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(Jul) Archive - August 2011 (Sep)

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8-31	A History Lesson
8-31	OSM won't overrule DEP on Brushy Fork slurry dam - OSMRE: WVDEP acting reasonably, but more testing still needed at Brushy Fork impoundment
8-31	Two Boone mines risk becoming pattern violators
8-31	Massey problems put more pressure on Alpha
8-31	Former Massey general counsel rejoining W.Va. law firm; Harvey begins work in September
8-31	19 Chinese miners rescued a week after flood
8-31	Mass extinctions linked to climate change are already underway
8-30	Switch from coal- to natural gas coming, but not in W.Va., Apco president says
8-30	Tennant signs emergency Marcellus rule
8-30	Birth defects, cancer and community and environmental destruction ignored: Coal officials say jobs and tax revenue key
8-30	Blair Mountain, climate science and strip-mine spin
8-30	MSHA delays 'proximity detection' rule
8-29	Church women mark 70 years, honor local woman
8-29	Energy sector key cash source in gov race
8-29	Marcellus legislation making progress
8-29	Mountaintop mining should be prevented
8-29	Nation's Leading Environmental NGOs Unified Against Tar Sands Pipeline
8-28	W.Va. wants a cracker (for Marcellus gas)
8-28	Coal group coming to town
8-28	Harvard Ayers: CNN snubs Blair Mountain, misses story
8-28	The Slow Talk of Stones: Poetry collides with social, environmental justice
8-28	3 bodies discovered after Mexican mine collapse
8-28	One of four survivors dead after mine flood traps 26 in NE China
8-28	Palmer blasts 'poisonous' coal seam gas industry - Nationals conferences rejects coal seam gas exploration - Carcinogens found in CSG project
8-27	Activists plan moment of silence for Judy Bonds
8-27	Energy forum set for Wednesday
8-27	Energy Department says it will slash Marcellus Shale gas estimate, after USGS report
8-27	W.Va. jury says AEP negligent in fatal 2007 blast
8-27	Assessing Climate Change in a Drought-Stricken State
8-27	Court allows Massey/Alpha to continue MSHA case - Judge says regulators must prove they didn't interfere with mine ventilation plans
8-27	As U.S. Energy Companies Blow-Up Appalachian Mountaintops, the Nation's Lawmakers Yawn With Indifference
8-26	OVECs ED to Receive Human Rights Award
8-26	Dueling reports complicate Marcellus picture - Dee Fulton: Let's get gas drilling rules right
8-26	Appalachian Men Who Fight for the Environment; Part 2- Daniel Chiotos
8-26	Poll: Most of Coal Country Not Fans of Mountaintop Removal
8-26	Mountaintop removal mining is bad for Appalachia
8-26	INSTITUTE INDEX: States' weak coal ash oversight endangers the public
8-26	Consol wants money back for dam crack
8-26	Larry Matheney: Workers must speak forcefully
8-26	Coal mine slurry spill cleanup continuing
8-26	Obama, Earthquake Is a Wakeup Call on Dirty Energy Standards
8-26	Environment: Mountaintop removal coal extraction in Appalachia
8-26	Mountaintop removal must come to an end
8-25	Rep. Conyers calls out the coal industry - Rep. Conyers draws heat for coal comments - Michigan Lawmaker Decries 'Clean Coal' Technology, W.Va. Industry
8-25	DEP finds no sign of quake damage to W.Va. slurry dams - State bridges, mines show no quake-related damage
8-25	Boone County big winner of coal tax revenue plan
8-25	MSHA announces latest impact inspection results
8-25	Crisi Umanitaria: Il carbone che cancella le montagne
8-25	Bid for Marsh Fork Elementary School accepted
8-25	Tr-Ash Talk: Shake, Rattle and Coal
8-25	Should the Alpha/Massey slurry deal be secret?
8-25	Looking for Gas in All the Wrong Places
8-25	Harlan to celebrate 100 years of coal by rail
8-25	Study links El Nio weather events with civil wars in tropical countries
8-24	Landowners criticize new Marcellus drilling rules - Residents Call for Marcellus Regulations
8-24	Coal Sludge Dams Being Checked: Earthquake in Virginia felt across W.Va. - W.Va. mining officials inspecting certain coal-slurry dams following earthquake - Precautions taken as quake passes through Charleston
8-24	Over 160 Arrested in Ongoing Civil Disobedience Against Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline - What tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline mean for climate change
8-24	Groups strive for water quality standard
8-24	Alpha/Massey seeks to end shareholder suit - Alpha asks for dismissal of suit
8-24	Judge OKs Challenge to Mining Safety Rules
8-24	The Last Mountain to screen at Salem Progressive Film Series
8-24	Durban unveils low-carbon road map ahead of climate gathering
8-24	Southern West Virginia lawmakers hail coal severance tax bill
8-23	Citizens call for Marcellus drilling regulation - Groups Call for Moratorium on Marcellus Permits - Groups call for Marcellus protections - WV Marcellus rule filed amid criticism - W.Va. Marcellus rule filed amid inaction criticism - Marcellus issue awaits W.Va. lawmaker attention - WVDEP issues emergency rules on drilling
8-23	Mountaintop removal discussed locally; Officials urged to speak out against practice - Mountaintop Removal Discussion in Wood County - Mountaintop removal discussed locally
8-23	Sen. Manchins confusing press releases, and his continued campaign for a coal-to-liquids plant
8-23	About the jobs: Is there a war on coal?
8-23	W.Va. judge to hear Massey complaint over leak of $35M coal slurry settlement terms - W.Va. judge to eye leak of $35M coal slurry deal
8-23	Christopher Angevine: Don't let Massey off the hook
8-23	Man suing drillers wants case heard in state court
8-23	Coal severance tax revenue will bring money into McDowell County in 2012
8-23	100 years of coal mining in Harlan County
8-23	EPA visit to coal areas appreciated - EPA kept visit to W.Va. coalfields quiet
8-23	Seeking a Safer Future for Electricitys Coal Ash Waste
8-23	Climate Change Forces Species to Move Higher Ground, Latitudes: Study
8-22	Marcellus issue awaits W.Va. lawmaker attention - W.Va. groups call for Marcellus protections - Drilling must be done in a way that protects our state - Delegate Slams Senate for Not Addressing Marcellus
8-22	Coal Slurry Litigants to Discuss Breach in Settlement Agreement
8-22	Mountaintop removal: Voters say no
8-21	Massive Protest at White House Against Alberta Tar Sands Pipeline
8-21	The myth of mountaintop removal mining
8-21	'Troubled Waters': Showing what happens to fish happens to us
8-21	Five Minutes With Tree-Occupying Coal Activist Catherine-Ann MacDougal - Warren Wilson grad nears one month in tree sit to protest coal mining in WV - Opinion: Fighting Ecological Injustice From the Perch of a Tree
8-21	Winds of Change Blow in Coal River Valley, Alpha Energy Takes the Higher Road
8-21	Coal group reunited
8-21	Fighting the rape of public lands: The Last Mountain a passionate documentary about the destruction of land - The Last Mountain,' 4 stars - 'The Last Mountain' Brings a Kennedy and the Appalachian Mountains to Chilmark
8-21	Climate Justice Movement Keys off Civil Rights Crusade - Tar Sands Action inspired by a UU's civil disobedience
8-21	Dear Soledad: Appalachians Respond to CNNs Blair Mountain Special on Mountaintop Removal
8-21	What is an Eco-Chaplain and Environmentalist? Insight by Sarah Vekasi
8-20	Flaming drinking-water well in Kentucky illuminates Big Coal's abuses - Coal Industry Leader Criticizes EPA Tour, WFPL Coverage - EPA officials tour eastern Ky.
8-20	Ruling on Fayette County mine expected in the fall
8-20	Coal River Mountain permits raise concern - Citizens speak out at Coal River Valley hearing
8-20	Congressional Research Service: EPA regulatory proposals wont create economic train wreck
8-20	Bad poll numbers: Whats a coal company to do?
8-20	New report: State coal ash rules inadequate
8-20	CNN, Tell the Whole Story of Mountaintop Removal Mining - PLEASE SIGN - Does God support mountaintop removal mining?
8-20	Congress Debates Debt, Attacks Clean Water Act
8-20	Tree-sit concludes after 30 days of blocking work on Coal River Mountain RAMPS Campaign vows to continue fighting
8-20	Coal-mining documentary set for special Loft screening
8-20	Boone County Residents Can Still Have Water Wells Tested
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8-19	Even Tea Partiers Oppose Mountaintop Removal Mining -- Spread the News! Appalachians overwhelmingly oppose mountaintop removal -- Mountaintop Removal Mining Poll Shows Bipartisan Opposition in Appalachia
8-19	Dan Radmacher: About criticism of coal health studies...
8-19	Tree-sit on Coal River over after one month -- Tree Protest Over Mountain Top Removal Mining Ends
8-19	Every mountain made low
8-19	Frasure Creek Mining defends permit
8-19	DEP seeks more volunteers for W.Va. slurry study
8-19	EPA officials come to hear concerns from southeastern Kentuckians
8-18	Daily Mail ignores WVU coal health studies, then publishes mining industrys attack commentary
8-18	On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action
8-18	New CNN survey shows again that most Americans oppose mountaintop removal coal mining
8-18	Poll: Mountaintop mining opposed -- Poll Shows Bipartisan Opposition to Mountaintop Removal Mining in Appalachia -- New Poll Shows Strong Opposition to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
8-18	Big Coal: Making Mountains Even Better?
8-18	DEP: W.Va. has 13,000 abandoned oil, gas wells
8-18	Marcellus shale bill likely delayed until next year
8-17	New Poll Finds that Appalachian People Strongly Oppose Mountaintop Removal -- New Poll Finds Powerful Opposition to Mountaintop Removal Mining in the Heart of Coal Country -- Coal State Voters "Very Strongly Oppose" Mountaintop Removal Mining -- New poll details opposition to mountaintop removal -- Poll Finds Powerful Opposition to Mountaintop Removal Mining in Heart of Coal Country -- Poll: Appalachian voters oppose mountaintop mining, back regulation -- Survey: Most voters in 4 regional states dislike mountaintop mining
8-17	DEP seeks more volunteers for study of possible link between bad wells, mining activities
8-17	People back strip-mine rules, poll done for activists finds
8-17	Group resumes protest of Fayette strip mine
8-17	Lawsuit Filed In 'Burning Well' Case
8-16	State settles complaints over abandoned mines
8-16	Environmental Author Says Coal Must Go
8-16	Massey wants to know how settlement became public
8-16	CNN's Soledad O'Brien Misses the Mark Completely in Special About Mountaintop Removal Mining -- CNN's mountaintop removal doc garners praise, anger, and everything in between -- CNN's pro-coal bias strikes again
8-16	CNN Tries, Fails to Cover Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
8-16	Bee Tree public hearing: Does WVDEP listen to coalfield citizens about mountaintop removal mining?
8-16	Sen. Joe Manchin Makes Personal Coal Fortune While Acting As Mouthpiece For Coal
8-15	Another W.Va. coal miner dies on the job
8-15	Mixed narrative: More on CNN and Blair Mountain
8-14	Judge overturns Morgantown drilling ban
8-12	Removing mountaintops yields coal, controversy
8-12	Another gas drilling truck rolls over embankment
8-12	DOE panel urges gas drilling reforms
8-12	S. Thomas Bond: Gas drilling - others win, we all lose
8-12	The Last Man On The Mountain
8-12	Alpha Natural Resources faces heavy penalties in water quality claims
8-12	Tree sitter begins fourth week of protest
8-12	Citizens voice concerns over pending permits for Coal River Mountain
8-12	Why Are Congressional Republicans Turning on the Environment?
8-12	Theatre review: Cry of the Mountain
8-12	Largest Illinois hazardous waste site you have never heard about
8-11	Recent March to Protect Blair Mountain in West Virginia Brought Coal Miners and Environmentalists Together
8-11	Northeast begins drilling 2nd Morgantown gas well
8-11	Treesit on Coal River Mountain enters fourth week
8-11	Review of mine cleanup list recommended
8-11	Great American Taxi roll into Charleston on Monday
8-10	Settling selenium: Deal struck in Massey/Alpha case
8-10	CNN's Soledad O'Brien profiles mountaintop removal - watch this Sunday
8-10	Coal and Ethanol Are Not Alternative Energy Policy
8-10	Big News: Coal Electricity Drops Big Time
8-10	Help us stop mining on Coal River Mountain and Blair Mountain
8-10	Blair Mountain
8-10	Settlement Hearing for Massey Slurry Suit Slated for Sept. 29
8-10	Coal slurry case to cost Massey $35M
8-10	BIG show RICH with controversy
8-9	Coals share of U.S. power at record low
8-9	Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web tool shows - Health Impacts Of Climate Change
8-9	Rise up against surface mining
8-9	River barge facility would be an eyesore
8-9	W.Va. regulators: No reason to believe coal slurry dam was built wrong or is unsafe
8-9	Industry pushes back on W.Va. city drilling bans
8-9	Mountaintop-removal foes press for Blair Mountain hearing as CNN documentary is set to air
8-9	Letter to Obama: On behalf of Americans who live in every US state and territory, we urge that you employ any legal means to put a halt to hydraulic fracturing (fracking), a highly controversial and dangerous method of natural gas exploration, until and unless the environmental and health impacts of this process are well understood and the public is adequately protected...
8-9	Coal controversy: Producers fear methane microbes could sap coal's value
8-9	House bill to regulate US coal ash as non-hazardous fails to gain wide support
8-9	Truck driver hauling gas drilling waste dies in crash
8-9	To dump or not dump coal ash in Lake Michigan stokes commentors' opinions
8-9	Coal Power Plants and Mercury on the Navajo Nation
8-9	Dutch Court Suspends Major Gas Storage Project
8-8	August 8 National Call In Day to Protect Coal River Watershed
8-8	Tree-sitter remains 80 ft above the ground
8-8	Global warming author to speak at environmental meeting
8-8	Blair Mountain defenders keep alive W.Va. fight - Blair Mountain Coalition Files Suit to Challenge Rejection of Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition
8-8	Young Dems Convention Paid For By Coal Company Alpha Natural Resources
8-8	GOP vs. Mother Nature
8-8	5 breakthroughs that will make solar power cheaper than coal (and if you figure in the true costs of coal, solar is already cheaper)
8-7	No news posted this day
8-6	Citizens sue over frivolous Blair Mountain petition
8-6	Coal River Mountain Showdown: What Would Judy Bonds Do?
8-6	Judge to lawmakers: Beef up WVDEP
8-6	Drilling company hit with repeat OSHA citations
8-6	Dominion's WVa gas processing plant moving ahead
8-5	Lawyer questions scope of W.Va. coal slurry study
8-5	A Tainted Water Well, and Concern There May Be More - Report ties fracking to W.Va. well contamination
8-5	Blair Mountain defenders keep alive W.Va. fight
8-5	Congress: Stop Attacking the EPA - House of Representatives 'Most Anti-Environment' in History
8-5	Settlement Hearing for Massey Slurry Suit Slated for Sept. 29
8-5	Tell Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden: Revoke Massey Energy's corporate charter.
8-5	SCSR troubles: Whats a coal miner to do?
8-5	'The Last Mountain' deftly documents the fight against Big Coal - Free Curriculum Materials to Accompany ON COAL RIVER
8-5	ALEC Exposed
8-5	Alpha Slumps as Profit Misses Estimates on Massey Takeover - Alpha Natural Resources Posts Loss
8-5	Scholastic: From Big Coal to Big Egg
8-5	Navajo Nation settles coal mining royalty case
8-5	Ill. environmental groups urge EPA to curb mercury
8-4	Farewell to Nancy Taylor
8-4	Arrested Environmentalist Speaks Out - One protester arrested, tree-sitting continues
8-4	Study of W.Va. coal slurry pollution continuing
8-4	Senate considers food tax, coal severance
8-4	50,000 Demand Protection From Mercury Pollution
8-4	Give me my fish
8-4	US court finds energy company made false Va claims
8-4	Judge further limits TVA coal ash spill lawsuits
8-4	CNN to air Blair Mountain special Aug. 14 - 'Battle for Blair' Mountain' to air Sun. on CNN
8-4	The Tea Party's Next Target: The Environment - Debt deal: While they were busy screwing the economy, GOP was also screwing the environment
8-4	Alberta coal-fired plant challenged by environmental group
8-3	Treesitter arrested after descending at W.Va. mine - Coal River Mountain Protest Continues After One Sitter Arrested - Tree-Sit on Coal River Mountain Continues after One Sitter Arrested
8-3	Court settlement will force WVDEP to properly treat water pollution at old mine sites - DEP deal to improve water treatment at former mines - DEP to Permit and Treat Water Pollution Coal Industry Forfeiture Sites
8-3	Mon Power wants fly ash lawsuit delayed or killed
8-3	Probe goes on, but Crandall Canyon fades from view
8-3	Dont Watch This Film Campaign Promoting Activism Around Documentary Film, The Last Mountain
8-3	Battle over coal for China highlights global economic change
8-2	Update After Day 12 - Protesters Continue To Block Mountaintop Removal At Coal River
8-2	Appalachian horror: mountaintop mining - Rahall Ignores Mountaintop Removals Links To Cancer, Birth Defects While Sponsoring Legislation To Weaken EPA - Mountaintop removal mining accounts for 60,000 cancer cases
8-2	Republican Congressmen sabotaging environmental legislation
8-2	Why coal miners die on the job
8-2	CEDAR: Children get one-sided energy view - Childrens Publisher Backing Off Its Corporate Ties
8-2	Coal severance tax taken up
8-2	Malfunction sends ash cloud to neighborhood
8-2	Marketplace: Power and smoke: A nation built on coal - The one-hour version of this program
8-2	New York Times on shale gas: Can an intern be an official? - Why Redacting E-Mails Is a Bad Idea
8-2	Charleston's hottest July in 75 years finally over
8-2	Company builds roads for coal terminal without proper permit - Can Washington state fit shipping coal to China with protecting fish?
8-2	Himalaya glaciers shrinking on global warming,some may disappear
8-2	Generating Change: Quitting Coal in the Nation's Capitol
8-2	Coal Seam Gas inquiry
8-1	Researcher: Many Studies Show Mountaintop Removal Damages Health
8-1	Gas drilling opponents learn ways to fight fracking
8-1	Derailment injures 6 miners in Triadelphia
8-1	Act Now! It's Time for Big Coal to Clean Up Its Act
8-1	DeChristopher receives two-year prison sentence
8-1	Local projects take top honors in Lights. Camera. Help.
8-1	Energy NW sues for higher nuclear fuel storage costs
8-1	Ultra-long coal trains on Seattle waterfront? Time for a long, critical look

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