To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia

To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia

Editorial Reviews
Hal Rothman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Montrie offers a look at real grassroots environmental activism by real people, showing a long-neglected dimension of American environmentalism.

Review
An excellent and timely study of resistance, courage, and disappointment. (Ronald Eller, University of Kentucky)
Montrie offers a look at real grassroots environmental activism by real people, showing a long-neglected dimension of American environmentalism. (Hal Rothman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
With uncommon eloquence, Chad Montrie tells the important and moving story of the efforts of the farmers and working people of Appalachia to put a halt to the strip mining that was despoiling their land and their livelihoods. (Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York )
Contains many worthwhile lessons for those who continue the ongoing struggle to halt the utter destruction of this fragile and beautiful region through unsustainable resource extraction practices. (Albert J. Fritsch, director of Appalachia--Science in the Public Interest)

To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia

To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia,Chad Montrie,The University of North Carolina Press,0807854352,Appalachian Region,Business / Economics / Finance,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Science,Environmental aspects,Industrial Health & Safety,Industries - Energy Industries,Mining,Nature/Ecology,Power Resources,Public opinion,Science,Strip mining,Environmentalist thought & ideology,Management of land & natural resources,Mining industry,Northeastern & North Atlantic states,Political activism,Science / Environmental Science,Tennessee,surface coal mining; Appalachia; environmentalism; strip mining; Pennsylvania; eastern Ohio; West Virginia; eastern Kentucky; eastern Tennessee; southwestern Virginia; northeastern Alabama; Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA); Tennessee's Save Our Cumberland Mountains; Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

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