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"Erin Brockovich meets Dark Waters in this propulsive and heart-wrenching legal drama set in Appalachian coal country, as one determined lawyer confronts a coal industry giant in a battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community--from Wall Street Journal reporter Kris Maher. For two decades, the water in the taps and wells of Mingo County didn't look, smell, or taste right. Could it be the root of the health problems--from kidney stones...
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Water-resources investigations report volume 84-4300
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
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U.S. Geological Survey open-file report volume 85-405
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U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
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Scientific investigations report volume 2005-5099
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Scientific investigations report volume 2023-5091
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Docurama Films
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, the residents of West Virginia launch a fight with the coal industry to protect their mountains and to save their families and their way of life.
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Water-resources investigations report volume 01-4092
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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U.S. Geological Survey professional paper volume 1803
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Scientific investigations report volume 2019-5059
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge. In Fighting King Coal, Shannon Elizabeth Bell examines...