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11-7
Senate confirms Pa. regulator to head OSM unit  - Breaking news: Senate confirms Pizarchik for OSMRE
11-7
Mike Harman: Let's turn coal to our benefit
11-7
Friends of Coal: Manchin sets big meeting with industry
11-7
Manchin expects meeting with Obama ‘soon’  -  Talking coal
11-7
Spruce Mine update: EPA gives Arch Coal more time
11-7
Speakers at rally urge unified effort to save coal jobs
11-7
Marketing Madness: Coal for Children
11-7
Last Stand At Coal River Mountain  -  SPECIAL REPORT: APPALACHIA UNDER SIEGE  - Civil Disobedience Actions Launched to Stop Mountain Top Removal
11-7
Appalachia under attack
11-7
How industry pressures and competing national agendas dim prospects for a climate treaty
11-7
G&E seeking to dump coal waste into the Ohio River
11-7
Coal ash: Dominican Republic town blames U.S. firm for birth defects  - Friday roundup, Nov. 6, 2009 - Illegally Dumping 100 Million Pounds of Toxic Coal Ash Waste Onto a Pristine Dominican Republic Beach, U.S. Power Corporation Created a Genetic Time Bomb, Mass Tort Complaint Alleges in First-of-its-Kind Lawsuit - Coal ash dumping suit filed in Delaware - Report, lawsuit see rock ash link to deformed Dominican babies
11-7
Festival of Faiths focuses on water
11-7
Environmentalists, citizens speak out on plan to expand LG&E ash pond in Trimble Co.
11-7
Campus power plant generates new controversy
11-7
First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show]
11-7
Environmentalists Call on EPA to Halt TransAlta Emissions
11-7
More CTL Insanity: Energy Issues Discussed at PIP Breakfast
11-7
Warrior Film-making: The Story of Free Range Studios
11-7
Coal May Have Caused the Permian-Triassic Extinction
11-6
Rapid climate change threatens foundations of human health – study
11-6
DEP finds problems at W.Va.'s coal-ash dams  -  WVDEP finds problems with coal-ash dams
11-6
Save Coal River Mountain  Groups plan e-mail campaign to protest W.Va. mine
11-6
As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia’s Coal River Mountain, a Debate on Mountaintop Removal Mining
11-6
HEARING ON VALLEY FILLS PERMIT TURNS INTO MOB SCENE
11-6
Inside every bully, there's always a crybaby 
11-6
Facing Coal Hard Facts at Interior Department
11-6
Pollution from Underground Coal Fires Tallied
11-6
Gibson will carry powerful message about mountaintop removal in area - Environmental activist to visit ETSU today
11-6
Kentucky’s Great Divide: UK hosts four experts to debate social, economic impacts of coal  -  Coal debated at daylong conference
11-6
National Miner’s Day proposed for Monongah anniversary  -  Manchin signs resolution to honor West Virginia Coal Miners
11-6
US Plant deploys CCS (for 1.5 percent of its CO2 emissions)
11-6
Climate bill moving, but a long way to go
11-6
World Faith Leaders Join Forces to Battle Global Warming
11-6
Grant to help WVU-China add carbon sequestration to coal-to-liquids project
11-6
Fiery mountains of coal may have caused mass extinction 250 mln yrs ago
11-6
African Nations, Activists Disrupt Barcelona Climate Talks
11-6
The Climate Refugees
11-6
Truck collides with coal rig on Holden Mountain
11-6
Stephen Colbert And Al Gore Debate What To Do About Global Warming (VIDEO)
11-6
Hearing tonight on Smith Mountain site as coal ash landfill
11-6
Fury over coal giants' water bid
11-5
Board asks state SBA to help build new Marsh Fork Elementary School  - A Fork In The Road
11-5
Coal Tattoo investigates: Is there a MTR permit crisis?
11-5
Appalachian Voices, iLoveMountains.org recognized
11-5
Many in U.S. coal country oppose new emission regulations
11-5
Exposed: The Worldwide Efforts Of The Global Energy Lobby To Kill Progress On Climate Change  - Big coal lobbies cap-and-trade - Groups Want to Reconcile Climate Legislation
11-5
W.Va. film festival coming this weekend
11-5
Power companies seek long delay in PATH hearings  - Longer Path Possible For PATH
11-5
Mike Roselle and 'Tree Spiker'
11-5
MTR vs. health care: What would Jay do?
11-5
The EPA is simply performing the function it is supposed to perform
11-5
Economists Concur on Threat of Warming
11-5
Delegation seeks to honor nation’s coal miners
11-5
Congressional watchdog issues update on coal ash regulation efforts
11-5
Inspector General to Probe EPA Marketing of Coal Ash
11-5
How the Labor and Environmental Movements are Making Peace
11-5
New regs create need for additional mine inspectors  -  Good moves to bolster E. Ky.
11-5
Resource powers debate: All-day campus event aims to educate friends, foes of coal
11-5
Warren Buffett's big railroad buy is also a huge bet on coal
11-5
The Lungs of the Earth
11-4
A Fallen Friend of the Mountains--Goodbye Jim Foster: Memorial Video by B. J. Gudmundsson Part 1 - Part 2
11-4
Chafin: Rocky IV should block health care over MTR  -  Dance With The Ones Who Brought You
11-4
Protesters Tell It On the Mountain in Coal Country
11-4
AEP’s Morris on Blankenship and climate change
11-4
EPA IG: Coal ash report withholding an ‘oversight’
11-4
Marshall, Friends of Coal ties troubling 
11-4
Coal demand rebounds globally, but not yet in U.S., producers say
11-4
Coal profits mask lack of US economic activity
11-4
Coal Leaders Discuss Cap-and-Trade, EPA Concerns
11-4
Trimble coal ash pond worries environmentalists
11-4
With demise of Big Stone II, the days of King Coal are over for now
11-4
Climate debate has rocky start for US Senate panel  - Senate Republicans boycott meeting on climate change legislation
11-4
The real reason the climate bill is going to suck - Cost analysis to delay Senate climate change bill
11-4
Is global warming melting the ice on Mt. Kilimanjaro?  - Mount Kilimanjaro Latest Victim Of Climate Change
11-4
Deep-sea ecosystems affected by climate change
11-4
Global Report: Climate Change Exposes the Oil and Gas Industry to Risk
11-4
UN chief in warning over climate change talks
11-4
The high price for coal's Holy Grail
11-4
ACT LOCALLY: What we do to our planet
11-3
U.S. starting over on 'buffer zone' mining rule  -  Interior ’spinning its wheels’ on mountaintop removal  - Cowed Interior to Consider Mountaintop Removal Rule Once Plundering Is Over in 2011  - Mining stream buffer rule could be ready by 2011 - Bush's Stream-Buffer Rule for Mining Will Remain Until 2011 - Interior Sets 2011 Goal for Protecting Streams from Coal-Mining Waste
11-3
Manchin pursuing Obama meeting on coal
11-3
Can rural America hold the world to ransom?
11-3
'Coal Country' Poses the Biggest Obstacle in Senate Climate Debate
11-3
The Catch-22 of Clean-Coal (There’s a catch-22 corollary when it comes to clean coal called double-think: Believing that that there is such as thing as clean coal while knowing it’s not possible, and spending trillions on the concept anyway.) - AEP's Mountaineer plant going green (not)
11-3
PATH motions: More than just procedural stuff
11-3
Ecology vs. need for cash: Power plant splits Hopis
11-3
Coal ash disposal loophole is feared as EPA considers new rules
11-3
Big Stone II plug pulled  -  Plan for coal-fired plant in South Dakota shelved after 4 utilities drop out
11-3
Attend a Coal Country House Party!
11-3
Blankenship lackey Carl Hubbard takes us back to middle school
11-3
During forged letter investigation hearing, coal industry lies under oath about its lobbying history
11-3
Scientists Seek 'Plan B' for Fighting Climate Change
11-3
Climate change threatens lives of millions of children, says charity
11-3
Snows melting from peak of Kilimanjaro
11-3
Some Rich Men Came & Raped the Land...and Nobody Caught Em'
11-3
Pee Dee Group-Sierra Club meeting to feature documentary
11-2
Review Time
11-2
Shout it from the mountaintop
11-2
Pro-coal curriculum doesn’t belong in classroom
11-2
Coal forum planned for Thursday at UK
11-2
Natural Gas - Not All It's Frakked Up To be  -  Louisiana shale could change fate of U.S. energy supply - Colorado county copes with methane mystery
11-2
Consol cited for training violation in 2008 death
11-2
Washington County coal company pleads guilty to charge of polluting
11-2
Tribe's environmental fight
11-2
Alabama residents split on ash storage deal  -  EPA says spills threaten water, fish
11-2
Farmers fight climate bill, but warming spells trouble for them
11-2
World’s Citizens to Politicians: Get Serious on Global Warming Now!
11-2
Jimmy Carter Joins ‘The Elders’ in Istanbul to Tackle Climate Change
11-2
Climate change poses rising threat to Chesapeake Bay marshland
11-2
Expect the unexpected when adapting to climate change in Africa, says researcher
11-2
Greenland is warming up
11-2
The Freakonomics duo tackles climate change -- and discovers the limits of cleverness
11-2
Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species
11-1
A Bid to Cut Emissions Looks Away From Coal  
11-1
W.Va. pilot project to pump CO2 waste underground begins
11-1
Coal mines will kill Appalachia
11-1
Video: DC Protest and Sit-in at the EPA  -  End Mountaintop Removal Sit-in at the EPA - Lexington Kentucky Action video - Atlanta Protest video
11-1
Activists Protest Mountaintop Mining at TVA
11-1
Democrats confident, despite storm clouds
11-1
Tilling away on strip jobs with bad water
11-1
W.Va. must move from coal someday (scroll down)
11-1
His tiny agency has big role in energy debate
10-31
Sunday, Nov. 1: Last Day for "Coal Country" Party Host Sign-Up!
10-31
Mining protestors sit 4 hours in EPA headquarters  - Mountaintop removal mining protests going national  - Mountaintop Removal Mining Protests Go National - Activists demand an end to mountain top removal  - The Coalfield Uprising is spreading across the nation - The True Impact of Coal Mining - Breaking: EPA Sit-In to Spark Urgent Action on MTR - End Mountaintop Removal: Sit-ins, Zombies, Protests, Banner Drops Oh My!
10-31
Capturing coal's carbon to cut greenhouse gas - Mountaineer Plant CCS: The future of coal?  - AEP's carbon sequestration project unveiled amid fanfare  - The First
10-31
W.Va. Sen. urges changes in black-lung program  - Jay, GAO call for reforms in black lung benefits program  - Lawmaker sees black lung sufferers need way of beating benefits barriers
10-31
Montana Governor To Visit West Virginia
10-31
Consol unit cited for not training worker who drowned  -  MSHA issues two new reports on miner deaths
10-31
EPA and coal ash: Half a loaf of toxic dump regulations?
10-31
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH: A Call for Strategic Action
10-31
Panel discusses mountaintop removal
10-31
Mike Roselle Draws a Line
10-31
Activists gather for ‘Coal Country’ showing
10-31
Miners settle age discrimination case against Massey  -  Massey settles age discrimination suit for $8.75M
10-31
Senate climate bill hearings: What about coal?  -  Senate shocker: Coal operator believes in global warming
10-31
The most frightening story this Halloween is ... pumpkintop removal
10-31
EPA Works Quickly to Regulate Mercury, Other Toxic Emissions
10-31
House scrutinizes fake lobbyist letters

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