Searching West Virginia for a Democratic Response to Mountaintop Removal

Mountaintop removal is an aggressive form of strip mining practiced almost exclusively in Central Appalachia, and since 1977 has been regulated by state and federal laws. Beginning in the late 1990s, considerable controversy erupted in coal mining states like West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee ov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Darrow, Robert
Other Authors: Political Science
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33012
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05192010-162506/