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The Daily Athenaeum
By: Charles Young
SGA leaders vote to create Fall Break
Members of the Student Government Association Board of Governors passed a highly debated proclamation Wednesday in support of regulating the permit process for the coal industry.
The proclamation, which supports the organization "FACES of Coal," states West Virginia University's SGA supports the regulating of Section 404 permits.
The permits allow individual coal mines to be in operation. There is currently an ongoing backlog of Section 404 permit approvals that could jeopardize jobs, economic opportunity and coal production throughout the state, according to the proclamation.
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BECKLEY -- The Friends of Coal along with many other generous sponsors are pleased to announce the 8th Annual Friends of Coal Auto Fair beginning on July 15th and ending on July 17th, 2011.
The event will be held at the YMCA Paul Cline Memorial Sports Complex in Beckley, WV and serves as a major fund raising event for the YMCA of Southern West Virginia. Because of all your help in the past, the YMCA was able to offer approximately 1000 free memberships to children in 2010. In addition to the free memberships, the YMCA of Southern West Virginia utilizes the funds raised by this event for supplies and upkeep of existing facilities which accommodated over 100,000 children last year.
Read more: 8th Annual Friends of Coal Auto Fair Set for July 15-17
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CHARLESTON -- The Friends of Coal is continuing its outreach efforts in print, broadcast and web media, as well as maintaining a presence at various events in the state:
PRINT:
A recent special section on the importance of coal was printed by the Charleston Newspapers. The section was published in the Sunday edition of the Charleston Gazette-Mail and featured stories on the benefits of coal to the state and nation.
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Are you a Friend of Coal? Are you one of the 63,000 West Virginia families whose livelihood depends on coal? Let the world know how important coal is to you and your family! Sign up for your Friends of Coal official license plate today.
The first issued by the State of West Virginia in any color other than white, the Friends of Coal license plate is black, with white lettering and a Friends of Coal logo prominently displayed on the left side of the plate.
If you have already ordered your license plate, then please pass the application along to your friends and family. Companies can submit multiple applications by completing a form for each vehicle and submitting one check with the $70 fee for each vehicle.
Click here for a printable application.
If you need additional applications or have any questions please give Sandi a call at 304.342.4153 or e-mail to: sdavison@wvcoal.com
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Southern Community and Technical College developed the new vehicle, which will serve as a command post for mine rescues.
State officials Tuesday gathered at the Capitol to dedicate a new tool for mine rescue.
Command Unit Rapid Response Task Force 1 and Mine Rescue Truck was developed by Southern Community and Technical College in response to last year's Upper Big Branch Mine explosion.
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Scientists have been forced to retract a paper that claimed sea level were rising thanks to the effects of global warming, after mistakes were discovered that undermined the results.
The study was published in Nature Geoscience and predicted that sea levels would rise by as much as 2.7 feet by the end of the twenty-first century.
The paper also highlighted that it reinforced the conclusions of the U.N.'s controversial Fourth Assessment report, which warned of the dangerous of man-made climate change.
However, mistakes in time intervals and inaccurately applied statistics have forced the authors to retract their paper -- the first official retraction ever for the three-year-old journal, notes the Guardian. In an officially published retraction of their paper, the authors acknowledged these mistakes as factors that compromised the results.
Read more: Scientists Retract "Peer-Reviewed" Paper on Rising Sea Levels Due to Errors
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Urge your Member of Congress to vote in support of three critically important pro-mining amendments being considered by the House today. If enacted, these amendments will help push back against EPA's regulatory destruction of the coal industry, bring back balance to the regulatory uncertainty hindering the coal industry, and provide high-paying jobs for our nation's hardworking miner's.
We urge you to call your representative or visit our Action Center and tell your Member of Congress to vote in support of:
- Amendment No.109 offered by Rep. Morgan Griffith of Virginia
- Amendment No. 216 offered by Rep. David McKinley of West Virginia
- Amendment No.498 offered by Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio.
Contacting your Member of Congress via the NMA Action Center is easy and takes only a moment
CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR ACTION CENTER - We need you to act now, votes are expected in the next 24 hours!
Thank you for making your voice heard.
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It is tournament time again and we are looking for FOC members who would like to award trophies at the different functions listed below. If you have an interest or plan to attend one or more of these tournaments and would like to award trophies please give the Association a call so that we can coordinate with WVSSAC.
February 18 – Swimming in Morgantown
February 26 – Wrestling in Huntington
March 12 – Girls’ Basketball in Charleston
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In his presentation to last week’s WV Coal’s Mining Symposium in Charleston, Senator Joe Manchin discussed his “maiden speech” on the floor of the United States Senate. The full text of Senator Manchin’s speech, made last Thursday, is included below.
Presented on the floor of the United States Senate, Washington, DC on Thursday, February 3, 2011.
Madam President, it is my great honor today to speak on the floor for the first time as a United States Senator.
I am truly humbled by this auspicious occasion and the enormous privilege to serve the greatest people in America - the people of West Virginia.