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By BRIAN WOODSON 

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

BLUEFIELD — Is it possible to use a football game as inspiration for a state whose most important natural resource is under attack.  
 
Why not? Who would have expected Marshall to win the GMAC Bowl in 2001, trailing 38-8 at halftime.  
 
How about the Thundering Herd themselves?  
 

By BRIAN WOODSON 

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

BLUEFIELD — Bob Pruett is a friend of coal. Unfortunately, not everyone feels the same, and that worries the former Marshall football coach.  
 
“Right now the coal industry is under attack, it really is, it is under attack,” said Pruett, who served as the guest speaker for the Bluefield Rotary Club on Tuesday at the Holiday Inn. “I am not a political person, I’m really not, I’m not running for office. 

Aug. 09, 2009
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal 

Political climate for energy policies cools

Poll: Economy outweighs environment

By JENNIFER ROBISON
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Monday's National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 will bring a parade of celebrated public policy experts to Las Vegas to discuss greening the country's economy.

PATH is a joint venture between Allegheny Energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to build a new, high voltage, interstate transmission line that will go through West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland.

At the recommendation of the Board of Miner Training, Education and Certification, Director Ron Wooten announced his intentions to “withdraw” the proposed Rules Governing the Safety of Those Employed In and Around Preparation Plants in West Virginia.  The rules were proposed on June 30th and a public hearing was scheduled for this past Thursday, July 30th.
 
The training board objected to the training and certification provisions contained in the proposed rule on the basis that the proposed rule usurped their authority under law and due to the Board not being consulted or involved in the rule making.