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	<description>END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA!</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>President Obama Answers Rep. Capito’s question on WV Coal Jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/all/671</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, President Obama took questions from the House Republican Caucus, including one from Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito (WV-02) about coal jobs in West Virginia. The exchange begins around minute 19. 






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CONGRESSWOMAN CAPITO:  Thank you, Mr. President, for joining us here today.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coal River tree sit ends</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/670</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A much publicized tree-sit at the Bee Tree mine on Coal River Mountain has come to an end after nine days. Eric Blevins, 28, and Amber Nitchman, 19, descended from their trees this morning citing concerns from cold temperatures. Read the full press release by Climate Ground Zero.

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		<title>Mountaintop Mining: Coal Baron Debates a Kennedy</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/669</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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This blog post takes its title from a recent ABC report on a debate between Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  and Don Blankenship.  
No matter who you think &#8220;WON&#8221; the debate, it was a great opportunity for mountaintop removal opponents and supporters to get together in the same room.  There were no fights, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Must-read report: The decline of Central Appalachian coal</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/668</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Ken Ward Jr. reports on his Coal Tattoo blog about a new study reviewing trends in Appalachian coal production. Prospects dont look good.
Given the numerous challenges working against any substantial recovery of the region’s coal industry, and that production is projected to decline significantly in the coming decades, diversification of Central Appalachian economies is now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education and Jobs, Jobs and Education: A proposal for funding economic redevelopment in Central Appalachia</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/667</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a new study was released by by Dr. Michael Hendryx (Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University)
Below is his own summary, and here is a link to the full text. 
Education and Jobs, Jobs and Education: A proposal for funding economic redevelopment in Central Appalachia
To date, both the economic strength of [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To each side, it looks like the EPA hasn&#8217;t made up its mind. Which
would make now the time to yell as loudly as possible,&#8221; said David A.
Fahrenthold, in his article &#8220;EPA crackdown on mountaintop coal mining
criticized as contradictory.&#8221;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/27/AR2010012704588.html?referrer=emailarticle
Both sides of the mountaintop removal debate have the EPA under a
strict lens of scrutiny as decisions regarding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Answers Congresswoman&#8217;s Question on WV Coal Jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/664</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, President Obama took questions from the House Republican Caucus, including one from Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito (WV-02) about coal jobs in West Virginia. The exchange begins around minute 19. 






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Unofficial Transcript:
CONGRESSWOMAN CAPITO:  Thank you, Mr. President, for joining us here today.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Colbert Report, mountaintop removal, and science</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/657</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you see this?!?! Be sure to sign the pledge to help end mountaintop removal!



The Colbert Report
Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c


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		<title>What?!?! - &#8220;Kentucky adopts tougher surface-mining guidelines&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/655</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two articles about the recent adoption of &#8220;non-mandatory&#8221; mandatory changes to Kentucky surface mine regulations.
We&#8217;ll believe this changes surface mining practices when we see it!
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100107/GREEN/1070356/1008/NEWS01/Kentucky+adopts+tougher+surface-mining+guidelines
Kentucky has issued tougher guidelines for surface coal mines that officials say will protect streams and lead to faster and better reclamation of hillsides and mountains.
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The guidelines, hammered out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waterkeeper Alliance to webcast &#8220;Forum on the Future of Energy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/654</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in from the the great clean water advocates:
We are excited to announce that the Forum on the Future of Energy, where Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will debate Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, will be an online, interactive event.
Find out the latest news about the January 21, 2010 event and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send comments to OSMRE by January 19th - Enforce the law on MTR!</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/653</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in from the Alliance for Appalachia Blog:
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is charged with enforcing the law on mountaintop removal. Unfortunately, decades of rollbacks and giving in to coal industry corruption have left coalfield communities virtually undefended. Exceptions to the surface mine law have become the rule, and problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join Us in Washington!</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/652</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following email was sent to the 39,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.
 
 
You can see more photos from 2009
in our Flickr album.
Can you come to Washington, D.C., March 6-10 for our 5th Annual End Mountaintop Removal Week  &#8212; and help make 2010 the year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avatar in Appalachia</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/651</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Kovarik—Editor, The Appalachian Voice
The characters are different but the plot is all too familiar: 
In the movie Avatar, Parker Selfridge of the RDA mining corporation, has the bulldozers take down the Na&#8217;vi history tree. It&#8217;s standing between them and a valuable black energy rock called “unobtainium.”    
In Appalachia, Randall Reid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Excuses</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/650</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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The science is now irrefutable.
Just days after the EPA approved the expansion of the largest mountaintop removal coal mine in West Virginia, a dozen prominent national scientists have published a major study that concludes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Signs off on Hobert 45 Permit</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/all/649</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EPA signed off on a Clean Water Act permit releasing Patriot
Coal’s Hobet 45 mountaintop removal mine operation permit, one of 79 withheld for further review due to environmental concerns, to the Army Corps of Engineers for approval.
The addition to the Hobet complex, which already spans tens of
thousands of acres of contiguous mining will obliterate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Unveil A Mountain of Evidence Against Mountaintop Removal</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/648</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/648#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 7, 2010
Scientists Unveil A Mountain of Evidence Against Mountaintop Removal
Obama Administration Asked to Halt All New Mountaintop Removal Permits
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CONTACTS:
Sandra Diaz, Director of Development and Communications, Appalachian Voices&#8230;.828-262-1500
Dr. Matthew Wasson, Director of Programs, Appalachian Voices&#8230;.828-262-1500
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		<title>Environmental Protection Agency Approves Permit for Controversial WV Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/647</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 5, 2010
Contacts:
Janet Keating, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, (304) 522-0246
Judy Bonds, Coal River Mountain Watch, (304) 854-2182
Cindy Rank, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, (304) 924-5802
Raviya Ismail, Earthjustice, (202) 667-4500 x221
Joe Lovett, Appalachian Center for the Economy &#038; the Environment, (304) 645-9006
Oliver Bernstein, Sierra Club, (512) 477-2152
Environmental Protection Agency Approves Permit for Controversial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Days to Go</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/644</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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With just four days left in 2009, can you help us gather the resources we need to end mountaintop removal coal mining in 2010 by making a special year end gift to iLoveMountains today?
Yes! I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Urgent Issue Before Year&#8217;s End</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/643</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Dear Friend of the Mountains,

Dumping mine waste into a valley fill on Kayford Mountain, WV

When the Bush Administration proposed gutting the &#8220;Stream Buffer Zone Rule&#8221; &#8212; a regulation that has prevented surface mining within 100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Ready for 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/642</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/642#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Dear Friend of the Mountains,
As the Associated Press recently observed, &#8220;environmental activists gained more momentum this year than in the past decade against the destructive, uniquely Appalachian form of strip mining known as mountaintop removal.&#8221;
That [...]]]></description>
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