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Tomblin rejects funding development plan with severance-tax hike
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Alpha contractor gets 6 months in jail
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If We Can Stop the Keystone Pipeline, We Can Stop Mountaintop Removal. Right?
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MTR activist to visit Marshall’s campus
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W.Va. Coal Symposium: Bad timing for Alpha
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House GOP delays mine-safety hearing to wait for internal review
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Appalachian Power to buy 2 W.Va. AEP plants
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The Sierra Club and Natural Gas
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Oscar-nominated director arrested at House hearing - 'Gasland' Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans (UPDATES)
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For Some in Congress, It's Easier To Censor Than Hear Americans
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Creating an Economic Diversification Trust Fund (pdf)
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Main, Tomblin headline W.Va. mining symposium; Alpha officials to discuss the era of change
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Lawyer urges industry 'caution' in talking to MSHA
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Rocky Top(less): Environmentalists Ask for Haslam's Help to Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining
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TTU students to screen film about mining industry
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Film fest on energy presented
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MSHA focus shifting to surface mine safety in 2012 - MSHA announces next phase of ‘Rules to Live By’
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Will W.Va. prepare for a post-coal future?
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Critics claim near universal opposition to OSM-BLM merger
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Experts deliver dire warnings about fracking impacts - Residents call for strategy group to plan for gas drilling impacts
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Coal’s not dying — it’s just getting shipped abroad - Pipes Says Coal Demand Affected by Natural Gas
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Energy efficiency offers one of the best tools for tackling the world's debt and social
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Climate change a fundamental health risk: academic
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U.N. starts climate change strategy site
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Clean Air Advocates Cheer Court Decision on Kansas Coal Plant Expansion
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Environmental Group Ranks South's Most Endangered Places
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Wake Up: Water as crucial to economy as coal - Eskom
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Tomblin’s coal mine safety bill introduced
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Battle of Blair Mountain
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Landowners Fight Eminent Domain in Pa. Gas Field
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Worth a drive to Knoxville: Barbara Kingsolver and Kathy Mattea
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Arctic climate change 'to spark domino effect'
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National climate change strategy proposed for wildlife
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Ocean currents emerge as climate change hot-spots
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Watch 131 Years Of Global Warming In 26 Seconds
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Research shows climate change may shrink wheat crops - Extreme heat hurts wheat yields as world warms: study
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Reagan's Road to Climate Perdition
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WV Citizen Action Group Capital Eye
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State still in running for cracker, Tomblin says - 'Cracker' may require another incentive
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Statehouse beat: The other side to be heard four years later
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Scenic Vistas: Not A Jobs Issue
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Cutting Climate Change is Simple: Just Stop Subsidising Fossil Fuels
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James Hansen Risks Handcuffs To Make His Research Clear
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U.S. seems to have largely escaped winter
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Britain: Hotter summers 'may kill 5,900 every year', warns first national risk assessment of climate change
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Ethics watchdog Richard Beliles has few friends in Kentucky Capitol
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Keystone To Be Linked To U.S. Highway Bill: Boehner
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Exposing seafood industry's junk science
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Steelhammer: Industry backing for fracking is lacking - Word play: Gas industry protests use of ‘F word’, but its PR machine takes advantage of focus on ‘fracking’
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Are Marcellus Shale jobs 'booming'?
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Pa. tax legislation could attract Shell refinery
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Marcellus Shale natural gas Ohio pipeline project in doubt
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Save mountains in Tennessee, Virginia
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Thousands sign on against Alton coal mine
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Controversial border coal mine back in play
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WVEC Green Legislative Update, January 27, 2012
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W.Va. coal mining symposium set for Feb.1-3
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Threat of mountaintop coal mining puts mountains of Tennessee and Virginia on endangered list
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Why inspectors might hesitate to shut down a mine
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Former foreman sues Patriot in methane test scandal
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US election 2012: Environment versus energy: The Telegraph goes to Eastern Kentucky to investigate one of the most controversial energy production processes, mountain-top removal.
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City church will host benefit concert to fight mountaintop removal mining
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Global warming: Is Arctic ice at a tipping point?
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Lower emissions, less money, long life
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Chesapeake requires signs to make golfers aware of fly ash
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Coal ash leaching into water in North Carolina
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ALEC Behind Push to Require Climate Denial Instruction in Schools
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Fracking Company: EPA Decision to Test Contaminated Wells in Dimock "Undercuts" Obama's Commitment to Natural Gas
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Bill Moyers: Fighting Back Against Corporate Personhood
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Singapore raises sea defences against tide of climate change
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New Map For What To Plant Reflects Global Warming
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UK ranks top risks posed by climate change, including to nation’s beloved fish and chips
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EPA pushes to reduce Mingo mine's impacts - Obama EPA pushes state, company to reduce impacts of CONSOL’s huge Buffalo Mountain strip mine
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Ban on coal slurry injection introduced in House
1-27
SEAC shows ‘The Last Mountain’ to raise MTR awareness amongst students, community
1-27
Stream Buffer Zone Rule: House committee makes final document request in mining rule rewrite
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Governor in Houston promoting West Virginia for ‘cracker’ plant - Tomblin signs 'cracker' bill - CONSOL to cut wells, spending in Marcellus Shale
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Budget woes force WVPB to cut programming
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The Economist: Tighter regulation, bountiful natural gas and declining installation costs for renewable energy herald the end of America’s coal era
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FirstEnergy, Citing Impact of Environmental Regulations, Will Retire Six Coal-Fired Power Plants
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ADA Environmental Solutions Benefiting From EPA's New Coal-Fired Power Plant Regulations
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Study: Kentucky must reduce its dependency on coal for better health
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Cleaner air standards under attack in Congress
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Save the Mountains: Penn, Temple students meet with PNC over mountaintop removal
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Why Biodiversity Loss Deserves as Much Attention as Climate Change
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Mining adds to coal's record of health risks  
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In case you ever wondered who DEP protects: WVDEP finds coal slurry did not affect Prenter drinking water - DEP finds few problems in Prenter water - WV Department of Environmental Protection report shows water quality OK in Prenter - DEP: Study finds no link between mining, complaints of polluted groundwater in southern W.Va.- WVDEP releases Prenter water study  - Photos of water in Prenter: In a toilet - Water sample - More photos
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Why Does NASA’s Chief Climate Scientist Keep Getting Arrested? -The Scientist: Jim Hansen Risks Handcuffs to Make His Research Clear - Hansen on Climate: “We need to make clear to the public what’s really going on”
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Looming coal crisis: Will W.Va. leaders do anything?
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House suspends Constitutional rules, passes cracker bill - Cracker bill could head to governor Wednesday
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Wood County possible for chemical plant
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Like Fracking? You'll Love 'Super Fracking'
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Shale Gas a Bridge to More Global Warming
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Marcellus Shale Gas Potential Much Lower than Previously Thought
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Earthquakes, Whose 'Fault' Are They Anyway?
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Coal's environmental impact focus of report for Kentucky legislature - Environmental groups ask Kentucky lawmakers to consider coal's health impact
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Tennessee cites Premium Coal for water quality permit violation
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Be it Resolved: City Council Wants Cambridge To Go Coal Free

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