Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal

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Combating Mountaintop Removal Combating Mountaintop Removal New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal Bryan T. McNeil University of Illinois Press Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield © 2011 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America c 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McNeil, Bryan T. Combating mountaintop removal : new directions in the fight against big coal / Bryan T. McNeil. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-252-03643-9 (cloth) 1. Mountaintop removal mining—Appalachian Region. 2. Coal mines and mining—Environmental aspects—Appalachian Region. 3. Landscape protection— Appalachian Region—Citizen participation. 4. Community activists—Appalachian Region. 5. Environmentalists— Appalachian Region. I. Title. td195.c58m38 2011 622'.292—dc22 2011006828 To my families, at home and in Coal River, and in memory of Archie Green and Judy Bonds. ...