” It will make you angry especially if you’re disturbed by the Bush administration’s radically pro-business approach to energy policy and the environment. Of course, if you’re an admirer and a beneficiary of those policies, Shnayerson’s evident bias against them also will make you angry.”

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‘Coal River’ by Michael Shnayerson
Foes of Big Coal fighting uphill battle in West Virginia
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Mountaintop-removal mining and the hard knot of activism against it in Appalachia are this era’s great pitched coal-field battle — much deadlier than the Battles of Blair Mountain and Matewan.”