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2-29	New MTR Campaign Kicks Off in Washington, DC
2-29	Tennessee Standing Up For Its Mountains - Ending Mountaintop Removal Mining In Tennessee - Pass bill to protect Tennessee's mountains
2-29	Mountaintop removal foes try new strategy
2-29	Green Your Money: Earth-Conscious Quakers Against Mountaintop Removal
2-29	Fracking Issue Goes Beyond Landowners
2-29	Alpha gets two more ‘imminent danger’ orders
2-29	House passes mine safety bill - Written in blood: Another disaster, another law - House sends mine safety bill on to Senate unanimously - Will coal lobby support weakened mine safety bill?
2-29	Former security chief at W.Va. coal mine where blast killed 29 to hear fate at sentencing
2-29	Author writes book of poetry about Sago
2-29	Open-pit coal mine project in Bangladesh threatens human rights – UN experts
2-29	Coal export opponents in WA to register protest
2-29	West Virginia last in 'well-being' index
2-29	Fixing Our Broken Government: Ending Corporate Personhood
2-28	Deal with industry weakened mine safety bill - House amends mine safety bill - Tomblin's mine safety legislation is back on track
2-28	Justice for Upper Big Branch
2-28	Prosecutors prepared to show Stover acted improperly as police officer - Judge denies new trial for former UBB security chief - West Virginia Mine Agency Releases Upper Big Branch Report
2-28	Lessons Unlearned from Buffalo Creek Disaster - Remembering Buffalo Creek 40 years later - Remembering Buffalo Creek
2-28	Obama Welcomes Southern Keystone Pipeline - TransCanada to Build Oklahoma-Gulf Coast Section of Keystone XL Pipeline
2-28	US proposes streamlining CO2 permitting for heavy industry
2-28	Should Corporations Have More Leeway to Kill Than People Do?
2-28	Green Around the Hills: Claim the honor of protecting mountains
2-28	Coal's Last Hope: Coal Gasification - Is Cleaning Coal Worth It?
2-28	Climate change will shake the Earth
2-28	Time to protect state's peaks from harmful mining
2-28	End Mountaintop Removal Mining
2-28	PNC could pay for funding mountaintop removal mining
2-27	Solar power bills advance in Legislature
2-27	Buffalo Creek disaster remembered 40 years later - W.Va. marks anniversary of deadly Buffalo Creek dam collapse
2-27	SEAC to bring Deep Green Resistance
2-27	Why the Environmental Movement Is Not Winning
2-27	Himalayan sherpas lament climate change devastation
2-27	Suit threatened over alleged violations at Frasure Creek
2-27	Federal agency investigating sand-blasting hazards
2-26	40 years ago: Buffalo Creek Disaster: Survivors remember 125 killed in 1972 coal dam collapse - Looking back at the Buffalo Creek Disaster - 40 years after Buffalo Creek disaster some still worry about coal impoundments - Remembering the Buffalo Creek Disaster 40 Years Later - In case of dam break: No plan - Comments - Joseph A. Main: Buffalo Creek was a hard lesson
2-26	‘Tepid’ state UBB report points to weak W.Va. law - WV mine inspectors set to undergo 'internal investigation' after UBB
2-26	WV DEP sees changes
2-26	Alpha Natural Resources posts $733M loss
2-26	Residents of Decimated Pa. Coal Town Lose Appeal
2-26	Proposal to build local coal terminal stirs up controversy
2-26	New Folk Music Video On Impact of Mountain Top Removal (note--that's an OVEC MTR photo here)
2-26	Coal dust is pollution we must avoid
2-25	Remembering the Buffalo Creek Disaster - They Said It Couldn't Happen
2-25	One more time: Can Upper Big Branch be the last?
2-25	Mountaintop Removal and Fracking Foes Join Forces
2-25	Upper Big Branch Miners' Families 'Encouraged' by Prosecutors' Moves
2-25	Mountaintop removal offends my core
2-25	BofA must come clean on coal
2-25	How Climate Change Could Be the Ruin of Los Angeles
2-24	State backs up previous Upper Big Branch reports - State releases UBB mine investigation report - State unveils UBB findings - W. Virginia mine safety agency to conduct internal review over Upper Big Branch - Questions remain in Upper Big Branch explosion - West Virginia: Inquiry Focuses on Mine Foremen - Massey Officials Charged In 2010 Coal Mine Blast
2-24	W.Va. officials issue 253 violations in 2010 coal mine disaster, target 2 foremen for failures
2-24	Ex-mine official charged in fatal W. Virginia blast
2-24	Leslee McCarty: 'Just say no' to AEP's coal addiction
2-24	W.Va. eyeing tax hike to clean up abandoned mines
2-24	Will the Supreme Court Reconsider Citizens-United?
2-24	Exhibition coal mine to become official?
2-24	Screenings find 1,500 Ky. coal miners using drugs
2-24	Asian growth will remain fuelled by coal, which is worrying for the planet
2-24	Will your kid be taught that climate change is a hoax?
2-24	Climate Change Consensus: A Simple Table for Comprehension
2-24	Vancouver scientists unveil global rankings index measuring economy and ecology
2-24	Climate change concerns raised by insurance industry
2-24	White Star Holler: Powerful New Music Video Captures Appalachia’s Grief Over Mountaintop Removal Mining (VIDEO)
2-24	Stop the Devastating Effects of Liquid Coal Production
2-24	Dirty-Energy Money
2-24	Selenium Out West: Mutated Trout Raise New Concerns Near Mine Sites
2-24	Documentary: Burning The Future: Coal In America
2-23	UBB mine manager charged with conspiracy - UBB mine boss facing federal charges in deadly blast - Massey Mine Boss Charged In Deadly Coal Mine Explosion - Upper Big Branch superintendent charged with ‘conspiracy’ in mine disaster probe - UBB boss charged with fraud - Ex-Massey Energy mine boss faces charges in deadly blast -
2-23	Groups threaten suit over Frasure Creek mine
2-23	Injection wells may cause earthquakes
2-23	Coal creates half the global warming problem, UC speaker says
2-23	Preparing for a post-coal future
2-23	Tomblin remains optimistic about mine safety bill - Mine safety: Up to coal lobbyists?
2-23	Groups want utility discount back in spotlight
2-23	Gas severance tax to counties
2-23	Activists speak against mountaintop removal mining
2-23	Music Video Captures Grief Over Mountaintop Removal
2-23	Decision Time to End Mountaintop Removal in Tennessee
2-23	UA passes resolution against mountaintop removal
2-23	3 'green' films scheduled at Byrd
2-23	Interactive map reveals the human cost of mountaintop mining
2-23	Tr-Ash Talk: $2 Billion Coal Ash Suit In Chesapeake
2-23	Large areas of open ocean starved of oxygen
2-22	40 years after Buffalo Creek, coal-dam questions remain
2-22	Cracker plant implications
2-22	Bill to improve mine safety put on hold
2-22	What to look for in state’s Upper Big Branch report
2-22	YouTube: Blair Mountain Rally
2-22	Paper Pinwheels a Symbol of Hope in Kentucky
2-22	Students give energy to speaker series
2-22	The Fracking Industry Buys Congress
2-22	Residents Express Concerns Over Coal Ash
2-22	Sierra Student Coalition warns of coal's impact on water
2-22	Environmental group wants to duke it out with energy company
2-21	Industrial activity re-shaping Marshall County - Future natural gas legislation may be in the works
2-21	Citizen groups pushing for bill to reduce utility costs in WV - Keryn Newman: Utilities blocking a sensible bill
2-21	WV lawmakers limit utility bonds to 2012
2-21	WVU Develops Marcellus Shale Air Monitoring System
2-21	Ad Promotes Passage of Bill to Block 'Mountaintop Removal'
2-21	"The Hand of Man": Powerful New Music Video Captures Appalachia's Grief Over Mountaintop Removal
2-21	Mountain Justice Targets Environmentally Irresponsible Investments
2-21	Green Around the Hills: MTR like a Ponzi scheme
2-21	Green Action protests Arch Coal practices - Should Arch Coal Be Allowed to Destroy Historic Blair Mountain Battlefield?
2-21	Carbon dioxide breaking down marine ecosystems
2-21	Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era'
2-21	Wastewater a key issue in NY's fracking debate
2-21	UA budget proposal elicits student leader reactions
2-21	Nobel laureates' perspective sadly lacking on oilsands' environmental impact
2-20	'The Last Mountain' to screen tonight at New Albanian Brewing Company [Movies]
2-20	W.Va. Northern draws drilling-industry job seekers
2-20	Study tabs coal as worst for environment
2-19	Beyond Hope: Groundbreaking Environmental Road Trip Film Takes Climate Change Solutions Back Home
2-19	Prosecutors need to charge all those responsible for UBB
2-19	Website maps health and economic data with mountain mine sites
2-19	Filmmaking and the Environment Converge at the 3rd Annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival
2-19	US House OKs Opening Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil Drilling
2-19	Groups appeal renewal of Ariz. coal mining permit
2-19	W.Va. Northern draws drilling-industry job seekers
2-19	Colorado coal production jumps as environmental groups mobilize
2-18	Blair Mountain activists picket coal companies in W.Va., Mo. - Mine Battleground Heating Up Arch Coal - Blair Mountain Protest Comes to Creve Coeur - NRP: Save Blair! - Blair Mountain our last stand (scroll down) - No problems reported at Blair Mountain protest
2-18	Study: Market factors, not the EPA drive coal-fired power plant closures
2-18	The Human Cost of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
2-18	1,200 protestors march against mountaintop removal mining in Kentucky
2-18	Breaking Up With Coal, Falling in Love with Clean Energy
2-18	PA Taps into Hydrofracking, While NY Waits
2-17	Defenders of Blair Mountain planning protests at coal companies in W.Va., Mo.
2-17	Corps brings back streamlined strip-mine permits - Obama brings back streamlined coal mine permits
2-17	Move Not Those Bones
2-17	Should Arch Coal Be Allowed to Destroy Historic Blair Mountain Battlefield? Interview with Blair Activist/Archaeologist Brandon Nida
2-17	Coal, Mining Interests File Suit to Block Landmark Mercury Regs
2-17	Human Cost of Coal (Maps & Facts)
2-17	Five Patriot workers sue mine operator, bosses
2-17	Two-headed fish, selenium, mining and coal ash
2-17	Group wants McKinley’s attention
2-17	Coal ash ponds may present risk to groundwater
2-17	W.Va. Sen. Manchin 'grills' Secretary Chu on coal - but doesn't really wait to hear the answers
2-17	Will West Virginia lead on coal-mine safety?
2-17	Bill advances to drug test all mine employees
2-17	Climate change threatens tropical birds
2-17	U.S. will lead new effort to cut global warming from methane, soot
2-16	Mapping the health toll of mountaintop removal
2-16	Does the coal industry’s new report ‘debunk’ WVU studies on mountaintop removal and public health? - Mining-health link not so clear, new coal-industry-funded study says
2-16	Power companies opposing bill for ‘least-cost planning’
2-16	Goodwin turns up the heat on UBB security chief - Security chief at UBB seeks no jail time
2-16	Bonds proposed to recoup W.Va. utility fuel costs
2-16	Hawks Nest documentary event (scroll down)
2-16	Governor gets pinwheeled - Rally: View of Mountains from Frankfort Isn't Pretty
2-16	Journalists Detained, Labeled Ecoterrorists by Natural Gas Workers
2-16	2013 Budget Ups Renewables, Cuts Fossil Fuel Subsidies
2-16	Power companies opposing bill for ‘least-cost planning’
2-16	Will 'all-in' energy plan bury coal?
2-16	Coal mine accident kills 15 in China
2-15	Hundreds decry mountaintop removal at Capitol rally - Activists Lobby Capitol Opposing Mountaintop Removal, Supporting Renewable Energy - Hundreds gather in Frankfort for annual I Love Mountains Day - Rally at state Capitol attracts hundreds who want to end mountaintop surface mining
2-15	Update on Blair Mountain mining activities
2-15	Motley Fool: 4 Dirty Stocks to Avoid
2-15	Feds seek 25 years in jail for Upper Big Branch security chief
2-15	What’s going on with MSHA’s UBB internal review? - Final report on 2010 US coal mine explosion due out February 23
2-15	Obama again proposes more focused mine cleanups
2-15	Two mussel species found in state are endangered, feds say
2-15	Telling the truth about W.Va. mineral taxation
2-15	DEP: First Marcellus Law Hires Soon
2-15	Penn group urges students to withdraw from PNC accounts
2-15	Video: Is Nevada Coal Plant an Example of Environmental Injustice?
2-15	Utility exec: Coal-gas plant's 'time has passed'
2-15	As the Climate Changes, Species Move North or Go Extinct
2-14	Frasure Creek applies for mine permit revision
2-14	Obama to cut MSHA budget, focus on enforcement - President Obama’s budget and coal - Obama Budget Would Cut $40 Billion in Fossil-Fuel Credits
2-14	Greenpeace Protests Coal & Mountaintop Removal Atop 400 Ft Power Plant - 16 arrested in Greenpeace protest at Arden power plant - Greenpeace activists breach security at Progress Energy power plant, unfurl protest banner
2-14	EPA probing Washington County shale operations
2-14	They make law, we live with it
2-14	Dine' Louise Benally responds to Navajo Attorney General: Halt coal fired power plants
2-14	Work on fly-ash course caused cancer, lawsuit alleges
2-14	The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard
2-14	With climate change, today's '100-year floods' may happen every three to 20 years: research
2-14	Soil erosion increasing global warming threat: UNEP
2-14	Global Warming Makes Elephant Seals Dive Deeper, Study Suggests
2-14	Myanmar activists warily test new right to protest
2-13	Feds energy outlook doesn’t look good for coal
2-13	Drillers cut natural gas production as prices drop
2-13	Coal railcars proposal draws spirited debate
2-13	In the Andes, freak cold extracts a brutal toll
2-12	Mountaintop removal affects all
2-12	Drug link to coal mine deaths is not clear; Tomblin pushing for testing of miners
2-12	Chemicals, auto parts, coal among West Virginia's top exports
2-12	Documentary focuses on fight against lawsuits, rights
2-12	Trailer to new Hawks Nest Tunnel documentary to be shown on Feb. 19th at Charleston's Cultural Center
2-12	Greene County man pleads guilty to illegally dumping liquid waste
2-11	Feb. 10 WVEC Legislative Update
2-11	Coal River Tree-sitter Sentenced To 7 Days In Jail
2-11	State’s energy spin ignores the coming coalfield crisis
2-11	Where did Gov. Tomblin get miner drug-testing bill?
2-11	State UBB report to be released Feb. 23
2-11	Another major study points to questions about whether natural gas offers greenhouse benefits
2-11	Arch Coal profit rises on higher prices - Arch 'Excited' About Tygart Mine - Cost-cutting boosts quarterly earnings of Arch Coal
2-11	A case study in how industry influence squelches the science of gas drilling impacts
2-11	Study: Colorado oil-gas pollution tops expectations
2-11	Experts plan for climate change as fate of all life put at risk
2-11	2C warming goal now 'optimistic' - French scientists
2-10	Update: Arch says mining not imminent at Blair
2-10	Accused tree sitter pleads no contest
2-10	Group Celebrates Sit-In of Governor’s Office With Protest Skit in Rotunda - Protesters rally against mountaintop mining - Protesters square dance to make their point
2-10	Hawk's Nest Tunnel Trailer Preview at Cultural Center
2-10	US attorney wants more jail time in case of ex-Massey UBB employee
2-10	Air Sampling Reveals High Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Field
2-10	Ohio attorney general seeks tougher penalties for gas well violations
2-10	Pennsylvania Passes Marcellus Bill; Industry Investment in Politics Pays Off
2-10	Regulations Create Jobs, Too
2-10	Nuclear agency approves first nuclear reactors since 1978
2-10	Melting ice sheets already seen driving sea-level rise
2-10	Climate Change A Growing Risk For U.S. Water Supplies
2-10	Arsenic and lead found in contaminated water leak at coal seam gas drill site
2-9	What’s going on at Blair Mountain? - Why can’t they just forget? - Is Arch Coal About to Mine Historic Blair Mountain?
2-9	Government to seek stiff sentence for Massey security chief
2-9	3 W.Va. plants latest to close under utility restructuring - First Energy to Retire Three West Virginia Coal Plants
2-9	Poor environmental scores for W.Va. delegation, one exception
2-9	Alpha hit with another ‘imminent danger’ order
2-9	Fracking's Toll on Pets, Livestock Chills Pennsylvania Farmers - The Hidden Danger of the Gas Boom
2-9	McKibben: Vt. needs to lead on climate change
2-8	Drug testing bill 'a distraction,' McAteer says - W.Va. lawmakers urged to respond to mine disaster - UBB investigators ask legislators to prevent accidents from occurring - Drug Testing Proposed For Miners In Wake Of Upper Big Branch, Despite No Role In Disaster - Coal industry opposed Bush drug-testing policy because it gave miners a chance to seek treatment
2-8	West Virginia future fund - Mineral trust boosted budget, ex-Wyoming governor says
2-8	EPA approves most of W.Va.'s water quality rules
2-8	Coal mine cutbacks have Boone County talking diversification
2-8	5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being Destroyed by Dirty Energy
2-8	AEP chief: Coal's elimination 'just not going to happen'
2-8	House Panel Advances Keystone Pipeline Plan
2-8	Tanker spill in creek leads to evacuations but no injuries
2-8	Concert to Combat Coal in Central Illinois
2-8	ABB Revs-Up Electric Car Charging Network
2-8	Low-lying Louisiana prepares for sea level to rise
2-7	Irene McKinney remembered
2-7	And so it begins: Coal layoffs sign of things to come? - Alpha Natural Resources Announces Plans to Idle, Slow Production at Coal Mines in KY, WV - Patriot Coal's Deteriorating Financial Prospects - Alpha Exec Says $7B Massey Deal Was Right To Do
2-7	Mine safety: Are lawmakers doing all they could?
2-7	WV mine agency preparing to release UBB report
2-7	Despite lack of UBB link, Tomblin focused on miner drug testing - Industry leaders want drug tests at all mines
2-7	Blair Mountain protectors have no standing, coal group argues
2-7	Gas company accused of not appreciating surface owner’s rights
2-7	Coal heritage public lecture series starts
2-7	Proposed Utah mine expansion reflects politics of coal
2-7	Movers & Shakers: Diane Isser
2-7	Silas House play highlights LBGT struggle for fairness
2-7	Giant Crack in Antarctica About to Spawn New York-Size Iceberg
2-7	Flooding, other effects of climate change expose Australians to toxic contamination
2-7	Could Cheap Gas Slow Growth Of Renewable Energy?
2-7	Shale affects homeless veterans
2-7	Lessons not learned: Marcellus Shale drillers get their way with watered-down, flawed legislation
2-7	Marcellus Shale Reality Tour Part 3 EPA comes to Dimock
2-6	AEP CEO to kick off lecture series
2-6	Alpha Natural to cut coal output as demand weakens
2-6	Agencies urge Interior to reject mining near national park
2-6	A Bird’s Eye View on Mountaintop Removal Mining: The Photography of J. Henry Fair
2-6	County health department wants to educate residents about water testing
2-6	Island nations want climate change in world court
2-6	World at risk without climate justice
2-6	Climate change predicted to escalate Tropical Cyclone damage costs for US and China
2-6	China needs more coal
2-5	W.Va.'s U.S. House incumbents outraise opponents
2-5	W.Va. poet laureate Irene McKinney dies at 72 - Goodbye to Irene McKinney
2-5	Book review: Mountains of deception
2-4	Coal slurry debate
2-4	Cracker tax break could cost locality $300 million - Center: W.Va. ‘cracker’ tax break worth $300 million
2-4	Is the coal industry just misunderstood? - Coal Symposium ends with Obama bashing session - Coal industry wants answers from Chesapeake on anti-coal funding - Friday roundup, Feb. 3, 2012 - Neighboring coal associations rally against Obama - WVDoE: Cheap gas a threat to W.Va. coal
2-4	Coal Mines Becoming Safer But Some Still ‘Don’t Get It,’ Says U.S. Regulator
2-4	Feb. 3: WVEC Green Legislative Update - CAG Legislative Update
2-4	A Tax Credit For Coal Slurry
2-4	Explanation of DEP study requested
2-4	Grassroots Advocacy at Its Best
2-4	ALPHA NATURAL RESOURCES ADJUSTS CENTRAL APPALACHIA COAL PRODUCTION
2-4	Democrats counter energy security claims about Keystone pipeline project
2-4	Science behind the big freeze: is climate change bringing the Arctic to Europe?
2-4	Industry engages in flim-flam to spin coal ash recycling stats
2-3	Tomblin rejects funding development plan with severance-tax hike
2-3	Alpha contractor gets 6 months in jail
2-3	If We Can Stop the Keystone Pipeline, We Can Stop Mountaintop Removal. Right?
2-3	MTR activist to visit Marshall’s campus
2-3	W.Va. Coal Symposium: Bad timing for Alpha
2-3	House GOP delays mine-safety hearing to wait for internal review
2-3	Appalachian Power to buy 2 W.Va. AEP plants
2-3	The Sierra Club and Natural Gas
2-2	Oscar-nominated director arrested at House hearing - 'Gasland' Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans (UPDATES)
2-2	For Some in Congress, It's Easier To Censor Than Hear Americans
2-2	Creating an Economic Diversification Trust Fund (pdf)
2-2	Main, Tomblin headline W.Va. mining symposium; Alpha officials to discuss the era of change
2-2	Lawyer urges industry 'caution' in talking to MSHA
2-2	Rocky Top(less): Environmentalists Ask for Haslam's Help to Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining
2-2	TTU students to screen film about mining industry
2-2	Film fest on energy presented
2-1	MSHA focus shifting to surface mine safety in 2012 - MSHA announces next phase of ‘Rules to Live By’
2-1	Will W.Va. prepare for a post-coal future?
2-1	Critics claim near universal opposition to OSM-BLM merger
2-1	Experts deliver dire warnings about fracking impacts - Residents call for strategy group to plan for gas drilling impacts
2-1	Coal’s not dying — it’s just getting shipped abroad - Pipes Says Coal Demand Affected by Natural Gas
2-1	Energy efficiency offers one of the best tools for tackling the world's debt and social
2-1	Climate change a fundamental health risk: academic
2-1	U.N. starts climate change strategy site
2-1	Clean Air Advocates Cheer Court Decision on Kansas Coal Plant Expansion
2-1	Environmental Group Ranks South's Most Endangered Places
2-1	Wake Up: Water as crucial to economy as coal - Eskom

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