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Saturday | Fredericksburg.com

Obama: Mountaintop mining rule to remain on books another year

The Obama administration says reversing a last-minute Bush-era surface mining regulation criticized as too friendly to coal companies is going to take at least another year.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Asheville Citizen-Times

I-26, Madison County explored by author-photographer

Rob Amberg, the award-winning photographer and author of "Sodom Laurel Album," unveils his new book, "The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress in Appalachia," along with an exhibit of his work 6-9 p.m. Saturday at the Madison County Arts Center, 56 N. Main St.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

Huntington News

Appalachian Memoirist to Read from Her Work at Marshall University

Nov. 3, 2009 Appalachian Memoirist to Read from Her Work at Marshall University Special to Huntingtonnews.net Huntington, WV - Writer Linda Tate will read from her work at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

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Activists gather for a Coal Countrya showing

A small crowd of a few dozen activists turned out Thursday for the first local showing of "Coal Country," a film depicting the downside of mountaintop mining that will soon air on public television.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

WHSV-TV Harrisonburg

Mountaintop Mining Protests Leave WV for National, VA Stage

Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other environmental groups are planning nationwide protests demanding an end to mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

It's Getting Hot In Here

ALERT: Blasting Begins on Coal River Mountain

Appalachian community advocates and environmentalists across the nation are expressing outrage that mountaintop removal coal mining operations have begun on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, a mountain that has become symbolic in the nationwide campaign to end mountaintop removal mining.

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ABC News

Drill Here, Now: Energy Reserves at Home?

A drilling crew move a section of steel pipe at a natural gas well site near Bradford, Pennsylvania... A drilling crew move a section of steel pipe at a natural gas well site near Bradford, Pennsylvania in this August 13, 2008 file photo.

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Mon Oct 26, 2009

EurekAlert!

Volcanoes played pivotal role in ancient ice age, mass extinction

Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered that volcanoes played a pivotal role in a deadly ice age that occurred nearly half a billion years ago.

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Sun Oct 25, 2009

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Appalachian leaders see green energy as spark to region's economy

In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, Larry Gibson stands atop Kayford Mountain and overlooks a mountaintop removal mining site with Coal River Mountain in the background at Kayford Mountain, W.Va. Appalachian leaders are seeking ways to use alternative energy initiatives to spark the 13-state region's long-sluggish economy.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

Galax Gazette

Fancy Gap awarded ARC tourism grant

Another federal grant will benefit Fancy Gap as a gateway community to the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

Slam Sports

Appalachian town hoping tours of underground coal mine provides stimulus

Joseph Marzelli is glad for the cheerful canary singing in the darkness of an Appalachian coal mine.

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Sierra Club Compass

Mountaintop Removal Hearings Get Tense

This is the weekly blog post from Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign .

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

Creative Loafing

Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining

Just a reminder: We still can't grow mountains. Once they're gone, they're gone.

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Sun Oct 18, 2009

Richmond.com

Tunes from the Crooked Road

What exactly is a mandolin? According to Wikipedia : "A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family descended from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

Logan Banner

Origin of Appalachian stereotypes

Many visitors to our area ask questions about the Hatfield-McCoy Feud and I explain to them that the animosity began during the Civil War when Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield was blamed for the assassination of Yankee leader Bill France and that the single biggest contributor to the feud was a greedy lawyer in Pike County who wanted some timber ...

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Public Hearing On Mountaintop Mining Waste Draws Large Crowd

BIG STONE GAP, Va. - A raucous crowd arrived Thursday for a public hearing on the future of permits allowing surface mine waste to be dumped into streams.

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Thu Oct 15, 2009

Charleston Gazette

Mining limits wont kill economy, Sierra Club study says

Limits on mountaintop removal coal mining won't end affordable electricity and could in the long run help improve the economy of the Appalachian coalfields, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Sierra Club.

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

SmythNews.com

Coraa s kettle: The art of apple-butter making

It may be the best deal in all of the apple butter making world: You can borrow Cora Myer's copper kettle, but Cora comes with it.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

WNOL-TV New Orleans

Pro-coal crowds pack mountaintop mining hearings in Ky., W.Va., heckle environmentalists

Thousands of coal miners fearing the loss of jobs if mountaintop removal mining is curtailed or outlawed shouted down a handful of environmentalists at crowded public hearings Tuesday on the much-debated practice.

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Facing South

Matters of life, death and health care in the rural South

In late July, in the heart of Appalachia, thousands crowded onto a southwest Virginia fairground for the annual Wise County free medical clinic led byA Remote Area Medical ,A a volunteer medical relief corps based out of Tennessee.

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