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June 2008
Contents
Judge to Corps: Stop Stonewalling, Show Permit Info
Legal Victories Continue: Mountaintop Removal Limited at 3 Mines, Corps Ordered to Give Timely Notice of New Full Permits
It’s About Jobs That Support Human Life – OVEC Joins CLEAN
Blessing of the Mountain: Potentially Volatile Prayer Vigil Turns to Calm Talk
Citizens to DEP: This is Not Good Enough!  Sludge "Study" Not Fulfilling Mandate
WVU Study Finds High Illness, Death Rates in Coalfields 
Boone County Updates: County Dragging Feet on Emergency Warning System for Sludge Dam Failures
WARN System Not Forgotten, Just ... Delayed. Again.
Reflections on A Week in Washington
Mingo County Update: From Morgan to Mingo: Sister County Solidarity
"Clean" Coal Candidates Confronted with Mountaintop Removal Questions
Mine’s Selenium Deforms Fish, Expert Says - Are People Next?
Show Me The Money! DEP Asks, OVEC Delivers
Youth in Action: Finding the Unexpected on a Class Trip to West Virginia
Study Resolution on Judicial Elections Prompted by Photos
Center for Individual Freedom Lawsuit Challenges 527 Limits
Challenge Grant Goal Met! Thanks!
Rising Level of Intimidation Against Anti-Mountaintop Removal Leaders
Faith in Action: OVEC Staffer Presents to Franciscan Community
Train to Speak Out, Not Freak Out! - Getting Our Message to the Media
Citi Shareholders Asked to Get Principled About Their Investments
KY Residents Organize to Fight Landfill
Blair Mtn. Preservation Update
Global Warming / Climate Instability in the Mountain State
That’s Quite a Bit for One Photography Course in College… 
The Talk of the Town, State, Nation, Planet… Maybe Even Beyond!
Coalfield Residents Testify at Wind Hearing in Cape Cod
Mountaintops Do Not Grow Back - New Booklet Produced
‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,’ West Virginia style
Farewell to Abe
OVEC Works!
Miscellany


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  		Winds of Change Newsletter, June 2008     See sidebar for table of contents

‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,’ West Virginia style
Note the clean bright sky on the left edge of this photograph. Now note the ‘clouds’ covering almost all the rest of the sky behind the trees … except clouds in real life aren’t a sickly yellow color, and these clouds are actually the huge pall of toxic dust released from just one massive mountaintop removal mining blast.
Note the clean bright sky on the left edge of this photograph. Now note the ‘clouds’ covering almost all the rest of the sky behind the trees … except clouds in real life aren’t a sickly yellow color, and these clouds are actually the huge pall of toxic dust released from just one massive mountaintop removal mining blast.

 
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