Going green Casper Star-Tribune GILLETTE -- Grand Teton Lodge Co., one of Wyoming's premier resort companies in the Jackson Hole area, will offset 100 percent of its annual 6 million kilowatt hours of electricity by buying "green" credits associated with a wind farm in south-central Wyoming, the company announced this week. Two Sago Mine workers commit suicide Boston Globe Two miners whose jobs included watching for safety hazards inside the Sago Mine before the deadly explosion last January committed suicide in the past month. Governor touts state's energy Montanaforum.com Gov. Brian Schweitzer welcomed a national conference on abandoned mines to Billings on Monday with a rousing speech about developing energy using cleaner alternatives for making electricity and fuel. Governor touts state's energy Billings Gazette Gov. Brian Schweitzer welcomed a national conference on abandoned mines to Billings on Monday with a rousing speech about developing energy using cleaner alternatives for making electricity and fuel. The group of more than 225 responded with a standin Ukrainian mine blast kills 9 workers Boston Globe An explosion ripped through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine early Wednesday, killing at least nine miners and leaving 39 others missing, a rescue official said. Off the Cuff Coffeyville Journal A local woman complained to a store clerk this week that bottles of water were too big. "I stop at a convenience store to get a small bottle of water and you sell me a 24-ounce container," she said. Going to work Point Pleasant Register Tim Maloney/photo Construction work continues on the new Gatling mine set to reopen adjacent to American Electric Power's Mountaineer and Sporn plants outside New Haven. ENN Weekly: September 18th - 22nd Environmental News Network ENN rounds up the most important and compelling environmental news stories of the week. In the news September 18th - 22nd: Funding the war on warming, food safety revisited, tainted sludge, population and water scarcity, and much more. Local News Linton Daily Citizen DUGGER - Walking into the Dugger Coal Museum is like taking a giant step back in time - when coal was king and this small eastern Sullivan County community - located a stone's throw away from neighboring Greene County - was in its heyday. KOREA: Candidate struggles to reshape image AsiaMedia With his mustachioed face covered in black coal dust and sweat, Sohn Hak-gyu did not look like a politician of intelligence and refinement. Indeed, this is an image that he is struggling to distance himself from.
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