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Author Loeb, Penny.

Title Moving mountains : how one woman and her community won justice from big coal / Penny Loeb.

Imprint Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  344.0465 L822m 2007    ---  Available
Description xx, 306 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-293) and index.
Contents Awakening to injustice -- Slicing mountains -- A miner's life -- The lawyer -- Changing the laws -- Bragg v. Robertson -- Rallying around -- The Moores' case -- Internal wrangling -- The governor's task force -- Settling for less or more -- Before the judge -- Back at the legislature -- Frenzied negotiations -- The environmental impact statement -- Unbelievable -- The new era -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Bragg v. Robertson case.
Subject Bragg, Patricia, 1958- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Law and legislation -- West Virginia -- Pie.
Coal mines and mining -- Law and legislation -- West Virginia -- Pie.
Mining permits -- West Virginia -- Criminal provisions.
Mountaintop removal mining -- West Virginia.
ISBN 0813124417 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813124414 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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