Desperate : an epic battle for clean water and justice in Appalachia

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Desperate : an epic battle for clean water and justice in Appalachia

Title remainder

an epic battle for clean water and justice in Appalachia

Statement of responsibility

Kris Maher

Title variation

• Desperate
• Epic battle for clean water and justice in Appalachia

Creator

• Maher, Kris

Author

• Maher, Kris

Subject

• trueWest Virginia
• trueAppalachian region
• trueBusiness -- Corrupt practices
• trueBusiness corruption
• Case studies
• trueCoal mines and mining
• Coal mines and mining -- Appalachian Region
• Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- West Virginia | Mingo County
• Coal mines and mining -- Health aspects -- West Virginia | Mingo County
• Community organization
• Drinking water -- Contamination
• Drinking water -- Contamination -- West Virginia | Mingo County
• Massey Energy (Firm) -- Corrupt practices
• Mines and mineral resources
• Mingo County (W. Va.) -- Environmental conditions
• Mingo County (W. Va.) -- Social conditions
• Mining corporations -- Corrupt practices
• Thompson, Kevin W, 1963-
• Water -- Pollution
• trueWater contamination
• Water-supply
• Water-supply -- Health aspects

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

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 to cancer--in this Appalachian community? Environmental lawyer Kevin Thompson certainly thought so. For seven years, he waged an epic legal battle against Massey Energy, West Virginia's most powerful coal company, helmed by CEO Don Blankenship. While Massey's lawyers worked out of a gray glass office tower in Charleston known as "the Death Star," Thompson set up shop in a ramshackle hotel in the fading coal town of Williamson. Working with fellow lawyers and a crew of young activists, Thompson would eventually uncover the ruthless shortcuts that put the community's drinking water at risk. A respected preacher and his brother, retired coal miners, and women whose families had lived in the area's coal camps for generations, all put their trust in Thompson when they had nowhere else to turn. As he dug deeper into the mystery of the water along a stretch of road where the violence from the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud still echoes, he was pulled into the darkest corners of Mingo County, risking his finances, his marriage, his career, and even his safety

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

344.046343

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult