Coal Sludge Impoundments in the News

5-11	State says local dams at risk
5-9	KET Film: Appalshop Film 'Sludge' to Air
5-9	Documentary film, "Sludge" to air four times in May on KET
5-2	NASA Earth Observatory: Coal Sludge Impoundments, West Virginia
5-2	Murray says 2 Ohio mines could close
4-29	West Virginia Grandfather Takes on the Coal Industry: Ed Wiley on His Battle Against Mountaintop Removal Mining
4-25	MTR ravages the Appalachians
4-22	Mining companies seek to reclassify Greene County stream for coal plant
4-22	Every day is Earth Day for artist
4-20	Considering Kilowatt Ours: High-powered doc explores multiple environmental issues
4-18	The Coal Miner's Granddaughter
4-14	Practicing Resurrection Week 2
4-14	Earth Week Sprints Off with 5K Tree Run
4-11	Clean coal's dirty secret
4-10	Judge OKs EPA fine for Massey water suit
4-8	WARN system not forgotten
3-30	Manchin plans no investigation of coal, health
3-26	WVU study finds high illness, death rates in coalfields
3-26	WV Public Radio: Coal pollution and disease linked in new WVU study
3-25	WVU researchers say coal mining endangers public health
3-25	Study Links Chronic Illness To Coal Mining Pollution
3-25	Study: Coal counties have higher disease rates
3-25	Study: Coal Mining Pollution May Affect Public Health
3-23	World Water Crisis
3-19	Filming efforts to save the Appalachians in Mountain Top Removal
3-7	Ohio Valley Coal cited for polluting creek
3-6	Coal company hit with four violations...thus far
3-2	Trading hammers for health care: Wheeling Jesuit students experience a different kind of service trip
2-29	Coal-slurry spill blackens miles of creek
2-28	Mountaintop Revival: Local evangelical Christians join environmentalists in an unlikely union to fight mountaintop removal mining in Tennessee
2-27	Buffalo Creek disaster remembered
2-26	Remembering the disaster at Buffalo Creek
2-23	Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains
2-19	Mountaintop Removal Mining: Like a Third-World Autocracy
2-18	Meigs resident shares concerns about proposed AMP-Ohio generating station
2-17	Make West Virginia protected from coal
2-16	Journalist was native of Shoals
2-14	Word scene: Author to speak about novel set in coal-mining country
2-10	In places of emergency; Hundreds of danger zones lack notification plans
2-7	300 million gallons of coal slurry
2-7	Hear about environmental impact of 'mountaintop removal' tonight
2-5	$20 million fine is not enough
2-4	Are alternative fuels really cleaner?
2-3	'Coal River' cries a river over the devastation from mining
1-25	Let's stop ignoring damage from mining
1-20	Mountains Into Molehills
1-18	Big Coal objects to being called an "outlaw industry," but facts are facts
1-18	Violations no surprise to Massey neighbor
1-18	Massey to pay $20 million to settle with EPA ; E. Ky. slurry spill spurred action
1-18	Massey Energy pays $30 million for polluting Kentucky streams; Landmark settlement with EPA includes Virginia and West Virginia
1-18	$20 million fine, improvements part of Massey deal; feds believe company will now have to change
1-18	Massey Energy to pay record pollution fine
1-18	Big coal producer to pay $20 million for polluting streams
1-17	Coal company penalized for Clean Water Act violations
1-6	Plain Dealer: Shnayerson's Coal River' examines ills of mountaintop mining
1-5	Pancake's powerful mountaintop removal novel
1-4	Moving mountains
1-3	Team Finds New Way to Strip Mercury from Water
1-2-08	Coal mines' neighbors live, sleep in fear
12-17	Safe drinking water gets harder to tap
12-17	What's in the water at Prenter?; After rash of illnessess, that’s the question in the community
12-14	Bush taps former Massey executive for DOE seat
12-12	Wreck the Planet, Win a Prize!
11-27	Coal gets downright evil
11-18	State decides it will protect stream after all; Initial EPA decision would have let company dump slurry into bed
11-16	Justices OK trial plan for coal prep lawsuit
11-12	Mountaintop removal destroying Virginia and Appalachian mountains, speaker says
10-25	Environmentalists oppose proposed change in mining rule
10-18	Climb the mountain while it’s still here’
10-9	For sake of kids move Marsh Fork Elementary
10-7	Marsh Fork needs new school away from silo
9-27	Kanawha circuit court sides with Massey on Marsh Fork
9-26	Circuit Court Sides with Massey Energy in Coal Silo Case
9-19	Creek or pit for slurry? State EPA weighing mine company's request
9-13	Groups Fight Bush Plans to Expand Mountain Top Coal Mining (scroll down)
9-13	State Supreme Court upholds verdict against coal company
9-12	Mountaintop-removal mining destructive
9-8	Christians against coal mining: Rev. Allen Johnson calls on churches to condemn mountaintop-removal mining
9-7	Bill Moyer's Journal: Mountaintop Mining
8-29	Mining-Impoundment Check DEP Top Priority
8-29	Mountaintop removal mining: MTR from the sky
8-27	It’s Not Just the Environment
8-25	Mountaintop removal mining: The waiting game
8-24	Environmentalists muster to fight proposed rule changes on mining near streams
8-20	Director says coal slurry impoundment rumors are not true
8-18	Too Close For Comfort
8-17	Agencies plan safety review of mine impoundments
8-3	Are People Dying To Live Here?
7-22	30 years later, mine law’s success debated
7-19	Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to send a message: Author lists mountaintop removal among 'Crimes Against Nature'
7-19	Edwards pledges to fight poverty
7-11	Channel 11 Transcript on Mattea Visit
7-10	Kathy Mattea Tours Mountaintop Removal Sites (Photo Gallery) 7/10
7-8	Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in West Virginia (Slide Show)
7-1	Another World is Possible!
6-25	Byrd lands millions in funding for mine safety provisionsa
6-21	Report proposes more funding to study mining impacts on environment, safety
6-18	Meigs County debates pros, cons of proposed coal mine
6-15	RAN confronts Bank of America on funding destructive coal mining!
6-14	No Coal
6-8	Mountain Justice Summer
6-1	Mattea is 'Living On Earth'
5-25	Learning In the Shadow of Coal
5-25	Coal Country Crooner
5-24	Battle of the mountain tops
5-14	DOJ seeks over $1.6 bln in suit against Massey
5-12	Massey sued by Feds: Coal firm violated Clean Air Act more than 4,630 times, prosecutors allege
5-12	Chemical spill closes part of I-77 on Friday
5-10	Appalachian Activists Ask U.N. to Dethrone King Coal
5-7	The fight for fluoride: In W.Va., thousands without fortified water
5-3	Putting focus on diversity of species
4-21	OVEC fighting for new Marsh Fork Elementary
4-20	State to study coal slurry waste
4-19	Landslide destroys local home
4-18	Warning: Dam problems
4-17	State has hundreds of hazardous dams
4-17	Demonstrators not paid at Marsh Fork
4-17	Parents need facts about Marsh Fork
4-16	Welsh town offers lesson for W.Va.
4-12	Inaugural Earth week kicks off
4-12	Mutilated mountains 'don't grow back'
3-27	Local citizens reiterate request for new school
3-24	Arrests at protest of coal facilities that threaten school
3-23	Raleigh school board asks governor for money to build new Marsh Fork school
3-21	OPEN LETTER FROM DAVE COOPER: Protesters Arrested at Capitol Rally
3-19	Coal Spill in Raleigh County Stream
3-19	No matter how you cut it Marsh Fork deserves a new school
3-19	Photographer claims Capitol, State Police used ‘abusive force’ at protest
3-17	YouTube video posting of arrests at March Fork Protest
3-17	Coal silo protest: 13 arrested in governor’s office
3-17	Marsh Fork Elementary protest leads to arrests at Capitol
3-17	Update: 11 Protesters Arrested at Tte WV Governor’s Office
3-17	Huntington resident among protesters
3-17	Protesters arrested at Capitol: Group is opposed to construction of a coal silo near a Raleigh County elementary school
3-17	Activists occupying WV governor offices
3-17	Coal toxins threaten kids' health, protesters say
3-16	Coal-waste study could change rules
3-16	Protestors Arrested at Marsh Fork School
3-16	Governor Says Marsh Fork Future A Local Decision
3-16	DEP files appeal in Massey silo ruling
3-13	Split board grants Massey silo permit: Second silo near school approved
3-13	Board overturns DEP rejection of silo near school
3-13	Massey Cleared to Build Silo at Goals Coal
3-12	Toxic West Virginia
3-11	The Great Flood: The Coal Industry Drops Their Black Piss Over the Hills of Kentucky
3-11	Coal mining practices and dangers are shown on the big and small screens
3-9	Senate, House Agree to Study Coal Slurry and groundwater Contamination; Sludge Safety Project Wants Independent Verification of Study
3-9	Buffalo Creek could be repeated
3-8	Drinking water at long last
3-8	Senate, House agree to study coal slurry and groundwater contamination: Sludge Safety Project wants independent verification of study
3-5	Activist wants end to harmful mining
2-27	Resolution to study coal slurry and groundwater contamination advancing: Constituents organize “Lobby Tuesdays” to tell their stories
2-27	Another Buffalo Creek?
2-27	Remembering Buffalo Creek
2-27	Buffalo Creek remembered: Survivor recalls horrifying moments, haunting memories
2-26	Ceremony Allows Survivors to Remember, Rally to Prevent Another Buffalo Creek Disaster
2-26	BUFFALO CREEK 35TH
2-26	‘It was 18 miles of horror’
2-26	Buffalo Creek flood to be remembered
2-26	Documenting fatal disaster: Santa Clarita man to tell of 197 coal dam collapse
2-25	BOOK: Appalachian poets come together in new book 'Coal, A Poetry Anthology'
2-25	Coal companies are gambling with lives
2-23	The disaster too sad to be a movie: Buffalo Creek never will have a happy ending
2-19	UWSP targets coal supplier
2-18	Death, destruction of flood still vivid  (includes links to many other Buffalo Creek articles, pictures, timelines, pdfs and videos)
2-18	Chances of another disaster remote, state says
2-17	Buffalo Creek: 35 years have not erased memories
2-16	Coal has a place - in history
2-16	Shelby, Alabama coal mine closed for decade-long coal slurry pollution
2-14	Commission takes hard look at Boone County evacuation plans
2-14	Global warming becomes a campus cause
2-13	Raleigh County board updated on improvements to local schools: Members again hear call for new Marsh Fork Elementary
2-10	Rising to the Climate Challenge
2-5	Coal silo activists waylay Manchin
2-5	Protect public from dam threats: LEGISLATURE SHOULD MANDATE ACTION PLANS
2-2	WV Gov receives surprise delivery of kid’s letters
2-1	Children write Manchin to move school from coal silo
2-1	Children Call on WV Governor Joe Manchin to Move Marsh Fork Elementary Away from Coal Contamination
1-31	Buffalo Creek: Remembering a catastrophe
1-24	Mountain Justice Day of Action - January 31, 2007
1-23	Great Britain: Mining dam bursts - and slurry flood hits village
1-22	Before the Flood
1-15	Situational Science-Man and Coal Slurry
1-11	Earth to Barak: Coal kills
1-10	Battle continues for DEP, Massey
1-10	UD professor urges public support for wind farm
1-9	Slurry pipeline bonding bill tabled
1-9	Lawmakers want study of coal slurry in drinking water
1-9	Time runs out on empty bottle bill
1-7	Chopping Down The Mountains Of Appalachia
1-7	On the '07 agenda:
1-1	Climate change mitigation requires policy compliance

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