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  • FOC License Plate

    Created: Friday - December 03, 2010
    Thanks to widespread support, we have reached our initial goal of 250 applications for the new Friends of Coal license plates.  This will enable the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to proceed with the manufacturing of the plates.  Additional applic...

  • Friends of Coal Wish All a Happy Thanksgiving

    Created: Wednesday - November 24, 2010
    Thanksgiving is about family, and the Friends of Coal would like to wish the 60,000 members of our family a Happy and Joyous Thanksgiving. We have a lot to be thankful for this year. Due to leaders with vision and commitment to our state, we have bee...

  • Friends of Coal License Plates

    Created: Thursday - November 11, 2010
    The initial announcement of the West Virginia Friends of Coal license plate was sent to all Coal Bits recipients and the Friends of Coal data base last week and we have the beginning of our 250 initial applications being returned.  If you did not recei...

  • Coal Industry Congratulates Senator Joe Manchin on Win

    Created: Wednesday - November 03, 2010
    Renews call for fight against anti-coal agenda of Obama Administration CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Coal Association and Friends of Coal would like to congratulate Senator Joe Manchin on his election to the unexpired two-year term of the late-Sen. R...

  • ICG Eastern Holds Arbor Day Celebration

    Created: Friday - April 23, 2010
    Mike Duvall, Keith O’Dell and the enthusiastic staff at ICG Eastern, LLC’s  Birch River Operations hosted their fourth annual Arbor Day celebration on Thursday.  In addition to the usual great lunch, the well-attended ceremony included inform...

  • FOC License Place Legislation Advances

    Created: Tuesday - January 26, 2010
    Legislation creating the official State Friends of Coal license plate was approved by the Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure of the West Virginia Senate this morning.  The stand-alone bill, SB 206, was unanimously adopted by the committee and w...

  • Delegate Kominar Says EPA Out to Shut Down Coal Industry

    Created: Tuesday - January 12, 2010
    Beckley Register Herald - January 12, 2010 CHARLESTON — A southern West Virginia lawmaker feels the ultimate goal of the Environmental Protection Agency is to wipe out the entire coal industry by initially outlawing the mountaintop removal practice vi...

  • 37th Annual West Virginia Mining Symposium Registration

    Created: Monday - January 11, 2010
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  • Byrd Applauds All Parties for Progress on Mining Permits

    Created: Tuesday - January 05, 2010
    Washington, DC – Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., today released the following statement in response to actions by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in moving forward with Patriot Coal’s Hobet 45 mining permit in Lincoln County.  This was the...

  • Stand up to repugnant environmentalists - Renick citizen speaks out

    Created: Friday - January 01, 2010
    It is unconscionable to me that West Virginians anywhere could be so unwilling to accept the fact that coal built this state, and will continue to build it’s future, that they would stoop to protesting the Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary’s Coal in th...

  • Direct Final Rule Amending 30 CFR Parts 50 & 100 Published

    Created: Thursday - December 31, 2009
    The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) published a direct final rule in the Federal Register on December 29, 2009.  The rule will make non-substantive organizational changes to the Agency’s existing regulations for reporting accidents and det...

  • MSHA Marks 40th Anniversary of Landmark Mine Legislation

    Created: Thursday - December 31, 2009
    Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 paved way for major reformsThe U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) today commemorated the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of...

  • WC Industrial Council Meeting Change

    Created: Thursday - December 31, 2009
    According to Kent Hartsog (Patriot Coal), who is the industry representative on the Workers’ Compensation Industrial Council, the monthly Council meeting scheduled for January 7, 2010 has been changed to Thursday, January 21, 2010, at 3:00 p.m.  The ...

  • John Coleman, Founder on the Weather Channel on "Manmade Global Warming"

    Created: Tuesday - December 29, 2009
    The link is to a video of Mr. John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, who presents a compelling argument for his love of the planet and the facts that demonstrate carbon dioxide is not causing "Global Warming." http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.h...

  • A Christmas Message from Friends of Coal

    Created: Friday - December 25, 2009
    During this holiest of seasons, the Friends of Coal would like to wish all a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and a joyous, safe and secure New Year!We want to take the time to thank God for all the blessings he has bestowed on our nation and our people. H...

  • CO2 Christmas Tree

    Created: Friday - December 25, 2009
    Significant Property Improvement of Plastic Made From Carbon Dioxide, Materials, AIST - NanoTechWire.com - The online resourc.   The several of us here have been at work on this Christmas present for some time now, ever since our exchange of...

  • All I Want for Christmas Is A Lump of Coal

    Created: Thursday - December 24, 2009
    The Register-HeraldBy The Associated Press Lumps of coal in a Christmas stocking would normally make a child cry.But an eight-year-old Louisiana girl has had visions of coal dancing her in head. She will wake up this morning to find West Virginia coal und...

  • Time For a Climage Change Plan B

    Created: Tuesday - December 22, 2009
    The Wall Street JournalBy Nigel Lawson The world's political leaders, not least President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, are in a state of severe, almost clinical, denial. While acknowledging that the outcome of the United Nations climate-c...

  • The "Science Mantra" on Global Warming

    Created: Tuesday - December 22, 2009
    December 22, 2009 The "Science" Mantra By Thomas Sowell Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides ...

  • ACTION ALERT! - Radicals try to silence Ladies Auxiliary’s “Coal in the Classroom” Series

    Created: Thursday - December 17, 2009
    ACTION ALERT!   Radicals try to silence Ladies Auxiliary’s “Coal in the Classroom” Series Please contact the Beckley Register-Herald and show your support for coal                           ...