Tagged with Virginia 
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Are you with Don Blankenship or against him?
We are all from Wise County 2
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Want to get really angry about health care and global warming? Not the ginned-up rage of the Obama-was-really-born-in-Kenya crowd, but an anger that fires you up to take action in the name of justice? Anger like the rage felt by so many white Northerners and Southerners in 1963 when they saw Birmingham's fire hoses turned on patriotic African-Americans, a rage so profound that they too joined the civil rights revolution?
Well I invite you, in a brief audio and video tour, to bear witness to what's happening in Wise County, Virginia.
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how will key senators vote on a climate bill?
Jim Webb (D-Va.) 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Sen. Jim Webb is a moderate, and Virginia is a coal state. His House colleagues won major concessions for the coal industry in the Waxman-Markey climate bill, but whether they'll be enough to win over Webb remains to be seen.
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Newt’s ASWF Attacks: “Why Did Rick Boucher Vote To Kill Virginia Jobs?” 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago“Why did Rick Boucher vote to kill Virginia jobs?” Newt Gingrich’s coal-powered front group, American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF), asked this incendiary question of the coal-district Democrat in a full-page advertisement in the Roanoke Times.
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Supreme Court rules against coal company accused of buying a West Virginia judge 0
Posted 5 months ago
After the Massey Energy coal mining company lost a $50 million verdict to a competitor, CEO Don Blankenship spent $3 million electing a friendly judge to West Virginia's Supreme Court of Appeals who went on to cast the deciding vote in a case that overturned the verdict. But yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed a setback to Massey, a company notorious for its reliance on destructive mountaintop removal mining throughout Central Appalachia, with a ruling that elected judges must recuse themselves from cases involving big campaign contributors.
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Virginia OKs uranium mining study 29
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks agoA proposal to mine uranium in south-central Virginia advanced this week when a key state body approved a study of the matter. Virginia has banned uranium mining for the past 25 years.
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Myth: Democrats support good climate policy and Republicans oppose it 13
Posted 7 months, 1 week agoEnergy and climate scramble the usual left-right political divisions. Many of the big fights are not among parties but among regions and levels of government.
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Clinton appointee upholds destruction of Appalachia 12
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In Virginia, Big Coal beats efficiency by one vote 1
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New study: Efficiency investment better for Virginia economy and ratepayers than coal plant 3
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Natural gas utility to spend $6.6 million on conservation and efficiency efforts 2
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Will Democrats take the votes but ignore the voters in increasingly powerful Northern Virginia? 2
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Virginian coal protesters receive B-minus plea bargain for Kingsworth-like activism 3
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The dirty secret behind D.C.‘s high-tech Virginia suburbs 7
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Tim Kaine and George Allen debate energy and enviro policy on behalf of the presidential candidates 1
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The Wolf Trap Center connects art and nature 1
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Talking with voters in central Virginia about the environment and the election 0
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Mark Warner talks to Grist about his energy vision and upcoming keynote address 7
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Virginia governor falsely claims Obama shares his support for new coal 0
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Talking with voters in northern Virginia about the environment and the election 2
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State illegally approves new coal-fired power plant 6
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago