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Discovery offers way of tracking cancer in blood

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Group therapy may extend lives of cancer patients

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Cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, has been awarded the drug industry equivalent of a Nobel Prize

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Cancer charity sets up Around the World in 80 Raves!

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Cancer Awareness - Kathy Vantran: Journalist Chronicles Cancer in the Fight of Her Life

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Aussie 'makes skin cancer vaccine'

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In a stirring column in Mondays New York Times, editorial writer Lawrence Downes urged former Obama campaign volunteers to enlist in another tour of duty.

The country is not in the best shape to simultaneously fix a sinking economy, a withered government and an ailing planet. But it has no choice, and not much time. So why wait until January to get started?

Downes is right -- we cant wait. Thats why the citizens of Coal River Mountain, West Virginia are already working on building their own future with clean power. I cant think of another place anywhere in the U.S. where such clear distinctions can be drawn between Americas energy past and future.

Nearly 500 mountains have been destroyed throughout Appalachia by mountaintop removal coal mining. Now, West Virginia-based Massey Energy plans to blow up Coal River Mountain piece by piece over the next 14 years so it can extract the coal underneath. When its all done, another mountain will be destroyed, ten square miles devastated, at least 18 miles of streams will be buried or contaminated, and Massey will have supplied less than a quarter of one percent of U.S. annual electricity demand, as estimated by Coal River Mountain Watch.

The citizens of Coal River Mountain have a very different vision: to stimulate the local economy with investments in clean, renewable wind power. Coal River Mountain is blessed with high wind speeds that offer the potential to produce up to 440 megawatts of power without a single stick of dynamite or a whiff of greenhouse gas emissions. Hundreds of jobs would be created; county tax revenues would increase by up to $3 million, and more than a million tons of CO2 would be kept underground each year.

Although Massey has received permits to commence mining, pressure is mounting to consider alternatives, as evidenced by a recent demonstration at the state capitol and a lawsuit to stop the project before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The battle in West Virginia is a microcosm of what is happening across the country. Communities from Appalachia to Arizona are organizing to resist destructive mining practices, stop the construction of new coal plants, and promote a just transition to clean energy. As Times Bryan Walsh reported in the magazine's special election issue:

Environmentalists are fighting new plants with every weapon in their arsenal, from launching lawsuits over CO2 regulations to lobbying financiers to stop investing in coal.

Walsh wrote how Americans are learning lessons from history:

For many green activists, climate change is fundamentally a moral issue. To accept a new generation of polluting coal plants is to doom future generations to an impoverished planet. So the response should be fundamentally moral as well, using the same tactics--civil disobedience, nonviolent protest--as those of the civil rights movement.

If the citizens of Coal River Mountain can do it, so can the rest of us.
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All those thousands of young people who were so captivated and motivated by Barack Obama need to then continue to be motivated for their planet. Now that the election is over the work must begin. And it does not all fall on any one person. To truly make change not just for the sake of saying it but to really mean it, those who went to rallies must now hold the ones they voted for accountable to their promises and hold their feet to the fire if those promises are not adequate to meet the threat of climate change. It is encouraging to see so many groups around the country beginning to awaken to the dangers of continuing fossil fuel use and working to move our country into the future.In a stirring column in Mondays New York Times, editorial writer Lawrence Downes urged former Obama campaign volunteers to enlist... more