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Bringing Down the Mountains - a New book on Mountaintop Removal Coal mining

Deadline: Aug 29, 2007

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WVU Press book on mountaintop removal coal mining will be available in August 2007

Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970–2004

By Shirley Stewart Burns

Shirley Stewart Burns holds a B.S. in news–editorial journalism, a master’s degree in social work, and a Ph.D. in history, with an Appalachian focus, from West Virginia University. A native of Wyoming County in the southern West Virginia coalfields and the daughter of an underground coal miner, Shirley has a passionate interest in the communities, environment, and histories of the southern West Virginia coalfields. Shirley Stewart Burns lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

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