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6-30	EPA gives tentative OK to Logan mining permit
6-30	Much-Lauded Strict Mountaintop Mining Guidelines Not So Strict
6-30	Byrd memorial to be held Thursday, Friday at state Capitol - Obama, Biden to attend service for Byrd - WV Public Radio Coverage of Senator Robert C. Byrd - Senator Byrd: His Legacy vs. His Vision
6-30	Congress proposes mine bill to crack down on repeat violators - New mine safety legislation unveiled
6-30	Masseys Bandmill Coal Plant Ablaze in West Virginia
6-30	Julian Martin: What is Huffman's job, anyway?
6-30	MSHA: 7 state mines dropped from violator list due to lack of funding
6-30	Mapping step begins in Upper Big Branch probe
6-30	Byrd's Late Coal Conversion
6-30	Salon: Byrd: An astonishing career, missteps and all
6-30	Washington comes to Asheville (and vice versa)
6-30	Warning of refugees from climate change
6-30	Australian Summit to Boost Global Defenses against Climate Change
6-29	Coal Tattoo: Manchin WVDEP hires lawyers to challenge EPAs efforts to curb mountaintop removal damage
6-29	Charleston Gazette: Over the years, Byrd evolved on coal stance
6-29	Coal Tattoo: Will Gov. Manchin have a pro-coal litmus test for Sen. Robert C. Byrds temporary replacement?
6-29	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Officials, diverse groups remember Sen. Byrd fondly
6-29	National Geographic: Coal Firms to Strip-Mine Historic Battlefield?
6-29	Coal Tattoo: Massey challenges MSHA over disaster investigation policies at Upper Big Branch Mine
6-29	Coal Tattoo: Sen. Byrd speaks on coal-mine safety: After Sago and Aracoma, plenty of blame to go around - Sen. Byrd speaks: My first speech
6-29	Charleston Gazette: The remarkable evolution of Robert C. Byrd -Byrd's absence could make his impact more apparent
6-29	WV Public Radio: Byrds big impact on WVs economy - Ken Hechler remembers Sen. Byrd - Code requires two elections in 2012 for Byrd's term
6-29	Huntington Herald Dispatch: State to feel loss of expert in earmarking
6-29	ISS: From prejudice to progress: The political evolution of Sen. Robert Byrd
6-29	Manchin won't appoint himself as Byrd successor
6-29	Wheeling Jesuit to host mine safety symposium
6-29	What I Learned in Detroit
6-28	Robert C. Byrd: 1917-2010 - Robert Byrd, Respected Voice of the Senate, Dies at 92 - Pork or progress? Either way, Byrd changed WVa - Sen. Robert C. Byrd remembered
6-28	Byrd advocated for mine health and safety
6-28	Renewable energy bill to test Pennsylvania's House Coal Caucus
6-28	The Canary in the Coal Mine: Stopping Climate Change - Ted Nace: Climate Hope
6-28	Why mercury is more dangerous in oceans
6-27	While cutting back enforcement, MSHA asked for no new money
6-27	Lawton Posey: 'Plundering Appalachia' is thought provoking
6-27	Mountaintop mining must be stopped
6-27	BP accused of killing endangered sea turtles in cleanup operation - Oil spill efforts ramp up as storm eyed anxiously
6-27	Fox "News" is BP oil spill misinformation clearinghouse
6-27	Vanity Fair: A Colossal Fracking Mess
6-27	Should the US lean more on natural gas in its energy mix?
6-26	Ex-Massey chairman funds mine-ventilation research - Former Massey chairman funds ventilation research
6-26	MSHA: Underground probe starts in W.Va. - MSHA kicks off probe of Upper Big Branch blast
6-26	U.S. Wants Lawsuit by Miners' Widows Thrown Out
6-26	Is It Energys Turn Now?
6-26	Dave Matthews Advocates the End of Mountaintop Removal Mining
6-26	Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP Announces $75 Million Settlement Reached in Landmark Environmental Property Case
6-26	The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
6-26	Dire climate change warning to Australia
6-25	Kentucky miner dies underground near Hazard - More bad news: Another miner dies in Kentucky
6-25	What can we learn from Randy Huffmans gaffe?
6-25	IMPORTANT UPDATE (IV): Historic Blair Mountain Abandonment Process
6-25	Coal Ash Proposal Open for Public Comment - EPA opens comment period on coal ash designation, disposal rule
6-25	Feds OK disaster declaration for 4 W.Va. counties
6-25	Chamber terms report anti-coal, mockery of research (Chamber needs to remove blinder$)
6-25	The Oil Spill's Worst-Case Scenario?
6-25	Study Says Natural Gas Use Likely to Double
6-25	Big Coal: damaging communities from Appalachia to Colombia
6-25	Va.: Uranium Mining: On Hold
6-25	Lawsuit attacks coal ash dumping in Ala.
6-25	If MSHA needed more resources for safety enforcement, why didnt President Obama ask?
6-25	Safety Agency Faulted for Limiting Mine Oversight
6-25	UN talks chief 'appalled' over climate change response
6-25	Climate change poses economic threat
6-25	Defense Experts Want More Explicit Climate Models
6-25	This year in global warming
6-24	Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world - BP Removes Containment Cap At Gulf Spill Site - Oil sludge washes in Florida, dolphin stranded
6-24	WVDEP's Randy Huffman on mining permits: "If what EPA is doing is illegal, they will pay the price." - DEP official apologizes to EPA for remark
6-24	BP, Climate Blues? ON COAL RIVER Film Arrives in DC with Triumphant Story of Nation's Most Inspiring, Fearless Activists (Trailer)
6-24	Rep. Rahall, Cecil Roberts warn of potential insolvency of UMWA pension plan - UMW warns of major pension funding problems
6-24	IG report: MSHA excludes mines from enforcement reviews
6-24	Wendell Berry pulling his personal papers from UK
6-24	Coal mine owner sues federal government over ventilation regulations - MSHA calls Massey ventilation lawsuit curious - MSHA Responds to Massey Lawsuit - Massey lawyers get into the act in companys battle with MSHA over ventilation plans
6-24	Group discusses coal minings impact
6-24	Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
6-24	Appalachian Voices Sing for the Mountains
6-24	Alabama: Smith Lake Stripmine Request Denied!
6-24	Ky. cites Alliance Coal-owned company 3 times
6-23	Must read report: Coal industry costs W.Va. state budget $97.5 million a year more than it generates - Report: Coal Costs Taxpayers More Than it Gives Back - Report: Coal costs W.Va. budget more than it pays - Is coal really worth it in West Virginia? - New report claims coal costs West Virginia taxpayers money - The Cost Of Coal in W.Va. - Report says coal cost W.Va. $97 million in 2009 - New report claims coal costs W.Va. taxpayers money
6-23	DEP predicts W.Va. clash with EPA may go to court
6-23	Massey Energy sues MSHA over mine ventilation
6-23	Massey fined for violations at W.Va. mine
6-23	Newtown Energy cited for faulty cable in miner's death - More about how miners die: Newtown Energy cited in October hoist-haulage death in W.Va.
6-23	Variety: On Coal River - Silverdocs film festival addresses pollution in Cambodia and West Virginia - Come See On Coal River in DC
6-23	Hearing set Wednesday on Rep. Rahalls bill to transfer mine cleanup money to UMWA pensions
6-23	Four Possible BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come
6-23	Even the coal industry's best friends are giving it the bad news: Demand is declining, reserves are vanishing, mountaintop removal is unacceptable, and emissions must be reduced. Slowly, surely, the United States is moving past coal.
6-23	Teams are Back In UBB for the 15th Time
6-23	The End of Coal
6-23	Had it with Massey
6-23	Navajo Nation must move away from coal mining
6-23	Africa told to lead climate change war
6-23	China: Coal mine where 47 miners killed operates illegally: officials
6-22	Feds seek public comment on stream rules for coal
6-22	State regulators scramble to keep up with gas drilling
6-22	Patriot to close Boone coal mine
6-22	The Ugliness of Extraction, from Appalachia to Alberta
6-22	Arizona's Other Problem: Will Big Coal Power Line Destroy Solar Boom, Endangered Grasslands, Pioneer Heritage?
6-22	Latest Kentucky coal fatality involved retreat mining
6-21	Coal mine explosives blast kills 46 in China
6-21	Lawmakers screen film on coal
6-21	Tennant makes first contribution to public funding for Supreme Court races
6-21	Teams Expected Back At W.Va. Mine Monday
6-21	Natural gas leases, royalties vary widely
6-21	Arsenic high in water sample near Duke plant
6-21	Oceans choking on CO2, study finds
6-21	How climate change and pollution affect ocean chemistry
6-20	A Bad Day for BP and Mr. Barton
6-20	Consol acquires land around W.Va. mines
6-19	Victims blame recent logging, mining for recurring floods
6-19	Coal pit spill causes severe mudslide - Mingo County mine cleaning up from landslide
6-19	Church & State Meet on Eco-Justice: A Profile of Carol Warren
6-19	Obama administration ends fast-tracking of mountaintop removal mining permits
6-19	Developers say West Virginia to Maryland power line needed by June 2015
6-19	Duke should give up non-sustainable coal
6-19	West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, coal and climate change: The facts are already changing
6-19	BP's Gulf well holds enough oil to spew out for two years, claim expert
6-18	Coal miner killed by falling beam in Kentucky
6-18	Logan County residents claim mountaintop removal is to blame for extensive flood damage - Flooding Causes Millions of Dollars in Damage to W.Va. Roads
6-18	Corps suspends streamlined mining permits - Army Corps of Engineers Suspends Nationwide Permit for Mountaintop Removal Mining - Expedited mine permitting suspended in Appalachia - Valley Fill Permitting to Become More Difficult
6-19	More lawsuits filed over coals selenium pollution - New lawsuits target selenium pollution
6-18	Sen. Rockefeller: Abandon climate legislation
6-18	New Chapter of Marsh Fork Elementary
6-18	Formal order issued to reinstate Massey miner
6-18	16 miners killed, dozens trapped in Colombia
6-17	Blair Mountain battle continues
6-17	Environmental group to hold September 27 event in D.C.
6-17	BP says it's sorry, guarantees $20B for Gulf - BP to Suspend Dividend and Set Up Claim Fund
6-17	Upper Big Branch update: Yet another reason to open up the disaster investigation to the public
6-17	Groups seek air pollution limits for coal mines
6-17	Corporate Governance Gets Personal: The Mess At Massey Energy
6-17	Tennessee fines TVA $11.5 million for coal ash spill, but is it enough? - Ash spill penalties could have been harsher
6-17	Climate change may cause Alps to become more dangerous, study suggests
6-17	Massey Energy Co. must be held accountable for deaths
6-16	Groups to call for end of mountaintop mines - Groups plan mountaintop removal protest in D.C. - Citizen groups announce Appalachia Rising - Opponents taking mountaintop fight to D.C. - 'Appalachia Rising' Announced in Charleston
6-16	Take Action: Stop the Blasting of Pine Creek, West Virginia
6-16	Funding OKd to replace W.Va. coalfields school
6-16	State considers abandoning Blair Mountain road - State weighs abandoning road at Blair Mountain - Take Action
6-16	Teams find a crack, floor damage in Upper Big Branch - Massey says teams find crack in W.Va. mine's floor - Crack found in floor of West Virginia mine where 29 men died
6-16	Carbon capture plans failing - IEA
6-16	Rockefeller: Out of step with coal state Democrats?
6-16	Scranton Residents Seek Help in Fight Against Coal Plant
6-15	Stopping selenium: Judge Chambers criticizes compliance delays by Patriot Coal, WVDEP - Judge blasts Hobet, DEP for selenium stonewalling
6-15	Spill at base of valley fill on Clear Fork of Coal River
6-15	Wyoming and McDowell to start recovery process again - Davy is ground zero for weekend flooding - Latest flood driving Logan grocery out - Southern WV hit again with flooding
6-15	SBA agrees to provide remaining money for Marsh Fork school
6-15	Twilight of the Coal Era?
6-15	Greed Explains the Disasters and the Lying Afterwards
6-15	Teams to plug hole in W.Va. gas well blast Tuesday
6-15	Coal-Mountain Mama Julia Bonds Talks to the Tree-Huggers
6-15	As Anti-Coal Activism Goes Global, Political Space for Policy Change Opens (Part I)
6-15	On Coal River
6-15	Obama Urges Congress to Enact New Climate Law
6-15	Coal Free Future Project's 'Across the Stones of Fire' Ends 6/13
6-15	Stanford Poll Shows 75 Percent of Americans Believe in Global Warming
6-15	Searching in vain for an ashamed executive
6-14	Flooding hits southern counties
6-14	More Money Needed
6-14	NIOSH advances research on mine seals at site near Morgantown
6-14	BP Is Destroying Evidence and Censoring Journalists
6-13	Opponents plan to take mountaintop fight to D.C. - Taking Mountaintop Mining Opposition to Capitol Hill
6-13	Kathy Selvage: How long must tragedy speak? - We can no longer ignore our energy crisis
6-13	Sen. Robert C. Byrd: America needs a major new energy policy with transformative new investments in the future of West Virginia
6-13	Gulf spill helps revive left-for-dead energy legislation
6-13	MSHA shakes up disaster team after learning of 'methane outbursts'
6-13	Massey slurry pollution case is reassigned
6-13	Massey denies Sierra Club lawsuit claims on water
6-13	How long will West Virginia pay the high cost of coal?
6-13	Ex-Massey Miner Gets Job Back Temporarily - Judge Orders Massey Whistleblower Back To Work
6-13	Massey: Teams pump water out of W.Va. mine
6-13	Subpoenas issued in W.Va. mine explosion probe
6-13	Rand Paul on mountaintop removal: "I dont think anyones going to be missing a hill or two here and there"
6-13	Report: Climate Change Will Lead to Food Shortages
6-13	Residents worry about pollution from coal plant
6-12	Coalition of Environmental Groups form Appalachia Rising
6-12	Duke rethinking options on use of mountaintop coal
6-12	Oil spill worse than first feared
6-12	State issues subpoenas in Upper Big Branch probe
6-11	Sen. Byrd: A vote for Murkowski resolution is a vote to dismiss scientific facts about climate change
6-11	Sen. Rockefeller on climate change rules: I dont want EPA turning out the lights on America
6-11	Byrd, Rockefeller split on climate vote
6-11	PATH future still uncertain
6-11	WV DEP suspends state operations of company with gas well permit - Investigation continues at gas drilling explosion site
6-11	Duke Energy Seeks Bids For Mountaintop-Free Coal
6-11	Massey CEO to governors: Coal miners at risk from MSHA - Massey can't identify mines threatened by MSHA air plans
6-11	Former Aracoma Inspector: Massey Fought, Violated Ventilation Rules
6-11	Alabama coal miner killed in surface explosion
6-11	Another example of how miners die
6-11	Exam done of key area in W.Va. mine disaster
6-11	Proposed mine concerns Monongalia County residents
6-11	Coming Soon: "The Coal War"
6-11	Mountaintop Revival at the West Virginia State Theater!
6-11	Dozens oppose proposed power plant at Clark County hearing
6-11	Big Oil Gushing Influence in Washington
6-11	Saudis block call for global warming report
6-11	Global warming spells doom for Asia's rivers
6-11	MSHA: Teams reach working face of W.Va. mine
6-11	Whistleblower says Massey fired him for talking to media
6-11	Duke Energy looks at costs to avoid mining issue
6-10	Corps approves Ohio surface mine permit
6-10	Ashley Judd criticizes federal government for supporting mountaintop removal mining - Ashley Judd in Washington DC talking coal mining in the Appalachian Mountains - Ashley Judd Speaks Out Against Mountain Top Removal At Washington D.C. Luncheon - Ashley Judd - Judd Protests Against Mountain Mining
6-10	Proposed Va. mountaintop coal mine challenged
6-10	Manchin praises Sen. Rockefeller for climate stance
6-10	Mine probe focuses on 'methane outbursts' at Upper Big Branch - Mine disaster update: Investigators focused on Upper Big Branchs history of methane outbursts
6-10	Massey Questions MSHA Practices at Upper Big Branch
6-10	Investigators re-enter Massey mine after lightning
6-10	Whitesville seeks funding for permanent miners memorial
6-10	Mountains of coal
6-10	WVU Tech Selenium Process May Help Coal Industry
6-10	Tenn.: Senate Votes Down Effort to Revive 'Mountaintop Removal' Bill - Berke Disappointed On Mountaintop Removal Vote
6-10	Global warming concerns rising in US
6-9	Legislators discuss alternative slurry technologies - Lawmakers Examine Ways to Store Coal Slurry - As coal slurry complaints persist, lawmakers consider scientific approaches
6-9	Rockefeller to support Murkowski climate bill
6-9	Masseys Don Blankenship steps up efforts to point fingers at MSHA in Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster
6-9	MSHA loses major pattern of violations case against Massey Energy
6-9	UMWAs Roberts: Why does oil disaster get a public hearing, while mine disaster probe goes on in secret? - Cecil E. Roberts: A tale of two tragedies
6-9	Lightning, weather force teams out of W.Va. mine
6-9	CalSTRS signs on to lawsuit against Massey Energy - Calif. teachers pension sues Massey Energy
6-8	Close Senate Vote Seen On EPA Climate Powers - Thursday Is High Noon for Sen. Murkowski's Climate Resolution - Please Call Today: Oppose the Murkowski Resolution
6-8	Ready to Rumble: A Global Movement Is Bringing Down King Coal One Power Plant at a Time
6-8	Slurry study finally being finalized? - WVU study on slurry effects nears completion - DEP, legislators await coal slurry health report
6-8	W.Va. gas well blast injures 7; flames now 40 feet - Flames still shooting, gas well explosion injures 7 - Drilling company has been cited for previous problems
6-8	Factbox: U.S. Energy Disasters in 2010 - Gas Blast Rocks Texan Town
6-8	Lexington Protest Shames PNCs Mountaintop Removal Financing - Protesters march against mountaintop mining, PNC Bank
6-8	Duke seeks cost of mountain-top removal coal - Mountain mining of coal examined - Duke seeks costs of mountaintop coal mining
6-8	Teams spend 8 hours exploring Upper Big Branch - Mine safety officials return to site of deadly UBB mine blast
6-8	Safety problems mounting at Federal No. 2
6-8	Appalachian Power reaches 7.4 percent rate hike settlement
6-8	Tenn. Sen. Berke on Forcing a 'Mountaintop Removal' Vote
6-8	U.S. Rules For New Drilling Permits May Be Ready Tuesday
6-8	NY Times: Listen to the miners
6-8	Many Sources Beyond Budgets Seen For Climate Funds
6-8	The 'other' spill BP will be keeping quiet
6-8	Former Massey Miner Files Whistleblower Complaint
6-8	Health fears for Lithgow residents amid coal boom
6-7	DEP, legislators await coal slurry health report
6-7	Mingo coal slurry cases moved to Jackson
6-7	Historian questions W.Va. museum's coal displays
6-7	TVA may have weakened EPA's coal ash stance‎
6-7	Why activists hope oil spill could be a wake-up call; Blast: miner at Upper Big Branch
6-7	Like Blowing Up the Alps: Is Swiss Bank UBS the Last Financier of Massey's Big Coal Mayhem?
6-7	Charges of Whitewashing Cloud Mine Safety Investigations
6-7	Return to inside W.Va. mine could come Monday
6-7	Coal advocates defend black jobs
6-7	BP Pays Out Claims, but Satisfaction Is Not Included - Coast Guard Sees Cleanup of Spill Lasting Until the Fall - BP device begins collecting oil, but too late for Florida coast
6-7	UN warns climate change could trigger 'mega-disasters'
6-7	Gauley River Named in 2010 Endangered Rivers List - List of Top 10 Endangered Rivers Includes Two That Flow Through The National Park System
6-7	Michigan: State should continue to wean itself off coal
6-7	6 Miners Rescued From Flooded Coal Mine In China‎
6-6	Citizen Action Stops Funding of Mountain Top Removal: You Can be An Agent of Change - An Uprising Against Mountaintop Removal
6-6	Gas spews from N.W. Pa. well rupture
6-6	On Gulf Coast: 'It's a nightmare'; Tar-thick oil spreads death, destruction farther along - BP captures 6,000 barrels of oil from leaking well
6-6	Fracking, Oil Sands, and Deep-Water Drilling The dangerous new era of "extreme energy"
6-6	Dont Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even.
6-6	U.S. owes dead coal miners real change
6-6	Obama's crude awakening: In wake of the Gulf disaster, he needs to think big - especially on energy
6-6	Mine collapses a reminder of the impacts of coal energy
6-6	Tenn.: Tempers flare in Capitol debates
6-6	One body retrieved, 10 still trapped in flooded China coal mine
6-6	Teams re-enter coal mine in West Virginia
6-6	First Energy, Allegheny seek Va. OK for merger
6-5	EPA veto of W.Va. strip mine draws 1,300 comments
6-5	Gas spews from N.W. Pa. well rupture
6-5	The Oil Spills Gruesome Toll
6-5	EPA Sets First New Coal Pollution Limits in Nearly 40 Years
6-5	Mountaintop Mining Threatens One of Americas Best White Water Rivers
6-5	Organization pushes for manslaughter prosecution of Massey Energy
6-5	Capraesque Miracles: Chase Bank Stops Bankrolling Mountaintop Removal
6-5	Reverend Billy at the world premiere of ON COAL RIVER
6-4	Environmental activists go up against Massey mining
6-4	Jim Sconyers: Let's face it: Coal kills, and so does oil
6-4	The Next Great Coal Spill? Masseys Billion Gallon Disaster in Waiting
6-4	Exploration of mine where 29 died to resume Monday
6-4	Massey urges Congress to hold off safety reforms
6-3	Cost: Ugly energy price
6-3	In oil spill shadow, Obama pledges energy bill push
6-3	Dangerous gases delay mine teams at Upper Big Branch
6-3	Gauley, Monongahela among nation's most 'endangered' rivers
6-2	Gauley, Monongahela among nation's most 'endangered' rivers - America's Most Endangered Rivers: 2010 Edition - Group lists America's 10 most endangered rivers - Gauley River: Endangered by Mountaintop Removal
6-2	EPA objects to 13 permits extending selenium deadline
6-2	Ison Rock Ridge mining opponents havent given up the fight
6-2	Investigators to make first visit to W.Va. mine - Mine teams prepare to enter Upper Big Branch
6-2	Washington Post: Mine safety often a battle between regulators and companies
6-2	Why coal miners die
6-2	Former Massey miner 'feels sorry' for current workers
6-2	Maldives urges climate change action
6-2	US prepares for climate burden
6-2	Mine Disaster? What Mine Disaster? Massey Energy Touts Its 2009 Safety Award
6-1	Our tragic reliance on fossil fuels
6-1	Mine inspection blitz brings 128 citations; 2 mines closed
6-1	Blast survivor's son: 'April 5 was the end of my mining career'
6-1	Two scientists honored for work at Ches. bio lab
6-1	Louisianan Becomes Face of Anger on Spill
6-1	BP Tries Again to Divert Oil Leak With Dome - BP's new plan risks worsening oil spill
6-1	Women's Role in a Warming World
6-1	Investors Press Power Companies For Plans On Coal-Ash Waste‎

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