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	<title>Forest Policy Research &#187; Charcoal</title>
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		<title>USA: Obama forests cleared for strip mines</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/01/usa-obama-forests-cleared-for-strip-mines/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/01/usa-obama-forests-cleared-for-strip-mines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deforestation policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Environmentalists were stunned to learn from Rahall&#39;s office May 15  that the EPA had given its blessing to 42 out of the 48 mine projects  it had reviewed so far &#8212; including two dozen mountaintop removals. &#34;It  was a big disappointment,&#34; said Joan Mulhern, a lawyer for  Earthjustice, an environmental law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Army Corps of engineers sets itself up for a big fall regarding 	Mt. Top Removal</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/04/01/usa-army-corps-of-engineers-sets-itself-up-for-a-big-fall-regarding-mt-top-removal/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/04/01/usa-army-corps-of-engineers-sets-itself-up-for-a-big-fall-regarding-mt-top-removal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day after the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to reassert its powers to protect mountain streams from the ravages of mountaintop coal mining, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved the broad expansion of such a project without EPA input. Many environmentalists are scratching their heads over the seemingly contradictory events. On the one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monbiot: Even greater than all the Biofools are the misguided 	advocates of Biochar</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/monbiot-even-greater-than-all-the-biofools-are-the-misguided-advocates-of-biochar/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/monbiot-even-greater-than-all-the-biofools-are-the-misguided-advocates-of-biochar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate policy forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fake sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top forest defenders]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how many times they lead to disappointment or disaster, the newspapers never tire of promoting miracle cures, miracle crops, miracle fuels and miracle financial instruments. We have a bottomless ability to disregard the laws of economics, biology and thermodynamics when we encounter a simple solution to complex problems. So welcome, ladies and gentlemen, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Virginia: Is anyone willing to take on Big Coal&#8217;s Senator Robert 	Byrd</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/west-virginia-is-anyone-willing-to-take-on-big-coals-senator-robert-byrd/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/west-virginia-is-anyone-willing-to-take-on-big-coals-senator-robert-byrd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
A recent court decision has given the green light to as many as 90
mountaintop mining projects in Appalachia’s coal-rich hills, which in
turn could destroy more than 200 miles of valleys and streams on top
of the 1,200 miles that have already been obliterated.
Full text of the NYtimes editorial opinion:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/opinion/16mon2.html?_r=2

The right course for the administration is clear: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Virginia: More on Direct Action opposing Mt. Top Removal</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/13/west-virginia-more-on-direct-action-opposing-mt-top-removal/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/13/west-virginia-more-on-direct-action-opposing-mt-top-removal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We leave the old skid trail, now covered with thick brush and thorny
vines, and head up the steep slopes through the big trees. All morning
we had trudged up the hill on a confusing network of abandoned logging
roads, encountering nothing more than the tracks the animals had left
in the fresh snow, each set of tracks with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky: Citizen&#8217;s against Mountain top removal get kicked out of 	former Boy Scout Camp Blanton</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/07/kentucky-citizens-against-mountain-top-removal-get-kicked-out-of-former-boy-scout-camp-blanton/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/07/kentucky-citizens-against-mountain-top-removal-get-kicked-out-of-former-boy-scout-camp-blanton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boy Scouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state lands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two groups that oppose mountaintop removal coal mining have been told they are not welcome to hold meetings at a former Boy Scout camp in Harlan County. Jim Scheff of Kentucky Heartwood said his group called in May to reserve Camp Blanton for a gathering, called the Heartwood Forest Council, this Memorial Day weekend. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chad: Desert expansion leads to brutal crackdown on Charcoal 	production</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/25/chad-desert-expansion-leads-to-brutal-crackdown-on-charcoal-production/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/25/chad-desert-expansion-leads-to-brutal-crackdown-on-charcoal-production/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firewood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global local responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gov does good]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hissene said he planted eucalyptus trees during the 1970s in a region
that is now bare of them. &#8220;From Ndjamena to Massaguet (80 kilometres,
50 miles away), there is nothing left. We&#8217;ve had three seasons with no
harvest,&#8221; he said.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Chad_fights_charcoal_in_battle_against_creeping_desert_999.html

Sanctions that began coming into effect in December include torching
vehicles carrying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Virginia: Direct Action star hosts Summer campaign to oppose Mt. 	Top Removal</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/west-virginia-direct-action-star-hosts-summer-campaign-to-oppose-mt-top-removal/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/west-virginia-direct-action-star-hosts-summer-campaign-to-oppose-mt-top-removal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The arrival of such a famous environmental activist went unnoticed by
most media and townspeople. That changed Feb. 3, when Roselle and 12
others chained themselves to a Massey Energy Corp. bulldozer at a mine
site on Coal River Mountain in Raleigh County. He was detained and
cited, but not arrested, in his first direct action in West Virginia.

Get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois: New Coal mine threatens Great Chandler Timbers</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/31/illinois-new-coal-mine-application-threatens-great-chandler-timbers/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/31/illinois-new-coal-mine-application-threatens-great-chandler-timbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goverment does nothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[60 people gathered at the Industry Elementary School for a public
hearing regarding the fifth renewal of the Industry Coal Mine Permit
#16 on Wednesday. The area in question is the Great Chandler Timbers,
one of the last remaining sections of old forests in the area, and is
populated with ancient maples, ironwoods, black walnut trees and thorn
apples. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chad: Charcoal Ban takes it&#8217;s toll</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/28/chad-charcoal-ban-takes-its-toll/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/28/chad-charcoal-ban-takes-its-toll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logging ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban interface]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A government ban on charcoal in the Chadian capital N&#8217;djamena has
created what one observer called &#8220;explosive&#8221; conditions as families
desperately seek the means to cook. &#8220;As we speak women and children
are on the outskirts of N&#8217;djamena scavenging for dead branches, cow
dung or the occasional scrap of charcoal,&#8221; Merlin Totinon Nguébétan,
head of the UN Human Settlements Programme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: Charcoal is consumed by all, yet sourcing &amp; manufacture is 	illicit</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/25/kenya-charcoal-is-consumed-by-all-yet-sourcing-manufacture-is-illicit/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/25/kenya-charcoal-is-consumed-by-all-yet-sourcing-manufacture-is-illicit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a dynamic market for charcoal throughout the country; and
although large quantities of the product is consumed annually, the
production and transportation of charcoal has remained invisible,
unregulated, disorganised and characterised by corrupt practices,
giving the industry a semi-illegal status and a negative image, forest
stakeholders have said. Kenya loses over Kshs 5.1 billion (USD 0.4
billion) annually as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uganda: Plight of people who live with a Charcoal scarcity</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/23/uganda-plight-of-people-who-live-with-a-charcoal-scarcity/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/23/uganda-plight-of-people-who-live-with-a-charcoal-scarcity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The country is already neck-deep in the firewood crisis,&#8221; says
Dritch. &#8220;Now, people are paying for not taking action.&#8221; She sends out
her three young daughters to scavenge for whatever their little hands
can get in order to have food ready. Charcoal, which used to be a
cheap and easy source of energy for the poor like Kamara has [...]]]></description>
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