Where once there were mountains: the grassroots struggle against mountaintop removal coal mining in central Appalachia

2009/02/01 by G. V. Davis · 1 citation
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #American Environmental and Regional History #Environmental Justice and Health Disparities #American Literature and Culture

paper · doi:10.1080/09644010802639932

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Abstract

Bringing down the mountains: the impact of mountaintop removal on southern West Virginia, by Shirley Stewart Burns, Morgantown, WV, West Virginia University Press, 2007, xi + 214 pp., £17.16 (paper...

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