Moving Mountains : How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loeb, Penny
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bragg, Patricia, > 1958-
Bragg, Patricia, > 1958- > Trials, litigation, etc.
United States. > Army. > Corps of Engineers.
United States. > Army. > Corps of Engineers > Trials, litigation, etc.
Groundwater > Pollution > Law and legislation.
Coal mines and mining > Law and legislation.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Concessions houilleres > Virginie-Occidentale > Droit penal.
Coal leases > West Virginia > Criminal provisions.
Coal mines and mining > Law and legislation > West Virginia > Pie.
Groundwater > Pollution > Law and legislation > West Virginia > Pie.
West Virginia > Pie.
West Virginia.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of recurring people and organizations
  • 1. Awakening to injustice
  • 2. Slicing mountains
  • 3. A miner's life
  • 4. The lawyer
  • 5. Changing the laws
  • 6. Bragg v. Robertson
  • 7. Rallying around
  • 8. The Moores' case
  • 9. Internal wrangling
  • 10. The governor's task force
  • 11. Settling for less or more
  • 12. Before the judge
  • 13. Back at the legislature
  • 14. Frenzied negotiations
  • 15. The environmental impact statement
  • 16. Unbelievable
  • 17. The new era
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix : The Bragg v. Robertson case
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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