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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.19/economics-not-environmental-regs-are-battering-coal-power">        <title>Economics, not environmental regs, are battering coal power</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.19/economics-not-environmental-regs-are-battering-coal-power</link>        <description>If King Coal wants a boost, it should go after "Drill Baby Drill."</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>electricity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hot Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>King Coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>War on Coal</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-11-27T16:36:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-return-of-the-lords-of-yesterday">        <title>The return of the Lords of Yesterday</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-return-of-the-lords-of-yesterday</link>        <description>The Old West-style extractive economy is roaring back to life, powered by the insatiable energy needs of countries like China.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>amenity economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Douglas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>China</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>extractive industries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Charles Wilkinson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chesapeake Energy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-08-16T21:55:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west/boom-or-bust-for-the-wests-fossil-fuel-economy">        <title>Boom or bust for the West's fossil fuel economy?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west/boom-or-bust-for-the-wests-fossil-fuel-economy</link>        <description>The developing countries of Asia will drive future fossil fuel production in the West.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Robert Jackman</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>multinational corporations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy consumption</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>China</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>extractive industries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural resource exports</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-07-21T21:44:34Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-return-of-the-lords-of-yesterday">        <title>The return of the Lords of Yesterday</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-return-of-the-lords-of-yesterday</link>        <description>The West's once-faltering extractive economy is roaring back to life, powered by the energy needs of developing countries like China.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>multinational corporations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jonathan Thompson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>China</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>extractive industries</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-07-21T21:25:38Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west/when-the-locals-dont-want-your-coal-sell-it-overseas">        <title>When the locals don't want your coal, sell it overseas</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west/when-the-locals-dont-want-your-coal-sell-it-overseas</link>        <description>Global markets could keep Powder River Basin coal flowing overseas for decades to come.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Powder River Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural resource exports</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Black Thunder/Jacobs Mine</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-07-21T21:32:12Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west">        <title>The Global West: how foreign investment fuels resource extraction in western states</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west</link>        <description>China's insatiable energy appetite is fueling a natural resource boom in the West.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>multinational corporations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Douglas</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>global economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>China</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>natural resource exports</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-02T01:44:17Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.22/activist-brings-diversity-to-green-orgs">        <title>Activist brings diversity to green orgs</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.22/activist-brings-diversity-to-green-orgs</link>        <description>Marcelo Bonta's Center for Diversity &amp; the Environment works to bring people of color into the environmental movement.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green Justice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public schools</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>State trust lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-10T16:33:15Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/trouble-in-the-prb">        <title>Trouble in the PRB</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/trouble-in-the-prb</link>        <description>Environmentalists are attacking "the heart of the beast": the coal mines in Wyoming's Powder River Basin.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Powder River Basin Resource Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming coal mines</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal-fired power plants</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-11-10T15:39:18Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/coal-reality-check">        <title>Coal reality check</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/coal-reality-check</link>        <description>The coal industry may be wounded, but it’s certainly not dead.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Coal mines</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy economics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Mining Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal-fired power plants</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-11-19T21:23:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/burning-questions-about-biomass">        <title>Burning questions about biomass</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/burning-questions-about-biomass</link>        <description>Getting energy from biomass is more complicated -- and perhaps less green --  than it seems.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Boardman power plant</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biomass</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>torrefaction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Portland General Electric</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arundo donax</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-11-08T15:17:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.9/power-struggle">        <title>Power struggle</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.9/power-struggle</link>        <description>The economic numbers behind coal and wind energy -- and energy efficiency -- are compared in Montana. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Joan Melcher</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wind power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana energy politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy efficiency</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy jobs</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-05-18T17:50:28Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/high-country-views-episode-3">        <title>Audio: High Country Views, episode 3</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/high-country-views-episode-3</link>        <description>Sarah Gilman and Cally Carswell talk about tough times for coal. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country Views</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Ritter</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Desert Rock</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>podcast</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Otter Creek coal</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-05-06T19:23:18Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.14/mission-critical-can-natural-gas-save-the-world">        <title>Mission critical </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.14/mission-critical-can-natural-gas-save-the-world</link>        <description>With global warming threatening the planet, even environmentalists are looking more kindly at natural gas.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Randy Udall</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>greenhouse gases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Ritter</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>carbon emissions</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:50:33Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.11/growing-away-from-big-coal">        <title>Growing Away from Big Coal</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.11/growing-away-from-big-coal</link>        <description>In Colorado and New Mexico, some rural electric cooperatives are quietly fighting to get more of their power from local and renewable sources.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Susan Moran </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Tri-State Generation and Transmission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rural electric co-ops</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Delta-Montrose Electric Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wind power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>solar power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kit Carson Rural Electric Cooperative</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:31:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17479">        <title>Wyoming hits a green roadblock</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17479</link>        <description>Bill Sniffin says the state called the “Saudi Arabia
of coal” may find its product less desirable in the face of
global warming.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Bill Sniffin</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Bill Sniffin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:46:01Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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