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<title>Obama EPA starts crackdown on mountaintop removal</title>
<description><![CDATA[                                    <.--[if gte mso 9]><xml>     Normal   0      </xml><.[endif]-->    Read updates in <a href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/">Coal Tattoo</a>. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will more...]]></description>
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Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:22:46 -0400
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<title>Critics question safety of storing coal slurry</title>
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Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:00:00 -0400
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<title>Obama pressed for mountaintop removal ban</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Environmental groups and coalfield residents are pushing the Obama administration this week to take action to block new mountaintop removal mining permits in Appalachia.Leaders of several citizens groups met with administration...]]></description>
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Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Scientists: Tests show metals in states coal slurry</title>
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Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:45:00 -0400
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<title>As W.Va. coal companies expand, graves go missing</title>
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<title>Court denies reviews of mine permits</title>
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<title>DEP unsure if coal slurry poisons water supplies</title>
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Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:00:00 -0500
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<title>14 cited in protests at Massey operations</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Fourteen people were cited by State Police on Tuesday in two separate protests against Massey Energys mountaintop removal operations in Southern West Virginia.Early Tuesday morning, five activists chained themselves to heavy equ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>DEP to inspect coal-ash dams in W.Va.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - State dam safety engineers will begin a &quot;comprehensive review&quot; of seldom-inspected coal-ash impoundments across West Virginia, Department of Environmental Protection officials said Wednesday. <a href="/story/wvgazette.com/...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>W.Va. coal-ash dams seldom inspected, DEP says</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Most of the coal-ash impoundments in West Virginia havent been examined by a state dam safety inspector for at least five years, according to data released by the state Department of Environmental Protection.West Virginia has at le...]]></description>
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Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:15:00 -0500
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<title>Ruling requires DEP to improve mine treatment</title>
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<title>Rahall bill would regulate coal-ash ponds like other waste dams</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Coal-ash impoundments like the one that broke three weeks ago in Tennessee would have to meet design, construction and inspection standards similar to those currently in place for other coal industry waste dams, under legislation p...]]></description>
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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>OSM finds fault with W.Va. coal dam enforcement</title>
<description><![CDATA[            CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Federal investigators have identified serious deficiencies in West Virginias effort to ensure coal slurry impoundments do not break into nearby underground mines.Department of Environmental Protection officials do not proper...]]></description>
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<title>Toxic coal ash piling up in ponds in 32 states</title>
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Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:45:00 -0500
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<title>W.Va. among states with coal-ash dumps that rival TVA site</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <.--[if gte mso 9]><xml>     Normal   0      </xml><.[endif]-->    <img src="/images/icons/moretext.gif" title="cnImage" border="0" /><a href="http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/" target="_blank"> Read the report</a> CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Dozens of l...]]></description>
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Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:45:00 -0500
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<title>Rahall wants coal-ash dams regulated</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A congressional leader from Southern West Virginias coalfields called Tuesday for national standards to govern the design, construction and other safety standards of coal-ash dams like the one that broke last week in eastern Tennessee.House Natural Res...]]></description>
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Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>Tennessee coal ash spill highlights broad gaps in government oversight </title>
<description><![CDATA[                Also read <a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200812300277">Rahall: </a><a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200812300277">Coal ash dams should be regulated under strip mine law </a> CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Last weeks collapse of a coal-as...]]></description>
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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>Coal River mine permit challenge by wind proponents</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Environmental groups said Thursday they are appealing the Manchin administrations approval of a key permit change for a Massey Energy strip mine at a site where citizen groups are promoting alternative plans for a wind-energy facil...]]></description>
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Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Bush publishes changes to mountaintop removal rule</title>
<description><![CDATA[                <img src="/images/icons/moretext.gif" title="cnImage" border="0" /> <a href="http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-29150.pdf">Read the rule</a>CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The Bush administration today will publish its final rule to revoke key w...]]></description>
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Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Judge denies contempt motion in selenium case</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A federal judge has declined to hold Apogee Coal Co. in contempt of court for continuing to stall the cleanup of selenium pollution from a mountaintop removal mine in Logan County.U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers turned down ...]]></description>
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Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Wind-power benefits would outpace coal, study suggests</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A wind-power production facility along the ridges of Coal River Mountain would provide more jobs and tax revenue than a mountaintop removal operation planned by Massey Energy, according to a new economic impact report released Tues...]]></description>
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<title>Bank of America to stop financing mountaintop removal</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. - One of the worlds largest financial institutions said this week it will phase out lending money to coal operators that use mountaintop removal mining.Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. said it will stop financing companies th...]]></description>
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<title>Activists slam EPA decision on mining rule change</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- Angry environmentalists launched an online campaign Wednesday urging President-elect Barack Obama to undo a federal rule that clarifies when coal companies can dump mining waste in streams, calling it a long-awaited &quot;parting ...]]></description>
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Bush moves forward with buffer zone changes</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Bush administration officials paved the way Tuesday to revoke parts of a key water quality rule that environmental groups say could greatly limit mountaintop removal mining if it were properly enforced.<a href="http://wvgazette.com/News/Mining+the+Moun...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>White House, EPA approve changes to mining buffer zone rule</title>
<description><![CDATA[              MORE ONLINE: Read about the rule changes at <a href="http://www.osmre.gov" target="_blank" title="http://www.osmre.gov"><a href="http://www.osmre.gov" title="http://www.osmre.gov" target="_blank">www.osmre.gov</a></a><.--[if gte mso 9]><xml> ...]]></description>
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Ky. governor: No mine waste dumping near streams</title>
<description><![CDATA[    FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Gov. Steve Beshear sent a letter this week to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency objecting to a Bush administration proposal that would allow coal companies to dump dirt and rock blasted from Appalachian mountaintops into stream...]]></description>
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Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:30:00 -0500
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<title>Judge blocks permit for Clay-Nicholas mine</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A federal judge on Friday blocked a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit for a Fola Coal Co. mountaintop removal mine along the Clay-Nicholas County line.But U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers also suspended parts of his own pre...]]></description>
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Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:00:00 -0400
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<title>Mine companies cant rebuild streams, judge told</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/News/Mining+the+Mountains" target="_blank">Read more mountaintop removal stories by clicking here.</a>HUNTINGTON - Scientists have little evidence that coal operators can rebuild the miles of streams mountaintop remova...]]></description>
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Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Americans oppose mountaintop removal, according to poll</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Americans oppose mountaintop removal coal mining by a wide margin, according to the first nationwide poll on the issue to be made public.A majority of Americans are also against a Bush administration rewrite of a federal stream &qu...]]></description>
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Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:24:56 -0400
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<title>U.S. court hears appeal on W.Va. valley fills</title>
<description><![CDATA[    RICHMOND, Va. - A lawyer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told a federal appeals court Tuesday that the agency met all the legal requirements for issuing permits to a coal company to fill valleys with rubble from blasting the tops off West Virginia...]]></description>
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<title>State judge among those to hear mining case</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <.--[if gte mso 9]><xml>     Normal   0      </xml><.[endif]-->    RICHMOND, Va. -- A West Virginia judge who previously joined in criticism of lax federal regulation of mountaintop removal coal mining is part of the three-judge panel hearing a review ...]]></description>
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<title>Another mining permit challenged</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/News/Mining+the+Mountains" target="_blank"><img src="/images/icons/moretext.gif" title="cnImage" border="0" /> Visit an archive of mountaintop removal coverage. </a>CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Environmental groups are trying t...]]></description>
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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Candidates agree on mountaintop removal</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Last week, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain offered a rare moment of consensus: They agreed that mountaintop removal coal mining should be stopped.Then, a funny thing happened. No one really attacked them for say...]]></description>
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Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Mountaintop removal a presidential issue</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <img src="/images/icons/video.gif" title="cnImage" border="0" /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch.v=aXdKIB_QClg" target="_blank">Watch a video of McCains comments</a> CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Mountaintop removal coal mining became a presidential campaig...]]></description>
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Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Hobet mine permit deal approved</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Coal company officials and environmental groups reached agreement Friday afternoon on a deal to avert layoffs at Hobet Minings mountaintop removal operation along the Boone-Lincoln county line.Limits on toxic selenium discharges will be added to the co...]]></description>
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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Hobet permit doesnt limit selenium</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Manchin administration approved a new Hobet Mining permit that does not include limits on the mines discharge of selenium, a pollutant that a top expert says is already pushing the Mud River watershed &quot;to the brink of a ma...]]></description>
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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Judge blocks Hobet mine expansion</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a permit to expand the Hobet 21 mountaintop removal mine along the Boone-Lincoln county line.U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers issued a temporary retraining order requested by the Ohio Valley Environme...]]></description>
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Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Hobet Mining warns employees of layoffs</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Hobet Mining has warned employees that a court order blocking a new permit may cost some of them their jobs, but company and union officials werent saying exactly when those layoffs might start or how many workers could be affec...]]></description>
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Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Suit challenges Hobet mine expansion</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Hobet Mining wants to bury more than 4 miles of Berry Branch headwaters as part of a 400-acre expansion of its sprawling mountaintop removal mine along the Boone-Lincoln County border.Late last week, federal regulators quietly appr...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Mining company to pay $1.48 million selenium fine</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Hobet Mining Inc. will pay a nearly $1.5 million fine to resolve a lawsuit by state regulators over repeated selenium water-quality violations from its sprawling mountaintop removal operations along the Lincoln-Boone county line. H...]]></description>
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Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Judge orders end to selenium violations at Logan mine</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A federal judge has for the first time ordered a West Virginia coal operator to stop discharging illegal levels of the toxic mineral selenium into state streams.U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers gave Apogee Coal Co. four months to clean up its sel...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Mines selenium extensions wrong, appeals board finds</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The Manchin administration must revisit two dozen orders that gave coal operators three additional years to fix selenium pollution violations, a state appeals board ruled Thursday.Environmental Quality Board members unanimously ruled that the Departmen...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Mountaintop removal mining appeal scheduled for Sept. 23</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Arguments in the latest mountaintop removal court appeal have been scheduled for late September.    The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., set the oral argument for Sept. 23, a court docket showed Monday.   Coal industry lawyers and the U...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Mining appeal argument delayed until September</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration and the coal industry will have to wait another four months to argue their appeal of the latest federal court ruling to curb mountaintop removal coal mining.  Oral arguments before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Mines selenium deforms fish, expert says</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Selenium pollution from one of West Virginias largest mountaintop removal mines is dangerously poisoning Mud River fish, leaving some with serious deformities, according to one of the nations leading experts on the issue.Fish samples showed some specim...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Manchin joins Massey, industry in mine ruling appeal</title>
<description><![CDATA[Gov. Joe Manchin has joined with Massey Energy and the rest of the coal industry to fight two federal court rulings that require more scrutiny of proposed mountaintop removal mines.Two state agencies also are siding with the Bush administration in the ap...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Boone County mountaintop removal project blocked</title>
<description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Thursday blocked a coal operator from starting a new valley fill at a mountaintop removal mine in Boone County.U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers issued a preliminary injunction that stops new mining at Jupiter Holdings LLC's Calli...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>OSM gets an earful on mine rules</title>
<description><![CDATA[Coalfield residents on Wednesday night blasted a Bush administration plan to remove a key rule that — if enforced — could limit mountaintop removal mining.Coal operators, miners and vendors also turned out to back a rule change they say would protect the...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Boone mine permit wrangling continues</title>
<description><![CDATA[HUNTINGTON — Maria Gunnoe has lived most of her life at her family homeplace, at the mouth of Big Branch near Bob White in Boone County.Gunnoe fished in the streams, played in the creeks and picnicked at family reunions on nearby Cazy Mountain.The last f...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>OSM proposes exempting fills from buffer zone rule</title>
<description><![CDATA[Coal operators continue to bury hundreds of miles of Appalachian streams, according to a new federal report that proposes to exempt valley fills from a stream buffer zone rule.About 535 miles of streams, mostly in Appalachia, will be damaged by strip mi...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:00:00 -0400
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