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3rd parties spend heavily in W.Va. high court race
Charleston Gazette 5/9/08 Strip Mining Devastates Land and Destroys Communities in Colombia
Health Link 5/9/08 Duke Energy shareholders sound off on coal plant plans
Forbes 5/8/08 Protesters greet Duke shareholders
Charlotte Observer 5/8/08 Coal is finite; sun, wind infinite
Charleston Gazette 5/8/08 Massey subsidiary cited for 3 violations in fatal mine accident
CNN 5/7/08 Start your own coal and coal finance campaign
It's Getting Hot In Here 5/7/08 PA township vows to fight strip mining
Citizens Voice 5/7/08 Sierra Club threatens suits over coal power plants
Reuters 5/7/08 Tribe: Heritage lost to mining
Daily Lobo 5/7/08 Book and interviews open dialogue about strip mining
Coal Valley News 5/6/08 Youghiogheny River, pristine streams run near proposed strip mine
Pittsburgh Post Gazette 5/6/08 Activist groups protest new 'clean-coal' practice of carbon sequestration
Knoxville News Sentinel 5/6/08 Mountain Justice Summer Training Camp
Kingsport Times News 5/5/08 Voice of the people
Huntington Herald-Dispatch 5/5/08 [Video] The West Virginia Hills
Picture West Virginia 5/4/08 Murray says 2 Ohio mines could close
Zanesville Times Recorder 5/3/08 Gibson Foundation Sponsors NRDC's Eco Salon
Modern Guitars Magazine 5/2/08 Death of an innocent landscape
The Concord 5/1/08 WV DEP proceeds with proposed drinking water rule changes
Charleston Gazette 5/1/08 News Channel 5 Investigates Strip Mining In Tennessee
WTVF 5/1/08 Legislature refuses to stop coal companies from blowing up our mountains
Nashville Scene 5/1/08 Destroying America One Mountain at a Time
Aced Magazine 4/30/08 Selenium from mountaintop removal mine in Mud River poisoning fish
Charleston Daily Mail 4/30/08 Moving mountains: the effects of mountaintop removal on the Appalachians
The Appalachian 4/29/08 West Virginia Grandfather Takes on the Coal Industry
Democracy Now! 4/29/08 Coalfield Blues
Live Journal 4/29/08 [VIDEO] Al Gore on Mountaintop Removal
Nashville Film Festival 4/29/08 W.Va. town copes with mountaintop mining
Boston Globe 4/28/08 Clock running out on irreversible climate change
The Daily Star 4/28/08 You Can't Bail Out a Dead Planet
News Blaze 4/27/08 Paying For Power With Mountaintops
The Day 4/27/08 Too many exceptions to protecting lands
Charleston Gazette 4/27/08 MTR Mine's selenium deforms fish, expert says
Charleston Gazette 4/27/08 Massey plans big expansion
Charleston Gazette 4/26/08 MTR ravages the Appalachians
Chimes (Calvin College) 4/26/08 Massey says delayed appeal has little effect
Lexington Herald-Leader 4/25/08 Mountaintop Mining Feeds a Growing Coal Addiction, but at a Price
Richmond Times - Dispatch 4/25/08 Mining appeal argument delayed until September
Charleston Gazette 4/25/08 Starcher vows to remain seated in Massey case
Charleston Gazette 4/25/08 Coal operators agree to limit valley fills
Charleston Gazette 4/24/08 Stop the stripping
The Tufts Daily 4/24/08 Countrywide takes back seat at BofA meeting
CNN 4/23/08 RAN, Appalachians Confront BoA Over Coal Financing at Shareholder Meeting
Common Dreams 4/23/08 BofA gets flak on Countrywide, environment
Charlotte Observer 4/23/08 Hey Citi, Coal is Over! Start Funding Wind and Solar!
The Understory 4/23/08 Maybe It Should Be Mars Day
Daily Kos 4/23/08 Appalachian resistance comes to NYC for Citi shareholder's meeting
The Understory 4/23/08 New Breed of Lobbyists Hail from Appalachia
NPR 4/23/08 Mountaintop removal a bad practice
Burlington Free Press 4/22/08 OVEC featured in new edition of N.Y. Times best-seller
Herald-Dispatch 4/22/08 Young Democrats urge halt to mountaintop removal
Charleston Gazette 4/22/08 The Coal Miner's Granddaughter
Mother Jones 4/21/08 Stripping Mountains to Power D.C.
Washington Post 4/21/08 Mountaintop removal — unnecessary threat to communities
Register-Herald 4/21/08 Obama, Clinton woo coal vote in upcoming primaries
Washington Post 4/20/08 Judge orders corps to turn over permit documents
Charleston Gazette 4/18/08 One Hand Clapping in the Coal Fields
Common Dreams 4/18/08 Judge temporarily suspends several valley fills
Charleston Daily Mail 4/18/08 Army Corps in blatant violation of permit ruling
Charleston Gazette 4/17/08 TN House panel could reconsider earlier vote to kill MTR bill
Knoxville News-Sentinel 4/17/08 Flood lawsuits back before justices
Charleston Gazette 4/17/08 Coal industry takes its case to the voters
Reading Eagle 4/16/08 Massey stockholder seeks political spending reports
Charleston Gazette 4/16/08 3 arrested in protest near Dominion office
Richmond Times Dispatch 4/15/08 Global warming has a new battleground: coal plants
Los Angeles Times 4/15/08 Gauley MTR will hurt W.Va. tourism
The Herald-Dispatch 4/15/08 Landfills growing as coal plants try for cleaner air
Akron Beacon Journal 4/15/08 Virginia Rejects AEP Power Plant
Forbes 4/15/08 Coalfields Turn Into Battlefields
Wall Street Journal 4/15/08 Group wants injunction over election advertising
WV Record 4/15/08 Considering the facts about coal
The Courier-Journal 4/13/08 4/12/08 Flyover, Tackett Creek Watershed in Claiborne County TN
United Mountain Defense 4/12/08 CALL TO ACTION – Protest Bank of America’s Shareholders meeting!
It\'s Getting Hot In Here 4/12/08 Starcher files questions in Massey appeal
Charleston Gazette 4/12/08 Big Coal Losing Momentum in the U.S.
Trillium Asset Management 4/11/08 Aiming WV’s Presidential Spotlight on Mountaintop Removal
Public News Service 4/11/08 Judge OKs EPA fine for Massey water suit
The Charleston Gazette 4/10/08 Massey Coal's Don Blankenship Shows his Hand
ABC Nightline (YouTube) 4/10/08 Dominion CEO Disconnected from Reality
Daily Kos 4/10/08 Big Coal crushes the proposed Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act
Metro Pulse 4/10/08 West Virginians Go Up Capitol Hill to Save WV Mountains
Public News Service 4/10/08 Subcommittee OKs increase in coal tax
Knoxville News Sentinel 4/9/08 Coal power isn't so wonderful
The Roanoke Times 4/9/08 World\'s Largest Bank Joins Greenwashing Network
Environment News Service 4/9/08 Environmentally friendly bills stalled in Tennessee senate committees
Clarksville Online 4/9/08 Another Legal Victory for Corrupt Coal Boss
ABC News 4/8/08 Coal mining shares up on Massey upgrade, outlook
Reuters UK 4/8/08 McCord wrong to oppose bill to regulate of mountaintop mining
The Mountain Press 4/8/08 Clouded: WV Supreme Court
Charleston Gazette 4/7/08 UMW taking up mountaintop fight?
Charleston Gazette 4/6/08 Potentially Volatile Prayer Vigil Turns to Calm Talk
EndMTR.com 4/6/08 Mine jobs don't justify stripping mountains
Lexington Herald-Leader 4/6/08 Court sides with Massey
Charleston Gazette 4/4/08 Carter speaks out against Mountain Top Removal
GoBlueRidge 4/4/08 Coal Boss: If You Take Photos, 'You're Liable to Get Shot'
ABC News 4/4/08 Turn the bums out who approved mountaintop removal yesterday
Knoxville Voice 4/3/08 CRMW: Activists fight for their communities
Boone Standard 4/3/08 Starcher responds to Massey bid to stop hearing
Herald Dispatch 4/3/08 Legislators kill bill to stop mountain-top removal coal mining
Knoxville News Sentinel 4/3/08 Massey's Blankenship Assaults ABC Reporter
Charleston Daily Mail 4/3/08 THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR COAL
Earth Policy Institute 4/3/08 EPA, Army Corps Announce Misguided Plan to Prevent Stream and Wetland Loss
Earthjustice News Release 4/2/08 Removing Mountains
JPG Magazine 4/2/08 Massey moves to block public hearing on recusal bid
Charleston Gazette 4/2/08 Activists Blockade Bank of America to Protest Funding of Coal
Rising Tide 4/1/08 8 Arrested as NC Residents Shut Down Construction at Cliffside Coal Plant
Rising Tide 4/1/08 New Study Says Health Risks Greater in Coal-Mining Communities
The State Journal 4/1/08 Mitigation ruling seen as help for coal industry
Charleston Gazette 4/1/08 In the Game of Coal Mining, the Environment Loses
Columbia Spectator 3/31/08 Manchin plans no investigation of coal, health
Charleston Gazette 3/30/08 A most predictable response
Knoxville News Sentinel 3/30/08 Mountain Justice Takes on King Coal in Columbus
The Understory 3/28/08 Power of the little people
The River Reporter 3/28/08 Coal is too destructive and dirty to be our best lasting energy solution
Asheville Citizen-Times 3/28/08 National Coal defends destroying TN for profit
Institute for Southern Studies 3/28/08 Coal industry, fed MTR appeal argument May 13
Charleston Gazette 3/28/08 Mountaintop mining ban could meet federal standards
Knoxville News Sentinel 3/27/08 National Coal clashes with citizens over bill
Knoxville News Sentinel 3/27/08 Our Suicide Mission with Coal
Alternet 3/26/08 WVU study finds high illness, death rates in coalfields
Charleston Gazette 3/26/08 TWRA official urges end of mountaintop coal removals
Knoxville News Sentinel 3/26/08 Letter to Editor: Article on mountaintop removal was insulting
Register-Herald 3/25/08 Mining industry spent $4.1M lobbying
Business Week 3/25/08 The Rising Price of Coal
Truthout 3/24/08 Clinton’s coal dust-up
Plenty Magazine 3/24/08 No stream pollution should be allowed
Register-Herald 3/24/08 Tell Hillary Bombed Out Mountaintops Don't Grow Back
West Virginia Blue 3/21/08 Coal mining: When beauty and power clash
Knoxville News Sentinel 3/21/08 Environment polluted by blasting process
Bluefield Daily Telegraph 3/21/08 Filmmaker Mike O'Connell on NCPR
North Carolina Public Radio 3/21/08 Filming efforts to save the Appalachians in Mountain Top Removal
Independent Weekly 3/20/08 Jeff Biggers: Obama's Green Opportunity
Huffington Post 3/20/08 Duke coal plant challenge targets Appalachian mountaintop removal
Institute for Southern Studies 3/20/08 Clinton gives tepid response on MTR
Grist 3/20/08 Legislators lobbied on mining bill by Mattea
Knoxville News Sentinel 3/20/08 MU hosts Appalachian Studies conference
The Herald-Dispatch 3/19/08 Burying streams
The Daily Independent 3/18/08 Making a molehill out of mountaintop removal
The Ledger Independent 3/18/08 When will water matter in Frankfort?
The Times Tribune 3/18/08 [Video] Penny changing color in Prenter Holler well water
blip.tv 3/18/08 J. TODD FOSTER: Newspaper's Editorial Position Is Not For Sale
Bristol Herald Courier 3/17/08 Hightower: High Tide For People Power
Huffington Post 3/17/08 Sustainable Living: Toppling Old King Coal
Times Herald-Record 3/17/08 Devastation at 3,000 feet
Boston Globe 3/17/08 Mountain Justice Spring Break Video
YouTube 3/16/08 WV Supreme Court under FBI investigation
Charleston Gazette 3/14/08 Extending coal's 'cone of death'
Roanoke Times 3/14/08 Coal companies seek deals with WV DEP
Charleston Gazette 3/14/08 Religious lobbyists fight mining on state's peaks
The Tennessean 3/13/08 KY MTR bill stopped in committee
Courier Journal 3/12/08 Fighting For The Land
Daily News Record 3/12/08 Ohio Valley Coal cited for polluting creek
Columbus Dispatch 3/10/08 Tainted wells elicit concern
The News Journal 3/10/08 Proposal could halt mountaintop mining
Appalachian News Express 3/5/08 Don't be deceived on energy promises
The Tennessean 3/4/08 Coal industry steps up lobbying in face of Washington battles
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3/4/08 College students join anti-coal plant efforts
Bristol Herald Courier 3/4/08 Mountaintop-removal hearing and Blair Mountain nomination
WV Public Broadcasting 3/1/08 'Clean' Coal? Don't Try to Shovel That.
Washington Post 3/1/08 Update from LEAF fighting MTR in TN
Knoxville Voice 2/29/08 Appalachia "Hammered" by Mining Practices
Wabash College News 2/28/08 Mountaintop Removal: A Coal Crime Against Creation
Faith in Public Life 2/28/08 Buffalo Creek disaster remembered
The Logan Banner 2/28/08 Wall Street Banks Go Greener with Principles on Power Sector
U.S Banker 2/27/08 A blow to get at coal
The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA 2/27/08 Stream saver bill stuck in Gooch's committee - again
Daily Independent 2/27/08 It's really come to this?
Toronto Star 2/27/08 Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains
Toronto Star 2/24/08 Rise and protect Appalachia
Roanoke Times 2/19/08 Put An End To Mountaintop Mining
Tampa Tribune 2/19/08 Flattening the mountains in nation's quest for energy
Bristol Herald Courier 2/18/08 Beth Walker tries to explain ties to Don Blankenship in Supreme Court race
Charleston Daily Mail 2/16/08 43,000 Comments Flood Into OSM Opposing SBZ Rule Change
US Newswire 2/15/08 Students send Kaine 'valentines' protesting Wise Co. power plant
The Cavalier Daily 2/15/08 Hundreds rally in support of "Stream Saver" bill
Courier Journal 2/15/08 You are connected to mountaintop removal (RFK Jr.)
Official Google Blog 2/13/08 Gearing up for ‘I Love Mountains’ rally
Times Tribune 2/12/08 An expose of a mining practice that reduces mountains to rubble.
Washington Post 2/9/08 Maynard recuses himself for third time
Charleston Gazette 2/8/08 KY church youth group raises money to stop MTR coal mining
UU World 2/8/08 Bill would outlaw mountaintop removal
WV Public Broadcasting 2/7/08 Presentation examines impact of mountaintop removal mines
The Greenville News 2/3/08 Road show brings strip mining to ETSU students
East Tennessean 2/1/08 This 'Free speech' gives favor to corporate rights
Cumberland Times-News 1/30/08 Pressure mounts on coal king
The First Post (UK) 1/29/08 Starcher asks Court to preserve Maynard-Blankenship evidence
West Virginia Record 1/23/08 Motion Ties W. Virginia Justice to Coal Executive
NY Times 1/15/08 Shnayerson's Coal River' examines ills of mountaintop mining
Cleveland Plain Dealer 1/6/08 Coal's ascent is igniting a debate
Boston Globe 12/26/07 Company officials spin, distort the truth about mining
Herald-Dispatch WV 12/17/07 Coal Industry Finds a Friend in Court
State Journal 12/13/07 Coal's True Cost
The Huffington Post 11/30/07 Blankenship could influence WV Supreme Court election
WAVY - NBC 11/23/07 WV Supreme Court lets Massey off $50 million hook
Legal Newsline 11/23/07 Mountaintop mining adds little to W.Va. economy
The Herald-Dispatch 11/20/07 Rising Tide blockade Newcastle coal train
Sydney Morning Herald 11/19/07 North Carolina Students Arrested Blockading Duke Energy Headquarters
Rising Tide NA 11/16/07 CD spreads environmental awareness
Huntington Herald-Dispatch 11/13/07 Mountaintop removal destroying Virginia and Appalachian mountains
Commonwealth Times 11/13/07 Bringing Down Big Coal
Huffington Post 11/10/07 Appalachian Coal: the faucet is almost dry
Daily Kos 10/31/07 Bush's Appalachian War: Bombing Ancient Mountains
Daily Kos 10/28/07 Citizens oppose proposed change in mining rule
Pittsburgh Post Gazette 10/27/07 Citizens can weigh in on proposed rule changes from OSM
Knoxville News Sentinel 10/25/07 Mining and waterways don't mix , protestors say
Sun-Herald 10/25/07 Dry Branch woman fears for safety after court decision
Boone Standard 10/25/07 Rising Tide Announces 4 New Campaigns
San Francisco IndyMedia 10/22/07 30 Days to Save the Mountains
Daily Kos 10/14/07 Mountaintop Mining Opponents Win West Virginia Battle!
Wired Science 10/13/07 Climate change protesters block airport entrance
The UK Guardian 10/11/07 For sake of kids, move Marsh Fork Elementary
Registry Herald 10/11/07 Protesters raid coal power plant
BBC News 10/8/07 Big Banks Are Selling Us Out on Climate Change
AlterNet 10/8/07 The Horse Latitudes of Resistance
The People's Voice 10/5/07 Greens target banks over coal financing
Reuters 10/4/07 Environmental coalition opposes power station
Roanoke Times 9/28/07 Mountain mining called "genocide" of Appalachia
Reuters 9/27/07 Coal miners cheated by companies, BrickStreet
The Register-Herald 9/24/07 Bush Administration Proposes Repeal of Stream Protection Rule to Ease Legal Limits on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
OHVEC Press Release 9/14/07 New Rules to Promote New Coal Would Cook Planet
Cornell Daily Sun 9/11/07 Blankenship could influence WV Supreme Court election
WAVY - NBC 9/10/07 Congress should put a stop to mountaintop removal mining - an editorial
Cleveland Plain Dealer 9/8/07 The time for change is now
Collegiate Times 9/6/07 Stop Decapitating Mountains
The Ledger 9/6/07 Coal Rush Reverses, Power Firms Follow
Washington Post 9/4/07 Climate activists chain themselves at Australian port
AFP 9/4/07 Cheap coal, dirty air
Los Angeles Times 9/3/07 King Coal Thanks Bank of America
New York City Indy Media 9/2/07 Houston R.A.N. targets Bank of America center sucessfully today
Houston Indy Media 9/2/07 Locals Protest Bank’s Loans To Coal Mines
Daily News Record - Harrisonburg, VA 9/1/07 Mine tests wrong water source, wants renewal
WBIR - Knoxville 8/30/07 Leveling a Mountain of Research on Mountaintop Removal Strip Mining
Union of Concerned Scientist 8/30/07 Ravaging Appalachia
New York Times 8/27/07 Declaration of War Against the Appalachian People
Democracy Now! 8/25/07 Sticking their necks out - The activists' story
Mountain Xpress News 8/23/07 Rule to Expand Mountaintop Coal Mining
New York Times 8/23/07 New School
Register-Herald 3/25/07 Dozens of cars in coal train derail spreading coal and debris over a wide area
WAVY TV 3/25/07 Coal toxins threaten kids' health, protesters say
The Vindicator 3/25/07 Cleaner Coal Is Attracting Some Doubts
The Ledger 2/21/07 Mining Montana - Coal Ambivalence
CounterPunch 2/21/07 Coal miners 'could work on solar'
News.com.au 2/21/07 Mountaintop Removal Drives Protests
Truthout 7/14/06 Moving the mountains
Roanoke Times 7/3/06 Young and eager, activists aim for a clearer focus
Roanoke Times 7/3/06 Coalfield residents launch fundraising campaign for new school
Associate Press 6/8/06 Marsh Fork Parents Ask Manchin for Help
The State Journal 6/8/06 Coal Industry and State Ignore Mingo County's Black Tap Water
Lowbagger.org 4/13/06 Lost peaks, lost treasures?
MTSU Sidelines 4/8/06 Tragic Mountains
Baltimore City Paper 3/29/06 Dirtier Side Betrays Promise of ‘Clean Coal’
The News Standard 3/15/06 When Mountains Move
National Geographic 3/15/06 Add to Bush's follies the rape of his own country
The Observer 3/12/06 Mine fines among smallest
USA Today 2/11/06 The Coal Truth
Waterkeeper Magazine 1/31/06 Moving Mountains
Orion 1/31/06 Dispute in Coal Country
Christian Science Monitor 1/31/06 In Defense of Mountains
E Magazine 1/31/06 Whistleblower on Mining Safety Regs
Democracy Now 1/31/06 Black Gold or Black Death
New York Times 1/31/06 Peeling the Smokies
The News Standard 11/17/05 Seven arrested in Campbell County coal protest
WBIR-TV Knoxville 8/15/05 Ten protesters arrested at mine demonstration
WATE-6 Knoxville 8/15/05 Zeb Mountain Destruction Halted by Escalating Anti Mountain Top Mining Campaign
Global Indymedia 8/15/05 Activists Take Over Mine Site
The Chattanoogan 8/15/05
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