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<title><![CDATA[Hobet mine permit deal approved]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[    Coal company officials and environmental groups reached agreement Friday afternoon on a deal to avert layoffs at Hobet Minings mountaintop removal operation along the Boone-Lincoln county line.Limits on toxic selenium discharges will be added to the co...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hobet permit doesnt limit selenium]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Manchin administration approved a new Hobet Mining permit that does not include limits on the mines discharge of selenium, a pollutant that a top expert says is already pushing the Mud River watershed &quot;to the brink of a ma...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Judge blocks Hobet mine expansion]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[    A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a permit to expand the Hobet 21 mountaintop removal mine along the Boone-Lincoln county line.U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers issued a temporary retraining order requested by the Ohio Valley Environme...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Hobet Mining warns employees of layoffs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Hobet Mining has warned employees that a court order blocking a new permit may cost some of them their jobs, but company and union officials werent saying exactly when those layoffs might start or how many workers could be affec...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Suit challenges Hobet mine expansion]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Hobet Mining wants to bury more than 4 miles of Berry Branch headwaters as part of a 400-acre expansion of its sprawling mountaintop removal mine along the Boone-Lincoln County border.Late last week, federal regulators quietly appr...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mining company to pay $1.48 million selenium fine]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Hobet Mining Inc. will pay a nearly $1.5 million fine to resolve a lawsuit by state regulators over repeated selenium water-quality violations from its sprawling mountaintop removal operations along the Lincoln-Boone county line. H...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Judge orders end to selenium violations at Logan mine]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[    A federal judge has for the first time ordered a West Virginia coal operator to stop discharging illegal levels of the toxic mineral selenium into state streams.U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers gave Apogee Coal Co. four months to clean up its sel...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mines selenium extensions wrong, appeals board finds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[    The Manchin administration must revisit two dozen orders that gave coal operators three additional years to fix selenium pollution violations, a state appeals board ruled Thursday.Environmental Quality Board members unanimously ruled that the Departmen...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountaintop removal mining appeal scheduled for Sept. 23]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Arguments in the latest mountaintop removal court appeal have been scheduled for late September.    The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., set the oral argument for Sept. 23, a court docket showed Monday.   Coal industry lawyers and the U...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mining appeal argument delayed until September]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration and the coal industry will have to wait another four months to argue their appeal of the latest federal court ruling to curb mountaintop removal coal mining.  Oral arguments before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mines selenium deforms fish, expert says]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[    Selenium pollution from one of West Virginias largest mountaintop removal mines is dangerously poisoning Mud River fish, leaving some with serious deformities, according to one of the nations leading experts on the issue.Fish samples showed some specim...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Manchin joins Massey, industry in mine ruling appeal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Gov. Joe Manchin has joined with Massey Energy and the rest of the coal industry to fight two federal court rulings that require more scrutiny of proposed mountaintop removal mines.Two state agencies also are siding with the Bush administration in the ap...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:00:00 -0500]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Boone County mountaintop removal project blocked]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Thursday blocked a coal operator from starting a new valley fill at a mountaintop removal mine in Boone County.U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers issued a preliminary injunction that stops new mining at Jupiter Holdings LLC's Calli...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[OSM gets an earful on mine rules]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Coalfield residents on Wednesday night blasted a Bush administration plan to remove a key rule that — if enforced — could limit mountaintop removal mining.Coal operators, miners and vendors also turned out to back a rule change they say would protect the...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Boone mine permit wrangling continues]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[HUNTINGTON — Maria Gunnoe has lived most of her life at her family homeplace, at the mouth of Big Branch near Bob White in Boone County.Gunnoe fished in the streams, played in the creeks and picnicked at family reunions on nearby Cazy Mountain.The last f...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[OSM proposes exempting fills from buffer zone rule]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Coal operators continue to bury hundreds of miles of Appalachian streams, according to a new federal report that proposes to exempt valley fills from a stream buffer zone rule.About 535 miles of streams, mostly in Appalachia, will be damaged by strip mi...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Rahall studies input on strip-mining regs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va., plans to review in more detail citizen complaints about lax enforcement of strip-mining regulations before plotting any action to respond, a spokesman said.“We are in the process of reviewing the hearing record to determine ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Law not stopping mine damage, House told]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A 30-year-old federal strip mine law has not stopped coal operators from blowing up mountains, displacing coalfield communities, and burying hundreds of miles of streams, a congressional committee heard Wednesday.Federal and state regulators have failed ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[30 years later, mine law’s success debated]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[On Aug. 3, 1977, President Carter sat at a small wooden desk in the White House rose garden and signed a bill called H.R. 2. After years of debate, and two vetoes by President Ford, federal legislation to regulate strip mining was law.Strict standards wo...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mine ponds ruled illegal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Coal operators cannot evade the Clean Water Act by building sediment-treatment ponds just downstream from strip mine valley fills, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers essentially outlawed the common coal industry practi...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Permit switch, secrecy ended mine challenge]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, environmental activists Cindy Rank and Vivian Stockman took a drive through the Logan County hills with Paul Vining, the president of Magnum Coal.From the top of a ridge, Rank and Stockman looked down through the trees, mountain laurel and...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 27 May 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Lawyers argue over scope of mine ruling]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[HUNTINGTON — More mining permits will probably land in front of a federal judge, as lawyers for the coal industry and government regulators try to sort out the latest mountaintop removal court ruling.Citizen group lawyers want U.S. District Judge Robert ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Both sides looking at mine permit ruling]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators and coal industry officials began Monday to try to sort out the latest federal court ruling aimed at tougher restrictions on mountaintop removal mining.Environmental and citizen groups, meanwhile, said that Friday’s ruling will force m...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[4 mining permits blocked]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A federal judge blocked permits for four mountaintop removal mines late Friday, in a major ruling that could force much tougher regulation of West Virginia’s coal industry.Citing the “alarming cumulative stream loss” to valley fills, U.S. District Judge ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mine cleanup fund could be empty by 2012, report says]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A fund meant to clean up abandoned coal mines could face a financial crisis within five years, according to a state Department of Environmental Protection report.As early as 2012, the DEP’s special reclamation fund could be out of money to clean up abando...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:00:00 -0500]]>
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<title><![CDATA[DEP fails to track strip mine mitigation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[State regulators have not kept track of whether coal operators complied with permit requirements that they restore streams to mitigate the loss of waterways buried by mountaintop removal mining.Department of Environmental Protection officials say they fa...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:00:00 -0500]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Corps gives final OK to record strip mine in Logan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators have given final approval to the largest mountaintop removal-mining permit in West Virginia history.Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a Clean Water Act permit for Arch Coal Inc.’s Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County.Th...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:00:00 -0500]]>
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<title><![CDATA[MINING CASE RULING NOT EXPECTED SOON]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A federal judge won't rule in the latest mountaintop removal case until lawyers for both sides have filed more legal briefs and made more arguments in court.Last week, U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers wrapped up trial in the case that challenges v...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[FILLS BURYING VALUABLE STREAMS, JUDGE TOLD]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[HUNTINGTON - Coal operators are destroying a vital piece of Appalachia's ecology when they bury small headwaters streams, a federal judge was told Wednesday.Bruce Wallace, an ecologist from the University of Georgia, gave U.S. District Judge Robert C. C...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[EXPERTS TESTIFY ON DAMAGE FROM MINING]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[HUNTINGTON - Mountaintop removal mining is burying large parts of coalfield streams and increasing the threat of flash floods, experts told a federal judge Tuesday.Coal operators and federal regulators misuse data and computer modeling, underestimating ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[TRIAL SET IN LATEST MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL CASE]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A federal judge this week will hear legal arguments and scientific testimony in the latest legal attack on mountaintop removal coal mining.This morning, U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers starts trial in Huntington in a case filed more than a year a...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mining trial canceled while permits reviewed]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[HUNTINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday canceled a trial scheduled for next week in the latest legal effort to curb mountaintop removal coal mining.U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers acted on a motion by the federal Army Corps of Engineers, which la...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Corps suspends mining permits]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators have suspended four mountaintop removal mining permits, saying they need to further study a lawsuit that alleges the permits are illegal.Lawyers for the federal Army Corps of Engineers announced the action Thursday during a telephone he...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Reports detail mountaintop destruction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From the headwaters of Cabin Creek to the town of Decota, coal operators have already stripped or are awaiting approval to strip nearly 5,000 acres of hills and valleys.The latest proposal is an application by Massey Energy to add 750 acres to its Republi...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Federal judge blocks expansion of Massey mine]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The latest courtroom battle to curb mountaintop removal coal mining is starting to heat up.On Friday, a federal judge in Huntington blocked expansion of a Massey Energy mine near the intersection of Kanawha, Fayette and Raleigh counties.U.S. District Jud...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mining lawsuit returning to federal court]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A lawsuit over mountaintop removal coal mining is headed back to U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin’s courtroom.Last week, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and other groups asked Goodwin to jump back into the case.Coalition lawyers want Goodwin...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500]]>
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<title><![CDATA[MOUNTAINTOP MINING REHEARING DENIED, 5-3 TWO W.VA. APPEALS COURT JUDGES DISSENT]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to reconsider its decision to overturn a ruling that would have toughened regulation of mountaintop removal mining.At the same time, two appeals judges from West Virginia agreed to rehear the case and defend...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:00:00 -0500]]>
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<title><![CDATA[GROUPS ASK U.S. COURT TO BLOCK MINE PERMITS]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia environmentalists on Wednesday sought a new federal court order to block three mountaintop removal mining permits issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Lawyers for the three groups asked U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers for a prel...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:00:00 -0500]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mining limit studies too costly, feds say]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators abandoned plans for more detailed studies of ways to limit mountaintop removal because the work would have cost too much, according to a new government report.The more detailed studies would have taken five to 10 years and cost $10 mi...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[New mining permits gain speed]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators Friday released the final version of a landmark study of mountaintop removal, paving the way for the Bush administration's plan to streamline the review of new coal-mining permits.The study approves the original proposal to combine th...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[RECUSALS KEEP SAME JUDGES ON MOST MINE CASES]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[RICHMOND, Va. - Early last Monday morning, a clerk at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals posted the list of the day's cases and the judges who would hear them.For the argument in "Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition v. Bulen," the list included two f...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[ LAWSUIT SEEKS MORE STUDY ON BLAIR MOUNTAIN MINING PERMIT]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Aracoma Coal Co. wants to mine 12.5 million tons of coal from the hills around historic Blair Mountain, near Ethel in Logan County.In the process, the Massey Energy subsidiary would bury nearly 3 miles of streams. Over the next eight years, millions of ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[JUDGES GRILL LAWYERS IN MINING CASE]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[RICHMOND, Va. - Federal appeals judges on Monday offered mixed reviews of the latest court decision more strictly regulating mountaintop removal coal mining.A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals grilled lawyers in the challenge of...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL FIGHT RETURNS TO APPEALS COURT]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Does mountaintop removal coal mining cause only minimal damage to West Virginia’s hills, forests and streams.On Monday, a federal appeals court will consider that question. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments in the latest lega...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 18 Sep 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Mining board postpones hearing on silo permit]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The state Surface Mine Board on Friday postponed next week’s scheduled hearing in a case over a controversial Massey Energy coal-storage silo adjacent to a Raleigh County elementary school.Board members delayed the hearing after the state Department of E...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Marsh Fork air quality unknown]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More than 200 students returned Friday for their first day of classes at Marsh Fork Elementary School in Raleigh County.A day earlier, the Manchin administration had declared the school — adjacent to a Massey Energy coal processing facility and slurry im...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Group wants boundary violation notice in silo case]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[State regulators may have taken the wrong enforcement action to stop construction of one of two Massey Energy coal storage silos near a Raleigh County elementary school, a citizens group said Tuesday.In a new notice of intent to sue, Coal River Mountain ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[State buffer rule weaker than federal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia’s rule to block new strip mining operations near schools, churches and homes is weaker than required by federal law, government records show.State Department of Environmental Protection officials have never adopted a tougher legal standard ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Massey to appeal DEP silo order]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Massey Energy will appeal an order that blocked construction of one of two coal storage silos near a Raleigh County elementary school, company lawyers told state regulators Thursday.Massey lawyers also are expected to seek an emergency ruling from the We...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Massey silo permit revoked]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[State regulators on Tuesday revoked a permit for one of two Massey Energy coal storage silos next to a Raleigh County elementary school.The state Department of Environmental Protection ordered Massey subsidiary Goals Coal Co. to rip up the silo’s foundat...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:00:00 -0400]]>
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