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3-31 ?	Researcher: W.Va. quake may have been false alarm - mining activity may have caused Saturday's event
3-31	Gov. Manchin dials down his pro-coal rhetoric
3-31	Ohio EPA and US Army Corps of Engineers Accept Public Comments about Slurry Pond
3-31	Legislature Bows to King Coal Once Again: House Kills Bill Banning Mountaintop Mining - Tenn.: Mountaintop Removal Bill Stalled by Adjournment Vote - Legislature Effectively Kills Mountaintop Removal Bill - Mountaintop mining ban stalls in TN legislature - Surprise Move Ends Attempt to Ban Mountain Top Mining
3-31	WashU Students Protest Peabody and Tell Them to Get Out of their University
3-31	China Blames Negligence for Causing Coal Mine Flood in Shanxi
3-31	EPA Moves To Block Mining Permit
3-30	Groups Appeal Mingo County Coal-to-Liquids Facility Air Permit - Groups appeal W.Va. coal-to-gasoline plant permit
3-30	Candidates for House discuss future of mining
3-30	More evidence that Sen. Byrd sees the writing on the wall for coal
3-30	Byrd amendment brings more black lung benefit approvals, costs
3-30	EPA will phase in regulations for greenhouse gases next January
3-30	State Legislators Ramp Up Campaigns Against EPA Climate Rules
3-30	The Climate Rally on the National Mall in Washington DC - April 25th
3-30	Bishop Richard J. Wills Jr.: Scripture gives us insight on how to treat our earth
3-30	Report: Free Allocations for Coal, Incentives for Renewables Seen Depressing U.S. Gas Demand
3-30	Dirty Business - Clean Coal and the Battle for our Energy Future
3-30	Ky. lawmakers pass bill to raise mine permit fees
3-30	AEP Says Recent Mercury Readings Are Much Lower
3-30	Rescuers struggle to free 153 Chinese coal miners trapped by breakthrough, mine flood - Leaks reported at China mine days before flood - Manchin offers W.Va. help with Chinese mine rescue
3-30	Climbing Kayford Mountain: Finding God & Facing Ecocide in West Virginia
3-30	Researchers: Mountaintop Mining Poison Fish
3-30	Mother Jones: JPMorgans War on Nature
3-30	Bush Administration buried mountains of evidence that could have stopped Mountaintop Removal Mining - Environmentalists want tougher U.S. mine waste disposal laws
3-30	Coal fuels much of Internet "cloud," Greenpeace says
3-30	Feds extend comment period for AZ coal mine permit
3-30	Coal's Next Stand
3-30	Los Angeles City Council Has the Chance to Prepare for the Coming Storm of Increasingly Expensive Coal
3-30	Freeing Energy Policy From The Climate Change Debate
3-30	London Heathrow Expansion Axed by High Court Because of Climate Change
3-30	EPA moves to veto massive mountaintop removal operation in West Virginia
3-30	A ray of hope on mountaintop removal, and other Green Reads
3-30	EPA Proposes Veto of West Virginia's Largest Mountaintop Removal Mine
3-29	EPA Wants To Revoke A MTR Permit; RAN Launches Its Mountain Pledge - Clean Coal Looking More Like a 21st Century Dinosaur
3-29	Officials condemn EPA ruling - Disappointed, but Hopeful - Decision angers Rahall, Rockefeller
3-29	Coal wealth has not helped West Virginians - Surface mining endangers environment
3-29	W.Va. election legislation could attract lawsuits
3-29	Howard Swint: Citizens United ruling a debacle
3-29	The Best of Photojournalism 2010
3-29	Colo. gas-coal fight could preview national battle
3-29	Flood traps 153 coal miners in northern China
3-29	World Bank Urges U.S. Backing on $3.75 Billion Eskom Plant Loan
3-29	Darkened landmarks add to global demands for energy change
3-29	Company seeks first U.S. oil sands project, in Utah
3-28	Fate of W.Va. mine could be same for Wise Co. - EPA makes unprecedented move
3-28	Mountaintop Mining Addendum
3-28	State officials react to EPA decision
3-28	Silence is not an option
3-28	Rev. Billy vs. Mountaintop Removal
3-28	Desert Rock company nixes coal for Nevada power project
3-28	Cap and Trade Loses Its Standing as Energy Policy of Choice
3-28	Kentucky's Eminent Domain Bill Advances
3-28	Lawyers want to question Kilgore about TVA's accountability in ash spill
3-28	Citizens living near coal ash invite white house to visi t
3-28	Southern Co. spent $3.9M lobbying in 4Q
3-28	CMS Energy warns investors of new coal costs
3-28	Climate Change Imperils the State of the Planet--Will the World Act?
3-27	EPA proposes veto of largest W.Va. strip mine's permit; Damage from Spruce No. 1 Mine 'would be irreversible,' official says - Read the EPA decision here - EPA recommends veto of Spruce Mine permit - EPA Recommends Veto of W.Va. Mining Permit
3-27	EPA recommends veto of W.Va. mining permit - Spruce Mine Veto A Possibility
3-27	In Rare Move, EPA Proposes Blocking Massive Mountaintop Mine
3-27	EPA Proposes Veto of West Virginia's Largest Mountaintop Removal Mine - McClatchy: EPA proposes blocking West Virginia mountaintop mine - EPA Plans to Revoke Spruce Mine Permit
3-27	Washington Post: EPA moves to stop W.Va. coal mine that was issued federal permit
3-27	New York Times: EPA Proposes Veto of Permit for Major Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mine
3-27	EPA gives us a day to celebrate
3-27	Film Festival Sounds Alarm on Environment
3-27	MSHA: Mine industry slow on safety gear upgrades
3-27	Fed judge lets suits against TVA go ahead - Judge drops punitive damage claims in TVA spill
3-27	Anti-coal groups target Healy plant's debt
3-27	Climate change threatening Qinghai-Tibet plateau
3-27	Earth's Hour of Darkness Illuminates Need for Climate Action
3-26	Breaking news: EPA issues proposed determination to block Clean Water Act permit for the largest mountaintop removal mine in W.Va. history
3-26	Waiting on EPA: Spruce Mine decision would be just the beginning of another long process
3-26	Dirty Business to premiere in Huntington at 2010 Appalachian Film Festival
3-26	Coal officials fear surface mine veto; EPA has long deliberated permit for Arch Coal's controversial operation
3-26	Volunteers hope years of hard work will help get construction under way
3-26	Byrd encouraged by Massey's donation for school - Senator Byrd's demands finally met by Massey Energy
3-26	Big Kenny Blasts Music on the Mountaintop
3-26	I Just Pledged to End Mountaintop Removal in 2010, Will You?
3-26	Rockefeller Proposes Federal Program to Support Carbon Capture
3-26	Environmental groups say company mined without permits
3-26	Strip the Mountains, Plant a Tree - Kentucky lawmakers and coal operators like flowers and bees (not sure about mountains and people).
3-26	Rahall asks OSM about proposed budget cuts - Rep. Rahall quizzes OSMRE Director Joe Pizarchik
3-26	MSHA and black lung disease: Still no commitment to tighten the legal dust limit
3-26	New Mountaintop Mining Standard on the Horizon
3-26	Power and coal producers await EPA rule on coal ash
3-26	TVA chief trying to avoid deposition in ash spill - TVA Lawsuits In District Court
3-26	Don't Risk 'Clean Energy' Future to Save Coal Jobs, Says BP's CEO
3-26	Strip-Mining and Grassroots Resistance in Appalachia: Community Lawyering for Environmental Justice
3-26	Mountaintop removal ban update from LEAF
3-26	LA Pulls Plug on Costly Coal: Like Taking 11 Million Cars Off Road
3-26	How the West is Winning Against Coal
3-26	NPR: How Republicans Learned To Reject Climate Change
3-26	Company plans to salvage "waste coal"
3-26	Engineering the Earth
3-26	Roots of Copenhagen Failure: Nature Does Not Recognize Nations
3-25	Battle over Blair Mountain continues - Appalachian Scholar: The Battle For Blair Mountain - Take Action: Write a Letter
3-25	Sen. Byrd calls Massey donation for a new Marsh Fork Elementary school a welcome start
3-25	WV Supreme Court public campaign finance bill signed
3-25	The W.Va. Chamber of Commerce continues its misinformation campaign against Sen. Byrds effort to help disabled miners get black lung benefits
3-25	President Obama on coal-mine safety
3-25	Even The Cows Have Cancer: EPA Weighs Tougher Regulation of Toxic Coal Ash
3-25	Coal Ash Delay Silences the Voice of the Little Guy
3-25	How King Coal Reigns Supreme Over Ron Ramsey and Tennessee's Legislature
3-25	State Department Grant Promotes Student Exchange between Duquesne, Ghana School
3-25	Activists Dump Dirt in East Village Bank to Protest Mountaintop Mining - Save Me, Reverend Billy! - Bringing a blown up WV mountain to JP Morgan Chase
3-25	Strip Mine Roads
3-25	Bonecrusher - 2010 Jack Spadaro Award winning film on Appalachia
3-25	Coal-fired IGCC power plant can be built for $2.4bn, Miss. Power says
3-25	Coal Ash Fears Resurface with Proposed Landfill Near Big South Fork
3-25	Lawmakers Seek To Keep Yucca Nuclear Waste Dump
3-25	Native Groups Vow To Fight Pipeline
3-25	Senate climate bill details still unfinished
3-25	Accelerating Arctic Changes Pose Long-Term Risks for the U.S. Navy
3-25	California Says Climate Change Law Won't Hurt Economy
3-25	Sunk by global warming? Wave goodbye to this disputed island
3-25	Slums in crisis
3-25	Global warming threatens plant diversity
3-25	Avatars James Cameron: Anybody that is a global-warming denier at this point in time has got their head so deeply up their a** Im not sure they could hear me.
3-24	Massey pledges $1 million for Marsh Fork school -Massey changes course, pledges $1 million to Marsh Fork school - Massey offers $1 million to help BOE build new Marsh Fork Elementary - Massey offers $1million to help replace school near silo - Marsh Fork needs a new school right now - Superintendent: Marsh Fork Kids Deserve Better
3-24	Massey Energy expects to raise more than $400 million from stock sale
3-24	More Magazine: Maria Gunnoe's Coal Country Crusade
3-24	LTEs from Massey CEO and Bob Kincaid in Charleston Gazette today
3-24	Global Warming Is Fact, and Denial Won't Change Climate Back
3-24	Lawmakers say more coal severance tax needed
3-24	"Technical error" derails severance tax bill
3-24	Lt. Governor Benefits From Coal Contributions - Coals Influence On Tennessee Politicians
3-24	Investigation Uncovers Coal Influence Over Tennessee Politicians Pondering Mountaintop Removal Ban
3-24	Coal-Fired Plants Drink 1.5 Trillion Gallons of Water and We Drink the Dirty Backwash
3-24	Panel explores coal alternatives
3-24	WVU: Coal Country documentary shown today
3-24	Coal Industry Well Positioned for Climate Bill Battle
3-24	Calling Out Big Coal at the EPA
3-24	Hunting, fishing groups angle for adaptation efforts.
3-24	Coal opponents pleased power plant to be fired by gas
3-23	Enviros cut deal with Obama on buffer zone - Environmentalists await 'buffer zone' rule rewrite
3-23	Black lung fix part of reform; UMWA touts benefits as state business leaders decry potential costs in historic health-care bill
3-23	Sen. Byrds language to help coal miners with black lung disease passes as part of health-care reform
3-23	Water Woes of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
3-23	Two state power plants increase mercury emissions
3-23	Judge Gives EPA Until Friday to Rule on Arch Coal Mine
3-23	Will Tennessee Legislators Vote to Ban Mountaintop Removal? - Future of mountains at stake with vote
3-23	Reverend Billy Delivers Mountain Mud to JP Morgan Chase - Activists Dump Dirt in East Village Bank to Protest Mountaintop Mining
3-23	Mine communications reforms lag behind
3-23	MSHA celebrates landmark mine safety law, but when will Obama administration tighten dust limits to really end deadly black lung disease?
3-23	Colorado: Mine jobs a concern in plant conversion bill
3-23	Time for another science lesson for Don Surber
3-23	Senate Climate Bill Compromises Frighten, Infuriate Some Enviro Groups
3-23	Did Climate Change Drive Human Evolution?
3-23	Greening State Budgets
3-23	How to cool the planet
3-23	Australia: Study measures the environmental impacts of longwall mining subsidence
3-22	Marsh Fork must have new school building
3-22	A tax break given by the Mingo County Commission to a mining equipment operator may be headed to court, following a rebuke by the state tax department
3-22	Two words: MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL
3-21	Manchin, Rockefeller speak to Young Dems
3-21	Letters to the editor from Patty Sebok and Bo Webb in the Charleston Gazette (scroll down)
3-21	Protests halt drilling auction near Mon Forest
3-21	Four years after Sago, few mines have new communications gear
3-21	77 year old McKinley Sumner takes stand against King Coal to keep his ancestral land
3-21	IPCC has underestimated climate-change impacts, say scientists
3-20	Time Magazine: In West Virginia, a Battle Over Mountaintop Mining
3-20	More Magazine: Battle for Appalachia
3-20	Activist Pressuring Obama to End Mountaintop Coal Mining - Coalfield protesters want to know when EPA chief will visit Appalachia - Two days locked-down to the EPA campaigning to end mountaintop removal
3-20	Scientist Warns of "Permanent Damage" to Appalachia Ecosystem
3-20	From Scandal to Example in West Virginia
3-20	Rahall, Maynard exchange barbs
3-20	Mercury pollution still prevalent, according to report
3-20	Mountaintop Removal Hangs on One Vote
3-20	Impact of Masseys purchase of Cumberland Resources on Washington County unclear
3-20	Protesters briefly shut down land board meeting - Coal Lease Worries Miner
3-20	Groups Turn Up Pressure to Regulate Coal Ash
3-19	Friday roundup, March 19, 2010
3-19	Judge gives EPA more time on Spruce Mine - Judge Chambers grants EPA more time to decide future of Spruce No. 1 Mine permit
3-19	RAN's Purple Mountain Majesty - Lisa Jackson's Reaction To Mountaintop Removal Activist Lock Down At EPA - Would you blow up Mount Shasta? - Democracy Now: Activists Protest Mountaintop Removal Outside EPA
3-19	New York Times blog: Critics on Both Sides of Coal Mining Debate Assail EPA on Mountaintop Regulation - Jeff Biggers: Fundamental Misunderstanding: Lisa Jackson Twitters About Protest Today, While Clean Water Violations Grow (PHOTOS)
3-19	New law encourages coal companies to sow blooming plants, trees on Ky. mountaintop mine sites - Ky. passes law to put flowers on mountaintop mines
3-19	Letters to the editor in Charleston Gazette
3-19	Senator secures tax credit for coal, steel
3-19	Speaker says mountaintop removal destroys family history, culture
3-19	Mountaintop Removal Already in Tennessee
3-19	EPA to study drill method behind natural gas boom - EPA will study effects of Marcellus gas drilling
3-19	Environmentalists critical of number of meetings regulatory office has had with opponents to new coal ash rules
3-19	Photo Gallery: National Magazine Awards for Digital Media
3-19	Montana OKs Sale of Coal Tracts to Mining Giant - ARCH COAL WINS MINING RIGHTS
3-19	The Big Melt
3-18	Breaking: Anti-MTR Activists Risk Arrest at EPA HQ with Elaborate Protest
3-18	Strip mining adds to coal's greenhouse emissions, study says - Read the study - Important new study details mountaintop removal coal minings huge carbon footprint
3-18	Report: Power plants not making a dent in mercury emissions - Report: Mercury emissions climb at many large coal-fired power plants
3-18	Weirton Coal-to-Liquid Meeting is Thursday
3-18	Massey plans doubling of metallurgical coal sales
3-18	Toxic waste weighs on revival of nuclear industry
3-18	Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone: Coal's Toxic Sludge
3-18	Editorial: TVA's silence on coal-ash spill 'catastrophe'
3-18	Discussion on effects of coal ash scheduled
3-18	Wyo.'s Crash Program to Develop 'Green' Coal
3-17	New EPA data shows toxic pollution from mining - Read the report - EPA Data Shows Streams Near Mountaintop Removal Coal Mines Toxic (Duh)
3-17	DEP seeking public comment on impaired streams, lakes
3-17	Water quality bill expires, but advocates say fight is not over
3-17	Still Moving Mountains: The Journey Home
3-17	Coal Country - Appalachian Mountains
3-17	Author returns to southern Ill., digs in against coal
3-17	Boss: UNC coal use, Appalachian misery
3-17	Jim Hightower: Honoring Granny D: Crusader for Democracy
3-17	Chicago's Coal-Free Future: Clean Power Coalition Lights the Way
3-17	Gallup: Environmental concerns hit 20-year low in U.S.
3-17	Ron Ramsey's mine canary
3-17	U.S.-based Patriot sells steel coal to Asia
3-17	Massey to acquire Cumberland Resources for $960M
3-17	TVA meets with community about dry coal ash project
3-17	Mike Brune Takes Over The Sierra Club, Lays Out His Agenda
3-16	EPA report: Streams near mining toxic - Red the report
3-16	Coal bill could pump millions into southern West Virginia
3-16	New petition seeks federal EPA takeover of Kentucky water permit and enforcement program; Complete breakdown by state alleged
3-16	MORE Magazine Online Slide Gallery: Blasting Through Appalachia
3-16	WVDEP and selenium: Stalling or stopping?
3-16	Boycotting
3-16	Affrilachian Poets to help set tone of new art exhibit
3-16	Can the EPAs Lisa Jackson Rally Black Communities Around the Environment?
3-16	Maria Gunnoe, SouthWings Board Member, receives David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award
3-16	Corporate Climate Change-Related Risk on Shareholders' Minds
3-16	Researchers test way to reuse Marcellus drilling water
3-16	Bill to mandate stricter water reporting dies on final night
3-16	25 Killed In Central China Coal Mine Fire
3-16	Tamminen: Time To Bury "Cheap" Coal
3-16	Consol Energy to buy Dominion's drilling business - Consol buying Dominion arm for nearly $3.5 billion
3-16	Is Your Facebook Account Hurting the Environment?
3-16	Citizens deserve protection from dangers of coal ash
3-16	TVA to Hear Concerns on Conversion to Dry Coal Ash Storage
3-16	Coal ash disaster prompts TVA to restructure
3-16	Patriot Gains on Economic Optimism, Takeover Rumors
3-16	Coal Stocks Down As Energy Companies Trade Broadly Lower
3-16	Passenger Pigeons Director Martha Stephens: I put every piece of myself into it
3-16	Climate 'fix' could poison sea life
3-16	CO2 at new highs despite economic slowdown
3-15	Coal leads W.Va. exports in 2009
3-15	US Senate candidates fighting for pro-coal label
3-15	Edwights history unfairly neglected
3-15	Some ash to remain in river: Complete removal of material not feasible, federal regulators say - Authorities Report Inability to Remove all Coal Ash
3-15	Coal ash and the world according to Mr. Rogers
3-15	Industry, environmentalists debate hazards of coal ash
3-15	Report: Climate change is taking a toll on US bird populations
3-15	Scientists accuse climate change sceptics of 'smokescreen of denial'
3-15	Runaway transport threatens targets on emissions
3-14	Christian groups appeal to Obama and the EPA to cease mountaintop removal coal mining
3-14	Report: The Case for Global Warming Stronger Than Ever
3-14	Kentucky regulators preparing for new water-quality rules
3-14	Time-Lapse Shows Mountaintop Mining Depleting Forests Over 25-Year Period (VIDEO)
3-14	Is nuclear necessary? Duke study touts power of renewables
3-14	Kerry: Energy bill more about jobs
3-14	AOP Clearwater Plant Open in Marion County
3-14	Coal Country Music Mountaintop Removal CD
3-14	Speak Your Piece: My Congressman
3-14	Little Art screens documentary film "Coal Country" on March 20
3-14	Parliament rooftop protest leads to 55 charges
3-14	Community Cinema: Dirt! The Movie
3-14	TN governor candidates would stick with Bredesen economic plan - GOP governor hopefuls scold environmental regulators
3-14	Massive Gap Widens Between Republican and Democrat's Belief in Climate Change
3-13	Kerry hopes to woo coal-state senators with energy bill
3-13	Proposed coal gasification plant in W. Ky. receives permit
3-13	Appalachia Activists Ask Webb to Help End Mountaintop Removal
3-13	W.Va. lawmakers try stern action on campaign spending
3-13	Dirty Pretty Things
3-13	Some See Clean Water Act Settlement Opening New Path to GHG Curbs
3-13	On March 15, Take Action to Stop Dumping Mine Waste Into Our Water
3-13	Ky. coal companies want fee hike for mine permits
3-13	Arch Coal on Spruce Mine: Enough is enough; EPA needs to make a decision
3-13	A century of coal-burning ends at downtown power plant
3-13	Beehive Collective paints its way to cleaner air
3-13	NC Coal Ash
3-13	Climate science update: One key way the IPCC lowballed its estimates
3-13	Climate Change Threatens Migratory Birds, Report Says
3-13	Austin & Coal: The Dirtiest of Dirty Secrets?
3-13	Video: The mountain keeper speaks at Rosemont College
3-13	Jeff Biggers: Clean-Coal Myth Buster
3-13	Welcome to San Francisco: A Coal-Free City Eco-Tourism Campaign? (Free Postcards!)
3-13	Movie "Avatar" has few fans among mining execs
3-13	The disinformers are winning, but mostly with the GOP
3-12	Friday roundup, March 12, 2010
3-12	Doris "Granny D" Haddock, American Patriot - Granny D: Money is Stealing Our Democracy
3-12	Fees taken out of public campaign financing plan
3-12	Debate Round Two: Blankenship - Kennedy
3-12	Round 2: Blankenship versus RFK Jr. on Mountaintop Removal
3-12	W.V. Supreme Court declines to reconsider decision rejecting verdict against Massey Energy - W.Va. SC won't rehear controversial $50M case
3-12	Watch "Coal Country" - Win a Prize!
3-12	Why America is Starting to Burn: Political Gridlock and Violent Insurrection
3-12	Tennessee must ban mountaintop removal
3-12	Court to hear Chief Logan drilling appeal
3-12	Constitutional amendment moves to Senate Finance
3-12	Sen. Rockefeller introduces legislation to delay EPA power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
3-12	How Mountaintop Removal Mining hurts the honeybee
3-12	Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
3-12	Community Briefs: Filmmaker to discuss women
3-12	Arch Coal buys minority stake in Texas power plant
3-12	Daniel Martin Moore objects to mountaintop-removal mining with quiet, reasoned outrage
3-12	Open Thread: Climate-Change Skeptics
3-12	Out of step
3-12	Souring seas - Seas' acidity threatens life, livelihoods, film says
3-11	Poverty and tyranny central to immoral practice of mountain destruction, water and air poisoning
3-11	Why wont W.Va. political leaders educate the public about climate change science?
3-11	Group names Alexander 'Defender of the Mountains' - Citizens gather in Washington to end 'mountain bombing' of Appalachia
3-11	Julie Archer and Carol Warren: Finance court elections
3-11	Former mine boss pleads to lying about methane levels
3-11	Mine board rules for ICG in Taylor County case
3-11	W.Va. getting attention for election funding bill - Voters want candidates to use taxpayer money in W.Va., poll shows
3-11	Proposed fees may doom W.Va. election funding bill
3-11	Daily Scandal: Free Big Coal Window Ads in Inhofe and Senate Enviro Committee Office? (Photos)
3-11	Big Coal PR in Action: Report Outlines Impact of EPA Attack on Coal
3-11	Supreme Court set to consider appeal of Chief Logan State Park gas drilling
3-11	W.Va. demands details on gas drillers' water use
3-11	Shale Gas Could Supply 100 Years Of Consumption
3-11	Obama Aide Urges Listing Of Gas-Drilling Chemicals
3-11	Science Academies to Assess Climate Assessors - World's top scientists to review climate panel
3-11	Clean coal? Obama funds research to capture carbon - Dear Vinod Khosla and Tom Friedman: No Amount of Sequestration Will Make Coal "Clean" - Let's Not Forget: Even Without CO2, Coal Would Still Be Very Dirty
3-11	Sasol may abandon fuel liquids plant - Sasol may abandon fuel liquids plant if no govt funding: paper
3-11	Will God Move Mountains in Tennessee?
3-11	There and back again - Kayford Mountain
3-11	Rhythm & Blues come to Timberline Resort next weekend
3-11	Meet the Band: Daniel Martin Moore and Ben Sollee - Dear Companion brings message and glorious music to Albany
3-11	Earth Quaker Action Team Confronts PNC Bank at Flower Show
3-10	Goodbye Granny D - Granny D speaks on MTR - When Granny D was in WV - 'Granny D' Dead: Doris Haddock, Campaign Finance Reform Activist, Dies At 100
3-10	Mountaintop mining critics descend on Washington
3-10	Mattea Urges Lawmakers To Curb Mountaintop Mining
3-10	Manchin receives power measure that would give big users flexible rates
3-10	Dear Vinod Khosla and Tom Friedman: No Amount of Sequestration Will Make Coal "Clean"
3-10	Let's Not Forget: Even Without CO2, Coal Would Still Be Very Dirty
3-10	Suit claims massive fraud over Centralia Mine fire - Pa. coal town above mine fire claims massive fraud
3-10	Contractor cited for fatal W.Va. mining accident
3-10	Mr. Patriotism Fueling China and India's Surge: Massey ready to ship to China
3-10	Public meeting March 16 on fly ash storage conversion plan
3-10	Wyoming Supreme Court upholds coal plant permit
3-10	When Goods Get Traded, Who Pays for the CO2?
3-9	EPA chief: Mountaintop-removal guidelines coming soon - EPAs Jackson: Mining guidelines coming soon - Obama EPA stalling mountaintop removal decisions
3-9	Call to end mountain top removal coal mining March 9, 2010
3-9	What Congressman Nick Rahall could be doing about mountaintop removal coal mining
3-9	Bill to protect waterways clears one committee hurdle
3-9	W. Pa. mine firm buys museum with Quecreek history
3-8	Bill designed to protect access to rural cemeteries
3-8	USA Today carries OVEC's staffer column
3-8	Why won't coal industry denounce violence?
3-8	Selenium part one
3-8	Not One More Mountain!
3-8	Three sites in former state coal camp to be preserved
3-8	The Women I Love (on Women's Day): Agitators Who Stand Up to Big Coal
3-8	After spill, muck disposal spreads toxin fears
3-8	Who owns our wildlife? Whose planet is it, anyway?
3-8	Mountaintop Removal Concert Signals Move to PR in Face of Lawmaking Hurdles
3-8	Coal's Legacy : Mercury Contamination
3-7	EPA delays action on mountaintop removal plan
3-7	OVEC activist Gunnoe honored for lifetime achievement
3-7	WJU Event Will Focus on Climate Change
3-7	Strip mining a violation of the land (scroll down)
3-7	In Aftermath of Ash Spill, a New Round of Challenges
3-7	No signs of life from 31 trapped in Chinese mine
3-7	Nuclear Money Meltdown
3-7	FirstEnergy putting a stake in Montana
3-7	Mountaintop Removal Mining Kills Fish
3-7	Power struggle
3-6	All Fish in U.S. Streams Found Contaminated with Mercury
3-6	EPA again punting on Spruce Mine decision - Decision on Spruce Mine veto delayed three more weeks - EPA wants more time for Spruce Mine decision
3-6	Sen. Robert C. Byrd: Majestic mountains are Gods gift to West Virginia
3-6	The Rape of AppalachiaAn Appeal to the American People - Also published here
3-6	Mine foreman: I was ordered to fake safety data
3-6	Indian company buys Scott Depot mining firm
3-6	Democrats Air First Ads In KY-Sen Race
3-6	WVEC Green Legislative Update March 5
3-6	Methane escaping from Arctic faster than expected and could stoke global warming, warn scientists - Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way
3-6	Green Concert of the Year: Dave Matthews Headlines Music Bash to End Mountaintop Removal - Music Saves Mountains Concert: Tickets on Sale Now
3-6	NRDC Cranks Up the Tunes and the Fight Against Mountaintop Removal
3-6	Officials OK plan to drill Marcellus shale for natural gas
3-6	Looming Climate Regulations Put EPA in Conservatives' Cross Hairs
3-6	Meet filmmaker David Novack at Farmer's Market Institute Movie Night!
3-6	Lawmakers From Coal States Seek to Delay Emission Limits - Lawmakers move to restrain EPA on climate change
3-6	Record Number of U.S. Companies Face Shareholder Concerns About Climate Risks; 40% Leap in Shareholder Resolutions; Coal Ash Gets Targeted - Shareholder Climate Resolutions Up 40%
3-6	Review says global warming is man-made
3-6	Glacier melting a key clue to tracking climate change
3-6	Escalating Sanctions Against Mountain Top Removal Activists
3-6	Disposal of spilled coal ash a long, winding trip
3-6	Coal Ash: The Photo Project
3-6	Boycott the Logan Banner
3-6	CD Review: Dear Companion is a lovely record of discontent
3-6	Defendants claim "moral imperative" in Massey suit
3-6	US coal stocks up on talk of Massey-Patriot bid
3-5	Friday roundup, March 5, 2010
3-5	Small town hero - Take Action: Donate!
3-5	Take Action by March 15: Vote Online for Wise Energy and Sustainable Economic Diversification and Development Project
3-5	April 16: Tree Huggers' Ball
3-5	Coal fly ash use and disposal questioned - Delay in Coal Ash Decision Irresponsible Say Environmental Groups
3-5	Sen. Byrd splits with Rocky IV on bill to block EPA from issuing greenhouse gas limits
3-5	Jay seeks to delay EPA greenhouse gas rules - Rocky IV seeks more delay in greenhouse gas controls, but offers no plan of his own - Lawmakers seek EPA delay - Rockefeller, Rahall urge EPA not to regulate power plants' CO2 pollution - Sen. Rockefeller Seeks EPA Carbon Rule Delay
3-5	A eulogy for Senate Bill 700 (and other dead bills)
3-5	WV environmental secretary upset with federal regulations
3-5	WVDEP Seeks Input On Narrative Criteria Protocol - DEP Seeks Ideas for Implementing Narrative Water Quality Criteria
3-5	Activists plan DC protest against mountaintop removal
3-5	Environmentalists ask BLM to stop sale of Mon Forest oil, gas leases
3-5	Patriot Coal disciplines 3 as mine probe continues
3-5	Methane Bubbles In Arctic Seas Stir Warming Fears
3-5	Arctic Melt To Cost Up To $24 Trillion By 2050: Report
3-5	Santa Fe Farmers' Market Institute March Movie
3-5	EPA's Lisa Jackson and the Science of Mountaintop Removal
3-5	Service, Learning, World Study UC Students Look Ahead to Spring Break
3-5	Humane Society Honors Champion of Destructive Mountaintop Removal Mining
3-5	Local clubs to screen mining documentary at Amherst Town Library
3-4	WVDEP trying to head off EPA on mining limits? - DEP secretary tells senators EPA is ignoring state
3-4	WVDEP stalling on selenium again?
3-4	Let us CHASE the Devil out of Mountain-top Removal!
3-4	Call Sen. Jim Webb: Virginia is for Lovers (of Clean American Power), Not Dirty Coal
3-4	Federal No. 2 mine reopens - Federal No. 2 Mine resumes production
3-4	TVA suspends fly ash work after injury
3-4	With deadline looming, senators pass prescription drug, power line bills
3-4	Jay is two-faced on peoples' health
3-4	Grassroots Organization Presents Mountaintop Removal
3-4	Dept. of Protests: Mountaintop removal edition (OVEC photo)
3-4	How the Bush Administration changed one word and aided the destruction of the Appalachia
3-3	Help Turn the Lights Out on Mountaintop Removal in Twilight
3-3	Mountaintop removal is a major violation of nature with deadly consequencesFire-Earth
3-3	Mountaintop removal: Then and now
3-3	Eating Appalachia: NASA satellite images reveal mountain cannibalism for coal - Watch a Mountaintop Disappear
3-3	Hold accountable politicians who aid mountaintop mining
3-3	Mining protesters appeal to state court - Protesters take case to W.Va. Supreme Court - Mining protesters file appeal
3-3	Support Grassroots Sustainable Economic Development in the Coalfields!
3-3	Jeff Biggers Reveals Coal's Dirty Secrets From the Heartland
3-3	Mountaintop Removal: You May Be More Connected Than You Think
3-3	US Senate's top climate sceptic accused of waging 'McCarthyite witch-hunt'
3-3	Nuclear projects face financial obstacles
3-3	Second John Amos contractor sues AEP for injuries
3-3	Grassroots Organization Presents Mountaintop Removal
3-3	Coal power or brain power?
3-3	UNC-Duke Coal Wars?
3-3	Songwriter to perform at UU Congregation
3-3	Earthlust's GreenMarch Campaign To Focus on Environmental Justice
3-2	Activists Appeal To WV Supreme Court
3-2	Environmental Protection Council bill advances
3-2	From coal to clean energy: an Iraq war veteran's next fight
3-2	More Than 40 Rallied at EPA Today; Asking Agency to End Mountaintop Removal - Philadelphia activists rally & risk arrest to tell the EPA no more MTR - Atlanta Activists to EPA Region 4: No New MTR Permits!
3-2	Rush on gas-well drilling bill unfair, owners group says - Groups Work Together to Fight Hydrofracking
3-2	Natural Gas Tilts at Windmills in Power Feud
3-2	Mountaintop removal is beautiful!
3-2	Same, tired points from mine interests - Use of coal always means dirty source - Clean coal is a myth
3-2	Book Alert / Reckoning at Eagle Creek
3-2	Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris head benefit
3-2	China flooded mine traps dozens in Inner Mongolia
3-2	Pellissippi States Division Street Campus hosts environmental speaker
3-2	Methane test issue started more than a year ago, mine foreman says
3-2	AEP requesting 8.2 percent rate hike
3-2	EPA Drastically Underestimates Coal Waste Pollution - Coal Ash Stories Highlight the Problems
3-2	Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics
3-2	Making Our Voice Heard on Climate Change
3-2	Good Chance WV will Publicly Finance 2012 Supreme Court Races
3-1	Mountaintop Mining Poisons Fish
3-1	United Mine Workers of America to the Movement against Mountain Top Removal
3-1	The Environmental Activists of Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice Stand Up to Big Coal in West Virginia
3-1	Mountain Justice Dispatch #2
3-1	MARFORK COAL COMPANY v. SMITH
3-1	Appalachian Coal's Dirty Trail
3-1	Film explores mountaintop removal mining
3-1	Federal No. 2: Hilda Solis and Joe Main speak
3-1	The Post's Appalachia is not the one we know
3-1	Another letter to the editor from Massey CEO Blankenship: Manmade warming exposed as a hoax
3-1	IPCC looks to vet, report climate-science better
3-1	How do you convince people of global warming in a snowstorm?
3-1	Australia: Officials gagged over mine fears
3-1	The Truth is Out There

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