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7-31
A Presidential Visit (The Liar-in-Chief visits with a slew of Big Coal Apologists and Propagandists (see story below))
7-31
Big Coal's Campaign of Lies: While its fuel cooks the planet, the coal industry uses its clout to dupe consumers and delay change
7-31
Herald Dispatch editorial: Coal-to-liquids technology enters the action phase (frying the planet spirals out of control; see article above)
7-31
Bluefield Daily Telegraph editorial: Coal-to-Liquids — West Virginia ready to become a global leader (in frying the planet)  
7-31
Marshall County Lands Coal-to-Liquid Project
7-31
Barf bag anyone? State Journal editorial on coal-to-gasoline plant
7-31
Barack Obama’s green coal: Another myth from the change agent?
7-31
Va. Environmental Groups Sue To Halt Logging At Future Mine Site
7-31
WV Supreme Court Justice takes strong stand
7-31
Dominion Plans $1 Billion Natural Gas Pipeline Project
7-31
State DEP announces 2007 environmental awards (oh geez)
7-31
MSHA Comes To West Virginia
7-31
Coal export boom feeds talk of US port expansion
7-31
Vermont's Unique Approach To Curbing Energy Use
7-31
Three US Senators Call for EPA Chief to Resign
7-31
Energy bill deadlocked over offshore oil drilling
7-31
NC lawsuit against TVA pollution in federal court
7-31
Business groups fight Georgia coal plant ruling
 
7-31
East Coast Gas Rush?
7-31
Market Remedy to Climate Change Stalls
7-31
Birds Fly North in Climate Change Vanguard
7-31
Mediterranean climate moves bird population
7-31
Arctic Ice Bigger Than 2007, But Thawing Long-Term
7-31
Global climate change would be tough on Illinois
7-31
Melting permafrost poses threats to infrastructure, Alaska economy
7-31
TransAlta scrambles to avert coal ash pond spill
7-30
This time, blue haze more widespread
7-30
Director seeks more pay for mine inspectors
7-30
Barf bag anyone?: Jay Lauds Plan to Build WV's First-Ever CTL Plant
7-30
McAteer: Keep Safety, Environment in Mind
7-30
W.Pa. waste coal plant on hold because of economy
7-30
Coal producers credit prices for strong profits  -  Coal buyout fever is on; Cominco makes $14B deal
7-30
Another coal-industry public relations effort: International Coal Group exec / lawyer writes op-ed
7-30
Court hears case on coal plant near Mammoth
7-30
EPA tells staff don't talk   -  US environmental agency silences employees on climate change
7-30
Suppressed climate change report turns up heat on US lawmakers
7-30
Senators debate clean-air rules rejected by court
7-30
Dominion gets first permit for fly-ash dump
7-30
‘Clean coal’ not clean enough for large testing
7-30
South Africa plans shift from coal for energy
7-30
Tar Sands and Oil Shale will Destroy the Climate to Save a Couple Bucks at the Pump (as will coal-to-liquid) Oil: Campaigners seek an end to production of CO2-intensive 'unconventional fuels'
7-30
US blacks face harsher climate change impact
7-30
Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk  -  Huge chunk snaps off storied Arctic ice shelf
7-30
Coral Reef 'Glue' May Not Stick Under Climate Change
7-30
Survey: Most U.S. health officials see climate change as looming health threat
7-30
Climate Experts Tussle Over Details. Public Gets Whiplash.
7-30
33% of China's carbon footprint blamed on exports
7-30
Los documentales del festival de cine de Finestrat se proyectarán en Lima durante el mes de agosto
7-29
Lexington Herald Leader editorial: Rein in rapacious coal industry
7-29
Plant to produce coal-gas; Questions remain about controlling CONSOL plant's greenhouse emissions. Scientists and environmentalists aren't sure a new plan to turn West Virginia coal into gasoline is such a hot idea.
7-29
$800M coal-to-liquids plant to be built in Marshall Co.  -  Houston firm partners in W.V. coal-to-liquid plant  -  Coal Juice: High Energy Prices Prompt First U.S. Coal-to-Liquids Plant  - More stories...
7-29
Manchin and Rockefeller on Coal-to-gasoline plant (livable climate? water? land? who needs 'em?  let's burn the planet!)
7-29
Showing Nation How It’s Done ("it" being blindly frying the planet in order to attempt to continue business as usual)
7-29
Project Gives Valley’s Coal Miners New Hope (but scientists see another climate crisis boondoggle in the making...)
7-29
Energy conservation should be priority, W.Va. lawmakers told
7-29
Rahall’s snake oil plan lacks long-term vision (scorll down;Letters to the editor are great tools--please use them!)
7-29
New sources of fossil fuel 'risk climate catastrophe'  -  Alternative fossil fuels 'risk disaster'
7-29
Proposed black-lung rule would be setback for miners
7-29
Leslie miner dies of injuries from accident
7-29
Mining Projects Threaten Warblers and Drinking Water
7-29
'Moving Mountains' wins Foreword's prize for best environmental book
7-29
GOP candidates for State Senate claim mantle of true conservative
7-29
Book Review - Bringing Down the Mountains (There are a couple of OVEC photos used here)
7-29
Rush for Natural Gas Enriches Corner of the South
7-28
Meetings will discuss W.Va. power line plan  -  300 Miles of Power Line
7-28
CONSOL announces plans for coal gasification plant  -  Officials announce new $800 million coal-to-gasoline plant  Coal To Gas
7-28
Coal fuels new revenue (Let's account for the externalized costs of our continued over-reliance on coal --black lung, white lung, asthma, premature deaths from air and water pollution, buried headwaters streams, forever-destroyed forests, acid rain, destroyed ecosystem services, climate catastrophe -- then look at the balance sheets again)
7-28
Reid is right; coal is making us all sick (Letters to the editor are great tools--please use them!) - Greed destroying environment
7-28
Supreme Court farce continues (Letters to the editor are great tools--please use them!)
7-28
Thank God the Land is Flat Now
7-28
Meeting planned on drilling and surface owners’ rights
7-28
EPA chief won't explain climate choices
7-28
Quit Coal campaign completes Thailand tour
7-27
Mega-power line projects moving forward in West Virginia  - Download maps of proposed PATH routes   -  Proposed TrAIL power line will detract from monastery's tranquility
7-27
Both sides partly right about coal concerns  -  DEP secretary offers exciting information (Letters to the editor are great tools--please use them!)
7-27
Another review, another list of MSHA enforcement lapses
7-27
Meeting planned on drilling and surface owners’ rights in Lincoln County
7-27
King Coal: Willing To Kill For Kilowatts
7-27
Book on mountaintop removal wins award
7-27
As fly ash piles up, the challenge for safe disposal rises   -    Golf course built with ash form coal-fired power plant suspected of tainting VA groundwater
7-27
Buchanan mine fatality investigated
7-27
Rescuers urged to speed efforts for 29 trapped in China mine flood
7-27
Marcellus shale and natural gas: Deep concerns   -   The Light Is Green, and Yellow, on Drilling
7-27
'It feels like a sci-fi film' - accidents tarnish nuclear dream
7-27
UK scientists hit out at new coal station plans
7-27
Coral Reefs Face Extinction
7-27
Buying us time on global warming
7-26
Bush to speak at W.Va. Coal Association gathering  -  President Bush Heading To Coal Meeting
7-26
Congressmen Fly Over Mountaintop Mining Sites  -  2 congressmen fly over mountaintop mining sites  -  Congressmen take tour of mining sites
7-26
Bo Webb: Time is now to change vision on energy use
7-26
Die Kuppen fliegen weg
7-26
Kathy Mattea Cuts A Coal Album (hey, there's another OVEC photo)
7-26
Proposed $8 billion coal buyout gets rocky Battle shaping up over Cliffs' purchase of coal producer
7-26
Environmentalists appeal Va. power plant permits
7-26
Massey foe wants US SC to put W. Va. Justice off case
7-26
Arch Coal cuts mining short at 3,000 feet deep  -  Arch Coal Rises Most in 3 Months as Profit Triples
7-26
TVA witness says coal emission not health threat (That's right kids! Toxic emissions are good for you)
7-26
How Green is Barack Obama? An Interview with Joshua Frank  - Obama on climate change: US needs to set example
7-26
Take E-Action: Let's Be Fossil Fuel-Free
7-26
Caution demands a halt in use of fly ash  -  Isle of Wight balks at ash disposal
7-26
Retire your carbon, offset your guilt
7-26
Grassroots action - the movie
7-26
New Generation Bears Witness to Appalachian Destruction
7-26
Patriot Coal adds three board members
7-26
Rio Tinto shows muscle in coal industry debate
7-26
Utah Senators Disappointed In Coal Mine's Lack Of Safety
7-26
Cleanup of Unused Mines Is Urged
7-26
Global warming could affect water supplies in North: researcher
7-26
EPA Chief Warned White House On Global Warming, Senator Says
7-26
Why Non-White Communities Could Be Hit The Hardest By Climate Change
7-25
Citizens protest Buffalo Mountain strip job 
7-25
MSHA failed Crandall miners in Utah, review says  -  MSHA cites poor design, anemic oversight in Crandall Canyon disaster  - Feds say Utah mine operator courted danger
7-25
If By Clean You Mean Filthy
7-25
Catskills to Appalachia: Trailer Talk travels
7-25
(Coal-funded) Capito Statement on Need for Energy Plan
7-25
Coal prices soar
7-25
Is more coal an energy answer?
7-25
A Superfund site in the making?
7-25
New warnings issued about mercury in fish
7-25
Power plant opponents speak up at SATV forum
7-25
Earnings Preview: Arch Coal seen poised for growth   -  ICG Enjoys Best Quarter In Brief History
7-25
State shooting for NRA center in EKY
7-25
7-25
Too Many French Nuclear Workers Contaminated
7-25