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Moving Mountains : How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal /
In late 1994, wells in Pie, West Virginia, began to go dry, leaving many residents of the small coal-mining town without potable water. When local housewife Trish Bragg made a few phone calls in an effort to solve this problem, she had no idea that her inquiries would eventually lead to her becoming...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2007.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Preface -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t List of recurring people and organizations -- |g 1. |t Awakening to injustice -- |g 2. |t Slicing mountains -- |g 3. |t A miner's life -- |g 4. |t The lawyer -- |g 5. |t Changing the laws -- |g 6. |t Bragg v. Robertson -- |g 7. |t Rallying around -- |g 8. |t The Moores' case -- |g 9. |t Internal wrangling -- |g 10. |t The governor's task force -- |g 11. |t Settling for less or more -- |g 12. |t Before the judge -- |g 13. |t Back at the legislature -- |g 14. |t Frenzied negotiations -- |g 15. |t The environmental impact statement -- |g 16. |t Unbelievable -- |g 17. |t The new era -- |t Epilogue -- |t Appendix : The Bragg v. Robertson case -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index. |
| 520 | |a In late 1994, wells in Pie, West Virginia, began to go dry, leaving many residents of the small coal-mining town without potable water. When local housewife Trish Bragg made a few phone calls in an effort to solve this problem, she had no idea that her inquiries would eventually lead to her becoming the named plaintiff in a major lawsuit, a summa cum laude college graduate, and a hero of her community. Moving Mountains recounts the struggle of Trish Bragg and other ordinary West Virginians for fair treatment by the coal companies that dominate the local economies of southern West Virginia. The. | ||
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