WVEC News Archive

5-5 Greenpeace Report Labels Carbon Capture 'false hope'
5-1 Lawmakers Fail to Override Kansas Coal Plant Veto
4-19 Huffman to replace Timmermeyer at DEP
4-7 Nasa Scientist Warns More Drastic Cuts Are Needed to Protect Climate
4-2 Installed wind power rose 45 percent last year
3-6 Big Industries Try to Block Limits on Pollution
2-29 EPA Continues to Ignore Supreme Court Ruling to Regulate Co2
2-23 Proposed landowner ‘bill of rights’ stalled
2-22 Property Owner's Rights Emphasis Behind New Bill
2/17 Amos plant emitting more than reported; 'Blue haze' inquiry uncovers discrepancies
2/16 Bottle deposit bill still in air
2-9 EPA Bid to Delist Mercury As Pollutant Struck Down
2-4 Wall Street Shows Skepticism Over Coal
1/29 Renewables From the Bottom Up
1-23 U.S. Environmental Performance Ranks At Bottom of G8 Countries
1-10 Environmentalists issue W.Va. 'Citizens' Energy Plan'
1-3-08 Kansas voters agree with decision to block construction of coal plants, poll says
12-30 The Dirty Side Of Domestic Fuel
12/29 Solar Energy Panel Breakthrough Brings Green Power Closer
12-6 Big Stakes In Bali
12-2 Eating Vegetarian Is Taking Global Warming Personally
11/29 E.P.A. Is Sued by 12 States Over Reports on Chemicals
11-8 Cheney Quietly Maneuvers for Increased Control Over Environmental Policies
11-7 Coal Industry-funded Ad Falsely Claims Kansas Governor is Helping Ahmadinejad, Putin, and Chavez
10-19 W.Va. No. 50 again; ‘Green states’ list misleading, EPA official says
10-19 Coal-fired Power Plant Rejected Over Carbon Dioxide For First Time
10-18 America’s Greenest States – WV Ranks Dead Last!
10-9 PSC sets power-line public hearings
10-9 Ohio power company agrees to pay $4.6 billion to reduce emissions blamed for acid rain
10-5 FLORIDA: Plans for a major coal plant are derailed "amid concerns about how to deal with gases believed to cause global warming."
10-3 Feds push power line areas in mid-Atlantic states, Southwest
10-2

Kotcon: Time for W.Va. to shift from carbon

9-13 Federal judge gives boost to states on limiting vehicle emissions
9-4 Coal Rush Reverses, Power Firms Follow
8-28 Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change
8-23 Mountaintop removal mining: Lonely opposition
7-17 DEP, Manchin take heat for shrinking stream list
6- 17 'Green' Fuel May Damage The Bay-- Ethanol Study Has Dire Prediction for The Chesapeake
5-28 California says no to coal, but world disagrees Dirty but plentiful energy source seen as oil alternative
5-15 U.S. loans for coal plants clash with carbon cuts
5-9 31 States Target Global Warming: They form a climate registry that will measure and track greenhouse gas emissions by industry
4-17 Climate Change a Threat to National Security
3-27 Bush Administration Moves To 'Gut' The Endangered Species Act
3-6 Bank of America's money is getting greener
2-15 Wind vs. Coal: False Choices in the Battle to Resolve Our Energy Crisis
1-31 The Meat You Eat Is Cranking Up The Heat
1-29 Opinion: Converging Ecological Crises: Are We Up to the Challenges?
by Gordon Hartman
1-15 Man Aims to Become Licensed Hemp Farmer
1-8 NRA Pressured By Base To Distance Itself From Bush Energy Policies:
1-4 Exxon Spent $16 Million To 'Manufacture Uncertainty About Global Warming
12-17 New policy limits environmental scrutiny, public appeals
12-12 Citizens group and mayor tout ‘bottle bill’
11-30 Over 10,000 Epa Employees Demands Congressional Action on Global Warming
11-29 Australian Judge Blocks Coal Mine on Climate Grounds
11-27 Bush Administration'S Environmental Policies Under Fire in Court
11-27 Science Teachers Association Refuses Copies of 'Inconvenient Truth'
11-17 Shepherdstown Signs on to U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement
10-28 Taking On a Coal Mining Practice as a Matter of Faith
10-11 Community Groups Applaud WV PSC Agreement on Net Metering
9-20

US Judge Rejects Logging Roads in National Forests

9-20 Exxon Misleads on Climate Change - UK Royal Society
9-20 Wind May Generate 30 Percent of Electricity by 2030 - Study
9-12 BMW to Roll out Hydrogen-Powered 7 Series in April
9-10 Global Warming Film Unites Preachers and Politics
9-10 W.Va Grandpa Marches on DC for Clean Air, Safe Schools
9-7 Intersex Fish Raises Pollution Concerns in Washington, DC area
9-4 Tree-Planting Drive Seeks To Bring a New Urban Cool
9-1 INTERVIEW - Sharp Sees Solar Power Costs Halving By 2010
9-1 In Eastern US, Wind Farms Face Growing Opposition
9-1 Reaction to the landmark California Climate Change Plan
9-1 ANALYSIS - US State CO2 Laws Won't Prevent Coal Boom
8-30 Officials Reach California Deal to Cut Emissions
8-29 World Bank Logs Largest Ever Greenhouse Gas Deal
8-29 Green Wave Surges Onto Pop Culture's Shores
8-22 Hybrid Cars Will Pay for Themselves Over Time - Study
8-20 Ozone Layer on the Mend but Recovery Delayed - UN
8-17 Siemens to Build Wind Turbine Blade Factory in USA
8-16 Seven Northeast States to Act on CO2 Where Bush Won't
8-11 Build Green, Make Green
8-10 Revolutionary Solar Cells Change Electricity Distribution
7-31 Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda Against Global Warming
7-25 Texas Tops in Wind Energy Production
7-23 Planned US Coal Plants Would Hike Warming - Group
7-17 China Set To Spend $200 Billion On Renewable Energy
7-13 The Bizarre Dance of Wind Power: Local Opponents and Right-Wing Think Tanks
7-11 New Report: Offshore Wind Could Power Entire U.S.
7-11 Energy Marshall Plan Needed, WWF Tells G8
7-5 Opinion: War Between Scenery and Jobs Never an Even One
7-3 Testing Affordable Energy-Efficient Homes in California
6-29 Ireland's Airtricity to Buy $550 Million of GE Turbines for U.S. Wind Farms
6-27 Global Warming: Some Like It HOT !
6-22 Nanosolar Plans World's Biggest Solar Cell Factory in California
6-22 US Lawmakers Remove Roadblock to Massachusetts Wind Farm
6-21 California sets "clean energy" oil tax on ballot
6-21 Major Climate Bill Introduced as Study Shows Spike in Global Warming Pollution
6-20 New Report: West Virginia Global Warming Pollution Up 115% Since 1960
6-20 EU, US to Agree "Urgent" Action on Climate Change
6-20 CO2 Storage Grows; No "Silver Bullet" for Climate
6-14 BP To Invest $500 Million in Biofuels Research Centre
6-13 US Governors Adopt Energy Plans For the West
6-13 Nude Cyclists Peel Off Around Spanish Cities
6-12 Bottlers, States and the Public Slug It Out in Water War
6-7 Work Starts on World's Largest Solar Power Plant
6-4 New Generation of 'Green' Activists at US Colleges
6-1 Wind Farms, Biologists Join Kansas Chicken Study
6-1 INTERVIEW - Fear of CO2 Regime Helps Spur US Coal Rush
6-1 Pennsylvania Eyes Big Hybrid Car Break
5-28 Flood trial could spell industry trouble: Beckley jury finds logging, mining liable for damage
5-25 Exposing the Corn-Based Ethanol Hoax as a Solution to Peak Oil
5-25 EPA Scientists Pressured to Allow Continued Use of Dangerous Pesticides
5-25 US Dairy Farm Manure Begins to Power Homes
5-25 GLOBAL WARMING: An Inconvenient Truth
5-25 The Alt Fuels Distraction
5-22 OPINION: Energy Futures by K.C. Golden
5-19 US States,Investors Attack Exxon on Global Warming
5-18 Students fight Massey mining investment
5-17 The Senate Proposes an Ambitious Plan for Energy Independence
5-11 Free Wind Turbines Part of Pennsylvania Push for Wind
5-5 Briefing: Governor poised to sign mercury bill
5-3 US States Sue Bush Over Fuel Efficiency
4-27 Ford to Promote Green Investments to Consumers
4-27 UPDATE 1-Ten states, DC sue EPA over power plant emissions
4-25 Governor Requires Power Plants to Reduce Toxic Mercury Pollution
4-20 Making "chemical trespass" illegal in Pennsylvania
4-7 NE Pollution Pact Gets Maryland as 8th Member
4-3 Goldman CEO Paulson Defends Environmental Stance
3-31 Problem: Foreign Oil, Answer: Blowing in the Wind?
3-27 Britain Eyes Commercially Viable Clean Energy
3-22 Investor Spending on Environmental Research Soars
3-20 Court deals blow to EPA's relaxed rule on air emissions
3-20 Nasa Climatologist Speaks Out About Administration'S Attempts To Silence Him:
3-20 Wisconsin Sets 10 Pct Renewable Power Rule by 2015
3-17 Hydrogen Fuel Adherents see 2020 as Key Year
3-17 Environment -- Industry-friendly Governor Nominated To Head Interior Department
3-15 Global Warming Gases at Highest Levels Ever - UN
3-10 Nuclear Waste: Bury it and Forget?
3-7 Green Energy Sales Seen Quadrupling in Decade
3-6 US Nuclear Plant Leaks Fuel Health Concerns
2-27 Half a dozen Western governors impatient for more federal action on global warming are mounting state campaigns to deal with climate change on their own
2-23 Midwest's windmills generate buzz. Towns' energy answers may be blowing in wind
2-21 Norway Firm Plans World's Biggest Wind Park
2-18 Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gag
2-16 Mike Roselle - Here Come the Strategists 
2-14 A Most Concrete Urgency: 1200 Coal Plants Headed Our Way
2-13 Edison, BP Plan $1 Billion California Hydrogen Power Plant
2-9 Solar Thermal Starts to Shine in World's Deserts
2-8 Global Warming a Major Health Risk - Scientists
2-8 Think Tank Urges US Action Now on Global Warming
2-3 ANALYSIS - US Must Stop Gas Guzzling to Beat Gulf Oil Addiction
2-2 The Failure of Chemical Regulation: The Case of Mercury
2-2 Investors Press Top 2,000 Firms on Climate Change
1-30 Belgium: EU Beefs Up Biofuels Strategy to Fight Emissions
1-30 Global Warming Demands Urgent Solutions - Scientists
1-30 Bush Administration Muzzles Scientists On Climate Change
1-30 Cargill, Belgian Firms to Build Biodiesel Plant
1-26 Ethanol Could Reduce Fossil Fuel Need - Study
1-25 2005 Was Warmest Year on Record - NASA
1-24 STATE OF THE UNION: Energy and the Environment
1-23 Environment -- Study Ranks United States 28th On Environmental Performance
1-23 Firstenergy Admits to Ohio Nuclear Power Plant Cover-Up
1-13 12 states oppose EPA plan for toxics reporting Attorneys general in 12 states said Friday that the Bush administration's plan to ease rules on reporting legal toxic releases would undermine the public's right to know about risks in their neighborhoods
1-12 Solar Power Shares Gain Ahead of California Energy Vote
1-10 Climate Fears, Water Shortages Haunt Europe
1-9 Buffalo Creek, Take Two?
1-6 Mexico Peasants Take up Machetes against Dam
1-2 -06 As wind farms increase, so does debate
12-30-05 Native Americans try to Reap the Wind for Power
12/29 China Firm to Spend $2.5 Billion on Renewable Power
12/28 Valley needs air monitoring
12/21 Seven US States Sign CO2 Plan in Break with Bush
12/16 State asked to get tough on mercury pollution
12/15 US EPA to Act on Air Quality Standards Next Week
12/15 DuPont to Pay $16.5 Million in EPA Settlement
12/15 Norwegians, Dutch Mix Sea and River to Make Power
12/14 'Clean coal' dirty, groups say
12/14 PUC May Energize Governor's Solar Plan
12/13 One Person's Externalities...
12/12 CLIMATE CHANGE:World Leaves the U.S. Behind
12/12 Coal companies' damage easy to see
12/9 Balancing On the Peak
12/7 Bypassing Bush, Americans Take Local Road to Kyoto
12/7 US Should Pursue Climate Talks, 24 Senators Say
12/6 Gas Guzzling Food
12/6 US Farmers Want to Grow Hemp
12/5 2005 Target Watershed Grants Announced
12/2 EPA proposal would ease toxic-data reporting rules
12/2 Pennsylvania Governor Promotes Energy Plan to Cut Oil Imports
12/2 Run Your Car on Cow Fuel, Canadian Company Says
12/1 Wisdom of the Ancestors
12/1 Forests Urged as New Front in Global Warming Fight
11/29 UK: BP to Double Investment in Greener Energy
11/25 California settles on clean coal future: Bad news for Wyoming, which hadn't planned on costlier technology
11/24 Canada: Forest report puts dollar value on clean water, stable climate
11/23 What is the Kyoto Protocol?
11/22 Ontario Awards C$2 Billion in Renewable Power Deals
11/20 The Big Thaw: Global Disaster Will Follow If the Ice Cap on Greenland Melts
11/20 House Passes Provision Selling Off Federal Land for Mining, Drilling
11/8 World's Energy Policy is Not Sustainable - IEA
11/7 Renewable Energy Investment at Record High
11/7 FEATURE - US Midwest Farmers' Latest Harvest: Wind Energy
11/2 West Virginia Groups Sue to Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining Permit
10/28 Industry Sneak Attack on Organic Standards Rammed Through Congress
10/28 EIS doesn't respond to 1,000's of public comments on MTR coal mining
10/28 Air Pollution Tied to Increased Risk of Strokes
10/28 Energy -- Record Prices for Americans, Record Profits for Oil Firms
10/27 European Wind Power Industry Upbeat on Offshore Future
10/24 California Air Agency Adopts Rule on Idling Trucks
10/21 AUTOSHOW - Debate over Clean Car Technology set to Rage on
10/21 Dirty Dealings At The EPA
10/18 Greased lightning
10/15 A Gathering of Greens
10/11 Pro-coal advocates 'Neanderthals': Minister
10/7 Clean coal isn't climate-friendly yet
10/7 Judge tosses OSM water rule approval
10/6 WV Residents' Health Affected by Surroundings
10/3 "Gas Lite" NY Times Op-Ed
9/25 Man's creation could make solar power more accessible
9/22 Illegal mountaintop removal permits expand destruction of central Appalachia
9/19 US Judge Dismisses States' Global Warming Suit
9/16 Court Blocks Logging in Alaskan Rainforest
9/14 US Senate Defeats Bid to Repeal Bad EPA Mercury Rule
9/2 Government Study: High Levels Of Pesticides In Kids' Diets
8/30 Katrina's Real Name
8/26 Coca Cola ousted by Indian pollution regulator
8/19 Solar Power's New Hot Spot
8/11 Change is blowing for wind power industry; Technology helps wind compete head-to-head with fossil fuels
8/5 Edison Renewables Deal May Foster New Renewable Industry
8/4

Blair Mountain gets nod from WV officials

8/3 Bush Won't Be Singing The Lumberjack Song Anytime Soon
7/30 Victory in Southern Forests
7/27 Solar Power Breakthrough; New Low-Cost Solar Energy May Replace Gas
7/20 Redford Hosts US Mayors at Sundance

 

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