? Intimidation and Violence Escalating in West Virginia's MTR areas
7-23	Conversation on coal, mining practices, starting in coal states
7-23	Burning the Future: Coal in America wins another major award
7-23	Utah coal operator lays off miners - in Illinois
7-23	Rain hinders efforts to rescue 23 miners in China
7-23	Australia: New mine could crack dam floor
7-22	Church group urges calm in mountaintop removal fight - W.Va. churches urge calm over mountaintop removal
7-22	Carbon capture for coal costly, study finds - Dig the coal, bury the carbon - Pennsylvania Greens Speak Out Against Coal Scheme
7-22	Four injured as train derails at Mingo coal site - Three hurt in train accident at Mingo, W.Va., prep plant
7-22	'Minimal training' cited in Massey miner's death - MSHA orders changes at Massey mine after death - MSHA: Massey miner died because of poor training
7-22	Rahall and coal: What’s next?
7-22	Investors move forward with Baard Energy plant
7-22	Companies exploit; legislators turn backs
7-22	State gets $26M for disaster relief
7-22	National Coal defaults on $60M credit line
7-22	Judicial recusal Motion asks Thornsbury to step down in Massey case - Local judge asked to step aside in case
7-22	Report blasts TVA on coal ash storage after spill - TVA consultants criticize coal ash operations - Scrap coal ash dumpsite plans, Cebu officials urged - Report prompts TVA's plans to restructure
7-22	Chauncey lawsuit dismissed
7-22	Yale 360 article repost on World Changing: Mountaintop Mining Legacy: Destroying Appalachian Streams - Also reposted on The Guardian
7-22	Reality Bites the U.S. Coal Industry
7-22	the new coal mine wars - films about MTR
7-22	Addressing climate change could revitalize rural America
7-22	Why do so many not accept climate change data?
7-22	Bye Bye, Birdie: Global Warming Pushes Migratory Species North
7-21	Mountaintop Mining Legacy: Destroying Appalachian Streams - Major mountaintop removal story: The damage detailed
7-21	Mingo judge urged to step down from Massey case - Update: Mingo judge asked to step down from slurry case - Mingo slurry case news: Does the judge have a conflict? - Plaintiffs ask Thornsbury to step aside - W.Va. judge in Massey lawsuit asked to step aside
7-21	Stop destroying Appalachian region
7-21	Tennessee has right idea about mining - West Virginia Coal Miners' Group Urges Tennessee Boycott - Visit beautiful Gatlinburg Tennessee
7-21	West Virginia Tourists Beware: Violence Escalates in Coalfields
7-21	Steve Earle on mountaintop removal, coal mining
7-21	About that cap-and-trade rally …
7-21	Trucker dies from falling pipe at coal ash site
7-21	Pressure builds for better regulation of coal ash dumps
7-21	A hundred new nukes? - Why nuclear energy is not the answer to Climate Change
7-20	The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive
7-20	Take Action: American Clean Energy and Security Act – Fix it or ditch it!
7-20	Jimmy Carter's Next Urgent Mission: Polarized Appalachian Coalfields
7-20	Who’s afraid of cap and trade?
7-20	We need ‘leaders’ with a vision!
7-20	Coal mining is environmental terrorism
7-20	Grading a Climate Bill, Part 1
7-20	Interior to halt uranium mining at Grand Canyon
7-20	China Carbon Capture Costs Worth Paying: U.S. Energy Sec
7-20	Scientists plant trees threatened by global warming into places where they may thrive amid a changing climate
7-20	US Should Pay for Carbon Content of Imported Goods: Locke
7-20	Scientists zoom in on carbon dioxide in NYC
7-20	Schools foster climate illiteracy
7-20	India sees climate change 'pressure,' US upbeat
7-20	Clinton seeks to narrow gap on climate change
7-20	Australia: Farmers take on mining giants
7-19	Newsweek: Toxic Tsunami. Inside the largest industrial spill in American history. How coal ruined one Tennessee town—and why it could happen again.
7-19	Will global warming bill kill coal? Legislation packed with help for industry
7-19	Himalayan glaciers have shrunk by 38% in 40 years
7-19	Mudslide swallows house in Germany, 3 missing
7-18	Hechler fighting charges from mountaintop removal protest
7-18	Coal Country premieres Sept. 1 in Akron
7-18	Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: Tell JP Morgan Chase to End Mountaintop Removal
7-18	Coal Tattoo: An equal opportunity debunking blog …
7-18	Coal carbon capture gets US boost
7-18	Coal miners boycotting Tennessee tourist sites - Coal vs. Dollywood
7-18	Coal lobbyist pleads guilty
7-18	Peabody Energy unit spent $820K lobbying in 1Q
7-18	Tennessee Valley Authority Increases Hazard Ratings on Coal Ash Sites
7-17	Feds Propose Tougher Mining Regulations, But Do They Go Far Enough?
7-17	Army Corps of Engineers Solicits Public Comment on Two Proposals Related to Nationwide Permit 21 in the Appalachian Region - Corps proposes to require individual permits for mountaintop removal mining
7-17	Kentucky coal lobbyist faces criminal charge
7-17	Court nominee on Blankenship-Benjamin case
7-17	Penning pages on warblers
7-17	Flat Earthers Announce Summit Meeting on Coal - Pro-coal group to conduct rally
7-17	Massey acquires idled mining complex, coal reserves
7-17	PSC launches hearing Webcasts
7-17	Deja vu all over again for coal deal
7-17	Months after ash spill, Tennessee town still choking
7-17	Poor Alabama county banks on coal ash dumping
7-17	N.C. Governor Backs More Oversight of Coal Ash Ponds
7-16	DEP's coal slurry report challenged - DEP's regulation of slurry injection criticized - Coal slurry injection back before WVa lawmakers - Citizens say WVDEP ‘incompetent’ on slurry injection - Group seeks to ban all coal slurry injections
7-16	U.S. DOE takes step forward on FutureGen coal project
7-16	DEP rules for drilling called baby steps
7-16	Rahall to take flying leap … for coal - Friends of Coal
7-16	'Coal Country': Can You Make a Balanced Documentary on the Explosive Topic of America's Most Toxic Fuel? One Filmmaker Found Out - ‘Coal Country’ online: Chat today with filmmaker
7-16	Gilbert battles several post-flood challenges
7-16	James Hansen on Climate Tipping Points and Political Leadership
7-16	Arguments set in Massey appeal
7-16	Senator Vows To Fight For Coal
7-16	Obama urged to deal with mine safety appeal backlog
7-16	A coal industry ‘flow chart’
7-16	Voinovich holds up EPA nominee over climate study
7-16	Dams at coal ash ponds under scrutiny
7-16	Daryl Hannah Set To Appear In Court Over Coal Mining Protest
7-16	Three possible workshops on WV film
7-16	Oak Ridge Calls for Coal Ash Strategy Proposals
7-16	Ideas showcased to prevent SF Bay flooding from global warming
7-16	Kerry Spars With Palin Over Climate
7-16	US Officials Press China for Climate Efforts
7-16	Sarah Palin’s new focus
7-16	Legislation would hike AEP bills (coal industry contends)
7-15	Mountaintop removal: Streamlined permits to stop - kinda - Center for Biological Diversity Statement
7-15	Coal slurry injection back before lawmakers
7-15	Massey gets injunction against protesters - Court bars demonstrators from Massey mine in WV
7-15	Thursday: Live chat with "Coal Country" executive producer Mari-Lynn Evans
7-15	Your letters: both sides unhappy with our mining coverage
7-15	100 Coal Plants Stopped
7-15	Environmental issues are on the table at convention
7-15	Why Sarah Palin resigned - Sarah Palin Has An Op-Ed In The Washington Post. And It’s Not About What You Think.
7-15	Coal ash spill-related research program soliciting proposals
7-15	Tenn. ash spill site fails to make EPA hazard list - Perdue weighs in on coal ash
7-15	At Center Ring in Senate Climate Debate: Coal vs. Natural Gas
7-15	US, China announce "clean" energy research center
7-15	Avoid coal, create jobs, save money
7-15	Dear EarthTalk: As I understand it, “clean coal” really isn’t. Still, the Bush administration gushed strongly for it. What is Obama’s take on it?
7-15	Can coal be clean? Dereth Glance says no, it pollutes from cradle to grave
7-15	Five smart new things to read about climate change
7-15	CSX Says Double-Digit Volume Drop To Continue In 3Q
7-14	The need for strong climate action
7-14	Protesters Barred from Massey Property in Boone County
7-14	BBC News: Battle raging in US mining country
7-14	Industry attack hardly lays a glove on WVU coal cost study
7-14	W.Va. and climate: Toward a more honest discussion
7-14	West Virginia redefines dirty energy as "alternative"
7-14	Daryl Hannah to appear in court
7-14	On the coal trail in Ohio and West Virginia
7-14	MOUNTAINTOP MIND BOGGLE
7-14	NYC Campaign to Stop JP Morgan Chase from Funding Mountaintop Removal
7-14	Tennessee Residents Claim Coal-Ash Spill Causes Health Issues
7-14	Telling the Story of Mountaintop Removal
7-14	Mountains of Value
7-14	MNN: Watch: Angry drunken coal miners crash party
7-14	Will Callaway to guide environmental agency
7-14	Global Climate Deal Still Possible: Brazil's Lula
7-14	EU President Sweden Says U.N. Climate Talks Too Slow
7-14	White roofs to fight global warming
7-13	New Study Lifts the Curtain on Clean Coal
7-13	WV Public Radio: Coal Country film packs the state Culture Center - Coal Country Premieres in Charleston, WVa - Movie Goers React to Coal Country
7-13	Mosquitoes infected with West Nile found in W.Va.
7-13	PATH will not benefit West Virginians
7-13	2 Sago Mine lightning citations thrown out
7-13	As professionals weigh in, debate over cause of fly ash spill continues
7-13	Chinese miners freed after 25 days in flooded mine
7-12	'Coal Country' debuts to large, but calm, crowd - "Coal Country" Premieres in the Capital City
7-12	The people are willing; the money is there: Gov. Manchin can bring Deckers Creek to life
7-12	Bush, Obama and the Corporate Love Affair
7-12	Allegheny Energy files for 8 percent rate hike
7-12	Judge throws out two Sago Mine lightning citations
7-12	Unregulated industry cannot be trusted
7-11	10 workers hurt at 2 Ky. mines
7-11	Bill calls for studying elimination of MIC at Bayer
7-11	Disillusioned Environmentalists Turn on Obama as Compromiser
7-11	Caring for the future of the mountaintop removal miners
7-11	W.Va. judicial study commission launches review
7-11	Massey-Benjamin recusal case back to high court - WVa Supreme Court sets Massey appeal for September
7-11	JUST CONSIDER THIS VIEW SEEN BY A MIGRATORY SONGBIRD . . . (scroll down) - Removed from Mountaintop Removal
7-11	Demolishing Appalachia
7-11	Coal Country to be shown in Sutton at 2009 WV Filmmakers Festival - More on “Coal Country” premiere - Film on Mining Should Be Shown - PBS documentary 'Coal Country' premieres Saturday in South Charleston - Coal Documentary To Be Shown At Cultural Center
7-11	Friday roundup, July 10, 2009 - What Happens When You Don't Own the Land
7-11	Plaintiff seeks damages for the "wrongful death" due to allegedly contaminated drinking water caused by the defendants' mining operation
7-11	Media Mayhem: Coal's silver lining
7-11	Why clean coal is a dirty lie: simple science explained
7-11	Mine safety advocates approve Obama's pick to lead MSHA
7-11	MSHA cites Greenbrier Resort buyer in 2008 mine death
7-11	Plug is pulled on Delta coal plant
7-11	FEMA offers free legal aid to W.Va. flood victims
7-11	OSU snags more than $300,000 for coal research
7-11	WALKING THE WALK: Step It Up, Mr. President. No Time to Fall Behind
7-11	Engineer: TVA ash spill resulted from dike burst - Add coal-ash ponds to list of 'worries'
7-11	The Climate Ship Has Sailed
7-11	17 Major Economies Pledge to Set Greenhouse Gas Limit by December
7-10	'Coal Country' premiere finds new home at Cultural Center - Film premiere to be at Culture Center - ‘Coal Country’ premiere rescheduled for Cultural Center - “Coal Country” to premier Sat. at State Cultural Center - The sad controversy over ‘Coal Country’ - Premiere of WVa coal documentary moved - 'Coal Country' to make its West Virginia premiere on Saturday - 'Coal Country' Premiere Goes On; Venue Now Cultural Center on Saturday - Top Comments 7.9.09 - Coal Country Film finds new WV venue -The Film Big Coal Doesn't Want Anyone to See
7-10	James Hansen: G-8 Failure Reflects U.S. Failure on Climate Change
7-10	Mel Tyree: Research West Virginia on global warming
7-10	Milestone: 100th Coal Plant Stopped - Los Angeles' 'Coal Free' Vow Scuttles Utah Power-Plant Expansion
7-10	DEP to study air quality at school near coke plant
7-10	Massey foreman fined $1,000 for not conducting drills - Aracoma mine foreman sentencing today
7-10	'Coal' fuels new emotions
7-10	Rise Up! West Virginia: "If not ME, then WHO?"
7-10	Going After Obama on Mountaintop Mining
7-10	Nate Silver: Byrd, Rockefeller ‘problematic’ on climate bill
7-10	Obama urges poorer nations to fight global warming - Obama vows US will lead the way on climate change
7-10	Obama's drive for climate change bill hits delay
7-10	Without Public Input TVA Sending Spilled Coal Ash from Tenn to Alabama - DA Calls Coal Ash Dumping Short Sighted - Environmental racism. TVA and dumping coal ash
7-10	Disturbing Scene From Appalachia
7-9	Obama Admin Ends MTR Mining (NOT) With A Name Change
7-9	‘Coal Country’ premier looking for new theater - 'Coal Country' movie canceled at original venue - Premier of mountaintop removal documentary cancelled - NOTE: We are working on a location to screen this film. E-mail vivian@ohvec.org for updates.
7-9	UPDATED - Coal Lobby REALLY Doesn't Want You To See This Film
7-9	Coal Country documentary debuts this week despite opposition from Big Coal
7-9	One plus, one big minus
7-9	More on Blair Mountain: Here’s the feds’ letter
7-9	West Virginia Coal Folk Boycott Tennessee; Few Notice or Care
7-9	Mountaintop Coal Removal = Bad Math!
7-9	Negotiating the decline of West Virginia coal
7-9	Institute examines competing economic visions for East Ky., in first of series on Appalachian economy
7-9	Court rejects suit seeking stricter black lung rules
7-9	Black lung: What’s Obama going to do for miners?
7-9	Mountaintop coal mining is looting W.Va.
7-9	Tennessee: TVA funds study for coal-ash alternatives
7-9	Reporter Uses Twitter to Connect with, Provide Insight into Sources
7-9	Mine operators miss deadline for emergency shelters
7-9	CSE to change chemical in SCSR training unit - MSHA issues alert on SCSR training units
7-9	IPA scraps plan for coal-fired plant in Utah
7-9	Power plant appeals not over
7-9	EPA Attorneys Criticize Obama Nominee Moreno
7-9	Obama Rolls Over for Coal - PROMISES, PROMISES: Politics shadow Obama's pledge
7-9	Greenpeace Gets Badass, Drapes Pic Of Obama Over Mt. Rushmore Calling For Climate Action
7-9	G-8 protesters scale smokestacks in Italy
7-9	G-8 Nations Fail to Agree on Climate Change Plan
7-9	Ice Core Secrets Could Reveal Answers to Global Warming
7-9	Coal phase out
7-9	Even given (fossil fuel industry-driven) doubts, it's prudent to reduce carbon emissions
7-9	Judges Not For Sale: Elected Judges Must Step Aside When Bought
7-8	'Coal Country' documentary premieres Saturday
7-8	Citizens divided over Obama OSM pick
7-8	Blair Mountain off national historic register
7-8	Senate Democrats Begin Drawing Road Map to 60 Votes on Climate Bill
7-8	THE WAXMAN / MARKEY BILL HAS BEEN CO-OPTED BY SPECIAL INTERESTS.
7-8	Coal company boycotts Tennessee
7-8	Company wants roads approved for heavy coal trucks
7-8	Mine regulator issuing citations over shelters
7-8	W.Va. mountains are worth saving (scroll down)
7-8	Obama reality check
7-8	Yeah, let's talk about power line concerns
7-8	Coal-friendly Bush Energy Corridor Plan Challenged
7-8	List of potentially lethal US coal waste dumps published
7-8	Alabama gets Tennessee coal ash
7-8	Kansas Utility Faces New Permit Hurdles for Proposed Coal Plant
7-8	Georgia appeals court reverses coal plant ruling
7-8	Dave Cooper: West Virginia Coal Thugs Disrupt July 4th Picnic (Video)
7-8	Studies foresee dilemma over forest carbon storage
7-8	Thin Ice the Norm in Warming Arctic
7-8	Greenpeace Occupies Four Italian Coal Power Stations
7-7	Blair Mountain coming off historic register - Blair Mountain news: It’s coming off the list
7-7	Obama nominates leaders for OSM, MSHA - It’s official: Nominations for OSMRE and MSHA - Obama appoints mining officials - Mine safety advocates praise Obama's choice to lead agency - Ex-UMW official tapped to head MSHA
7-7	Obama nominates heads of mining agencies
7-7	Lorelei Scarbro: Some day coal will run out
7-7	Coal Industry Sees Life or Death in Senate Climate Debate - Without CCS, is coal facing ‘valley of death’?
7-7	Taking the Miner Out Of Coal Mining
7-7	Mining supporters crash anti-mountaintop removal festival - Drunken nonsense: Is this what coal debate has become? - Mountaintop removal defenders disrupt July 4th music festival in West Virginia
7-7	Mountain Madness - WV Miners from Massey Energy Crash July 4 Family Reunion, Threaten "Mountain Keepers" - Drunken Coal Thugs and Mountain Madness
7-7	Judge issues restraining order against protesters
7-7	Federal court says Appalachian coal giant must rehire union miners
7-7	Artist Deb Cinamon Whalen
7-7	Fighting Coal
7-7	Would you like a little coal ash in your water?
7-7	Florida Keys could be lost to rising seas
7-7	Solving the climate dilemma one billion emitters at a time
7-6	A Different Type of Strip Mining Protest
7-6	Protests in the Coalfields
7-6	Put mountaintop removal on the ballot (scroll down)
7-6	Coal Country Film: Inside Modern Coal Mining
7-6	The Right to Protection in Appalachia
7-6	President Obama: Go See the Mountains, Then Save Them
7-6	Obama must end this 'Appalachian apocalypse'
7-6	Oxymoron term ‘clean coal’ embraced by Obama
7-6	Coal ash dump site in Alabama not welcome - Loudon residents fight against ash disposal
7-6	Coal-ash ponds threaten lives
7-6	Power costs cloud outlook for coal plant
7-6	No to coal in Surry
7-5	Mountaintop destruction is discussed in Congress
7-5	Hollywood celebrity explains her West Virginia expedition
7-5	Poor face disaster from global warming
7-5	Worst. Rant. Ever. James Inhofe on Global Warming
7-5	Mingo Co. receives $1m reimbursement
7-4	An open letter to Al Gore on mountaintop removal
7-4	There's another side to nuclear power plant story (scroll down)
7-4	Is a Coal Production Boom Imminent?
7-4	Coal ash contamination imperils July 4 festival goers in Tennessee
7-4	Delay's the danger
7-4	In England, Outrage Over ExxonMobil's Continued Ties to Climate-Change Skeptics
7-3	Feds: DEP does not properly oversee mining flood prevention - More in Coal Tattoo
7-3	Massey loses last appeal over Cannelton mine - Mammoth case massive headache for Massey - Massey Loses Dispute Over Mining Jobs - Federal appeals court: Massey Energy subsidiary must rehire 85 union miners at W.Va. operation
7-3	RFK Jr. in Washington Post: A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia
7-3	Urgent July 4th Declaration: Bo Webb to Al Gore: Stand With Me at Ground Zero for Climate Change
7-3	Protest brings hundreds to coalfields
7-3	Coal Country: Big Coal Lobby Does Not Want You to See This Powerful New Film
7-3	Burning the Future Coal in America wins another major award
7-3	UN to Study Potential Threats to Canada-US World Heritage Site
7-3	Carbonomics: The Price vs. Quantity Debate
7-3	Meeting held on power plant plan
7-3	PPL makes repairs to Colstrip ash pond - US EPA approves Perry County for coal ash dumping
7-2	Shame on media taken in by Massey (scroll down)
7-2	U.S. Gives Up To $408 Million To "Clean Coal" Projects
7-2	Calculating Coal’s Toll
7-2	Coal is Killing Us and the Mountains are Dying Too
7-2	New Soundtrack/Website Rocks the Coalfield Justice Movement
7-2	Coal Country - new film from Mari-Lynn Evans - July 11th
7-2	Elegy for Appalachia
7-2	Almost Hell West Virginia; Where Is The Obama Administration?
7-2	Four West Virginia Impoundments on EPA 'High Hazard' List - AEP Officials Assure Coal Ash Reservoirs Safe
7-2	Coal Devastating Region says US Senate Hearing on Mountaintop Removal - Antrim Caskey's photos of the June 25 hearing - The Impacts of Mountain Top Removal: A Personal Story by Maria Gunnoe
7-2	Goldman Prize Award Winner Attacked During Rally - Activists Shout It from the Mountaintop
7-2	A New Take on Clean Water
7-2	Students from across US attend WV climate conference
7-2	"Friends of Deckers Creek" Ask City Council for Support
7-2	Local Struggles for Environmental Justice in the Midwest
7-2	4 Landfills In Tenn. Approved For Coal Ash Test
7-2	Clean Air Act Trips Up Sunflower's Coal Plant Deal in Kansas
7-2	With a melting Greenland as a backdrop, Danish minister urges climate action
7-1	Betraying the Planet
7-1	Manchin's energy plan among new July 1 laws
7-1	What Happens After Coal for West Virginia Mountaintop Miners? - Daryl Hannah: Why I Was Arrested in Coal River, West Virginia - Noted Climate Scientist Participates in Protest
7-1	Let's just get rid of 'mountain' nicknames - Surface mining foes say W.Va. no longer "Mountain State"
7-1	Activists Drape 25-Foot Banner On EPA Building, Call on EPA to Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining - Boston Rising Tide Activists Drape Banner On EPA Building, Call on EPA to Stop Mountaintop Removal
7-1	The White House about-face on MTR - DK GreenRoots: Obama Says Mountain Crimes Can Be Regulated - Obama Administration Gives Thumbs Up To Mountaintop Removal Mining
7-1	Declaring Our Independence… in order to survive.
7-1	Kucinich Says Climate Bill Might Make Things Worse - Small sacrifice for our future - Boucher: Climate bill is good for coal - With Something for Everyone, Climate Bill Passed - Friends of Coal urge Senate defeat of climate bill
7-1	'Green Jobs' Pitch Swayed Just Enough Coal-State Lawmakers to Vote for Climate Bill
7-1	Upshur County makes no decision on PATH
7-1	How 'hazardous' is coal ash waste? - Two Ohio Valley Slurry Ponds Are On EPA's "High Hazard Potential" List - More on coal ash dams: Another one in W.Va. - EPA Lists 'High Hazard' Coal Ash Dumps - 10 Duke ash basins on hazard list - FirstEnergy's sludge-filled lake is on EPA list
7-1	DEP holds public meetings to discuss creek rehab (yet DEP allows the coal mining industry to forever bury and poison streams)
7-1	What we don’t know could hurt us worse
7-1	Panel set to rule on Quecreek Mine fines
7-1	Coal execs tweeting away on climate change
7-1	California's fossil fuel use slated to grow
7-1	Permafrost Melting a Growing Climate Threat
7-1	Super-size deposits of frozen carbon threat to climate change
7-1	The State of the Climate—and of Climate Science
7-1	We Can Solve the Climate Crisis
7-1	Study: New Orleans-area coast threatened by climate change
7-1	Life on earth
7-1	Carbon capture: future or bust?
7-1	Supreme Court Watch: Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., Inc.

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