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		<title>American Rivers names America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clean Water rollbacks threaten #1 Potomac River and rivers nationwide Contacts: Amy Kober, American Rivers, (503) 708-1145 Ed Merrifield, Potomac Riverkeeper, (202) 222-0707 Hedrick Belin, Potomac Conservancy, (301) 608-1188 Joan Rose, Public health and clean water expert, Michigan State University, (517) 432-4412 John Hayes, Potomac River guide, (703) 402-4837 May 15, 2012 Washington, D.C. – With Congress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA is appealing the Spruce veto decision</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=5001</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE &#160; May 14, 2012 &#160; Contact: Liz Judge, Earthjustice, (202) 797-5237, ljudge@earthjustice.org Joe Lovett, Appalachian Mountain Advocates, (304) 645-9006, jlovett@appalmad.org Cindy Rank, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, (304) 924-5802, clrank2@gmail.com Debbie Jarrell, Coal River Mountain Watch, (304) 854-2182, debbiejarrell@gmail.com Janet Keating, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, (304) 522-0246, janet@ohvec.org Sean Sarah, Sierra Club, (330) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Creek Wind construction suspended</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4997</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.statejournal.com/story/18115108/construction-suspended-on-aes-grant-county-wind-farm AES Corp. has suspended construction on its New Creek project in Grant County pending the resolution of permitting issues with the Federal Aviation Administration. &#8220;We suspended construction because it didn&#8217;t appear we could get this solved in time to put the turbines vertical,&#8221; said AES Managing Director Charles Falter. The company is headquartered in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Justice Summer Camp in West Virginia &#8211; Starts Next Week!</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4990</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends of the Appalachian Mountains, The Mountain Justice Summer camp in West Virginia starts next weekend and I hope you will consider joining us. We need people like you to help us end mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia! You don&#8217;t have to be an expert on coal mining or energy issues or Appalachia to participate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BULLPUSH MOUNTAIN.THE NEXT STEP</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4981</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 17:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Reclamation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cindy Rank Our most recent legal challenge involving water pollution from coal mine sites in West Virginia concerns the very first mountaintop removal coal mine in West Virginia &#8211; the Bullpush Mountain operation on the Kanawha &#8211; Fayette County line above Smithers, WV. With a permit to mine granted in 1970 to Cannelton Industries, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramblin’ the Ridges</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4973</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[~MOTHER~ By Cynthia D. Ellis She cradled a young miner&#8217;s head in her lap. Mortally wounded, his head bashed by a mine detective while on the picket line, he murmured the name of the one he thought he saw, &#8220;Mother.&#8221; Thus&#8212; according to some&#8212; did Mary Harris Jones become &#8220;Mother&#8221; Jones. Labor activist Mary Jones&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOARD HIGHLIGHTS</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4968</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John McFerrin The Board of Directors of the West Virginia Highlands had its spring meeting at Blackwater Falls State Park on April 22. We had the usual businessy reports: Frank Young (pinch hitting for the absent Robert Marshall) reported on the state of the treasury. We are 25% of the way through the year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ISSUES WIND GUIDELINES</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John McFerrin The United States Department of the Interior has issued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines. According to the Department&#8217;s press release, these voluntary guidelines are supposed to &#8220;help wind energy project developers avoid and minimize impacts of land-based wind projects on wildlife and their habitats. The voluntary guidelines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INDUSTRIAL WIND &#8212; CRITICAL THINKING NEEDED</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Board Calls for Opinions Based on Facts By Wayne Spiggle &#8220;Nearly half of our electricity comes from coal, 30% of that from Appalachia. Mountain top removal has destroyed 500 mountains, a million acres of forest and 2000 miles of streams. The cost to health and the environment comes to 345 billion dollars annually&#8221;.&#8211; George Beecham, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE WV BREEDING BIRD ATLAS II: A CONSERVATION TOOL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bird Watching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Casey Rucker The 5-year West Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas II project is past its midway point, with more than 48,000 records submitted and 172 species reported. Many birdwatchers are already familiar with the atlas project, but other nature lovers may not be aware of its importance, or how easy it is to contribute. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ISSUES RULES ON AIR POLLUTION FROM GAS WELLS</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4946</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 17, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued regulations, required by the Clean Air Act, to reduce harmful air pollution from the oil and natural gas industry. The include the first federal air standards for natural gas wells that are hydraulically fractured, along with requirements for several other sources of pollution in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PERMANENT FRACKING BAN COMING TO THE GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL FOREST?</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4942</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The George Washington National Forest is in the process of banning horizontal drilling for gas in the Forest. This is the technique used in tapping the Marcellus shale formation; banning it would effectively ban drilling in that formation. The Forest is currently nearing the end of the process of revising its forest plan. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALMOST LEVEL, WEST VIRGINIA (or at least parts of it)</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4934</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Mountaintop Removal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John McFerrin The ongoing discussion of mountaintop removal mining routinely contains some version of this exchange: &#8220;No more &#8216;West Virginia Hills.&#8217; They&#8217;re flatting our state!&#8221; To this the pro mountaintop removal part of the conversation says, &#8220;Oh, pshaw, you bunch of Chicken Littles. We&#8217;re only doing mountaintop mining on a tiny fraction of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHY TREES MATTER</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4932</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Robbins Trees are on the front lines of our changing climate. And when the oldest trees in the world suddenly start dying, it&#8217;s time to pay attention. North America&#8217;s ancient alpine bristlecone forests are falling victim to a voracious beetle and an Asian fungus. In Texas, a prolonged drought killed more than five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT&#8217;S GOOD FOR TROUT IS GOOD FOR US</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4928</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fishing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Don Gasper. The region&#8217;s only native trout have disappeared from half of the watersheds in the Chesapeake Bay drainage that once supported them. Native brook trout are disappearing throughout the Chesapeake region. There is, however a new Federal program, a strategy, to protect them as part of the Bay protection, and happily these headwater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BACK TO COURT WITH RECALCITRANT CORPS OF ENGINEERS</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4925</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John McFerrin The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, and the Sierra Club have asked the United States District Court to prevent the Loadout, LLC from further filling streams with mine waste from its Nellis Surface Mine in Boone County. The groups contend that the operation would violate the federal Clean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FORK CREEK-A REMEMBRANCE</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4922</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 15:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Julian Martin My sainted grandma Barker told me of the rich Mr. Skinner riding his horse up and down Coal River buying mineral rights. Sometime back then someone got the bright idea to divide a piece of land into two parts&#8211;the surface and the minerals beneath. That was the beginning of the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please mark your calendars for the September 25, 2012 West Virginia Wind Forum.</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4913</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Wind Energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2012 West Virginia Wind Forum September 25, 2012 Canaan Valley Resort &#38; Conference Center Davis, WV The forum will include speakers from: o   AES Corporation o   American Electric Power o   Invenergy o   James Madison University o   Marshall University o   Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition o   PJM Interconnection o   State of Virginia o   West Virginia University &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Spruce Ecosystem Restoration in Canaan Valley</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4831</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Saville For over 10 years we have been working on a corridor along the Blackwater River in Canaan Valley.  Much of it is on the National Wildlife Refuge but important parts are on private properties that adjoin the Refuge.  This year, we partnered with the Timberline Association, the homeowners group that holds common lands they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Central Appalachian Women&#8217;s Tribunal on Climate Justice</title>
		<link>http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=4827</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Join us May 10, in Charleston, WV First of its kind in the United States: Central Appalachian Women&#8217;s Tribunal on Climate Justice Many groups involved… please come out and please spread the word. &#8211; no matter what gender you identify with, you are invited. Flier below and here: http://ohvec.org/events_calendar/05-10-UNTribunal.pdf and more at http://bit.ly/KgRxgD Online registration [...]]]></description>
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