Jim Dean, Director of Mining and Industrial Extension in WVU’s College of Engineering & Mineral Resources pointed out that WVPBS will be doing a segment on Mining Extension's training efforts and the simulated mine at the Academy for Mine Training and Energy Technologies, which will be featured on "This Week in West Virginia" on WV PBS on Friday, June 17, at 8 p.m. If you are unable to view it then, the show will be archived online and can be found at: http://www.wvpubcast.org/twiwv.aspx .
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The Associated Equipment Distributors has joined the campaign to build support for a new bill to beat back the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) attack on state authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA).
The Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act (H.R. 2018) has major implications for equipment distributors around the country. In recent years, the Obama EPA has used the CWA permitting process to block coal mines in Appalachia; however, quarries, farmers, and commercial, residential, and infrastructure construction projects also receive CWA scrutiny and are potentially affected by EPA’s abuse of its authority.
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The Friends of Coal continue their outreach efforts with the following events:
Continued work on the State Journal direct message piece. The section now looks to be 40-48 pages and will feature news and profile pieces featuring industry issues and Association members.
June 16th – Association met with the leadership of the Boy Scouts Summit project and toured
the property in Fayette County. Also met with Senators and Delegates from Fayette, Raleigh, Nicholas and Wyoming counties, as well as Commissioners, Mayors and their staffs from Fayette County.
July 15-17th – Will maintain an informational booth at the Friends of Coal Auto Fair in Beckley.
July 21st – Friends of Coal will provide the keynote speaker for the Cabell County Schools’
West Virginia Coal Project to discuss the economic impact of coal on the West Virginia economy. The presentation will be at the Logan Country Club in Chapmanville, WV on the evening of July 21, 2011.
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Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued -- or are climate scientists doctoring the data?
The University of Colorado’s Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming.
"Gatekeepers of our sea level data are manufacturing a fictitious sea level rise that is not occurring," said James M. Taylor, a lawyer who focuses on environmental issues for the Heartland Institute.
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While campaigning for vice president in September 2008, Joe Biden confided
to a voter in Ohio, ""No coal plants here in America."
"Build them, if they're going to build them, over there. Make them clean. We're not supporting clean coal."
By "over there," Biden meant China.
His campaign and the press covering the event dismissed this as a "gaffe," an erroneous statement.
But nearly three years later, Biden's words ring more and more true.