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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Make it stop Oregon and Kentucky vote; nation yawns and rolls over	Kate Sheppard	20 May 2008	Gristmill
In case anyone's still paying attention, there were two more primaries today. Hillary Clinton scored a big win in Kentucky, with 65 percent of the vote to Obama's 30 percent. But Obama looks poised to win Oregon, and says he's reached the delegate threshold. Various media folks are reporting that he now has an 'insurmountable advantage' in the race for the Democratic nomination, much like they said ... back in February. It's the Groundhog Day primary! Clinton sa ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, Hillary Clinton, Kentucky, Muckraker, news, Oregon, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Kentucky fried agitprop Kentucky taxpayers pony up $400,000 a year for coal industry 'educational materials'	David Roberts	20 May 2008	Gristmill
Some crackerjack reporting by John Cheves in the Lexington Herald-Leader finds that the state of Kentucky sinks about $400,000 of taxpayer money a year into public campaigns that promote coal and even mountaintop-removal mining: The money is funneled through non-profit groups controlled by the coal industry ... The money is used largely for statewide classroom programs designed 'to carry a positive message about the coal industry,' according to records. A Web si ...
Topics: coal, energy, Kentucky, shenanigans, state politics (all these topics)

That'll Teach 'Em Colleges around the country take green steps		20 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 20 Dec 2007 Are you thinking what we're thinking? Yep: It's time for a green college roundup! Maine's College of the Atlantic has made good on its pledge to be a carbon-neutral campus, say school officials. "As far as we know, [COA is] the first in the world to make the commitment, and as far as we know, the first to do it," says David Hales, president of the 300-student college, which offers one major ...
Topics: climate, education, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, news, Oregon (all these topics)

Reece on MTR mining	David Roberts	06 May 2007	Gristmill
Erik Reese has an op-ed in the NYT about mountaintop-removal mining and a new program that shows promise in helping landscapes recover from it. Here's the nut: Appalachia's land is dying. Its fractured communities show the typical symptoms of hopelessness, including OxyContin abuse rates higher than anywhere in the country. Meanwhile, 22 states power houses and businesses with Kentucky coal. The people of central and southern Appalachia have relinquished much of the ...
Topics: coal, deforestation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Kentucky (all these topics)

Go Tell It on the Mountain Allen Johnson rallies Christians to fight against mountaintop-removal mining	David Roberts	07 Nov 2006	Main Dish
Allen Johnson. As its not-at-all euphemistic name would indicate, mountaintop-removal mining makes no effort to disguise its impact. Coal-mining companies brazenly invade Appalachian communities, blow the tops off mountains, send massive coal trucks careening up and down narrow roads, spew coal dust into the air and mining waste into the water, and terrorize reside ...
Topics: God and the Environment, grassroots activism, Kentucky, mining, religion and spirituality, West Virginia (all these topics)

A Ploy Named Sue With feds asleep at the wheel, states sue to protect air and water		28 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
A Ploy Named Sue With feds asleep at the wheel, states sue to protect air and water Frustrated by federal inaction, states and localities are increasingly suing companies and even each other in attempts to curb air and water pollution. Oklahoma, for instance, has filed suit against eight companies that operate chicken farms in neighboring Arkansas, cha ...
Topics: air pollution, Arkansas, environmental justice, Kentucky, news, Oklahoma, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

The Legend of Weepy Hollow An excerpt from Missing Mountains, a new book about mountaintop-removal mining		16 Feb 2006	Arts and Minds
Missing Mountains, Wind Publications, 220 pgs., 2005. In August of 2002, Amanda Moore, a lawyer for the Appalachian Citizens Law Center, took on what she thought was a cut-and-dried legal matter for Granville Lee Burke, a resident of Chopping Branch Hollow in eastern Kentucky. Earlier that year, a flood that wreaked havoc throughout the hollow had severely damaged Burke's house ...
Topics: books, coal, energy, environmental justice, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Moving Mountains Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back	Erik Reece	16 Feb 2006	Main Dish
This article was originally published in Orion Magazine. Not since the glaciers pushed toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region. A mountaintop no more. Photo: Viv ...
Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, environmental justice, health, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics)

Oh What a Feeling! Toyota to build Camry hybrids at U.S. plant		18 May 2005	Daily Grist
Oh What a Feeling! Toyota to build Camry hybrids at U.S. plant Toyota announced plans yesterday to begin production of a new hybrid Camry model at a Kentucky plant, marking the Japanese automaker's first foray into hybrid production in North America. With Camry sales tops in the U.S. last year and the company's hybrid Prius selling used for higher than sticker price, ...
Topics: business, cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, hybrids, Kentucky, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Iceland of Make-Believe Little-known facts from a country on the edge of your consciousness	Katharine Wroth	26 Apr 2005	Counter Culture
39,756 -- area of Iceland, in square miles1 39,728 -- area of Kentucky, in square miles2 293,966 -- population of Iceland3 4,117,827 -- population of Kentucky2 10 -- percentage of Icelanders who believe elves "definitely" exist4 0 -- number of successful elf surveys conducted in Kentucky 11.5 -- percentage of Iceland that is covered by glaciers1 3,240 -- square mil ...
Topics: dams, energy, Greenpeace, Iceland, Kentucky, oceans (all these topics)

Kentucky Green Gas		19 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Kentucky Green Gas Kentucky is soon to get its first-ever methane power plants, which will rely on gases given off by landfills to generate electricity. The plan represents a landmark energy development for the famously coal-dependent state. The three plants will cost $4 million each and generate a total of 10 megawatts of power from the gases given off by decaying trash. Currently, those gases escape into t ...
Topics: climate, energy, Kentucky, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Ashes of Fire		27 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Ashes of Fire Every year, coal-fired power plants in the U.S. produce more than 100 million tons of ash, a byproduct of the burning process containing heavy metals or metal-like substances such as boron, selenium, arsenic, and magnesium. The energy industry claims the ash is benign, but many others fear that it is bad for the environment and human health. Those concerns are all the more pr ...
Topics: energy, Kentucky, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mountain Mama's Day		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mountain Mama's Day A federal judge ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday to stop allowing coal companies to deposit tons of dirt and rock from their mountaintop-removal mining operations into streams and valleys. U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II in Charleston, W.Va., also said a move by the Bush administration last Friday to make the "valley fills" lega ...
Topics: energy, Kentucky, mining and drilling, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Atomic Bombshell		21 Sep 1999	Daily Grist
Atomic Bombshell Managers of a government uranium plant in Paducah, Ky., knew for decades that workers were being exposed to radiation hazards but concealed the information because of fears of a public outcry, according to documents to be released by a congressional panel this week. Memos and other documents showing what plant management knew and concealed have been turned over to a House Commerce Committee panel, which i ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Kentucky, toxics (all these topics)

Plutonium Bombshell		09 Aug 1999	Daily Grist
Plutonium Bombshell Energy Secretary Bill Richardson yesterday ordered an immediate investigation into reports that thousands of unsuspecting employees at a government uranium plant in Kentucky were exposed on the job to cancer-causing plutonium and other radioactive materials. His announcement followed the publication yesterday of a Washington Post article on the issue. The Natural Resources Defense Council and workers f ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Kentucky, toxics (all these topics)

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