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		<title>Gainesville Sun: Lenders Back Off of Environmental Risks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 5:08 a.m.
Blasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia or churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists’ biggest industrial irritants. But they are also legal and lucrative.
For a growing number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Va Pilot Editorial: Call coal&#8217;s bluff; develop alternatives</title>
		<link>http://wiseenergyforvirginia.org/2010/08/va-pilot-editorial-call-coals-bluff-develop-alternatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rather poignant editorial from today&#8217;s Virginia Pilot. Full editorial here, excerpt below.

Clean coal is the future. Americans hear that constantly from the electricity industry, which spends countless millions on commercials and to sway Washington.
If that&#8217;s so, why is the industry building so many old-style power plants?

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		<title>Va Attorney General Cuccinelli&#8217;s witch hunt gets quashed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science: 1
Witch Hunter: 0
According to both the Richmond Times Dispatch and the Washington Post, Ken Cuccinelli&#8217;s attempt to investigate University of Virginia climate scientist, Michael Mann, is not legally founded. 
An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge has set aside a subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to the University of Virginia seeking documents related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia to Receive Nearly $7.5 Million to Expand the State’s Successful Weatherization Program</title>
		<link>http://wiseenergyforvirginia.org/2010/08/virginia-to-receive-nearly-75-million-to-expand-the-state%e2%80%99s-successful-weatherization-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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For Immediate Release:



Thursday, August 26, 2010


News Media Contact: 


(202) 586-4940 

Virginia to Receive Nearly $7.5 Million to Expand the State’s Successful Weatherization Program
State has already weatherized more than 3,200 homes under the Recovery Act

Washington, DC – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that Virginia has been selected to receive nearly $7.5 million in additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TVA idling units at 3 coal plants- as good as it sounds?</title>
		<link>http://wiseenergyforvirginia.org/2010/08/tva-idling-units-at-3-coal-plants-as-good-as-it-sounds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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By Sandra. Originally posted on Appalachian Voices&#8217; Front Porch Blog
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a New Deal initiative designed to uplift the Tennessee and surrounding Appalachian states by providing electricity to the region, is now better known for one of the largest environmental disasters on the east coast (not including the BP oil spill). A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Va Pilot: New developer of Ford plant envisions 10,000 jobs</title>
		<link>http://wiseenergyforvirginia.org/2010/08/va-pilot-new-developer-of-ford-plant-envisions-10000-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Josh Brown
The Virginian-Pilot
© August 20, 2010
The developer who plans to buy Ford Motor Co.&#8217;s shuttered Norfolk pickup assembly plant said Thursday that the redevelopment of the site could help create as many as 10,000 jobs for the region.
Jim Jacoby, who has a track record of large redevelopment projects in Atlanta, reached a deal earlier this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Gazette Letter to the Editor regarding ODEC&#8217;s proposed coal plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read the latest published letter by M. Robin Church of James City in a a series of many letters to the editor and editorials concerning the coal plant proposed by Old Dominion Electric Cooperative.
Excerpt:
I was interested to read the article by Cortney Langley regarding the use of James River water for domestic use via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REC Election Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grady Wins REC Region II Director Spot
August 17, 2010 by Edward Leonard
Excerpt:
Although Marmet will not be joining the REC Board of Directors this term, he said that he plans to stay active on the Cypress Creek Power Station issue.
“Despite the fact that I am disappointed that I won’t be joining the board, I am encouraged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keith Olberman Covers Coal in Kentucky- Teri Blanton from KFTC tells him how it is.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>NYT: A Battle in Mining Country Pits Coal Against Wind</title>
		<link>http://wiseenergyforvirginia.org/2010/08/nyt-a-battle-in-mining-country-pits-coal-against-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: August 14, 2010
LORELEI SCARBRO’S husband, Kenneth, an undergroundcoal miner for more than 30 years, is buried in a small family cemetery near her property here at the base of Coal River Mountain. The headstone is engraved with two roosters facing off, their feathers ruffled. Kenneth, who loved cockfighting, died in 1999, and, [...]]]></description>
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