OVEC News Links Archive - September 2009

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9-30	Fayette mine permit: Big hearing tomorrow
9-30	EPA: All 79 mining permits need more review - EPA: Agency ‘confident’ of mountaintop removal effects - Coming soon: New EPA report on mountaintop removal
9-30	BOE may seek money for new Marsh Fork Elementary - WVa County Mulls New School Away From Coal Storage
9-30	Protest at DEP photo - Don't Drink the 'Coalfield Cool Ade' - Protesters Urge: "Don't Drink The Coal Field Cool-Ade" - Protestors call attention to drinking water in WV - Protesters Calling For Clean Drinking Water
9-30	Breaking news: EPA to require greenhouse gas controls
9-30	Shirley Stewart Burns, Ph.D: Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
9-30	Pa., W.Va. groups want feds to investigate fish kills
9-30	PSC approves 12.1 percent rate increase for AEP
9-29	Come Out Today at 5 p.m., at MacCorkle and 57th: Environmentalists Target DEP
9-29	DEP Compliance orders reveal attempt to suspend water standards in Dunkard Creek (More reason to come out this afternoon--see entry above)
9-29	Residents pan PATH power line project - PATH: Power line views from the heart of W.Va.
9-29	Conductivity: A looming problem for coal, WVDEP
9-29	Dunkard Creek Watershed tries to regroup from fish kill
9-29	Cultural Genocide in Appalachia: A Meeting with Maria Gunnoe
9-29	Is an end to mountain-top removal in sight?
9-29	Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship on why he thinks the government's environmental policies are wrong
9-29	COP15 in Copenhagen Critical as Tipping Points Reached; Global Rise of 6.3 Degrees Now Forecast
9-29	Americans are 'illiterate' about climate change, claims expert
9-29	4 Degrees Warming "Likely" Without CO2 Cuts: Study
9-29	Exelon Ditches U.S. Chamber Over Climate Policy, Who Will Leave the "Voice of Business" Next?
9-29	Australia: Coal slurry smashes through bin control room
9-28	Corps should permit one mine at a time
9-28	Bil Lepp and Scott Williams: Will W.Va. trade something more valuable for a few short-term power line jobs?
9-28	Logan: School bus and coal truck crash mirrors
9-28	EPA announces plan for surface mining study
9-28	Coal use destructive ‘in every phase’
9-28	The Coal Resource Curse … a path out of a morass. - Wealth-based green industry for West Virginia
9-28	James Hansen, In His Own Words
9-28	William S. Becker: From Cope to Hope: Twitter to the Rescue?
9-28	81 Year-Old Announces Senior Citizen’s March to End Mountaintop Removal
9-28	Artist's portraits honor people who made a difference
9-28	Willow Fly Hatches?
9-28	EPA Remands Permit for Desert Rock Coal Power Plant
9-28	G20 cans fossil-fuel subsidies, but fails to make other climate-conserving moves
9-28	Coal's Ash Is on the Line
9-28	G20 Leaders Agree, Broadly, on Climate Change
9-28	Climate activists in Copenhagen protest coal use
9-28	An E.P.A. Economist’s Climate Complaints
9-28	States win Federal case to sue over carbon emissions
9-28	Vanishing Aspens
9-28	Chill Out: An Economic Triage for Global Climate Change
9-28	Re-Connecting to the Environment with Thoreau's Legacy
9-28	Climate debate leads to Chamber of Commerce rift
9-27	30-mile fish kill at Dunkard Creek; DEP delayed action on pollution problems over the last decade
9-27	Energy companies give big bucks for mansion renovation fund
9-27	US says climate bill might not pass in time
9-27	The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds
9-26	EPA announces major science review of mountaintop removal
9-26	EPA plans major scientific review of mountaintop removal
9-26	Red Alert in Appalachia: Send Lawyers, Guns and Money
9-26	Are compliance orders an environmental 'get out of jail free' card?
9-26	Green spotlight on Sierra Club 2009 National Award winners
9-26	G20 Leaders Debate Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies to Curb Global Warming
9-26	Climate Activists Drop Anti Carbon-Trading Banner over UN Motorcade
9-26	Protesters weigh impact of their carbon footprints - To G-20 climate protesters, voyage poses ethical dilemma
9-26	Ben Sollee
9-25	Friday roundup, Sept. 25, 2009
9-25	New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase--and that's the optimistic projection - Droughts, melts signal climate change quickening: U.N.
9-25	DEP chief: Algae bloom killed Dunkard Creek - Dunkard Creek probe focused on aglae
9-25	Are You Drinking Unsafe Water? Corporations Have Violated Clean Water Act Over 500,000 Times in Last Five Years
9-25	News from the PATH public hearings
9-25	1Sky climate group starting W.Va. effort
9-25	Coal unsafe, expensive when used as energy; Experts say there is no such thing as 'clean coal'
9-25	DNR vows to block Chief Logan drilling
9-25	UCS: Senate Poised to Give Blank Check to Energy Projects
9-25	Estimating benthic secondary production from aquatic insect emergence in streams affected by mountaintop removal coal mining, West Virginia, USA - Sediment and epilithon metabolism and hydrolytic activity in streams affected by mountaintop removal coal mining, West Virginia, U.S.A. - Ecological consequences of elevated total dissolved solids associated with fossil fuel extraction in the United States
9-25	Kingston spill yields costly cleanup for TVA - TVA removes one third of ash from Emory River
9-25	Mine refuge chambers installed underground
9-25	Climate change needs US leadership
9-25	Shares of coal mining companies fall as analyst forecasts diminishing China demand
9-25	Is China Now the Climate Change Good Guy? - Has China Really Gotten Serious About Climate Change?
9-25	Partnerships, science keys to wildlife and climate change
9-25	BP exec touts natural gas to cut U.S. CO2 emissions
9-24	Spruce Mine update: Judge allows Corps to revisit permit - Corps of Engineers granted delay to reconsider Spruce No. 1 mountaintop removal permit -
9-24	Dead fish on Dunkard Creek … the saga continues - DEP allowed Consol to exceed chloride limits on Dunkard Creek for years before fishkill
9-24	PSC hears comments on PATH
9-24	FAA awards $3.6M for new Mingo airport
9-24	Protests, rally before G-20 - 14 arrested in Greenpeace bridge stunts as G-20 debuts in Pittsburgh - Protestors Demonstrate As G-20 Approaches
9-24	Chattanooga: TVA to close old coal plants - TVA Plans Conversion of All Wet Coal Ash Storage Facilities to Dry - TVA rates to pay for cleanup and disposal changes
9-24	Seven Steps for Creation Caretaking
9-24	U.N. officials tour Glacier Park, discuss effects of energy development
9-24	Coal Stocks, Oil Price Drop Weigh On Energy Sector
9-24	Allegheny Energy unit to issue $600M in debt
9-24	Our Oil Addiction Is About to Make Life a Lot Nastier
9-23	Obama wants worldwide end of fossil fuel subsidies - Fossil fuel subsidies dwarf clean energy subsidies; Obama wants to eliminate them
9-23	Obama: Billions being spent to ‘clean up’ coal
9-23	"Clean" coal: Unworkable, expensive, but blessed with stimulus money
9-23	Burying Climate Change: Efforts Begin to Sequester Carbon Dioxide from Power Plants; West Virginia hosts the world's first power plant to inject some of its CO2 emissions underground for permanent storage
9-23	ACES: How a power giant profits from greenhouse regs
9-23	States Can Sue Utilities Over Emissions
9-23	Actress Daryl Hannah Expected to be Tried Soon in W.Va.
9-23	Take Action to Stop the Proposed Coal Plant in Hampton Roads
9-23	What's Mine is ... Your Problem - Groups march Downtown against AIDS, coal mining - Demonstrations begin in earnest - Coal conference on the fringes of G20 summit - Coal conference agenda hits G-20 themes
9-23	Frustration increases for residents at Dunkard Creek
9-23	Five dead in Georgia flooding; governor declares emergency - Record rainfall not done yet - Natural disasters displacing millions - U.N. study
9-23	European Leaders Urge G-20 Financing for Climate Protection - World Leaders Pledge to Accelerate Climate Change Action
9-23	PATH Power line: Bring on the public hearings
9-23	Manchin beneficiary of ‘dirty coal’
9-23	Unblock the Climate Debate: New Book is Required Reading for Climate Change Summit Leaders
9-23	EPA Requires Companies to Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions
9-23	Obama defends climate change record
9-23	Mine owner’s WVU donation raises ethical questions
9-23	Diane W. Mufson: Contaminated water affecting W.Va., nation
9-23	Sen. Ben Cardin answers Grist’s questions on public transit and mountaintop removal mining
9-23	EPA says state must re-evaluate power plant
9-23	The Era of Xtreme Energy: Life After the Age of Oil
9-23	Georgia flooding sparks worries about coal ash ponds
9-23	National study finds mercury in fish in every stream tested
9-23	Small island nations urge rich to limit warming
9-23	Obama: 'Hardest part' ahead for global warming pact
9-23	2nd Circuit Reinstates Global Warming Suits Against Power Companies
9-23	Pennsylvania Awards $1 Million Grant to Finance CO2 Capture
9-23	Major issues require deeper thought
9-23	Dust storm covers Sydney in red
9-23	End mountain mining practice
9-23	Group aims for coal-free campus
9-22	Sudden death of ecosystem ravages long creek; 'Everything is being killed': 161 aquatic species have died along Dunkard Creek - More on Dunkard Creek fish kill
9-22	WV Coal Plant in New York Times: Refitted to Bury (a small percentage of) Emissions, Plant Draws Attention
9-22	Protecting mountains
9-22	Jim Hightower Keynote Speaker at WVEC Conference
9-22	WVa tourism spending nearly $4.4B in 2008 (let's keep our mountains, our forest, our streams!)
9-22	Former Supreme Court Justice discusses judicial reform in Morgantown - Appoint judges, O'Connor tells W.Va. - O'Connor urges W.Va. to stop electing judges
9-22	PR effort gears up for PATH power line - PATH Public Hearings Start Tuesday
9-22	Manchin Keeps Pushing Coal - Gov. Manchin, Sen. Alexander Address International Business Executives At U.S. Chamber Climate Summit - Manchin set to discuss coal at D.C. forum - Manchin Addresses U.S. Chamber of Commerce
9-22	People pressure is key, say climate leaders
9-22	Time to leave the theater of coal
9-22	Algae-based Biofuels Made From Unlikely Source: Coal Power Plants
9-22	Costs of climate change deal would drop with truly global agreement, says report
9-22	UN official sees China as new climate leader
9-22	Population growth driving climate change, poverty: experts
9-22	New York Post takes on climate change--not - Phony 'N.Y. Post' touts danger of global warming
9-22	Green Screen film series
9-22	EPA Takes on the Coal Industry
9-21	Lobbyists' money keeps on coming
9-21	Coal is Careless
9-21	Jim Hightower Keynote Speaker at WVEC Conference
9-21	O'Connor to attend WVa judicial study meeting
9-21	Congresswoman Capito: A Conspiracy Against Coal
9-21	Don L. Blankenship: Misguided, unfair attacks on Massey
9-21	Executive Power
9-21	WVa mine may not be reason for fish dying
9-21	Climate Week kicks off in New York with bigwigs and big hopes
9-21	Green Screen film series
9-21	UN officials to visit Glacier in Mont
9-20	Mining supporter arrested for disorderly conduct at environmental celebration - Drunken nonsense update: Arrest in Kayford incident
9-20	John T. Chambers: W.Va.'s future may lie in clear water plan
9-20	Report: Fossil fuels' subsidies far outpace renewables' - Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency - STUDY: U.S. subsidises fossil fuels 2.5 times more than renewables
9-20	US, Pittsburgh G-20 Schedule of Events*
9-20	Cecil E. Roberts: UMWA fighting for better cap-and-trade bill
9-20	Obama administration working toward climate deal ahead of Copenhagen
9-20	Support "reforestation" proposal
9-20	Consol may receive $1 million grant for carbon capture, sequestration research
9-20	Death toll in Polish mine accident rises to 13
9-20	Welsh scholar to speak at WVU Tech about shared mining history
9-20	Evolution of electronics could create energy crisis
9-20	Don Blankenship: America faces a reg-cession, not a recession (if we could just be more like China, and get rid of all these pesky regulations and just mine coal however the hell we want...)
9-20	Minnesota doesn't need coal projects
9-20	Elders spread word on mercury contamination
9-20	Billion-Dollar Floodgates Might Not Save Venice
9-20	No Leader on Climate Change as Nations Prepare to Meet
9-20	UN Leads Call to Slow Global Warming
9-20	Obama's global-warming crisis before Copenhagen
9-20	'The Age of Stupid': a wakeup call on climate
9-20	Group sees dangerous heat waves in Ill. by 2050 due to climate change
9-19	Don't Drink The Water: Coal Industry Creates Third-World Conditions in United States Today
9-19	Mingo suit claims mining, King Coal construction caused May flooding - WVa flood victims blame highway, Va. coal company
9-19	Jim Sconyers: Listen to mountaintop removal coal miners
9-19	Sluggish demand affects W.Va. power plants - Coal-fired Generation in West Virginia Falls off Significantly
9-19	Blood Money: Will WVU Honor Coal Miner Heroes and Students or Violating Dirty Coal Barons?
9-19	81-Year Old Military Veteran Announces 25-Mile Senior Citizen's March to End Mountaintop Removal
9-19	Judge sides with coal mining companies in lawsuit
9-19	EPA gets busy: Agency finally tackles pollution from coal-fired power
9-19	College students protest coal use on campuses - Students urge UND to stop burning coal
9-19	Meetings at Coal Conference focus on energy, environment
9-19	Bama residents speak out about TVA ash being dumped
9-19	New Arctic Emerging From Climate Change
9-19	Montana mine to send coal to Asia - officials
9-19	The science spurring talks on a UN climate pact
9-18	Health care and coal miners
9-18	Friday roundup, Sept. 18, 2009
9-18	Mingo residents sue over mining, flooding - Flooded out: Suits target King Coal mine runoff damage
9-18	Seniors to march in mine protest - Senior citizens to march against mountaintop removal mining
9-18	DEP, Consol searching for cause of fish kills - Mon County fish kill: Could coal be the culprit?
9-18	Power company sets PATH PR blitz prior to PSC hearings
9-18	GOP, media and coal continue to mislead on climate bill
9-18	Former coal miner to head nation’s labor movement
9-18	EPA Taking a Harder Look at Mountaintop Removal
9-18	OSM(RE) update: Still no word on Pizarchik vote - OSM(RE) update: No word on Pizarchik … yet
9-18	WVU’s Clements won’t talk about Bob Murray donation
9-18	If the Appalachians are to survive, mountaintop removal must be denied
9-18	Bluefield Coal Show brings large, mostly nervous, crowd
9-18	EPA 26 Years Late on Water-Protection Measure: Coal wastes at power plants escape pollution rules, while mountaintop removal coal mining continues to confound the Obama Administration.
9-18	Roane Wastes No Time With TVA Funds: Group Already Spends $6.7M on Various Projects
9-18	EPA Releases Reports on Dam Integrity Assessments at 17 Coal Ash Impoundments - EPA releases ‘integrity’ studies of coal-ash dams - EPA: Duke pond OK, Progress has problems
9-18	Kennedy urges Ky. clean-up
9-18	Investors Worth $13 Trillion Urge Strong Global Climate Treaty
9-18	US battles for credibility on climate change
9-18	Sea surface temperatures set record for August, NOAA says
9-18	Predicting The Effect Of Global Warming On Spring Flowers
9-18	Expert: World doomed to face warming
9-17	How EPA Can Use the Clean Water Act to Help End Mountaintop Removal Mining
9-17	Gov. Manchin Maintains Water Quality Improving
9-17	Letter writer is spouting threats (scroll down)
9-17	Economic storm clouds on horizon for W.Va.
9-17	EPA to revisit Bush smog rules
9-17	Clean-energy projects justify Wyo AML funds
9-17	Copenhagen in Crisis: How Much Does it Matter?
9-17	PEER blasts Obama for neglecting the environment
9-17	Coal Front
9-17	Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - From the Holler to the Hood: The REAL Cost of Coal
9-17	Students protest campus coal use - Tech questioned on its coal usage
9-17	Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at UK
9-17	Global Warming May Bring Tsunami And Quakes: Scientists
9-17	Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread: Coal Foolish
9-17	Duke Energy CEO Questions Viability of ‘Clean’ Coal Technology, Future of Coal
9-16	Coal now under overdue scrutiny - Coal Clampdown
9-16	WVa DEP chief promises new coal slurry probe
9-16	State, federal permits at odds according to Manchin
9-16	NY Times Nails Clean Water Act Crimes and Punishment - Mountain Removal Coal and Toxic Water Supplies
9-16	Democracy Now: NYT Investigation Exposes Severity of Nationwide Water Contamination; Corporations Violated Clean Water Act Over 500,000 Times in Last Five Years
9-16	EPA to crack down on toxic water from power plants
9-16	EPA to Limit Metal Discharges From Coal Plants
9-16	Power line tax: Still little support for Manchin proposal - Legislators discuss when to levy PATH tax
9-16	UMWA: Global warming is real, so let’s deal with it
9-16	Climate Change Risks Could Cost Nations nearly 20% of GDP
9-16	World Bank spends billions on coal-fired power stations despite own warnings
9-16	Coal Country documentary premiers in Asheville
9-16	Sun Valley Center for the Arts takes on mining
9-16	Human Rights Commission to meet in Pineville
9-15	Huffman defends DEP, says agency not trying to 'protect coal'
9-15	The EPA Must Repsond to Toxic Water
9-15	NY Times: Blockbuster on coal and dirty water - Coal Slurry Smiles: NY Times Nails Clean Water Act Crimes and Punishment - Lax oversight creates toxic water supply
9-15	On eve of OSM(RE) hearing, citizens oppose Pizarchik - Citizen Groups Object to Obama’s Mining Pick
9-15	Community swamped by coal sludge to get $40 million - T.V.A. to Pay $43 Million on Projects in Spill Area - TVA to provide $40 million to Roane
9-15	Protesters were legit; reaction was not (scroll down)
9-15	Rahall weighs in on EPA’s latest on MTR
9-15	Obama administration urged to end black lung
9-15	Power company president defends climate change bill
9-15	Verizon distances itself from coal - Why Duke Dissed Big Coal - Verizon Explains Coal Rally Sponsorship
9-15	Groups vow to sue EPA over coal ash delays
9-15	Bill Lynch: Labor Day Rally
9-15	We were born to halt climate change
9-14	Clean energy to create more jobs than coal: study
9-14	Verizon Wireless says rally sponsorship not endorsement
9-14	Kennedy blasts coal
9-14	County wants millions to fix image after ash spill
9-14	Conservatives using mob mentality now
9-13	Major New York Times Investigative Piece: Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Human Suffering
9-13	Is Mountaintop Removal Mining a Threat to Watersheds?
9-13	Julian Martin: W.Va. family has always resisted 'skinners'
9-13	Bring your vision
9-13	No independent study of PATH line made yet
9-13	Verizon Apologizes for Sponsoring Climate-Denier Rally - Verizon Apologizes for Sponsoring Mountaintop Removal Rally
9-13	Quarter of West Virginians live in poverty, study says
9-13	Asheville filmmaker Kurt Mann helps draw attention to mountaintop removal
9-12	EPA to scrutinize dozens of mining permits - Surface mining permits to get closer reviews, EPA says - EPA holds up 79 permits for Appalachian surface mines - EPA review could delay mine projects - Scroll Down to 9-11 entries for links to dozens more articles
9-12	Kentucky Governor Urges EPA to Expedite Decision on Mining Permits - Capito Comments on EPA Mine Permit Decision
9-12	Logan County Surface Mine Only Permitted Operation Questioned by EPA - West Virginia Gov Says EPA 'Unfair' In Handling of Permits
9-12	Majority of mountaintop mine sites not used for economic development
9-12	Law and Science Undermined: Millions Call for Withdraw of OSM Nominees Pizarchik-Owens
9-12	A massive idea to reforest Appalachian mine sites; Lovett (and many environmental groups) skeptical
9-12	WVU creates Bob Murray chair in mining department - Mine executive donates $1 million to WVU for mining research - Mining exec donates the largest trust fund gift to date
9-12	Massey posts $55M bond in Caperton case
9-12	Data on ash bolsters environmentalists' case - 600 Coal Ash Dump Sites Found in 35 States: Is There One Near You? - EPA Gets its Ash Kicked in Releasing Coal Info
9-12	Tennesseans react to Obama's nominations to TVA Board
9-12	Cliffs calls 150 miners back
9-12	Too Much Coal Equals Too Much Risk
9-12	Huntington Mayor Attends Massey's Hate Fest - The Wing-Nut Code: What Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are Really Saying to Their Followers
9-12	Obama to Give First Big Climate Change Speech
9-12	New report counters ‘jobs-killer’ rap on Waxman-Markey climate change bill - As Hill Debate on Climate Flounders, EPA Plows Ahead on Emission Rules
9-12	Polar bear, arctic fox, caribou hurt by climate change - Study shows climate changes transform Arctic region - The Climate's Warm Future Is Now in the Arctic
9-12	Climate Change Puts Bird Migration on Ice
9-12	Greenland's melt mystery unfolds, at glacial pace
9-11	Mountaintop removal: Not the end, just the beginning
9-11	Update: Obama EPA to scrutinize dozens of MTR permits
9-11	Corps to hold hearings on streamlined MTR permits
9-11	EPA Withholds 79 Mountaintop Mining Permits for Extended Review
9-11	Byrd pushing for more carbon capture in climate bill
9-11	EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal
9-11	EPA Requesting Closer Review of 79 Mountaintop Mining Permits
9-11	EPA questions mountaintop removal permits
9-11	EPA Plans Scientific Scrutiny of New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits
9-11	EPA to examine 79 mountaintop removal permits - EPA Reviews Permits for 79 Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Operations - EPA puts 79 coal mine permits up for more review - EPA Puts Brakes On Scores Of Mountain-Top Removals For Coal Mining - EPA to review surface coal-mining permits - EPA identifies 79 coal mine permits for review - White House action puts on hold dozens of mountaintop mining projects - EPA Withholds Surface Mining Permits for Further Review - Surface mining permits to get closer reviews, EPA says
9-11	Breaking News: EPA publishes “initial list” of MTR permits - The list - EPA Releases Preliminary Results for Surface Coal Mining Permit Reviews - EPA Suspends 79 Mountaintop Removal Coal Permits - EPA: Pending Mountaintop Removal Permits Would Violate Clean Water Act
9-11	Manchin renews attacks on EPA over mining permits - Jay to EPA: Let the Spruce Mine permit go - Officials upset over mine permits - Arch Coal lawyer blasts EPA efforts to block Spruce Mine - EPA Request Angers Rockefeller - EPA Seeks Revocation Of Largest Mountaintop Coal Mine Permit - Rockefeller Fights for Logan County Surface Mine
9-11	We won’t ‘shut up or get out’ of coal dispute
9-11	Coal film debuts in Ohio at Civic
9-11	Ash-laden river stays closed - EPA Reveals Locations of 44 Potentially Deadly Coal Ash Dumps
9-11	Friday roundup, Sept. 11, 2009
9-11	Governor Pushes Southern Energy Policy
9-11	PATH update: Md. rejects power line; W.Va. hearings set - Maryland Commission Rejects PATH Transmission Application - PATH rejected by Maryland PSC on technicalities
9-11	Mich. Public Service Commission: New coal plants not needed
9-11	Walker Machinery Layoffs Due to Economy
9-11	Massey plans to rebuild WVa coal preparation plant
9-11	Obama nominates lawyer, professor for TVA board
9-11	Climate Deal Should Not Drive Jobs Offshore: U.N.
9-11	As Cosmos delivers new stars …
9-10	Free Speech Radio News: Environmental activists arrested after mountain top removal protest
9-10	Manchin: EPA On 'Ill Advised Mission' - Permit Review Brings More Uncertainty to Coal Industry
9-10	For the sake of the kids: Coal rally late on ride permit
9-10	A coal mogul's God complex - Video of Blankenship's HateFest
9-10	Another Company Leaves 'Mixed Messaging' Coal Alliance - More Bad News for ‘Clean Coal’ Coalition - General Electric fights for change from the inside … of a coal industry front group!
9-10	Try Nature, Not Tech, To Fix Economic Woes: UNEP
9-10	Boulder from Mountaintop Coal Mine Smashes Into Kentucky Home
9-10	Green Groups Want High Court to Review Mountaintop Mining Case
9-10	From the "Holler" to the "Hood": The REAL Cost of Coal
9-10	Cap and Trade in Senate Limbo as Obama Makes All-Out Push on Health Care
9-10	Coal train derails in Boone County
9-10	More Info on TVA Spill from EPA - TVA coal ash ponds info released - NIPSCO coal ash ponds unregulated
9-10	Polar Bear, Move Over: 2 Other Global Warming Icon Species
9-10	Climate change will devastate Kansas
9-10	Global warming causing decline of glaciers
9-9	EPA moves to block W.Va.'s largest mining permit - Obama seeks to block record mountaintop removal permit - EPA Reconsiders Arch Coal Permit for Mountaintop Mine - The EPA vs. the Army Corps (Again)
9-9	Blockade at Massey Energy’s West Virginia Headquarters
9-9	Massey/Harman case back in W.Va. high court - WV Supreme Court considers Massey v. Caperton -- again - Case reversed by US justices back at WVa court
9-9	La montagne décapitée
9-9	3 RIVERS CLIMATE CONVERGENCE TO OPPOSE G20 AND INT’L COAL CONFERENCE
9-9	Federal survey finds coal ash sites in 35 states - EPA Releases Survey Results on Coal Ash Impoundments
9-9	Tree-huggers only want a peaceful protest (letters to the editor are great tools--please use them!)
9-9	Bill puts coal, utilities at odds - Climate bill needed for U.S. security, former officials insist
9-9	Restoring Ecosystems Biggest Untapped Ally in Fighting Climate Change, New Report Says (not destroying them wholesale, as in mountaintop removal)
9-9	We are really hurting now – Part One
9-9	Verizon ignores conservationist’s request to withdraw sponsorship of coal mining rally
9-9	Massey hosts anti-climate bill rally in W. Va.
9-9	The Green Quote: Daryl Hannah Says Stop Mountaintop Removal
9-9	Duquesne receives $350,000 for energy exchange program with Ghana
9-9	EPA could create U.S. CO2 cap-and-trade: Sierra
9-9	We must prevent the US Chamber of Commerce from putting climate change 'on trial'
9-9	Arctic Offers More Evidence of Human Influences on Climate Change
9-8	Friends of America, health care and Harman Mining
9-8	EPA's MTR clock - today's the day?
9-8	35 Die in Chinese Coal Mine Blast
9-8	UMW rally speakers call for health reform - UMWA speakers take aim at competing rally
9-8	Labor Day of Infamy: Who Killed the Jobs of Van Jones and Coal Miners? -
9-8	Friends of America rally crowd smaller than anticipated - Energy Bill Blasted At W. Va. Rally - Thousands converge at rally, mostly for the music - Massey CEO blasts climate bill at Labor Day rally - Part concert, part political rally - Hannity Calls West Virginia Coal Critical - Labor Day Rally for American Workers Draws 75,000 (Massey estimate) Supporters - Rally Attendance Lower Than Expected -
9-8	Verizon Wireless Sponsors Anti-Energy Bill, Right Wing Event - Urge Verizon to Stop Sponsoring Right-Wing Agendas
9-8	Boucher addresses Clean Energy and Security Act
9-8	Natural Gas and Coal Lobbyists Vie for Better Stake in Energy Bill
9-8	Appalachians Speak Out (part 3)
9-8	Coal Released Mercury Ruins Fishing and Duck Hunting
9-8	Billions Sought for Utilities' Toxic Dumping
9-8	Two environmentalists, sittin' in a tree...
9-8	Warming could cut crop yields, study warns
9-8	Dengue becoming unstoppable
9-8	‘Bubbling cauldrons of gas'
9-7	Coal Country premiere coming to Akron Civic Theatre
9-7	Annual United Mine Workers Of America Rally Set For Monday
9-7	Blankenship plans verbal attack at coal rally - Speech Excerpts from Labor Day Speaker Don Blankenship, Massey Energy - Don-A-Pollute-Za: Don Blankenship Labor Day Rally Poster Unveiled - Putting the Finishing Touches on "Friends Of America" Rally
9-7	Behind-the-scenes work can make a difference
9-7	Debating coal's future
9-7	Legislative leaders defend commitment to coal
9-7	On Coal River
9-7	Massey Coal assaults cause security guards to resign
9-7	Earthjustice and Mountaintop Removal
9-7	Birth defects rise in Punjab, coal possible culprit
9-7	Clean coal: Miracle or mirage?
9-7	Visions of an Energy-Starved World
9-6	Terry & Wilma Steele: Diverse team standing up to Blankenship and mountaintop removal
9-6	Corporate pep-rally set to compete with Labor Day picnic
9-6	Groups Ask That Verizon Wireless Withdraw Support of Controversial, Climate-change Denying Labor Day Event
9-6	W.Va. lags in fostering green jobs
9-6	Photos: Climbers on Twilight MTR Site Dragline
9-6	A tale of greed and willful ignorance
9-6	Mixing Solar with Coal to Cut Costs
9-6	Harman miners hope court will reverse itself, pay for medical bills - W.Va. court gets third crack at Massey case - Figure in Brent Benjamin campaign ads back behind bars
9-6	Tom Miller: Partisan elections, campaign finance discussed by judicial commission
9-6	US environmental agency says mountain-top mining permit decisions will be coming shortly
9-6	Now Verizon says it's not boycotting Beck
9-6	Utah Wakes Up To The Smell Of Coal - In Fear Of Economic "Disaster"
9-6	Mercury level in women increases - study
9-6	‘Filthy Five’ coal plant deserves a closer watch
9-6	Getting nude for Mother Earth
9-6	Coal on the outer as US goes green
9-6	Philippines: Moratorium on coal ash dumping declared
9-5	More than 80,000 sign on to letter to Verizon: More environmental groups oppose W.Va. coal rally - Verizon Wireless Criticized by Green Groups for Backing Event - Can you hear us now?
9-5	Coal CEO Declares War on Labor Day
9-5	Stop trying to put miners out of work (scroll down)
9-5	Thompson, Tomblin say coal needs better PR
9-5	State Supreme Court orders Massey to post $55M bond
9-5	Private Security Walks Off The Job in Protest; Coal Company Goes Too Far
9-5	Abandoned mines can threaten homes, schools, roads
9-5	Friday roundup, Sept. 4, 2009
9-4	US environmental agency says mountain-top mining permit decisions will be coming shortly - Audio on NPR program: Administrator Lisa Jackson
9-4	Massey mine tree-sitters now free on reduced bail
9-4	Caperton vs. Massey, redux
9-4	Man hurt in mining mishap at Grassy Creek No. 1
9-4	When The Appalachians Disappear...
9-4	Plundering Appalachia - a coffee table book for environmentalists
9-4	Verizon Wireless Invites Backlash by Supporting Controversial Climate Denier Rally
9-4	Duke Leaves UnClean Coal Group
9-4	UN Secretary-General Issues Stark Warning On Climate Change
9-4	World heading for climate 'abyss': UN chief
9-4	Amy Goodman: New light on Copenhagen climate talks
9-3	Video: Security guards come out in support of tree-sitters
9-3	PEER weighs in on Obama OSM(RE) pick - Enviros Blast Obama's Choice for Office of Surface Mining
9-3	EPA reveals almost twice as many dangerous coal ash dumps as previously known - EPA Discloses Toxic Coal Ash Sites
9-3	Bobby Nelson interviews treesitters, talks w/ opposition to Verizon sponsorship
9-3	DOE cools off on FutureGen’s UNclean coal plant - Utilities Scrambling to Capture, If Not Store, Emissions
9-3	Guidelines aimed at protecting endangered bat from coal
9-3	Appalachians Speak Out (part 1) - Appalachians Speak Out (part 2)
9-3	Big Coal's Star Power- Ted Nugent: Friend of America? Wait to you hear this... - Hank Jr. does what he wants - Big names to draw crowd at Friends of America Rally - Capacity Crowd Predicted for Labor Day Rally in Mingo County
9-3	Can you hear us now? Verizon Wireless sponsors climate denial rally - Verizon Is Getting Heat For Sponsoring Anti-Global Warming Rally - Friends of America rally planners: No more tickets - Is Your Phone Company Sponsoring the 'Appalachian Apocalypse'?
9-3	Mine accident reported
9-3	Writer Ann Pancake is featured speaker for the Center for Appalachian Studies 30th anniversary celebration
9-3	Dominion Coal-Fired Power Plant Regulations Will Be Tight
9-3	Plans for coal-fired power plant canceled
9-3	Daryl Hannah Talks Dirty -- Dirty Coal, that is -- in the September/October 2009 Issue of E - The Environmental Magazine
9-3	TVA Turns Perry County, Ala. into an "Ash Hole" - Battle over TVA coal ash in Alabama
9-3	Senate Climate Change Bill Delayed - US climate change bill faces fresh delays
9-3	Blood Mercury Levels Rising in U.S. Women - Study
9-3	Duke Energy quits scandal-ridden, right-wing American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
9-3	Attempts to Overturn Nuclear Bans Fail in Six States
9-3	Record-Breaking Numbers of Resolutions and Engagements on Climate Change are Recorded in 2009 Proxy Season
9-3	Asia's poorest to be worst hit by climate change: ADB
9-3	Investment in geo-engineering needed immediately, says Royal Society
9-3	How global warming sealed the fate of the world's coral reefs
9-3	Coastal Home Owners Face Huge Losses From Rising Seas
9-2	World Must Plan For Climate Emergency: Report
9-2	Verizon targeted for support of pro-coal rally - Group opposes Verizon Wireless' support of W.Va. rally
9-2	Verizon Wireless Dumped Glenn Beck: Will It Dump Bizarre Big Coal Sponsorship?
9-2	More selenium problems: Violations found at Ky. mines - State report: Dangerous levels of selenium in water, fish near coal mines - Environmentalists say state stalls on pollution - Groups say state ignored selenium studies in issuing E. Ky. mining permit
9-2	Manchin puts former coal lobbyist in ‘public interest’ post
9-2	Obama Has Betrayed the Progressives Who Got Him Elected -- So Now What Do We Do?
9-2	E magazine Cover Story: Is This the End for Coal? - Old King Coal
9-2	FEMA repays Mingo for flood recovery
9-2	EPA Study Finds Dangers in Coal Ash Ponds Nationwide - Ky., Ind. lead nation in coal ash ponds
9-2	Water Quality Worries Could Slow Shale Drilling
9-2	Two tree-sit protesters held on $25,000 bail
9-2	Your letters: environmentalists angry about protest coverage
9-2	Mountaintop removal sculpture, sculptor, at Lexington church
9-2	Allegheny Energy seeks 2nd phase of rate increase
9-2	Global warming, California, and wildfires
9-1	Averting catastrophe: A tale of censorship, civil disobedience, greed and willful ignorance
9-1	One "tree- sitter" coming down - 2nd tree-sitter leaves post
9-1	Easy Web Action--Tell Verizon: Don't Sponsor Pro-Mountaintop Removal, Anti-Union Rally - Verizon Wireless is Wrong - W.Va. rally on Labor Day registers 60,000 guests - Labor Day Rally Presents Challenges
9-1	Sounds of Silence in Appalachia: MTR Blasting Temporarily Halted
9-1	Obama Strip-Mining Pick Bad News for Coal Country
9-1	WVa DOH awards contracts to repair flood damage
9-1	More data on threats from coal-ash impoundments
9-1	EPA: Colorado home to high number of coal-ash disposal ponds
9-1	First Lawsuit Filed by Business Against Tennessee Valley Authority
9-1	Bringing Ted Nugent here is an insult (scroll down)
8-31	Troopers say 'tree-sitters' could face more than trespass charge

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