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By Courtney Clark
CHARLESTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency's air quality rules and how they impact the coal industry are the focus of this year's West Virginia Coal Forum.
The event kicked off Wednesday morning at the Marriott in Charleston.
It featured United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts, representatives of West Virginia's Congressional Delegation, members of the state Legislature and representatives of the coal industry.
West Virginia Coal Association President Bill Raney said the EPA's "unrealistic rules, politics and time tables" are having a negative impact on power plants and pocket books of people in West Virginia.
"These negative impacts, they'd be bad on their own, bad at any time, but they really seem ridiculous today when the country's economy is absolutely in shambles," said Raney.
According to Raney, the rules not only affect West Virginia, but the entire country.
They also touched on other coal-related issues, such as the level of competitiveness and productivity of the industry, miner's health and safety issues, and the overall image of the coal industry.
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MOUNDSVILLE - A busy year for coal production in Marshall County will help bring a number of major upgrades to various county departments over the next fiscal year.
However, none will be more visible than a new annex to be built behind the Marshall County Courthouse in the coming calendar year.
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CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Coal Association today announced the re-election of Gary White, of Gilbert, as its chairman of the board for the upcoming year. It is White’s second term as the Association chair. Bill Raney will continue as president, joined by Chris Hamilton, senior vice president, and Jason Bostic, vice president.
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Has a central tenant of global warming just collapsed?
Climate change forecasts have for years predicted that carbon dioxide would trap heat on Earth, and increases in the gas would lead to a planetwide rise in temperatures, with devastating consequences for the environment.
But long-term data from NASA satellites seems to contradict the predictions dramatically, according to a new study.
“There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans,” said Dr. Roy Spencer, a research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. science team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer -- basically a big thermometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite.
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