Community activist, volunteer dies in mishap at home
      A Letcher County environmental and government watchdog died this week after a freak accident near his home at Elk Creek, near Blackey. John Cleveland, 55, died after a tree he was cutting fell on him. Letcher County Deputy Coroner Robbie Campbell said a tree Cleveland cut Sunday had lodged into another tree, which Cleveland was attempting to cut on Monday.
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Fueling up with natural gas
By JOSEPH B. WHITE The Wall Street Journal
      First it was ethanol made from corn. Then ethanol made from twigs and stems and trash. Then, the future was going to belong to hydrogen. Now, the alternative fuel flavor of the month in Washington is natural gas. You may know this already, thanks to vigorous public-relations campaigns mounted to promote natural gas as a vehicle fuel by energy billionaire T.
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