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News Link Archive
7-2
Shame on media taken in by Massey (scroll down)
7-2
U.S. Gives Up To $408 Million To "Clean Coal" Projects
7-2
Calculating Coal’s Toll
7-2
Coal is Killing Us and the Mountains are Dying Too
7-2
New Soundtrack/Website Rocks the Coalfield Justice Movement
7-2
Coal Country - new film from Mari-Lynn Evans - July 11th
7-2
Elegy for Appalachia
7-2
Almost Hell West Virginia; Where Is The Obama Administration?
7-2
Four West Virginia Impoundments on EPA 'High Hazard' List - AEP Officials Assure Coal Ash Reservoirs Safe
7-2
Coal Devastating Region says US Senate Hearing on Mountaintop Removal  - Antrim Caskey's photos of the June 25 hearing  -  The Impacts of Mountain Top Removal: A Personal Story by Maria Gunnoe
7-2
Goldman Prize Award Winner Attacked During Rally  -  Activists Shout It from the Mountaintop
7-2
A New Take on Clean Water
7-2
Students from across US attend WV climate conference
7-2
"Friends of Deckers Creek" Ask City Council for Support
7-2
Local Struggles for Environmental Justice in the Midwest
7-2
4 Landfills In Tenn. Approved For Coal Ash Test
7-2
Clean Air Act Trips Up Sunflower's Coal Plant Deal in Kansas 
7-2
With a melting Greenland as a backdrop, Danish minister urges climate action
7-1
Betraying the Planet
7-1
Manchin's energy plan among new July 1 laws
7-1
What Happens After Coal for West Virginia Mountaintop Miners? - Daryl Hannah: Why I Was Arrested in Coal River, West Virginia - Noted Climate Scientist Participates in Protest
7-1
Let's just get rid of 'mountain' nicknames  -  Surface mining foes say W.Va. no longer "Mountain State"
7-1
Activists Drape 25-Foot Banner On EPA Building, Call on EPA to Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining  - Boston Rising Tide Activists Drape Banner On EPA Building, Call on EPA to Stop Mountaintop Removal
7-1
The White House about-face on MTR  -  DK GreenRoots: Obama Says Mountain Crimes Can Be Regulated  - Obama Administration Gives Thumbs Up To Mountaintop Removal Mining
7-1
Declaring Our Independence… in order to survive.
7-1
Kucinich Says Climate Bill Might Make Things Worse - Small sacrifice for our future  - Boucher: Climate bill is good for coal - With Something for Everyone, Climate Bill Passed  - Friends of Coal urge Senate defeat of climate bill
7-1
'Green Jobs' Pitch Swayed Just Enough Coal-State Lawmakers to Vote for Climate Bill
7-1
Upshur County makes no decision on PATH
7-1
How 'hazardous' is coal ash waste? Two Ohio Valley Slurry Ponds Are On EPA's "High Hazard Potential" List - More on coal ash dams: Another one in W.Va.  - EPA Lists 'High Hazard' Coal Ash Dumps - 10 Duke ash basins on hazard list  - FirstEnergy's sludge-filled lake is on EPA list
7-1
DEP holds public meetings to discuss creek rehab (yet DEP allows the coal mining industry to forever bury and poison streams)
7-1
What we don’t know could hurt us worse
7-1
Panel set to rule on Quecreek Mine fines
7-1
Coal execs tweeting away on climate change
7-1
California's fossil fuel use slated to grow
7-1
Permafrost Melting a Growing Climate Threat
7-1
Super-size deposits of frozen carbon threat to climate change
7-1
The State of the Climate—and of Climate Science
7-1
We Can Solve the Climate Crisis
7-1
Study: New Orleans-area coast threatened by climate change
7-1
Life on earth
7-1
Carbon capture: future or bust?
7-1
Supreme Court Watch: Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., Inc.
6-30
Maria Gunnoe Testimony at Senate Hearing on Mountaintop Removal: What About the Homeland Security of the Coalfield Residents?
6-30
Appalachian groups target Obama: Massive twitter campaign invites @barackobama to visit Appalachia and see mountaintop removal first hand. Bloggers to Obama: Visit mountaintop removal site
6-30
72 mile record-setting run to end mountaintop removal!
6-30
Fact Sheet: Coal Combustion Residues (CCR) - Surface Impoundments with High Hazard Potential Ratings  - EPA names the names: Coal-ash pond list disclosed   - EPA relents, discloses list of high-risk coal ash sites - EPA reveals 44 hazardous coal ash sites  - Louisville coal ash pond on list of potentially dangerous places  - Ky. has 7 high-hazard coal-ash piles
6-30
Byrd opposed to climate bill; Rockefeller has ‘concerns’ - Coal and climate news for June 29, 2009  - New pro-coal group tries to stop 'cap and trade' bill  - Byrd remains ‘bullish’ on coal’s future
6-30
EPA proposes tougher clean air rule
6-30
Mountaintop removal: W.Va. nickname contest announced
6-30
A model of coalfield development in the other Virginia  - Supporters of Coal Point to Regional Investments  - Critics of Coal: Outside Interests Plunder Region, Source of Economic Woes
6-29
Human cost of coal mining outweighs economic benefits - Mortality in Appalachian Coal Mining Regions: The Value of Statistical Life Lost
6-29
Critics of Coal: Outside Interests Plunder Region, Source of Economic Woes
6-29
Mickey McCoy: Costly King coal
6-29
Law to Ban Mountaintop Mining Proposed  - Rocky Topless: Alexander Fights to Stop Mountaintop Mining - WVa Environmental Official To Testify On Mining - Debate Continues in Washington on Mountaintop Removal Mining  - Williamson Daily News: Miners take message to Washington - Mountaintop Mining Debate Reaches Capitol Hill  - Mountaintop removal nearing it’s end!
6-29
Mr. President, go and see for yourself
6-29
WV Public Radio: We listen to your voices on mountaintop removal
6-29
Obama scores major victory on climate
6-29
As Obama and Congress Passed ACES, They Propped Up Coal and Left Lots of Coal-Related Problems  - What Happens in the U.S. Senate on Climate Change  - The Climate Bill in Climate Context
6-29
AEP sees carbon capture from coal ready by 2015 - 2 FutureGen partners drop out of coal project
6-29
Is Clean Coal Really Clean?  -  Now it's "Cleaner" Coal?
6-29
Recusal ruling reopens Massey suit vs WVa court
6-29
A Microbe That Could Keep Coal in the Ground
6-29
Ken Hechler: 'We are going to need hellraisers to stop this devastating practice.'
6-29
NASA SCIENTIST JAMES HANSEN, ACTRESS DARYL HANNA, CONGRESSMAN KEN HECHLER ARRESTED AT MARSH FORK RALLY
6-29
SECOND COAL SILO NOT FOR THE SAKE OF CHILDREN
6-29
Massey CEO Begins Using Twitter
6-29
Coal is both W.Va.'s living and its dying; That's not going to change soon
6-29
Mum attitude calls for more regulation - Davis: Are birds threatened by Kingston fly ash spill?  - Future murky for ash disposal - An estimated 3.9 million tons of coal ash destined for Perry County landfill
6-29
Utah coal operators back away from deep mining 2 years after deadly Crandall Canyon collapse
6-29
Proposed Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Severance Tax Moves Forward
6-29
OPPONENTS OF PATH MUST BE REGISTERED INTERVENORS
6-29
Washington Theater Presents The MTR Follies
6-28
Ruling reopens Massey suit vs WVa court
6-28
A plea to President Obama: End mountaintop coal mining
6-28
Blankenship LTE in Charleston Sunday Gazette Mail - Deep miner will take help from out-of-state
6-28
Tom Miller: Differences over coal mining will be hard to bridge
6-28
Sunday Bloggers Act: Top Ten List on Why President Obama Must Visit Appalachia and Launch War for Green Jobs
6-27
W.Va. and global warming: Coal wins another round
6-27
Analysis: Climate bill may spur energy revolution
6-27
We need more than ACES Global Warming bill passes: 219-212 President Barack Obama clears major global warming hurdle  - US House passes cap-and-trade global warming bill, moves to Senate - Obama pressures Senate on climate change measure - Obama: Climate Change Bill Good for Jobs - Winners and losers emerge in climate bill - One hurdle down for climate bill, 60 more to go
6-27
DEP on fence as it reports slurry study data inconclusive
6-27
Exclusive: Blockbuster studies describe MTR impacts
6-27
Coal Valley News: Protestors arrested at Massey coal mine
6-27
Ruth Tucker of the Coal River area was charged with battery after she allegedly slapped activist Judy Bonds - Violent Massey Attack Bonds: Why is the Obama Administration Supporting Union-Busting Thugs?
6-27
The story of our civil disobedience against mountaintop-removal coal mining  -  Coal protesters assaulted and shot at, says Hansen - Actress Hannah held over protest - Elizabeth Kolbert: James Hansen Arrested  - More activists arrested at Marsh Fork Elementary School at Sundial, W.Va.  -  NASA'S James Hansen Arrested During Coal Mining Protest  - Daryl Hannah, Ken Hechler arrested at W.Va. protest
6-27
Daily News goes to Washington Will attend mountain top removal hearing at nation’s capital
6-27
It's Mountain Day
6-27
Ky. dam went uninspected for decade
6-27
Lessons in TVA's ash spill
6-27
Paint Creek scenic trail beckons tourists
6-27
Bidding scheduled to fill in Glen White mine
6-26
Mountaintop removal damage 'irreversible,' U.S. Senate hears; DEP official only witness to defend practice  -  Mountaintop removal: Jobs vs. mayflies? — NOT
6-26
'Mountaintop removal is a human rights issue'
6-26
Lawmakers, activists battle over mountaintop removal coal mining  -  Huffman, Gunnoe testify to Congress about mountaintop removal  - Mountaintop Mining Debate Reaches Capitol Hill
6-26
Research Examines Health Impact of Mining -- Illness, Premature Deaths Cost Appalachia Billions  -  Finding the Cost of Coal
6-26
What does coal cost Kentucky? - Increase coal severance tax
6-26
Shelley Moore Capito, denial and the climate change bill - Rahall, Mollohan join Capito in opposing climate bill
6-26
Climate bill showdown: Obama, Dems pressing hard
6-26
Jim Hansen Statement on Coal River Mountain June 23 Action  - A plea to President Obama - end mountaintop coal mining
6-26
Two Utilities Are Leaving (Un)Clean Coal Initiative
6-26
What’s “cleaner coal”?
6-26
How can humans even consider the practice of literally blowing the tops off mountains in order to remove coal?
6-26
Mountaintop removal: Radmacher reflects on the issue
6-26
Quotes of the Day
6-26
Quecreek update: Legal arguments continue
6-26
Coal ash update: TVA releases its report on disaster
6-26
From the Senate to the WV Coalfields, a Pivotal Week for Mountaintop Removal
6-25
Historic Senate Hearings on Clean Water Protection Act Today: We All Live Downstream  - Congress to study mountain top removal mining  - Gearing up for Senate mountaintop removal hearing - Public Radio: West Virginians travel to DC for mountaintop removal hearing
6-25
 
Help bring Obama to the mountaintop...  
6-25
Video of Ken Hechler at 6-23 protest - W.Va. Public radio video of protest - Climate Protest Arrests in US and UK  - MSNBC Darryl Hannah arrested at mining protest - Gallery: Mountaintop mining protest June 23
6-25
Video of Massey wife assaulting Judy Bonds at June 23 protest
6-25
Bryd’s staff tours mountaintop mining sites
6-25
State must balance economy and environment, Manchin says of protest
6-25
When do we draw the line about blasting?
 6-25
Rahall still defending mountaintop mining role; Opponents need to be ‘enlightened’
6-25
Democracy Now: Bo Webb, James Hansen and Daryl Hannah on June 23
6-25
Coal’s costs: Here is the study
6-25
When do we draw the line about blasting?
6-25
Report: Coal industry costs Ky. state government
 
6-25
Leaking dam indicates potential widespread problem in Eastern Kentucky
6-25