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7-31
ABC News: West Virginia Mountains Flattened to Retrieve Coal
7-31
Ardmore woman sits in West Virginia tree to protest coal mining practices  - Tree Sit on Coal River Mountain: Day Ten Update
7-31
Committee holds Marcellus hearing in Morgantown - The Promise and Peril of Shale Gas Fracking
7-31
Extra 60,000 Cancer Cases from Mountaintop Removal
7-31
Big Coal Means Poverty  
7-31
Erik Reese: EPA finally doing its job in coalfields
7-31
Coal official: Gov.'s aide gave heads-up on firing
7-31
List of Legislative Riders on H.R.2584, The Interior & Environment Approps bill for FY12
7-31
$100 Million Wyoming  UnClean Coal Plant Suspended - Do clean coal proponents actually want clean coal?
7-31
Death toll in Ukraine mining accidents rises to 27
7-31
Ohio governor gushes over new natural gas find
7-31
Coal ash raises health and environmental concerns in Kentucky
7-31
Valley fill strip mining is too destructive
7-31
AARP The Magazine: Documentary details the dark and dusty secret that is mountaintop removal coal mining
7-31
A Future Without Coal: In New Mexico Supreme Court, Again
7-31
This week in global-warming denial
7-31
More Than 170,000 Americans Urge EPA to Protect our Waterways
7-31
Annals of the Republican war on EPA regulation of coal, cont'd...
7-31
Why Does Massey Energy Get Away With Murder While Environmentalists Are Sent to Prison?
7-31
Valley fill strip mining is too destructive
7-31
Enabling coal exports clouds environmental, economic goals
7-31
TVA IG's study more fuel for tougher regs
7-30
Tree-sitters take up residence to fight strip mining - For Judy Bonds: Historic Tree-Sit on Coal River Mountain Enters 10th Day
7-30
Living on Earth: Dr. Michael Hendryx, measuring minings toll on health
7-30
Earth Sky News: Mining and cancer linked in Appalachia, says study
7-30
WVCA Seeks to Dismiss Blair Mountain Suit
7-30
Tomblin orders review of State Museum's coal displays
7-30
Michael Brune and Michael R. Bloomberg: Why America Has to Get Off Coal
7-30
Girl Remains in Critical Condition after Coal Truck Slams into Church Bus - Coal truck and church bus collide
7-30
Debt ceiling proposals not so eco-friendly If your drinking water isnt safe the EPA cant help you
7-30
Drilling company to repair damaged W.Va. roads
7-30
The Last Mountain takes on the coal industry
7-30
Mine Explosion in Ukraine Kills 17
7-29
Study Finds Higher Cancer Rates in Mountaintop Mining Areas - Cancer Rates Higher Near Mountaintop Removal Sites - New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Cases of Cancer in Appalachia
7-29
Miner electrocuted in McDowell County - Another coal miner dies in West Virginia - After optimistic MSHA report, 3 more coal deaths - Results of latest MSHA impact inspections
7-29
EPA proposes air pollution rules for fracking
7-29
Boulder crashes through home in Perry County
7-29
Tennant Requests Supreme Court Public Financing Be Added To Special Session
7-29
Massey settles Rawl lawsuit
7-29
UMWA blasts W.Va. state museum
7-29
The New Normal: Billion-Dollar Disasters
7-29
America Held Hostage to Two-Party Failure: Government of, by and for the Corporations - Debt Deal Set to Crater Energy, Enviro Spending for Years to Come
7-29
Lessons of Tennessee coal ash disaster lost in Washington politics
7-29
Fracking Operations Cause Thousands of Earthquakes in Arkansas
7-29
Fighting Coal Exports in Washington
7-29
Mining company should be fined for slurry spill near Tuscaloosa - Aerial photos show "muddy plume" entering Lake Tuscaloosa after coal slurry spill
7-29
Sierra Club Enters Game Changing Partnership for Cleaner Energy  - With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Bloomberg gives fight to Big Coal
7-29
MARI-LYNN EVANS JOINS AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
7-29
Global warming: Tundra fires are huge carbon sources
7-29
Climate Change Brings Water Worries To U.S. Cities
7-29
Climate Change And Forest Fires Linked In New Study
7-28
Protesters continue tree-sitting at Alpha - Tree-Sit Halting Blasting on Coal River Mountain Enters Eighth Day - Activists Engage in Tree-Sit Protest in West Virginia to Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining - Activists sit in trees vs. W.Va. coal firm
7-28
New study finds higher cancer rates near mountaintop removal sites along Coal River Valley - New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Case - Study finds increased cancer rates near Coal River mine sites - Mountaintop Removal Mining Directly Linked To 60,000 Cancer Cases In Appalachia
7-28
Sens. Rockefeller, Manchin wont talk about mountaintop removals impacts on public health
7-28
Massey, Southern W.Va. residents settle coal slurry case - Massey slurry case settled - AP Newsbreak: Massey settles WV coal slurry case - Coal Slurry Settlement Is Reached - ANR settles drinking water contamination suit in West Virginia
7-28

Tomblin weakened executive order on Marcellus drilling - Drilling lobbyists consultants for Tomblin?

7-28
Judge allows some Kentucky coal spill info to remain secret
7-28
MSHA says 14 US miners died in 1st half of 2011
7-28
Water Alliance report finds New River tributaries polluted - Report: Clean up creeks to save W.Va.'s New River
7-28
US rules seen shutting 20 pct of coal power capacity
7-28
Pictures from the air of Alabama coal slurry spill
7-28
Studies Show Regulation Protects Health and Safety, Encourages Job Creation
7-28
Uneasy Riders: Threats To NY Drinking Water, Great Lakes - GOP bill seeks to loosen controls; Effort includes 39 ways to curtail environmental rules; success unlikely
7-28
MAYA CIARROCCHI working on video installation relating to Mountain Top mining
7-28
Groups Seek to Close Coal Burning Power Plant in Fairfield
7-28
See 'The Last Mountain'
7-28
Tim DeChristopher: Is Civil Disobedience The Key To Climate Change Action?  - I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me - A Rosa Parks Moment: Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher Sentenced to Prison - Climate Injustice in Utah
7-28
Side-by-side electric plants debated in Washington Co. - Residents request open forum meeting
7-28
Conservative, white men more likely to be climate change sceptics, study show
7-28
Climate Change Poses Threat to Global Peace and Security: UN Boss
7-28
Study: Climate Change to Affect Water
7-28
Fungi could protect rice against climate change, researchers say
7-28
New Orleans is one of a dozen cities at risk from global warming, environmental group says
7-27
Self-Reported Cancer Rates in Two Rural Areas of West Virginia with and Without Mountaintop Coal Mining
7-27
Sen. Manchin Maintains Lucrative Ties to Family-Owned Coal Company - Sen. Manchins coal ties under scrutiny
7-27
Governor's Office won't disclose gas industry correspondence
7-27
Feds want lawsuit over Blair Mountain dismissed - Feds, W.Va. Coal Association ask judge to dismiss lawsuit over Blair Mountain
7-27
EPA standards on mountaintop removal fall short of protecting Appalachia's health
7-27
Open Letter to Alpha Natural Resources
7-27
Tomblin calls redistricting special session for next week - Marcellus, food tax on the table for session
7-27
Citizens push legislative committee for action on Marcellus rules
7-27
A trip through West Virginia's hidden history
7-27
WVU Study Suggests Poverty, Mountaintop Mines Linked
7-27
Coal vs. Environment Soledad OBrien Explores Both Sides of Mountaintop Removal
7-27
Patriot Coal's focus on met coal proves costly; shares down
7-27
Activist who faked Utah energy lease bids sentenced to 2 years - Another Outrage for American "Justice": Tim DeChristopher Sentenced to Two Years for Preserving Illegal Utah Oil/Gas Tenders
7-27
House riders threaten California's air, water - House Republicans Take Aim At Environmental Regulations As Debt Crisis Looms
7-27
Fighting Climate Change by Not Focusing on Climate Change
7-27
Climate Change May Drive Yellowstone Fires - Climate Change To Spawn More Wildfires
7-27
Toxic Metals from Coal Ash Found in Groundwater at TVA Power Plants
7-27
Global warming: More fires, fewer lodgepole pines
7-27
Hearings under way on N.J. energy plan
7-26
Citizens demand moratorium on Marcellus drilling until tough new laws are in place for W.Va. - Hundreds demand Marcellus drilling moratorium in West Virginia - Marcellus Shale Committee Hears Public Input - Marcellus Shale hearings skip Parkersburg
7-26
Dems: Toxic environmental spending bill will spread heat, death
7-26

Mr. Bloomberg and the Sierra Club
7-26
EPA finalizes mountaintop removal guidance
7-26
Ohio: Group seeks ounce of fracking prevention
7-26
Lowball gas drill leases haunt Pa. families - Alternative gas pocket beckons drillers to N.Y.
7-26
Contamination found at TVA power plants
7-26
Renewable Energy Reaches 20% of Global Energy Capacity
7-26
Massey directors explain Blankenship's retirement
7-26
Lawyers who fought Massey merger want $900,000
7-26
Mining commission releases test results from North River coal slurry spill  - North River has elevated toxins
7-26
Debate Intensifies Over Climate Change Aspects of Canada's Oil Sands Pipeline
7-26
Coal ash polluting groundwater at TVA sites, report finds
7-26
Shale oil boom sends waste gas burn-off soaring
7-26
California mussels: First warming casualty?
7-26
Climate Change 'Remobilizes' Long-Buried Pollutants as Arctic Ice Melts
7-26
Burma Coal Mine Spells Disaster for Environment
7-25
Tree Sit on Coal River Mountain Day Five Update
7-25
WVU study finds poverty, early mortality concentrated around mountaintop-removal mines - Appalachian poverty concentrated around mine sites, WVU study says - If coal is so good, then why is W.Va. so poor?
7-25
Attack on birth defects study baseless
7-25
Kentucky Coal Industry Calls New EPA Guidance Overreaching
7-25
Summer youth program under way at Scarbro
7-25
Town of Man goes solar
7-25
Dedication for UBB miner pavilion set  
7-25
Organization Advocates for Surface Owners Rights - New gas rush just delays inevitable change to renewables; Fracking sceptics find it hard to be heard against energy industrys promotional offensive
7-25
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: 'The Last Mountain' details efforts to save Coal River mountain
7-25
Coal ash taints groundwater at TVA sites, report finds
7-25
First results in on coal slurry spill into Alabama river
7-25
LIGHTS, CAMERA, HELP a cause-driven film festival in Austin featuring On Coal River
7-25
As Things Heat Up Across the Nation, Young People Work to Cool Things Down
7-25
U.S. State Department To Assess Canada Oil Pipe Next Month
7-25
Australias Carbon Tax May Slash Coal-Industry Value by $8.7 Billion
7-25
The Barriers to Unlocking Capital for Energy Efficiency
7-25
New Guide: When to Move Species Struggling with Climate Change
7-25
Climate change endangers global security
7-25
Has warming put 'Dirty Dozen' pollutants back in the saddle?
7-25
New Guide: When to Move Species Struggling with Climate Change
7-25
Will Global Warming Cause More Extreme Weather?
7-25
Coal mining strike set to start - South Africa coal miners start massive strike
7-24
Appalachian poverty concentrated around mine sites, WVU study says - If coal is so good, then why is W.Va. so poor?
7-24
Tree Sit on Coal River Mountain: Day Four Update
7-24
Farmer: Gas driller has invaded property - Roane County man dies at Pa. gas drilling site
7-24
Massey slurry case gearing up for trial
7-24
Mingo native finds niche in Mine War history tours
7-24
Digging for Whipples past (Brandon is an OVEC board member)
7-24
Living on Earth: Death of Carbon Capture?
7-24
Rep. Rahall: Obama EPA is appointing itself Judge, jury, executioner and Almighty God
7-24
Living on Earth: Tropic of Chaos
7-24
Top 'Toxic 20': States With Most Air Pollution From Power Plants - Coal plant leads area in toxic releases - Mercury found in soil near IPL plant
7-24
Habitat Fragmentation and Natural Gas Instability Applied to Ruby Pipeline Project; Part 1
7-24
Tornoto Star: The Last Mountain: Eco-insanity - Film review: The Last Mountain (2.5 stars)
7-24
Respirator company sues Massey/Alpha
7-24
Maldives to tackle displacement caused by climate change
7-23
Judges limit what slurry victims' lawyers can say
7-23
Beware the Marcellus Shale gas boom? - Report warns shale boom may be a bust for W.Va
7-23

MSA raps Massey in black-lung case

7-23
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg vs. Big Coal - From coal industry and its politicians: Money to Sierra Club prompts boos
7-23
Polluters Saddle Up In Washington, D.C.
7-22
Maps of the Treesit - Tree Sitters Return to Protest Coal River Mountain - Tree Sitting Protests Resume on Coal River Mountain
7-22
EPA finalizes guidance to limit mining impacts - Big news: EPA finalizes water quality guidance to reduce impacts of mountaintop removal mining - EPA keeps surface mining water quality guidelines - EPA finalizes mountaintop removal guidance - EPA Issues Comprehensive Guidance to Protect Appalachian Communities From Harmful Environmental Impacts of Mountain Top Mining - EPA finalizes controversial surface-mining guidelines - Agency blasts mining practice - Feds keep strict water quality rules for surface mining over objection from industry, state - Mountaintop guidance announced  - EPA Pushing Valley Fill Regulations - EPA issues final mountaintop mining guidance
7-22
EPA Issues Final Guidance on Mountaintop Removal Mining To Reaffirm the Clean Water Act and New Science; Guidance focuses on ensuring compliance with longstanding requirements where stronger oversight is essential to protect water quality and Appalachian communities
7-22
DEP chief says EPA undermined state power
7-22
Downstream States Lose with House Bill - Bills Restricting EPA Work Way Through Congress - Water-Regulation-As-Federalism Bill Passes House, Looks A Lot Like ALEC - Congress Challenges Longstanding Clean Water Act - Who's Really Writing States' Legislation? - Koch, Exxon Mobil Among Corporations Helping Write State Laws - National Chairman Of ALEC Responds To Report - ALEC exposed
7-22
Judges let slurry lawsuit against Massey stand - Massey says W.Va. slurry lawsuit filed too late - Judges weigh liability in Massey coal slurry case - Slurry suit against Massey stands
7-22
West Virginias boom-and-bust energy economy - Report urges long-term view on coal, gas industries
7-22
Environmental groups allowed to continue case against state, coal companies over water
7-22
Marcellus: Another consideration
7-22
CCS project stops, but global warming keeps going - Carbon Capture Hopes Dim as AEP Says It Got Burned at Coal Plant - AEP statements said misleading, deceptive
7-22
Mayor Bloomberg to donate $50 million to help Sierra Club fight coal-fired power plants - TIME: 'Coal Kills Every Day': Michael Bloomberg Pledges $50 Million to Fight the Coal Industry - Michael Brune: The coal stops here - Rolling Stone: Michael Bloomberg Funds Guerilla War Against Big Coal - NYC mayor donates $50 million to fight coal plants
7-22
Globe and Mail: The Last Mountain: Star power and a blast of facts - Pittsburgh Post Gazette: 'The Last Mountain' details efforts to save Coal River mountain - Toronto Sun: Doc 'Mountain' educates and entertains - The Last Mountain
7-22
Appalachian Power program helps homeowners identify ways to lower electric bills
7-22
Alberta's Coal-Fueled Plant: A Canary in the Coal Mine
7-22
Coal Ash Scares, Sickens Southwest Louisville NeighborhoodPart Two - Coal ash: headed for your landfill? House undercuts EPA effort to reach answer on waste - Coal Ash petitions show no support for FirstEnergy's plan - An Ill Wind Blows
7-22
The Virtual Mine Receives an Emmy Nomination
7-22
UN initiative declares global warming a threat to world peace
7-22
Global warming on course to melt record amount of Arctic ice in 2011, scientists warn
7-21
Protesters occupy trees near mine - Blasting stops, search begins as mine operator hunts for tree-sitting protesters in W.Va.  - Activists scale trees, halt mountaintop mining -
7-21
Mountaintop removal and birth defects: What is Rep. Nick J. Rahall going to do about this? - Possible Link Between Mountaintop Removal Mining and Birth Defects?
7-21
Mayor Bloomberg gives $50 million to Sierra Club to fight coal-fired power plants
7-21
EPA review of mountaintop removal permits is not a job-killing 'permitorium': pushing back at a House Oversight hearing
7-21
Judge weighing sanctions in Massey pollution case
7-21
Gov.s order gets mixed reviews from citizens, groups
7-21
Suit by respiratory maker blames black lung on Massey
7-21
Rep. Miller presses Kevin Crutchfield for details about Alphas safety practices and policies - Lawmaker presses Alpha for answers on mine safety
7-21
NRDC report details toxic emissions from coal plants - WV is #8 on toxic air pollution list
7-21
Fracking at Drinking Water Source for 80,000 Pennsylvanians Raises Alarms
7-21
Natural gas losing its lustre as climate change transition fuel - Natural gas is not a solution for climate change
7-21
Rep. McKinley serves coal, power interests (scroll down)
7-21
Crews Work to Contain Coal Slurry Spill
7-21
Mercury pollution from power plants seen
7-21
PGE settles lawsuit over emissions at Boardman coal-fired power plant
7-21
Coal Ash New Focus of Dispute Over Health Hazards
7-21
Peabody confident of acquiring Australian coal miner
7-21
Health for Sale: House EPA Bill Allows Pollution and Supporters Get Big Oil Donations  - Stopping the Ongoing Attacks on Clean Water
7-21
Does Ontario get its coal from mountain top removal?
7-21
The Virtual Mine Receives an Emmy Nomination
7-21
UN Chief Calls Climate Change "Threat" to Global Peace And Security
7-21
Climate Change Forcing Polar Bears to Swim Longer Distances
7-21
Family Claims Son is Sick from Coal Ash
7-21
It's Hot! But Fox Only Talks About Global Warming When It's Snowing
7-21
Gillard Accelerates Climate Effort; Coal Industry Counters With TV Blitz
7-21
Invasion of blister rust, pine beetles, global warming, and forest extinction
7-20
Happening Now: Activists Block Mining Operations on Coal River Mountain
7-20
Strip mining and birth defects, by the numbers - Possible birth defects link to MTR deserves study, Rahall says - Firm Alleges Inbreeding, Not Mountaintop Removal to Blame for Birth Defects - Apology issued for coalfields birth defects statement
7-20
Take E-Action: Demand a Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Now
7-20
Historic Numbers of Americans Call for Clean Air  - Activists deliver support for EPA mercury rule - Is your life full of coal?
7-20
Top Coal Supporters in Congress - Dirty Energy Money
7-20
Panel Arranges Trial Plan For Mingo County Coal Slurry Litigation
7-20
Marcellus drilling hearings will begin in Ohio County - Wellsburg council moves to repeal ban on gas drilling within 1 mile of city limits - Drilling Ban May Not Last Long For Wellsburg - Wellsburg drilling ban costs school shot at grant
7-20
Owner of W.Va. mine where 29 died slams union - Running Right: Alpha and unions - UMW Speaks Out About Sign At Upper Big Branch
7-20

MSHA gets order to block inspection warnings
7-20
Coal Ash Scares, Sickens Southwest Louisville NeighborhoodPart One
7-20
Coal mine slurry winds up in Alabama creek
7-20
Blair: The slow, expensive death of 'clean coal'
7-20
Besa: The EPA safeguards Virginians' health
7-20
Fracking in New York: The real cost - The Friendly Fracosaurus Goes Bye-Bye
7-20
TVA's plan to expand ash storage irks neighbors
7-20
Get Millionaires to Pay Their Fair Share
7-20
Global warming: Sea levels could rise for centuries to come
7-20
Climate Change Disrupts Great Lakes National Parks
7-20
How Much Does Global Warming Cost?
7-20
Act now on climate, no need to wait: top UN scientist
7-20
It's Official: Whitebark Pine Trees are Endangered by Climate Change
7-20
Experts Link Climate Change to Rising Health Threats in Botswana
7-20
Meat: Bad For You, Bad For The Climate Of all the things that an individual can do to help slow the process of climate changechange lightbulbs, turn down the AC, ride a bikefew if any have as much impact as eating less meat.
7-19
Judges plan third try in suit alleging slurry poisoned wells -
Judges schedule 3rd mediation attempt in coal slurry pollution case against Massey Energy
7-19
First House Public Hearing on Marcellus Shale is Thursday in Wheeling - Legislators start public hearings on gas drilling in northern W.Va. Thursday in Wheeling - Legislatures Marcellus Committee To Meet - 3 hearings set on gas drilling in northern W.Va.
7-19
Court: Ex-Massey subsidiary must refund Bayer $10M - 4th Circuit: W.Va. District Court Did Not Exceed its Power
7-19
How aggressive is MSHAs regulatory agenda?
7-19
Who are polluters' best friends in Congress? Report names 15 members of Congress who have prevented the EPA from improving coal power plant standards
7-19
Bi-partisan effort needed for tougher coal ash rules - Neighbors near LG&E plant upset over fly ash - LG&E tries to explain coal ash findings
7-19
Tuscaloosa: Slurry mix spills, flows into Freeman Creek
7-19
Big coal attacks life saving regulations
7-19
Bi-partisan effort needed for tougher coal ash rules
7-18
AEP Move to Stop Carbon Capture and Sequestration Project Shocks Utilities, Miners - Carbon Capture may be Buried
7-18
Defining limits on corporate power
7-18
Commentary: 'War on coal' and other mythical causes
7-18
Making Mountain Top Removal Real: The Last Mountain
7-18
Appeals court rules Bayer CropScience entitled to $10M refund from ex-Massey unit
7-18
Coal dust, piles an issue for southeast Newport News
7-18
Duke Energy expects Ohio coal plant retirement
7-17
EPA concerned about MTR link to birth defects
7-17
You Can't Kill a Planet and Live on It, Too
7-17
Global warming: study finds natural shields being weakened
7-17
Global Warming: Now Real to Most Americans
7-17
UK Could Be Rocked by Climate Change Far Away
7-17
Mountaineers see dramatic climate change in the Himalayan region
7-16
W.Va. leaders keep their heads in the sand on climate change and mountaintop removal
7-16
EPA is just doing its job, Lovett testifies - Attacks on EPA over coal continue at U.S. House hearing
7-16
Citizens, WV government take action on Marcellus drilling - 3 public hearings planned on Marcellus shale
7-16
Gas industry launching W.Va. radio ads, talk show
7-16
Interior asks EPA to delay power plant proposal
7-16
Fetal Rights: The Right to Life Case Against Air Pollution
7-16
Seattle Times: Robert Kennedy Jr. says West Virginia coal industry out of control in documentary - 'The Last Mountain' to Make Local Debut during Arts Festival - Indie Picks: At The Movies This Weekend
7-16
Capital Fringe Festival: Cry of the Mountain echoes excellence - Hip Shot: Cry of the Mountain
7-16
The Bacon Uprising: How China's Top-Secret Strategic Pork Reserve Is Burning Down The Amazon
7-16

Controversy Over Shale Gas Fracking Hits New Brunswick
7-16
Coal lawyers blame birth defects on inbreeding, deny coals role
7-15

AEP puts brakes on touted carbon capture project - AEP puts brakes on carbon capture project - AEP to ditch carbon capture, clean coal plan - American Electric Power puts $668 million plan on hold

7-15

Auditors unable to track $23M from DEP

7-15

Report warns of gas drillings air pollution - New West Virginia rules for fracking - Tomblin and Marcellus: Attacking environmental protection at a press conference announcing new environmental protection rules on drilling?

7-15
Court affirms $10.5 million award against Massey subsidiary
7-15
School loses grant over drilling ban
7-15
Trial delayed for Upper Big Branch security chief - Massey Energy's man-made hellhole
7-15
Birth defects linked to mountaintop removal practices - Study links birth defects to mountaintop mining
7-15
Mari-Lynn Evans: Can We Survive MTR?
7-15
Kissing Cousins vs. Coal: Mining Industry Lawyers Clarify Comments on Inbreeding and Birth Defects in West Virginia
7-15
Group holds press conference about MTR in Fayette
7-15

John Palmer: Unions have improved workers' lives

7-15
NAACP says coal-fired plants hurting low-income, minority areas
7-15
US House Votes To Curb EPA Authority Under Clean Water Act - Republicans cite jobs in attacking federal environmental regulations - New geographic study questions common notion that mountaintop removal provides lots of local jobs - GAO report: EPA drops the ball on drinking water
7-15
McKinley's coal ash bill advances in Washington - Report outlines Rep. McKinleys coal contributions - W.Va. Rep coal ash bill clears 2nd House hurdle
7-15
'The Last Mountain': Blasting the practice of 'mountaintop removal' coal mining - 'The Last Mountain' review: An activist's indictment of Big Coal - 'Last Mountain' states case against coal-mining practices - West Virginia Tourism & Mountaintop Removal Mining
7-15
Back Row: 'On Coal River'
7-15
Gov. Pat Quinn OKs coal-to-gas plant for Chicago's Southeast Side
7-15
Complicity and Shame: Ann Pancakes Arsonists
7-15
Author of Dont Buy Another Voterunning for Supreme Court
7-15
Coal ash could be treated as city trash
7-15
Global warming 'influencing weather extremes'
7-15
Climate change evidence 'undeniable'
7-15
Va judge dismisses part of $1B fly ash lawsuit
7-15
Nature Studies by Michael McCarthy: Precious estuaries we must protect
7-15
Forests revealed as climate giants  
7-14
Utility Shelves Ambitious Plan to Limit Carbon: AEP Mountaineer carbon-capture plant's plan for a larger project on hold
7-14
Group appeals Frasure mine permit - Groups ask DEP to appeal Fayette Co. MTR permit - Group Rallies Against Fayette Mining - Residents challenge Fayette mine permit - Appeal of permit for controversial mine near New River Gorge is on hold until Aug. 17 - Foes say New River area too special for strip mine - Video: Mountain Heritage and Health Association Press Conference
7-14
Tomblin says he hasn't looked at MTR birth-defect research
7-14
Mountaintop removal and birth defects: Just what are the coal industrys lawyers talking about? - Coal industry calls in controversial hired gun to take on mountaintop removal-birth defects study  - Mother Jones: Big Coal: Inbreeding, Not Mining, to Blame for Birth Defects - Mountaintop removal fight gets uglier: Proud hillbillies wield science against bigotry - Will the coal industry stop attacking science? - The Atlantic: Worst Memo of the Year, Inbreeding Edition - Big Coals PR Breakthrough: Blame Inbreeding, Not Mining, for Birth Defects - Save the Babies: Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining - Rolling Stone: Mining-Linked Birth Defects: Coal Industry Blames ... Inbreeding - Coal company: Birth defects arent from mining, theyre because youre inbred hicks - Coal company: Birth defects arent from mining, theyre because youre inbred hicks - Big Coal Claims Inbreeding is Behind W. Virginia Birth Defects, Not Mining - Law Firm Says Inbreeding Skews Data Linking Mountaintop Removal to Birth Defects
7-14
House set to vote on Rep. Nick Rahalls race to the bottom EPA water pollution legislation - Study finds higher birth defects in mountaintop mine areas
7-14
House votes to end EPA water pollution oversight - The enemies of clean water - Oppose H.R. 2018 to keep clean water standards
7-14
House Energy and Commerce Committee Gets Paid, Big Coal Gets to Pollute
7-14
Jeff Biggers: Lethal Fallout from Mining Spurs a Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Campaign to End to the Humanitarian Crisis in Appalachia
7-14
Report outlines Rep. McKinleys coal contributions - House GOP claims coal ash is OK in your backyard
7-14
Fracking rules give DEP more power - Tomblin orders emergency Marcellus rules - Lawmakers try again on Marcellus regulations - Judge allows landowners appeal in Marcellus shale dispute - S. Thomas Bond: What Marcellus promoters don't think about
7-14
New geographic study questions common notion that mountaintop removal provides lots of local jobs
7-14
Study: Power Plant Clean-Ups to Benefit West Virginians
7-14
Why America Needs to Move Beyond Coal: Five Economic Indicators
7-14
Another coal miner killed At an Alpha mine  -  Fatality strikes former Massey Energy coal mine
7-14
Alphas union mines agree to UMW deal
7-14
US House committee OKs 18-month delay of mercury, interstate rules
7-14
 Ken Hechler writes book on 1969 mine safety act
7-14
Gas firm plans to drill again in national forest
7-14
Northern Panhandle officials push for 'cracker' plant
7-14
Appalachia's 'Last Mountain' illuminates Bellingham's coal battle -Movie Review: The Last Mountain The Coal Industry Declares War on Appalachia
7-14
The Globe's Not Only Getting Hotter, It's More Unjust and Unstable, Too
7-14
Experts demystify link between extreme weather and climate change
7-14
David Suzuki: Let's stop wasting time on unscientific climate change deniers
7-14
At the Massey Energy Co., cooked books and dead miners: editorial
7-14

Peabody to Pursue Coal Project in Restive Chinese Region
7-12, 13 Your news hound had no internet access.
7-11
Rally, forum to focus on Marcellus Shale drilling
7-11
Where people and geography meet: New book explores role of climate change and violence
7-11
The Last Mountain: Resolute Residents Versus Corporate Bulldozers
7-11
This American Life: Game Changer
7-11
Building coal ash landfill in floodplain a horrible idea
7-11
Chinese miners rescued after week underground
7-11
Climate change is cause of Ethiopian drought - Africa drought endangers 500,000 children: UN
7-11
In New Jersey, major floods, warming trend
7-11
Texas is vulnerable to warming climate
7-11
Climate change reducing ocean's carbon dioxide uptake
7-11
Coal maintains rage, but renewables see bright future
7-10
Surface owners plan to turn to courts over Marcellus drilling
7-10
Clara Bingham: A Call to Arms: Citizens need to Save Appalachia -
Mountain man tells mine-boggling tale
7-10
Coal workers fuel Kentucky primary candidates; Alliance mining employees, spouses gave $60,000 to 3 hopefuls
7-10
Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the race to cool the planet
7-10
Regional cooperation: Climate change bigger threat than wars
7-9
WVDEP upgrading Brush Fork dam concerns?
7-9
Settling selenium: Deal with Arch Coal expected - Nature groups must act fast to challenge water agreement
7-9
The Last Mountain great documentary on mountaintop removal coal mining screening in theaters this summer
7-9
WVU researchers study carbon nanotubes, cancer risk
7-9
New Morgantown mayor worried about drilling ordinance
7-9
Golden algae worries for PA, WV a false alarm
7-9
Fracking and earthquakes in Arkansas
7-9
New study suggests link between autism, environment
7-9
Ind. agency blasts Duke for cost overruns at plant
7-9
EPA coal rule likely to cut S.C. death toll
7-9
UnClean Coal Group Spent $940,000 on 1Q Lobbying
7-9
Obama taps insider as fossil energy chief
7-9
Australian state shuts Cougar's underground coal gasification plant
7-9
An Era of Tornadoes: How Global Warming Causes Wild Winds
7-9
 
7-8
Millions of African Climate Refugees Desperate for Food, Water
7-8
UN: Only Green Technology Can Avert 'Planetary Catastrophe'
7-8
EPA finalizes rules to cut smog -U.S. EPA Curbs Air Pollution Blowing Across State Lines - EPA Issues New Standards For Coal-Burning Plants - EPA announces new smog limits
7-8
New Republican Bill Blocks EPA Regulation on Emissions, Coal Ash, Mountaintop Removal Mining - Appropriators move bill sending strong message to EPA
7-8
DEP denies petition to declare Blair Mountain unsuitable for mining - W.Va. won't label Blair Mtn unsuitable for mining - WVDEP: Blair Mountain petition frivolous
7-8
Julian Martin: Blair Mountain march elicits memories (scroll down)
7-8
Nearly 70 trapped, eight dead in China coal mines
7-8
Movie Review | 'The Last Mountain'  - "The Last Mountain": The people versus Massey Energy - Movie reviews: 'The Last Mountain,' 'Viva Riva' and 'The Ward'
7-8
Filmmakers will be in town for On Coal River premiere
7-8
Mine disaster: The UMW is right - 2 books, standards at 1 coal company
7-8
Meet Americas Most Creative Climate Criminal
7-8
Nuclear Industry Weighs $1 Billion Emergency-Response Plan - NC State says nuclear reactor leak poses no threat
7-8
Wars, food shortages and mass immigration: How global warming poses dire threat to Britain's security - Climate change threatens UK security
7-8
Climate change and disaster in Montana
7-8
Millions of African Climate Refugees Desperate for Food, Water
7-8
UN: Only Green Technology Can Avert 'Planetary Catastrophe'
7-8
EPA finalizes rules to cut smog -U.S. EPA Curbs Air Pollution Blowing Across State Lines - EPA Issues New Standards For Coal-Burning Plants - EPA announces new smog limits
7-8
New Republican Bill Blocks EPA Regulation on Emissions, Coal Ash, Mountaintop Removal Mining - Appropriators move bill sending strong message to EPA
7-8
DEP denies petition to declare Blair Mountain unsuitable for mining - W.Va. won't label Blair Mtn unsuitable for mining - WVDEP: Blair Mountain petition frivolous
7-8
Julian Martin: Blair Mountain march elicits memories (scroll down)
7-8
Nearly 70 trapped, eight dead in China coal mines
7-8
Movie Review | 'The Last Mountain'  - "The Last Mountain": The people versus Massey Energy - Movie reviews: 'The Last Mountain,' 'Viva Riva' and 'The Ward'
7-8
Filmmakers will be in town for On Coal River premiere
7-8
Mine disaster: The UMW is right - 2 books, standards at 1 coal company
7-8
Meet Americas Most Creative Climate Criminal
7-8
Nuclear Industry Weighs $1 Billion Emergency-Response Plan - NC State says nuclear reactor leak poses no threat
7-8
Wars, food shortages and mass immigration: How global warming poses dire threat to Britain's security - Climate change threatens UK security
7-8
Climate change and disaster in Montana
7-7
 Birth Defects Rise with Razing of Mountains - Mountaintop Mining Causes Birth Defects?
7-7
The Daily Planet: From Telluride to Twilight: Telluride supports small towns fight against mountaintop removal
7-7

'The Last Mountain' documents West Virginia's destruction

7-7
The meaning of Blair Mountain
7-7
Legislature failing to lead on gas drilling
7-7
Economic benefits of shale-gas extraction unclear - N.J. fracking law called misguided by energy critics - Ponzi Gas Frackers
7-7
Most Americans Want Scientists, Not Politicians, to Lead Climate Debate
7-7
Chinese coal mine fire traps 36 underground
7-7
WV PBS investigation prompts Massey's insurance to pay miner benefits
7-7
Alaska puts coal mine renewal permit on hold
7-7
Swiss Re Warns Europe of Increasing Soil Subsidence from Climate Change
7-7
Coal mine foreman accused of lying about qualifications
7-7
Study says sulfur from Chinas coal-burning caused slight pause in global warming - Man-made climate change evidence 'hidden' by sulphur emissions
7-7
China's Imminent Collision With Peak Coal
7-7
India Consortium Eyes Buying Colombia Mines
7-7
U.S., European Media Still Worlds Apart on Climate Change Coverage
7-7

Jim Hightower: Massey Energy's Man-Made Hellhole  -  Hidden hazards
7-7
South Africa Media Watchdog Slams Shell Fracking Ads
7-7
WV PBS investigation prompts Massey's insurance to pay miner benefits
7-7
Young visitors get acquainted with W.Va. culture, history and ecology
7-6
Citizens pressure OSM on slurry dam safety - Brushy Fork impoundment: What about blasting? - Residents Concerned About Safety of Coal Slurry Impoundment - Federal agency agrees to meet with W.Va. residents who fear coal slurry dam failure - OSM official to meet with residents over coal slurry dam fears  - Feds talk to residents over coal slurry dam fears
7-6
Feds need more time to file responses as court fight continues over W.Va.'s Blair Mountain
7-6
Marcellus shale industry: Legislative panel to hear revenue experts, environmentalists - Group to Rally Around Marcellus, Fracking Regulations
7-6
WV man challenges 2 drillers over gas wells
7-6
Construction for Marsh Fork Elementary is Under way
7-6
Massey's behavior reprehensible - Disaster proves profits over people is a deadly strategy
7-6
MSHA: Trainee miner died because of lack of supervision
7-6
California rooftop solar installations surge; renewable energy approaches oil output, reports say
7-6
Sustainability Politics in New York: Governor Cuomo and the Hydrofracking Controversy
7-5
Barge facility could raise sewer rates
7-5
The Last Mountain: A passionate tale of grassroots activism on Dirty Coal
7-5
Burning coal indoors linked to birth defects
7-5
 
Global warming lull down to China's coal growth  
7-4
Residents of Telluride, Col., raising money to help Twilight, W.Va.
7-4
China: Rescue work continues for 19 trapped miners
7-4
EPA defends against polluters
7-4
Great American Taxi: Free MP3 For Blair Mountain Awareness
7-4
Warming Ocean Could Melt Ice Faster Than Thought
7-3
Not safe to have children in mountain homeland
7-3
Road Named In Honor Of Civil War Soldier
7-3
Massey's mess
7-3
Rescuers rush to reach 42 trapped in Chinese mines
7-3

Pass law to protect mining whistle blowers
7-3

An overblown attack on EPA emissions rules
7-2
Ariz. Decision Could Impact 2012 W.Va. Supreme Court Race
7-2

DEP orders testing on Raleigh slurry dam - W.Va. DEP orders stability test on coal slurry dam; new owner Alpha insists it's safe - W.Va. DEP orders stability test on coal slurry dam - W.Va. DEP orders stability test on coal slurry dam

7-2
Company files suit over Morgantown drilling ban
7-2
Why Blair Mountain matters
7-2
Nancy Burkhammer: The Civil Rights Movement of our time -
Joe Stanley: Retired coal miner offers his perspective on MTR - Lief Friedrichs: A journey to Appalachia finds exploitation and outsourcing of Seacoast energy
7-2
More revelations about Upper Big Branch mine explosion - UBB disaster: Prosecution needed
7-2
McKinley shares views at town hall meeting
7-2
Frasure Creek Mining: Mountaintop Removal Coal Companies Agreed To Curb Pollution, Then Polluted More
7-2
Stop blowing up mountains and invest in our future
7-2
Company files suit over Morgantown drilling ban
7-2
Deus ex Machina: Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe?
7-2
Oceans 'dying very quickly:' sailor - Save the oceans, save ourselves
7-2
Elementary school not sinking, yet, says official
7-2
Baynes Sound coal mine would come with lasting environmental damage
7-2
Global Warming And Global Food Security
7-2
Judge Rejects Sarah Palin On Global Warming, Keeps Polar Bears On Threatened List
7-2
Warmer temperatures threaten Northern California vineyards
7-1
More controversy over Brushy Fork slurry impoundment
7-1
Birth defects study: More inconvenient facts about the impact of mountaintop removal coal mining
7-1
Wildlife Conservation, Clean Water and Outdoor Recreation Dont Mix with Mountaintop Removal
7-1
Its up to us ...
7-1
Two sets of books? - Double Take 'Toons: Ledger-Domain - Is keeping two sets of books a problem? - Feds: Massey Hid Mine Violations Through Two Sets of Safety Records - Profits over lives
7-1
Is MSHA partly to blame for UBB deaths?
7-1
Colorado Town Sends Support to Appalachian Community Threatened by Mountaintop Removal
7-1
Mountain Keepers Music Fest to feature Ben Sollee, Carpenter Ants
7-1
Coal India's Overseas Plans on Hold
7-1
Sneak Peak: Battle for Blair Mountain
7-1
Appalachian Power OK'd for 7 percent rate hike
7-1
AEP spent $2 million lobbying in the 1st quarter - Edison Electric Institute spent $3.7M lobbying
7-1
Plan to upgrade W.Va. transmission lines requested
7-1
Documentary Review: The Last Mountain
7-1
Contamination from Coal Ash at Some Sites High Enough to Trigger Open Dumping RCRA Provisions

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