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9-30
State research librarian encourages people to see films with West Virginia ties
9-30
Judge lifts injunction, allowing election law enforcement:  TV ads in state attorney general campaign at issue
9-30

Sixth annual Appalachian Heritage Day to be held Oct. 6, 2008.

9-30

CONSOL to pay $400,000 for water violations

9-30

Coal and the Campaign Trail

9-30
Research shows just how important and fragile forests are in global warming
9-30

State officials issue update on injured miners

9-29
Patriot Coal idles WVa mine
9-29
Lipstick on an Energy Pig
9-28
FLOW: The Film that Will Change the Way You Think About Water
9-26
Valley Fill Appeal Focuses on Corps' Analysis of Water Flow
9-26
W.Va. favors alternative energy, poll shows
9-26
Goodell: Americans ignorant of nation's coal dependency
9-25
Gore Urges Civil Disobedience To Stop Coal Plants
9-25
The Human Cost of Coal
9-25
Disagreements Over Mining, Fills Are 'Continuing Legal Saga'
9-25
Judges' Decision
9-25
Global warming pollution increases 3 percent
9-25
W.Va. judge allows Aracoma coal mine fire lawsuit to continue
9-25
W.V. Energy/Climate Survey: Most In State Do Not Favor More 'Subprime' Investments In Carbon-Based Fuels, Nuclear Power
9-24
Federal court hears appeal on W.Va. valley fills
9-24
Obama Declares Support For 'Clean' Coal  -  Obama, McCain try to top 'clean coal' promise: Camps trade accusations over who is serious
9-24
Federal Court hears appeal on WV valley fills
9-24
Army Corps makes mining appeal
9-24
Mountaintop removal issue in federal court
9-24
State judge among those to hear mining case
9-24
Reconsidering the Power to Move Mountains
9-24
Methane 'Fart' from the Earth Poses Enormous Global Warming Risk
9-24
Coal a tough habit to kick
9-24
Senate tax breaks bill extends alternative fuels credit
9-23
 Another mining permit challenged
9-23
Another mining permit challenged: Together, the two Fola Coal operations would bury more than five miles of streams.
9-23
Groups target Clay-Nicholas mountaintop mining permit
9-23
WV Residents Outraged over PA Power Line Deal
9-23
Coal truck wreck shuts down U.S. 52
9-23
John McCain is not a friend of coal
9-23
State judge among those to hear mining case
9-23
UMW plans work stoppage over NRA filming
9-23
Utilities shrink coal's role
9-23
Officials want Co-Gen money back
9-22
Student coalition addresses implications of proposed power plant
9-22
Coal price hikes likely if mine ruling sticks
9-21
Candidates agree on mountaintop removal
9-21
Maynard e-mails ordered released
9-21
Dousing the Coal-Fired Plant
9-19
Janet Keating: Many suffer as result of illegal mining
9-19
Massey subsidiary ordered to reprioritize shipments
9-19
Kentucky miner killed at ICG mine
9-18
West Virgina Coal Field Residents Rally Against Mountain Top Removal
9-18
Country star criticizes W.Va. mountaintop mining
9-17
McCain: ‘I Do’ Support An End To Mountain-Top Removal, But Coal Companies Also ‘Doing A Much Better Job’
9-17
Mountaintop removal a presidential issue: Neither McCain, Obama support mining practice
9-16
14 protesters arrested at Virginia power Plant site
9-16
This is mountaintop removal. This is how to stop it.
9-18
Rally for Green Jobs
9-15
Trouble in coal country
9-15

Arrests Made at Plant Protest

9-14
Council of churches wants peaceful mining debate  -  WV churches seek peace, prayer in the coalfields
9-14
MSHA too busy for black lung rules, Stickler says
9-14
Book review: W.Va. author ties family stories together with wars
9-14
Phase out coal and burn trees instead, urges leading scientist
9-14
Wind-Power Politics
9-14
Study Finds Recent Global Warming Unprecedented in 1,300 Years
9-14
Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law  -  Coal Court: Did Greenpeace Help Planet By Defacing U.K. Coal Plant?
9-14
McConnell to push showdown over energy
9-14
Coal River Update: Coal River still standing, for now.
9-14
Coal is no blessing
9-14
The Truth about Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining
9-14
Co-Gen officials to hold meeting, provide report
9-14
Bayer delays triggered response 'chaos'
9-14
Global warming makes Tina Fey SNL Clinton-Palin parody
9-13
Residents contest strip mining near Cumberland stream
9-13
A War on the Future
9-13
Plan to build plant to burn waste coal progressing
9-13
Eve Ensler on Sarah Palin
9-13
Anything Goes, Apparently  -  A Notorious Lobbyist Is Sentenced
9-13
Melting permafrost may hasten global warming
9-13
British Court Rules Direct Action OK Because Global Warming Risks So Bad
9-13
Coal Exec Says Energy Crunch Needs Nuke Boost In 15 Years
9-12
Bees, Trees, Wind and Dynamite
9-12
Update on Coal River Mountain Wind: We’ve Gotta Keep the Pressure On
9-12
Global warming, not terrorism, shapes future
9-12
Proposed power line route maps posted online
9-12
Experts Discuss Influence of Money, Politics
9-12
 
22-Year-Old Mountaintop Coal Activist Honored With Prestigious Environmental Award
9-12
Evidence is much more than hot air
9-11
No blasting at Massey site yet, DEP says   Can Massey break the law with impunity?
9-11
Grass in Your Gas Could Reclaim Surface Mines; More than half-million doled out to research renewable energy future  -  Growing biofuels on old mine lands goal of project
9-11
Lawsuit filed over mine waste dumped in Ky. valley
9-11
Experts Discuss Influence of Money, Politics  -   Justice Benjamin draws recusal line in major W.Va. case
9-11
Blowing Mountains instead of Wind Mills in Coal River, West Virginia
9-11
Gubernatorial candidates differ on energy policy; both support health-care initiatives
9-11
Burning the Future on WVPBS Sept. 18th, 9:30 PM
9-11
Feds Pull Plug on Greenbrier Co-Gen Plant
9-11
Letcher County families win in dispute with coal company
9-11
Energy key issue in Mont. governor's election bid 
9-11
Two Environmental Groups Allowed to Join Suit Against Power Company
9-11
Safety-sensitive
9-11
Mercury, a pollutant from coal-fired power plants, found in popular Kentucky lake
9-11
Court mulls water dispute in coal-bed gas drilling
9-11
Collapsed mine waste reservoir: Anger after 128 killed by huge China mudslide
9-11
Meat: Making Global Warming Worse
9-11
Not guilty: the Greenpeace activists who used climate change as a legal defence
9-11
 
9-11
Weather set to get 'harder' in future
9-11
Expert: Climate shift could hurt corn yield by hindering pollination
9-11
Bangladesh: A country on the frontline of climate change
9-10
Massey awaits permits that would doom wind project
9-10
Take Action: Help us ask WV Governor Manchin for “stay of execution” for Coal River Mountain
9-10
Jeff Biggers: Manchin can stop Bee Tree destruction
9-10
East Lynn Lake not on impaired list  -  Comment period extended
9-10
Crucial: Nation focuses on state
9-10
Pro-coal arguments make little sense
9-10
Cleaner coal stokes green debate
9-10
Gang of 16 gets flak on offshore issue  -  Dems' Offshore Drilling Plan Comes With Catch  -  Democrats Start on Energy Plan  -  House GOP Threatens Shutdown Over Drilling
9-10
Obama called 'friend of coal'   -  In Southwest Virginia, Obama cites importance of coal
9-10
Judge pulls plug on coal power plant referendum
9-10
Dozens dead in China as illegal mine waste reservoir collapses
9-10
In Haiti, a Disaster for the Global Warming Era
9-10
Transition Town movement offers positive ideas for low-carbon living
9-9
9-9
Coal Company to Begin Destruction of Major West Virginia Wind Energy Resource   -   Raleigh County Mountain at Center of Coal Vs. Wind Debate
9-9
Impact of mine plan in Wayne debated  -  Mining could affect water quality at lake, geologist says
9-9
Environmental lawyer receives $250,000 award  -  Heinz Award to Louisville activist
9-9
Coal industry expanding, hiring
9-9
Underground CO2 a long way off
9-9
Lawmakers Talk Natural Gas
9-9
Mayfly Week: Mountain Tops Good For Mayflies
9-9
Coal-fired power projects pending in Michigan
9-9
Drilling takes center stage on Capitol Hill
9-9
Omar Grade School contamination
9-9
Palin: the real scandal
9-9
Tools to Expose Big Oil’s Influence on Our Political System
9-9
Coal: Don’t Believe What They Tell You on TV
9-9
Start planning now for federal limits on carbon
9-9
Hazardous Conditions...
9-9
Floods now an all-year danger, warn experts
9-9
The glaciers in the Pyrenees will disappear in less than 50 years
9-9
Uranium mining poses environmental risk
9-9
“CLEAN’ COAL – EXPERIMENT, HOPE OR LIE?
9-8
Greenbrier towns need not repay $6 million
9-8
Black Lung Stats (scroll down)
9-8
Stewart, Sinnette discuss views
9-8
China Sharply Brakes Coal Liquefaction Projects
9-8
Summit eyes carbon capture
9-8