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7-18
Mountaintop removal as tourism?
7-18
Gore wants US to produce all power through Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years
7-18
Ed's Chicken
7-18
Lightning Strikes: Get Used to Catastrophic Wildfires and Worse
7-17
Aracoma criminal probe nearing climax
7-17
Maria Gunnoe: What part of state will be sacrificed next? (scroll down)
7-17
Austin Chronicle: Thinking Beyond Coal
7-17
Wildlife Management Area closed for mining
7-17
House of Representatives Reauthorizes ARC
7-17
High and Dry - Last weekend’s congressional trip on mountaintop removal was missing a key element: Congress
7-17
Beshear Will Have Energy Plan Developed for State  -  Beshear sees state as energy capital  -  Gov. Beshear to visit Pike County for meeting
7-17
Conference to reduce engineering impact   -  Conference: the Impact of Engineering Earth
7-17
Proposal to mine wihtin Elkhorn City limits withdrawn
7-17
'US buried warming deaths report'
7-17
Gore sets 'moon shot' goal on climate change
7-17
Johnson: In Senate race, look past ads
7-17
Mattea Looking Forward to Ride on Santa Train
7-17
Australia warned of climate change refugee crisis
7-16
Bush administration proposes carbon capture rules  -   EPA unveils first rules on carbon dioxide storage  -  Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide
7-16
New ARC funding contains coal-to-liquids research
7-16
Coal to Liquid Plan Means a Kentucky Fried Earth
7-16
Millennia-old idea of wind power still a good one
7-16
Massey, ICG cited in recent mine deaths
7-16
Hearing to discuss East Lynn Lake Coal Lease set for July 31
7-16
Cleveland-Cliffs to buy Alpha for nearly $10B
7-16
Past flooding not simply ‘an act of God’ (scroll down)
7-16
Judge tosses 2 lawsuits in Kan. coal plant fight
7-16
Expert: TVA could move faster to cap pollution
7-16
Environmentalists oppose more coal plants in Mich.
7-16
The Anti-Climate Summit
7-16
Emission capture law a free ride for petroleum industry
7-16
Snowmelt caused by global warming may threaten ecosystems and water reserves in western US
7-16
Government scientists wrangle with White House over climate health dangers
7-16
Climate science: The long summer begins
7-15
Warming: Worse menace
7-15
Coal-to-liquid plant planned for Pikeville
7-15
Department officials upset over snafu
7-15
Manchin signs election disclosure bill
7-15
Another large power line planned to cross WV
7-15
West Virginia completes probes of 2 mining deaths
7-15
Study: Closing coal-burning power plant in China cut rate of toddlers' development problems
7-15
To Set Tone, Exelon Plans Huge Cut in Emissions
7-15
Santee Cooper greenwashes mercury pollution
7-14
Gainesville, FL: GRU grilled over practices at coal mines
7-14
Bush legacy not so green
7-14
Amid disputed haze of Smokies, an emissions trial
7-14
US Court Rejects EPA Rule on Power Plant Pollution
7-14
EPA Says Climate Rules Are the Job of US Congress  -  US Lawmakers Say EPA to Delay Action on Climate
7-14
Our Denier-In-Chief Punts While the World Pants
7-14
Schwarzenegger slams Bush administration on global warming
7-14
A Warning From the Sea   -  Shell shocked
7-14
Why climate change affects women more than men
7-13
Mining company to pay $1.48 million selenium fine (This may be the fist time a Clean Water Act violator is allowed to pay part of its civil penalties in rocks. Yes rocks.)
7-13
Mountaintop removal trip sabotaged?   -   Flight to examine effects of mining canceled
7-13
Mel Tyree: We have one year to save climate
7-13
State, national economies flirt with recession
7-13
Barge facility is not what’s best for the ‘People’
7-13
Pa. mining company to apply to blast near state park
7-12
W.Va. settles selenium lawsuit with coal mine (This may be the fist time a Clean Water Act violator is allowed to pay part of its civil penalties in rocks. Yes rocks.)
7-12
'Blue-haze' blame goes to John Amos  -   Another blue chemical cloud reported in Kanawha County
7-12
Obama's Coal Conundrum
7-12
Appalachia Scheme Wins Bucky Fuller Design Contest
7-12
Protesters oppose Somerset coal gasification plant  -  Youth protest State’s approval of coal gasification plant
7-12
White House puts warming threats on back burner  -  White House Disavows EPA Plan on Emission  -  Bush's Final Climate Disgrace
7-12
(Myopic, coal-funded) Lawmakers believe Reid is ‘shortsighted’ on coal
7-12
How We Are Going to Save Appalachia (note the use of an OVEC photo that is widely disseminated over the Internet)
7-12
Billionaires Host Coal-tail Parties Across NC  -  “Billionaires for Coal” Defend Bank of America Investments in Mountain Top Removal
7-12
Pa. coal miner fatally injured
7-12
Coal money talks, public ignores
7-12
What's not the matter with Kansas
7-12
Let's Kick Nuclear Power out of the Climate Change Debate
7-12
Scientists surprised by midwinter collapse of massive ice shelf
7-12
Coral Decline Hits Rich And Poor
7-12
To Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Start by Shrinking Buildings
7-12
Study: Southeast's Cheap Access To Water At Risk
7-12
Beware of Chuitna River coal proposal
7-11
NY Loves Mountains Benefit
7-11
MIDNIGHT REGS: MANY ENVIRONMENTAL ITEMS ON FINAL BUSH AGENDA (scroll to news source reveiwe and mines and stream buffers)
7-11
THE CASE FOR EFFICIENCY
7-11
Mining turns our streams into trickles of water
7-11
Ohio coal industry wary of Obama energy plan  -  Ohio epicenter of candidates' quarrel over coal
7-11
BURYING THE FUTURE
7-11
Women of the ELCA Delegates Adopt Proposals on Environmental Matters
7-11
Religion takes a look at global warming
7-11
THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS
7-11
Coal's future in warming world must be addressed
7-11
THE PERILS OF PLAYING NICE
7-11
Will Lansing be a 'cool city' or a 'coal city'?
7-11
UMW prepares for fall campaign
7-11
White House Cover Up of Global Warming Dangers Must End Now
7-11
ACIDIFYING OCEANS ADD URGENCY TO CO2 CUTS
7-11
Reef Corals Face Extinction Due to Global Warming, Over-Fishing Warning: One Third Of Reef-Building Corals On The Verge Of Extinction
7-11
Study links global warming to more smog  -  EPA: Smog could get worse with global warming
7-11
China coal mine elevator accident kills 11
7-11
How carbon farming, the practice of putting CO2 back into the soil, can help fight global warming
7-10
Obama: A Mighty Wind Awaits You on Coal River Mountain   -  The Coal River Mountain Plan: Will West Virginia Go Green or Go Backwards?
7-10
McCain lauds Consol's work in clean coal (there's no such things as "clean" coal --but there sure is dirty money in politics...)
7-10
 
Arch CEO Sees Positive Future for Coal (but not the people and the planet)
7-10
‘Shared prosperity' will be topic of meeting
7-10
New ways to understand ecosystem services   -  EPA, UVM collaborate on ecosystem planning tool
7-10
Protesters arrested at AMP's Columbus office
7-10
After Applause Dies Down, Global Warming Talks Leave Few Concrete Goals
7-10
Public financing's cleansing power
7-10
White House Stifled Evidence of Climate Change Health Risks

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