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Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced.The Appalachian women featured in Barry’s book have firsthand experience with the negative impacts of Big Coal in West Virginia. Through their work in organizations such as the Coal River Mountain…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2014Ohio University Press · 9780821421321
- Other · English · 2012Ohio University Press · 190 pages · 9780821419977
Community activistsCitizen participationLandscape protectionEnvironmental justiceCoal mines and miningMountaintop removal miningPolitical activityWomen