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1-31	$9,625 total bail cost, please donate to legal fund
1-31	Kentucky studies 42 locations with best potential for nuclear plants - Leaks imperil nuclear industry
1-31	Ashes to ashes coal dust to coal dust
1-31	WVCC: Council takes look at inmate drug programs
1-31	With 57 years in Congress, West Virginia's Byrd 'still fighting'
1-31	Lies Don Blankenship Told Me: Why Climate Activists Are Heading To The West Virginian Coal Fields
1-31	Local activists focus energies on mountaintop removal, clean energy
1-31	Reprinted in Boston paper: Fight tests EPAs regulatory resolve
1-31	Exelon says it will join Ill.'s FutureGen Alliance
1-31	So nice, we're posting it twice: How Big Oil and Big Coal mounted one of the most aggressive lobbying campaigns in history to block progress on global warming
1-31	Vermont scientists featured in VPTs Emerging Science
1-31	The planet's future: Climate change 'will cause civilisation to collapse;' Authoritative new study sets out a grim vision of shortages and violence but amid all the gloom, there is some hope too
1-31	The Great Debate Blankenship vs. Kennedy
1-30	Obama wants W.Va. coal to make a 'transition'
1-30	Latest, longest Massey tree-sit protest ends - W.Va. tree-sitters end mining protest, arrested - Climate Ground Zero: Activists In West Virginia Halt Mountaintop Removal For Eighth Day
1-30	Former W.Va. justice Maynard switches to GOP
1-30	Climate Change lobbyist head count
1-30	The Coal Ash Industry Manipulated EPA Data
1-30	FirstEnergy ending ash storage in Pa. lake
1-30	Margaret Palmer and coauthors summarize ecological consequences of mountain top mining, and speak out about federal regulatory failure in a Science Policy Forum paper
1-30	President Obama calls for W.Va. coal to make 'transition'
1-30	Latest, longest Massey tree-sit protest ends
1-30	Jeff Biggers explores the devastation coal has wrought on southern Illinois--and his own family
1-30	Former W.Va. Supreme Court justice switches to GOP
1-30	Margaret Palmer and coauthors summarize ecological consequences of mountain top mining, and speak out about federal regulatory failure in a Science Policy Forum paper
1-30	Clean coal and The Lorax?
1-29	Friday roundup, Jan. 29, 2010
1-29	Manchin statement on tree-sitters meeting - Manchin: Cops will probe harassment of mine foes - Manchin caught in the middle of protest - Manchin asks for probe of alleged harassment of Massey mine tree-sitters; Prosecutor: No laws being broken - Manchin Meets With Environmental Activists - Tree Sits, Air Horns and Helicopters: The Fight to Save Coal River Mountain - Photos: Coal River Mtn. Helo - Mountaintop removal halted into DAY 8 - WV state troopers decline to do anything about noise assault - Coal River Mountain Protestors Meet with Governor - For eighth day, climate activists block bulldozers at WVs Coal River Mountain
1-29	EPA offers straight talk on coal permit clarity - EPA crackdown on mountaintop coal mining criticized as contradictory
1-29	North-Central W.Va. is Ground Zero for Surface Mine Coal Ash
1-29	Coal Ash Disposal: Show me the rules - PEER report: EPA let industry edit coal ash reports - Coal Ash is Hazardous to Our Health! - Enviros take action to counter the might of the coal ash lobby
1-29	Senate passes resolution opposing cap-and-trade - Senate resolution denounces cap-and-trade
1-29	Coal protesters look to childrens future
1-29	Fresh Air interviews Jeff Goodell: 'As the World Burns': The Politics Of Climate Change - Cap And Trade And The New Carbon Economy
1-29	Rep. Rahall joins Capito, Mollohan in Coal Caucus
1-29	MSHA sues scofflaw mine operators for unpaid fines
1-29	Gov. Joe Manchin struck a conciliatory note with the oil and natural gas industry...
1-29	Mountains sacrificed to burn coal in Georgia - Show links coal power to pollution
1-29	Obama aims to win climate bill with nuclear, oil - Obama Short on Environmental Issues
1-29	The Tennessee legislature where one lawmaker calls arsenic 'not that bad' is the place environmentalism goes to die
1-29	Everything Gene Kitts knows revolves around the coal industry...
1-29	Consol CEO emphasizes China, natural gas - Air, water rules to raise energy prices-Consol CEO
1-29	Extreme US winter signals climate change-report - Harsh winter a sign of disruptive climate change, report says - Study: Global warming means wacky weather near Great Lakes
1-29	SEC to require disclosure of climate change risks
1-29	Money talks and the Supreme Court has just made it talk louder than ever
1-29	Photo exhibit looks beyond Kentucky's iconic images
1-29	Challenges on the rise for Wyoming coal
1-29	New 'Green Coal' Company Names Itself After the Lorax Without Permission
1-28	The Historic Cost of the State of the Union: Mr. President, Welcome to the Saudi Arabia of Coal - Clean Coal gets mention in Obama State of the Union
1-28	Big news (maybe): EPA looking at fill material definition
1-28	Call Today: National Day of Action on Coal Ash - Coal Ash Industry Allowed to Edit EPA Reports
1-28	Manchin doing what we can for Massey tree-sitters
1-28	Coalocracy
1-28	The Future Of Coal Power Will Require Hard Choices
1-28	Courts as Battlefields in Climate Fights
1-28	Climate, Energy Programs Could See Boosts Despite Budget Freeze
1-28	Advocates of Climate Bill Scale Down Their Goals
1-28	Photostories Help Citizens Advocate for Change
1-28	Coal Caucus Joins Industry Lobbyists to Sabotage Clean Energy
1-28	Climate change experts argue for international geoengineering effort
1-28	EPA Rules Mean Big Challenges Ahead for Dirty Coal
1-28	Global warming to trigger more warming
1-28	Company cash: Flooding into politics?
1-27	W.Va. gov slams federal 'cap and trade' bill - Manchin blasts bill to deal with global warming - Manchin slams cap-trade, seeks 'coal is king' vote - Counter Manchin: Sign The CLEAN resolution and ask your city council / county commissioners/ church groups, etc. to sign on, too
1-27	Call Gov Manchin to Save the Mountains and Stop the Harassment of the Sitters
1-27	Kanawha State Forest and Mountain Top Removal
1-27	Man Arrested Helping Tree Sit, Abuse of Sitters Continues - Two Men Arrested For Trespassing On Mining Property in Raleigh County
1-27	Mine safety officials look into Facebook comment
1-27	An Interview with Photographer Antrim Caskey
1-27	Mountaintop mining stakeholders meet: W.Va. representatives, opponents, Manchin try to find a 'balance' - Environmental Groups Appeal to W.Va. Leaders About Surface Mining
1-27	Would Obama's Spending Freeze Hit Energy and Environment Programs?
1-27	EPA Announces Eyes on Drilling Tipline - Hydrofracking poses threats to Streams and Rivers
1-27	Kentucky: Filing deadline passes with 11 in US Senate race
1-27	List of "green" policies, including banning mountaintop removal, pushed at Tennessee capitol - Morning Roundup: Ramsey Sings 'Rocky Top(less)' and Other Developments
1-27	War on coal continues
1-27	Mountaintop-removal mining draws protest
1-27	Railroads, Utilities Clash Over Dust From Coal Trains
1-27	Ecologists Outline Necessary Actions for Mitigating and Adapting to a Changing Climate
1-27	Climate Chess: Massachusetts Fires a New Shot Heard Round the World
1-27	Past decade warmest on record
1-27	Methane Causes Vicious Cycle In Global Warming
1-27	Coal ash threatens, especially without regulation
1-27	Delhi to Ditch Coal for Natural Gas
1-26	Old Senator, New Tricks
1-26	Manchin calls for calm in the coalfields - Manchin promises review of coal critics' complaints - Manchin calls for dialogue in the coalfields - Group seeks dialogue on coal mining - Coal Talks: Take Two - Governor, Environmental Activists Discuss Coal Behind Closed Doors -Green groups get seat at table with W.Va. pols - Environmental Groups Plead Their Case to Lawmakers - Gov. Manchin aims for balance between mining, environmentalists (but not the environment) - Whats Gov. Manchin going to say?
1-26	Capito forms coal caucus in Congress
1-26	Tree-sitter comes down on fifth day of Massey protest - Inside the Action
1-26	Global Warming Deniers Ask Court To Help Their Cause - Seven Murkowski Mistakes About the Clean Air Act and Global Warming
1-26	The Week in Coal - 1/25/10
1-26	Tennessee: Conservationists declare their issues for legislative session
1-26	Kentucky: Retired coal businessman seeks Chandler seat's in Congress
1-26	Congressional coal ash defenders ignore damages back home - TVA studies alternatives for next step in ash cleanup - EPA must treat coal ash as hazardous
1-26	Coal Industry's Future Looking Murky
1-26	US Interior Dept Takes Step Toward Coastal Resources Evaluation
1-25	Democracy Now: West Virginia Mine Tree-Sit Enters Fifth Day - DAY 4 of Tree Sit - Take Action Today to Support Tree-Sitters - Response to Massey Energys Statement About Tree Sit - Marfork Coal Company in Violation of Office of Miners Health Safety & Training Noise Protocol
1-25	DEP: 6 streams test positive for golden algae
1-25	Pittsburgh activist leads mountaintop removal tours
1-25	Coal Conversation
1-25	Living on Earth: Scientists Push Against EPA Decision
1-25	Books by Dr. Shirley Stewart Burns
1-25	Wyo coal sustains U.S. economy, UW study says
1-25	"Citizens United" for More Corporate Power
1-25	Evidence for climate change caused by man mounts
1-25	No way to avoid strip mining's dangers
1-25	Shale gas could help besieged U.S. coal miners
1-25	Some hopeful signs for Kentucky's water
1-25	Ron Ramsey answers questions at panel
1-25	Media Mayhem: It's time to get scrappy, Mr. President
1-25	Regulators mull clean-up options for 'America's biggest environmental disaster'
1-25	Climate Bill Setback Forces Clean Development Rethink
1-24	Ohio coal-slurry lagoon site awaits OK; U.S. EPA objects, citing salamander
1-24	These Mountains are Divine Creations
1-24	The Fair Elections Now Act: Clean Elections for Congress
1-24	U.S. high court assaults curbs on corporations - Last Weeks Supreme Court Ruling: A Step Towards Corporate Communism?
1-24	Coal leader, environmentalist debate surface mining - Coal baron, Kennedy debate - Blankenship debates Kennedy over mountaintop removal mining - Blankenship Vs. Kennedy: A Clear Victor - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes on mountaintop-mining magnate Don Blankenship - Minds Made Up - A Little Taste of the Ongoing Debate over Mountaintop-Removal Mining in West Virginia - Polarized speakers address full house - Mine owner, conservationist face off over environment in W.Va. debate - Debate crowd expresses feelings
1-24	Watch the entire Kennedy v. Blankenship debate
1-24	J Henry Fair: Art To Advocacy
1-24	Bear Family Releases Coal Country Music - Appalachia Benefit Album
1-24	Steps must be met to protect Tennessee's environment in 2010
1-24	John Palmer: Climate change is not our only problem
1-24	EPA must treat coal ash as hazardous
1-24	South Georgia Riverkeepers Host Mountaintop Removal Road Show January 25 - 28
1-24	Obama's One-Year Environmental Grades Range From 'B+' to 'C-'
1-23	Leslie Co. miner dies in rock fall
1-23	Shed a Tear For Our Democracy - W.Va. eyes Supreme Court ruling on campaign funding - The State Elections Enforcement Commission reacts to the United States Supreme Courts ruling
1-23	Doris "Granny D" Haddock \| Response to the Supreme Court
1-23	Delegate: Public financing program needed
1-23	A Constitutional Amendment for Public Campaign Financing: Now Is the Time - Supreme Court ends all limits on Corporate political ad donations. How is that not corrupting?
1-23	Manchin set to meet with Bo Webb, other citizens
1-23	Tree-Sitters Shut Down Infamous Mountaintop Removal Operation; TVA Cops Strike Again
1-23	WV Environmental Council Legislative Update
1-23	Pittsburgh activist leads mountaintop removal tours
1-23	Blankenship, Kennedy debate coal, climate change - Kennedy takes on the coal baron in mountain duel - Coal Exec: Let Us Blow Up the Appalachians or Well All Be Speaking Chinese - Mountaintop Mining: Coal Baron Debates a Kennedy
1-23	Book Review: 'Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining'
1-23	FOC coloring book is extremely one-sided
1-23	Pay the rightful owners already: There's no need to study who owns natural gas rights.
1-23	Himalayan glaciers gone by 2035? IPCC mistaken. - Climate Science Panel Apologizes for Himalayan Error
1-23	Book Review Climate Cover-Up
1-23	Past Decade Warmest on Record, NASA Data Shows
1-23	Most powerful hurricanes on the rise
1-22	Friday roundup, Jan. 22, 2010
1-22	Three more tree-sitters launch protest at Massey - Tree-Sitting Activists Shut Down West Virginia Coal Mine
1-22	Blankenship, Kennedy debate coal's future - Blankenship vs. Kennedy II: Deconstructing the debate - RFK Jr., Massey CEO Debate Mountaintop Mining Before W.Va. Audience - Blankenship, Kennedy Debate Mountaintop Mining, Future of Coal - Energy Debate Yields Little Middle Ground - Forum On Energy Participants Find Common Ground On One Issue
1-22	Mingo wood-fired plant bond issue approved
1-22	Glacier-gate and climate change: What does it all mean?
1-22	Supreme Court Ruling is a Huge Blow to Climate Change Legislation
1-21	Tree Sit Halts the Blasting on Coal River Mountain
1-21	Blankenship, Kennedy set to debate coal, climate - Coal Baron Debates Kennedy Over Mountaintop Mining - Coal baron debates Kennedy over mountaintop mining - Bobby Kennedy Jr. vs. Big Coal: Let's Get It On! - UC President Readies for High-Profile Talk On Coal - University of Charleston Preparing for Energy Debate
1-21	Archives--Bobby Kennedy Sr.: Mindless Menace of Violence
1-21	Board members, family question state report on mine death
1-21	New Sierra Club chief brings confrontational style to the job - Mike Brune Takes Over At Sierra Club - Shake Up at the Sierra Club? Group Names New Executive Director - Sierra Club's New Chief Likes Pressuring Companies
1-21	Dragline
1-21	Alec Baldwin: Why I Missed the Golden Globes
1-21	CCO & Restoring Eden trip airs tonight at 7pm on 91.3 fm WYEP
1-21	Appalachian Coal Set For Big Decline, Protests & High Profile Debates or Not
1-21	NY Times on coal ash: Have the debate in public
1-21	EPA shows TVA's Kingston coal ash cleanup options - EPA Rethinking Coal Ash Regulation
1-21	TVA embayment cleanup could cost up to $740 million
1-21	Laws being written by firms' lobbyists (scroll down)
1-21	Drop in China mine deaths, accidents for 2009
1-21	CSX announces steep drop in earnings, blames coal
1-21	Waycross presentation to show woes from mining
1-21	Mercury pollution a global problem
1-20	Must-read report: The decline of Central Appalachian coal - W.Va. coal decline inevitable, consultant's report says - Central Appalachian coal is declining significantly, report says - Coal production expected to plummet - The Decline of Central Appalachian Coal and the Need for Economic Diversification" (pdf) - Report: Appalachian states should look beyond coal -Report urges Appalachian states to look beyond coal - Consulting Firm: Central Appalachia Should Diversify Energy Resources
1-20	Appalachia Coal Report Adds Fuel to Kennedy-Blankenship Smackdown
1-20	Colbert Report Takes Down Big Coal: Save the Endangered Hillbilly (VIDEO) - Colbert on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining - When Scientists Speak Out: The Anti-MTR Message Makes it to Colbert - Stephen Colbert on mountaintop-removal mining
1-20	Stories of coal: Kathy Mattea looks into her own West Virginia past, working to halt the future of mountaintop removal mining
1-20	Public Radio International's "Living on Earth"": Mountain top removal mining controversy
1-20	U.S. Government Wants Farmers to Dump Heavy Metals on Fields
1-20	The Coal Ash Case
1-20	Oil and gas operators skirt federal law, report says
1-20	Where is OSMRE Director Joe Pizarchik?
1-20	TVA to hold March forum on coal ash research
1-20	Climate Chess: A Filmmaker Dives Into Copenhagen's Climate Change Chaos
1-20	Feds Cite Virginia Company in Coal Miner's Death
1-19	Dr. Margaret Palmer on the science of mountaintop removal--on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" (second item on show)
1-19	Gov. Manchin says WV can improve mining practices
1-19	WSAZ: Coal Mine Blocking Access to Family's Cemetery
1-19	Blair Mountain update: History group to appeal delisting
1-19	Will Mingo coal-to-liquids plant hire local workers?
1-19	Scientist Calling for Ban on Mountain Top Removal on the Colbert Report Mon.-Tue. - Science finds mountaintop removal coal mining a hazard to Americans
1-19	Magistrate wins 'Dream' award - Hechler wins MLK award
1-19	Robert Kennedy and Don Blankenship to Debate, MTR, Climate This Week
1-19	Remembering Aracoma: Jan. 19, 2006
1-19	Ohio utility seeks exemption for mercury
1-19	The Dirty Air Act of 2010
1-19	The Week in Coal - 1/18/10
1-19	Caperton, recusal and judicial elections
1-19	Coal ash landfill in state's (MD) crosshairs - PA: Final fly ash clean-up begins
1-19	End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Virginia
1-19	Documentary promotes conservation
1-18	Energy assistance program warms local residents
1-18	Shell faces shareholder revolt over Canadian tar sands project
1-17	West Virginians Honored for Keeping Dr. King's Dream Alive (Carol Warren is on OVEC's staff)
1-17	Group appealing Blair Mountain's removal from historic register
1-17	The New Storm Brewing On the Climate Front - Climate Advocates on the Defensive as Congress Returns - Attack on Clean Air Act is misleading - Senator Murkowski Teams Up With Energy Lobbyists to Derail the Regulation of Global Warming Pollution - Clean Air Act is vital to global warming fight
1-17	Debate puts mining in spotlight
1-17	Mountaintop guru digs in against king coal
1-17	Radical sea defense rethink urged - Sea rising along N.C., but how quickly? - Rising sea level bringing change to coastal life - All of Dubai Underwater With Climate Change
1-17	Mercury limits disregarded: Ohio granting variances for sites till technology can meet tough levels that U.S. EPA set in '95
1-17	Makes One Wonder
1-17	NASA public relations flap follows official to TVA
1-17	Artist who usually helps others shows own work
1-16	Black lung striking younger miners, Jay says
1-16	Inhofe: One-man truth squad on mountaintop removal?
1-16	Stopping the Murkowski Amendment
1-16	Clean Coal Jobs? Author Mines History to Dispel Myths
1-16	WVEC Green Legislative Update - WV Citizen Action Capital Eye
1-16	W.Va. court declines to review e-mail decision
1-16	Climate Chess: Chronicling the Copenhagen Convention -
1-16	TVA Seeks More Time In Coal Ash Lawsuits
1-16	Activist Sue Anne Salmon dies
1-16	Big Greens and Real Greens: Biodiversity in the Age of Big Money Environmentalism
1-16	Coal Giant Massey Called Out for 12,000 Pollution Violations
1-16	Documentary Night: Burning the Future - Coal in America - Church to screen coal film 'Burning the Future'
1-16	Cornell Cuts Coal
1-16	Coal plant opponents plan push
1-16	Library to screen documentary on energy conservation
1-15	Friday roundup, Jan. 15, 2010
1-15	'WV has alternatives' other than MTR, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. says
1-15	Between The Lines Interview with Janet Keating
1-15	W.Va. Legislature: The race to stand up more for coal
1-15	When will Masseys water pollution violations stop?
1-15	Session: State of State call - Critics say plan to reform courts not enough - Manchin pushes judicial reform, school calendar flexibility - Manchin proposes public financing for Supreme Court elections - Scholars take on corruption in judicial elections
1-15	Financial disclosure bill advances in Legislature
1-15	The future of states energy is not coal - What will be left after coal is gone?
1-15	Obama must abolish strip mining (scroll down)
1-15	MSHA cites company in Mingo mine flood - Operator cited in May 2009 flood that trapped 7 miners - Feds cite operator Alpha for mine inundation - MSHA Cites Southern WV Coal Operator
1-15	The Coal War: Interview with Climate Hope Author Ted Nace
1-15	Appalachia But Not Alberta: Whither the Tar Sands Advocates?
1-15	How Do You Kill a Mountain?
1-15	JP Morgan still financing mountaintop removal mining
1-15	Duke planning gas pipeline to S. Ind. power plant
1-15	Earth's growing nitrogen threat
1-15	Fracking under pressure: Growing opposition to the method for extracting gas from the shale is pushing drillers to prove aquifers are safe
1-15	Six minutes to midnight: Doomsday clock moves back
1-14	Gov. Joe Manchin in in State of the State address urges West Virginian so 'stand up for our coal miners' - Gov. Manchin urges W.Va. to stand up for coal - Manchin pushes judicial reform, school calendar flexibility - Manchin unveils array of legislation - Text of Gov. Joe Manchin's State of the State address
1-14	Manchin: Hobet permit brings hope - Rahall announces permit approval
1-14	Massey plans new Marsh Fork area mine; Strong Asian market driving companys plans for expansion - Massey Energy pushes expansion plans
1-14	WVDEP drilling rules advance, setting up legislative fight - Marcellus Shale Guidance Available from W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection
1-14	Puccio to lobby for racetrack, coal company, others
1-14	In Age of New Media, Scientists Must Hone PR Skills to Save the World
1-14	Two from the Green hard core
1-14	Industry lobbies White House hard on coal ash regulation
1-14	Recycling Questions Complicate EPA Coal Ash Decision
1-14	TVA faces 57 suits over ash spill
1-14	Scientists Versus Mountaintop Removal MiningA Communications Coup - When Scientists Speak Out - Mountaintop Mining: Scientists, Government at Cross Purposes
1-14	Mountaintop Removal Mining Has Obliterated 700 Miles of US Streams
1-14	Kansas Coal Plant Back in the Bullseye
1-14	"OIRA Meetings Stir Controversy over Coal Ash Regulation"
1-14	Ohio Senate Approves Bill to Reclaim Abandoned Mines
1-14	Climate change: investors ignore it at your peril
1-14	Obama, Senate Allies Weigh Strategy in Face of Double-Digit Unemployment
1-14	U.S. Farm Group: Stop EPA On Greenhouse Gases
1-14	Wild & Scenic Film Festival movie list grows to 135 - Flathead Wild Film Premieres at Wild & Scenic Film Festival
1-14	Bel Sollee, Carrie Rodriguez At Iron Horse In Northampton On Jan. 20
1-13	Big Coal running attack ads against "tree hugging extremists"
1-13	Industry told to reduce mining's impacts - WVDEP on permits: Unlikely to ever be the same - EPA, Army Corps address industry concerns about permitting process
1-13	W.Va. lawmakers unite to protect coal industry
1-13	Manchin on Coal: Updated for 2010
1-13	Kentucky can't afford coal tax break
1-13	A Wendys boycott - Sign the petition
1-13	Lorelei Scarbro: Kids being taught industry's side of coal
1-13	W.Va. Supreme Court likely to talk about FOIA case rehearing
1-13	Massey agrees to work with Indian company on coal projects overseas, in US
1-13	Heres a link to the Science paper on strip mining
1-13	S.E.C. Seeks New Charge Against Bank of America
1-13	Spill, seepage cause TVA problems - TVA coal-burning plant glitch causes release: one of two incidents
1-13	TVA says it may need a year to prepare case
1-13	Jeff Biggers: Reckoning at Eagle Creek
1-13	Trees invading warming Arctic will cause warming over entire region, study shows
1-13	Preparing Texans for climate change
1-13	Rep. Capito in CBS piece on Climate Summit junket
1-13	Rolling Stone: Blankenship among top climate killers
1-13	Coal Mining and Clean Water
1-12	Massey violations more frequent since record fine, greens allege - Despite EPA deal, Massey water violations more frequent - Our Notice of Intent to Sue - Groups Put Massey on Notice for Over 12,000 Clean Water Violations - Environmental groups threaten to sue Massey - Massey Energy On Notice - ABC News - Environmental groups threaten to sue Massey - Outrage: Guess Which Company Has Over 12,000 Clean Water Violations
1-12	DEP secretary discusses EPA, Science article, future of MTR
1-12	Mountaintop removal mining study will test Obama's commitment to science
1-12	Delegate says EPA out to shut down coal industry
1-12	Manchin meeting at White House postponed
1-12	Big hearing Tuesday on ICGs Taylor County mine
1-12	Today in Charleston: Corps, EPA and WVDEP to explain permit process
1-12	The EPA, Science and Mountaintop Mining - Is Mining an Exception to the Base Our Decisions on Science Rule?
1-12	Hurricane Katrina propels Lisa Jackson's justice quest at EPA
1-12	TVA Health Assessment Report on Coal Ash Raises Troubling Questions About the Agency
1-12	Spat between White House, EPA could derail federal coal ash rules
1-12	Utilities Fight EPA Coal-Ash Regulation
1-12	Still in denial mode
1-12	UK gets $11.8 million grant for energy lab
1-12	Coal Is Linked to Cancer in China Province
1-12	Reports: Chinese power plants running out of coal
1-12	Morgan Stanley ups Arch Coal to overweight, shares rise
1-12	Arctic Tundra is Being Lost As Far North Quickly Warms
1-12	Carbon, Carbon Everywhere But What About the Water?
1-12	UNCA to mark MLK Jr. week with special events
1-12	Popular Mechanics: The Myth of Clean Coal: Analysis - Clean Coal Does Not Exist
1-11	Election ruling could change U.S. politics
1-11	'It's like a death watch'
1-11	How Big Oil and Big Coal mounted one of the most aggressive lobbying campaigns in history to block progress on global warming
1-11	The Climate Killers
1-11	Rolling Stone on The Climate Killers: 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb the climate catastrophe.
1-11	States Want Delay on Emission Rules
1-11	Blankenship responds to critical letter
1-11	It's Only Appalachia
1-11	Anti-intellectualism can be dangerous; Intellectuals must remember to be kind to others
1-11	Wells Fargo Representing Massey Energy
1-11	EPA concerned about coal ash cleanup costs
1-11	EPA Program Spreads Toxins on America's Farmland
1-11	Coal ash issue worries N.D. power plants
1-11	Cornell aims to be coal-free in 2011
1-11	Sollee, Moore on the same page, same stage - mountaintop companions
1-11	Scientific review condemns the mountaintop mining - Scientists Call For Halt In Mountaintop Mining Permits
1-11	Groups Slam EPA's Nod To Patriot Coal Mine Permit
1-10	The 14 Most Heinous Climate Villains
1-10	Kentucky: Coal tax breaks cost state more than $111 million a year
1-10	Ky. unveils new mine spoil protocol; Process to minimize stream impacts from mining - New mining rules 33 years in making
1-10	Byrd heard on coal
1-10	Michael Hendryx on MetroNews
1-10	Tom Miller: Limited legislation to be enacted before March 13
1-10	State lawmakers: Mercer needs master plan
1-10	Bo Webb: Coal in the classroom is a misguided idea
1-10	About 50 brave weather to attend Bob Gates Film Night at SCM La Belle
1-10	Blowing the Top Off Mountaintop Mining
1-10	Patriot Coal shares up on new mine permit
1-10	Why Mountain Top Removal Mining is Bad for the Environment
1-10	Black Mesa Water Coalition stops Peabody Coal
1-10	Wyoming coal sales decline
1-9	John McQuaid: Avatar: no fantasy
1-9	Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Mayhem: Blair Mtn Scandal (Feds See Dead People), Coal Profits Soar, EPA Disses Scientists
1-9	Cindy Rank: 2009 ALBATROSS OR RAY OF HOPE ?
1-9	The Mountain Tops are Crying: West Virginia Coal
1-9	The study in Science Journal: Mountaintop Mining Consequences
1-9	Scientific American: Mountaintop removal mining: EPA says yes, scientists say no - Scientists call for halt to mountaintop coal mining - Scientists Urge U.S. Government to Ban Mountaintop Mining - Scientists Demand End to Mountain Decapitation; Mining Projects Advance Anyway - Blowing Up Mountains: Not a Great Idea - Scientists Agree Mountaintop Removal Mining is Destroying Appalachia
1-9	Clean Skies TV: Scientists Stand Up Against Mountaintop Removal
1-9	More articles on Science study: Miami Herald - Winston Salem Journal - San Diego - Pittsburgh - Times West Virginian - San Francisco - Arizona - Spokane - Discover - San Luis Obispo - NPR Blog - Space and Earth News
1-9	Head On Radio Network: Scientist Discuss Their Study in Science Journal
1-9	Diane Rehm Show: The Ongoing Controversy Over MTR
1-9	Another Attempt to Block Global Warming Action - Both Sides Gird for Bruising Senate Debate Over EPA Amendment
1-9	Climate change a political reality, energy officials say - Legislation sets unrealistic goals, experts say
1-9	Problems associated with Marcellus shale drilling
1-9	Meltdown, USA: Nuclear Drive Trumps Safety Risks and High Cost
1-9	Environmental impact study on oilsands slanted toward big oil: federal documents
1-9	New Ky. Mining Procedures Will Curb Dumping
1-9	Federal lawsuit, Alaska town says stockpiled coal, dust are dirtying tourist spot near harbor
1-9	JPMorgan Chase Profits from Destruction in Appalachia
1-9	White House, EPA at Odds Over Coal-Waste Rules
1-9	Cleanup of TVA ash spill is big payday for some - Ten firms to make $10M each from first phase of ash spill cleanup - Alabama pays price in coal ash cleanup - A bunch of ash-holes
1-9	North Dakota Coal-to-Fuel Plant Is Still on Hold
1-9	Coal stocks ignited by commodity prices, cold winter
1-9	Victory for Black Mesa
1-9	Not All Coal Is the Same; Research Uncovers Extra Deadly Chinese Vein
1-9	Climate change has no time for delay or denial
1-9	No, the Cold Doesn't Mean No Global Warming; Scientists Point Out Difference Between Weather and Climate
1-9	Science or Corporate Interests?
1-9	Terror in The Mountains
1-8	Friday roundup, Jan. 8, 2010
1-8	Coal Tattoo: Bombshell study: MTR impacts pervasive and irreversible - Charleston Gazette: Study: Mining damage 'pervasive and irreversible' - Science Daily: Scientists Call for Moratorium on Issuance of Mountaintop Mining Permits - West Virginia Public Radio: Scientists call for moratorium on mountaintop removal mining permits - Treehugger: Scientists Say Mountaintop Removal Mining Should Be Banned - No Remediation Ever Enough - Dot Earth: Scientists Reject Mountaintop Mining Methods
1-8	National Public Radio: Experts Urge Officials To End Mountaintop Mining - Louisville Courier Journal: Scientists call for mountaintop mining permit halt - Washington Post: Scientists say mountaintop mining should be stopped - Los Angeles Times: Pressure builds against mountaintop coal mining - Great Britain's The Guardian: US scientists demand government ban on mountaintop mining - Epoch Times: Scientists Call for Moratorium on Mountaintop Mining Permits - WV Metro News: Scientists Say Stop MTR - The Hill: Study urges halt to mountaintop mining - Washington Independent: Scientists: Mountaintop Coal Mining Is Decimating Appalachia - Dayton Daily News: Miami professor, scientists say mountaintop mining is damaging - Money Times: Mountaintop mining causing irreparable harm to environment: Scientists
1-8	Reuters: US should stop mountaintop coal mining -scientists - McClatchy Newspapers: After review of mountaintop mining, scientists urge ending it - UPI: Study pans mountaintop removal for coal - Dow Jones Newswire: US Scientists Call For Halt To Mountaintop Mining - Associated Press coverage of Science study in: Charleston Daily Mail -Huntington Herald Dispatch - ABC News - Boston Globe
1-8	The Diane Rehm Show on NPR: The ongoing controversy over mountaintop removal
1-8	Kentucky adopts tougher surface-mining guidelines
1-8	Environmental group outlines legislative agenda
1-8	Manchin: Climate bill will destroy the might of this nation
1-8	EPA responds to WVDEP fill policy announcement
1-8	Virginia grants PATH request to withdraw application - Experts: Nixed Power Line Sets Powerful Example for NY - Examiner Backs Va. Power Line Withdrawal - Power line opponents turn out in force - PATH attention being sought - Withdrawal of PATH moves forward
1-8	EPA tightening smog rules - EPA Proposes Strict New Smog Standards - Obama EPA to tighten smog standards
1-8	Massey gives Don Blankenship a raise - Massey increases potential payout for Blankenship
1-8	Job forum discusses growth in West Virginia - Community forum focuses on economic development, jobs
1-8	Consol to resume Dunkard Creek discharges
1-8	Time to ban mountaintop mining due to externalized costs
1-7	Environmental Protection Agency Approves Permit for Controversial WV Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine
1-7	DEP to stop processing fill permits, develop new rules - WVDEP fill policy: Game changer or more of the same?
1-7	EPA Gives Coal Mining Company Reason To Celebrate While Environmentalists Cry Foul - EPA Approves One New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine, Finds 'Path Forward' for Second - Mountaintop Mining Again in WV
1-7	Cindy Rank: MetroNews Talkline
1-7	Corps Acts Quickly to Issue Permit for W.Va. Mine - Clean Skies TV: EPA Supports Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia - Hobet mine permit okayed, issued - Patriot Coal Receives Hobet 45 Permit - Hobet 45 Mine Gets First Enhanced Review Mountaintop Mining Permit - EPA makes announcement on Hobet mountaintop coal mines - Obama makes the wrong move on mountaintop removal - Raney sees the Hobet mine permit as a glimmer of hope - Mountaintop Mining Project Will Proceed Under Obama EPA Plan - EPA Decisions On Two Mountaintop Coal Mining Operations - Byrd Applauds All Parties For Progress On Mining Permits
1-7	Photojournalistic expos of mountaintop removal coal mining to be released Jan. 26
1-7	Kentucky House resolution questions science of climate change - Gov. Steve Beshears State of the Commonwealth address
1-7	Bill to Address Black Lung Benefits
1-7	Consol hopes to resume pumping into Dunkard Creek by next week
1-7	Swimming in Natural Gas - Natural gas could help fight global warming
1-7	Senator clinging to old technologies
1-7	Bingaman: Cap and trade bill unlikely this year
1-7	Denmark Releases Four "Red Carpet" Climate Activists
1-7	Australians Sweating After Hottest Decade on Record
1-7	Coal cancer rates in China linked to mass extinction event 250 million years ago
1-7	Methane release 'looks stronger'
1-6	More on Hobet 45 deal: Where is the media coverage?
1-6	Hobet 45 deal: Mountaintop removal questions for all
1-6	Hobet deal cuts stream impacts, preserves jobs - Legislators hail EPAs decision to approve Patriot Coals permit - EPA issues formal statement on Hobet 45 deal - Patriot Coal mine gets green light from EPA - EPA Makes Announcement on Two Proposed West Virginia Mountaintop Coal Mines - EPA, Arch Coal seek to end permit dispute - EPA Backs Patriot Coal Permit; Plans Talks With Arch - Statements on EPA Mining Permit Announcements - EPA Softens Stance on Mountaintop Coal Mining - Coal Company Feels 'Drug Through The Brier Patch' (residents near mountaintop removal mines feel poisoned, bullied and blasted) - Rahall: EPA Drops Objection to W.Va. Surface Mine - State reps welcome EPA's decision on surface mine
1-6	The mountains are our heritage (scroll down)
1-6	OSM dragging feet on protecting streams
1-6	Grading Obama on conservation: a review of 2009 policy accomplishments
1-6	Cold weather putting dent in coal stockpiles at power plants
1-6	Basic climate science update: Debunking Don Surber
1-6	Where on Earth will we store all that captured CO2? Try the U.S. east coast
1-6	Latest China coal mine disaster kills 25
1-6	Freeing America from its addiction to oil
1-6	Mountaintop removal to mine coal "show" set for Wednesday - Show opposes mountaintop removal
1-6	Work with the Sierra Club to Stop Mountain Top Mining $400-600 a week (SE Portland)
1-6	C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists
1-6	Mount Rainier glacier gravel filling rivers
1-6	Path From Climate Summit Unclear for Many
1-5	EPA to announce deal on Hobet mine permit - Rahall: EPA drops objection to W.Va. surface mine
1-5	Spruce Mine update: More time sought for permit talks
1-5	Coal And Its Ruptured Landscape; Navigating The Ruins Of Appalachia
1-5	Coal debate at UC sold out; Event can be viewed from gym on campus and will be televised live - To propose a question for the debate, click here - Don Blankenship letter to the editor: Global warming idea an expensive con job - Climate skeptics are denying facts, not 'theories'
1-5	Coal industry stoking fear, avoiding facts
1-5	NATO and Military Strategists Plan for Global Warring
1-5	China blames freak storm on global warming
1-5	Environmental Refugees Unable to Return Home
1-5	Dominion decides to keep W.Va. gas operation
1-5	ProPublica report: Gas drilling inspectors spread thin - NYC Urges Ban On Shale Gas Drilling In Watershed - Total In $2 Billion Shale Gas Tie-Up With Chesapeake
1-5	Hearing scheduled for Clark County, Ky., power plant
1-5	Environmental groups plan to fight electric plant permit
1-5	Study Says Mich. Climate Plan Would Boost Economy
1-4	Climate change far worse than thought before
1-4	Sen. Byrd is correct; coal isn't the future
1-4	Another victim of 'clean coal'
1-4	2010 Kentucky Legislative Preview \| Environment: Protection funding expected to be an issue
1-4	Opposition mounting for coal-fired plant
1-4	EPA Questions New York State Plan To Drill for Shale Gas
1-4	Shell CO2 stocking plans under fire
1-4	TVA, Insurers Could Soon Discuss Cost of Kingston Spill
1-4	Insurance giant warns of rising costs due to climate change
1-4	Economists Ponder Human Adaptation to Climate Change
1-4	Bishop makes climate change plea
1-4	Coal ash issue worries ND power plants
1-3	Rahall hopes Hobet permit helps break logjam
1-3	Top Twelve See Jane Do Stories of Extraordinary Women in 2009
1-3	Tax breaks are budget loophole
1-3	MSHA marks 40th anniversary of landmark mine legislation
1-3	With help from Sweden, 4 Northern Virginia families are 'Climate Pilots'
1-3	Peru's mountain people face fight for survival in a bitter winter
1-3	The Last Penguin
1-2	The Sago Mine Disaster, Jan. 2, 2006
1-2	Jeff Biggers: New Year's Resolution: Mountaintop Removal Ends in 2010
1-2	EPA is enforcing laws passed by Congress
1-2	Insurance giant warns of rising costs due to climate change
1-2	'Face Boss: The Memoir of a Western Kentucky Coal Miner'
1-2	Massey sending coal to India? CIL gets global partnership offers
1-1	US mine deaths hit record low of 34 in 2009
1-1	Climate activists jailed 20 hours without due process
1-1	A look back at 2009s impact on southern W.Va. - Decade in Review: 2009 - Top 10 environmental stories of 2009
1-1	Montana's "Clean-Coal" Governor's Climate Change Blunder
1-1	Eco Gear Review - Coco Wear, Natural BodySoap, and "Takalong" Bark Wallet
1-1	Global Warming: Why Branson Wants to Step In
1-1	Gore: Carbon Polluters Like Big Tobacco
1-1	California Climate Law Faces Opposition
1-1	Fisheries, Aquaculture Face Multiple Risks From Climate Change
1-1	And Thus Ends the Hottest Decade on Record . . .
1-1	Best of 2009: And God Said: Go Forth and Blow the Tops Off of Mountains

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