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	<description>END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA!</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Stop the Bush Administration&#8217;s Parting Gift to Big Coal</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/433</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ September 11th, 2008 — The following email was sent to the 31,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.
Dear [[First_Name]],
Last year, we wrote to tell you about a new rule proposed by the Office of Surface Mining, Reclaimation, and Enforcement (OSMRE) that would legalize and expand the worst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Monday: The Legacy of Labor: Blair Mountain, WV</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/432</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, the United States stand to lose Blair Mountain,WV.  Our loss may very well be at the hands of our own coal companies that want to see this special place turned into a mountaintop removal mining site. But before we can save it, we want people to understand why we believe the mountain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destroying History</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/431</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ September 24th, 2008 — The following email was sent to the 31,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.

Dear Supporters,
In September of 1921, 13,000 union workers marched to Logan County, West Virginia. More than 2,000 armed deputies met them at Blair Mountain.
The battle that followed represented the biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Monday: Moving on from Mounaintop Removal (the good news)</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/430</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been some remarkable happenings in the last two weeks in the fight against mountaintop removal. 
For the first time EVER, both major Presidential candidates are publicly against mountaintop removal coal-mining. Last week at a town hall meeting in Orlando, Florida Senator McCain re-iterated what he told Appalachian Voices back in February. When asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save a Mountain &#8212; Today</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/429</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ September 11th, 2008 — The following email was sent to the 31,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.



We urgently need your help &#8212; today.
We last wrote to tell you about an ambitious grassroots plan to save Coal River Mountain in West Virginia from mountaintop removal coal mining.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Monday: The Cure for Coal</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/428</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve reached a cross-roads in Appalachia. We can choose between the economically and environmentally destructive resource of coal, or clean, green, economically invigorating industrial wind power. Right now there is a battle going on at Coal River Mountain to decide whether to turn the mountain into a mountaintop removal site or an industrial wind farm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Monday: The Life or Death of Coal River Mountain, WV</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/426</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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 Appalachian coal is a dead end road. With coal production declining across the Appalachian region and prices nearly tripling since 2007, economists and energy analysts are increasingly saying that Appalachian coal is the wrong investment for America.  In Appalachia alone, we&#8217;ve seen over 1 million acres of America&#8217;s oldest mountains destroyed forever, 1200 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support Wind, Save a Mountain</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/427</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ August 21st, 2008 — The following email was sent to the 30,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.


CLICK HERE to watch the video

Instead of blowing up mountains, what if we harnessed the wind that blows through the mountains to meet our energy needs?
That&#8217;s exactly what a major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Monday: Your Wallet, Coal, and Electricity Prices</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/422</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/422#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last year, we&#8217;ve seen the price of Appalachian coal nearly triple. In 2007, Appalachian coal prices hit a low of around $40/ton on the spot market. But last month, at the end of July 2008, we saw Appalachian coal hit $150/ton.
With regional coal production in a long-term decline, we&#8217;ll be seeing a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Know What You Did Last Summer</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/424</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Addendum: Many thanks to Kentuckians for the Commonwealth for organizing the mountaintop removal flyover tour with Congressmen Ben Chandler of Kentucky and Norm Dicks from Washington State.
 August 7th, 2008 — The following email was sent to the 30,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.
Here&#8217;s a question.
With Congressional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Alliance for Appalachia Receives $225,000 Grant</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/421</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/421#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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The Public Welfare Foundation&#8217;s Newsroom posted this article about the Alliance for Appalachia and its two-year $225,000 grant:

New Appalachian Alliance receives $225,000 grant
Washington, D.C.&#8211;The Public Welfare Foundation has awarded a two-year, $225,000 grant to the [Alliance for Appalachia], a cooperative effort launched by 13 advocacy groups in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Monday: Is Coal the New Oil?</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/420</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/420#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An every day fossil fuel&#8230;
An influential lobby on Capitol Hill&#8230;
Dwindling supply&#8230;
Spiking prices, effecting nearly every facet of the American economy&#8230;
Big industries exploiting high prices as an excuse for unnecessarily increasing extraction at any environmental cost&#8230;
&#8230;while stuffing their pockets with record profits.
Sound Familiar?
One of the most dramatic and pivotal price shifts in the weakening economy over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WV Endangered Mountain on Radio in St. Louis</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/419</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 29th, 2008


In case you missed, it, Cary Huffman (Ansted Historical Preservation Council) and Benji Burrell (Appalachian Voices) were featured on the radio program &#8220;Earthworms&#8221; this week.  Benji explained why iLoveMountains.org created the America&#8217;s Most Endangered Mountains videos series, then Cary shared his thoughts and experience with mountaintop removal mining on Gauley Mountain in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Monday: Gauley Mountain, WV</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/410</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gauley Mountain is the newest addition to America&#8217;s Most Endangered Mountains, and is part of our Appalachian Mountaintop Removal layer in Google Earth.
1. Gauley Mountain and the town of Ansted
 In West Virginia — and indeed in the entire nation — there are few rivers better known for their wild and scenic stretches than the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruining the Gauley</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/409</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/409#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ July 23rd, 2008 — The following email was sent to the 30,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.

 
I know you love mountains. You probably love rivers, too.
In West Virginia &#8212; and indeed in the entire nation &#8212; there are few rivers better known for their wild [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Monday: &#8220;10 More Years of Coal&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/408</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/408#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Mountain Monday, spreading the word about mountaintop removal, and celebrating the best Appalachia has to offer.
Take a look at the region carrying the heaviest load for American coal production, and you’ll see that we are definitively beyond &#8220;peak coal&#8221; in Appalachia. The US Geological Survey, and other crazy assorted &#8220;experts&#8221; on &#8220;science&#8221; have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Monday: 300 Bloggers and A Swarm of Angry New Yorkers</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/407</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/407#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It doesn&#8217;t always occur to us that our electricity comes from somewhere.
But for many people on the east coast, every time we flip on a light switch, we are connected to the blowing up of the oldest mountains in the world - the Appalachian Mountains - where coal is being extracted using a barbaric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Monday: What is a Mountain Monday?</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/405</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/405#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
A man defending his home is worth 10 invaders.
There is no place like home.
Home is home, be it ever so humble.
These phrases may have graced our ears 3,592 times, but ponderings on the meaning of home mean a little bit more to those of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Mondays: a round-up of your contributions</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/404</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appalachian Voices and iLoveMountains.org are helping to spear-head an effort to stop mountaintop removal by working with small local blogs from around the country, the success of which is based on the participation of the blogging community and of new journalists like YOU. To supplement the organizing going on in the coalfields, we have instituted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening (and Telling) Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/406</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ July 3rd, 2008 — The following email was sent to the 30,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.



We last wrote to tell you about  America&#8217;s Most Endangered Mountains - and asked for your help getting  the word out about the threat posed by mountaintop removal [...]]]></description>
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