Clean Water for All Virginians
Author | : Virginia. State Water Control Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Water quality management |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Virginia. State Water Control Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Water quality management |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Danielle Haynes |
Publisher | : 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc' |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2021-07-15 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1725323079 |
Today, 785 million people are living without access to safe water. Water-related illnesses are responsible for almost 1 million deaths each year. Clean water should be a basic human right, but far too few people have access to it. With this informative book, readers will study the global water crisis, how it reached its current state, and its impact on the environment and human lives. Real-life examples of the steps being taken to save Earth's water resources and improve the quality and availability of drinking water will inspire budding environmentalists to take action.
Author | : Virginia. Department of Health |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Copper |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Verne W. House |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Water |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vivian E. Thomson |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-04-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0262036347 |
How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities. The United States has pledged to the world community a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 26–28 percent below 2005 levels in 2025. Because much of this reduction must come from electric utilities, especially coal-fired power plants, coal states will make or break the U.S. commitment to emissions reduction. In Climate of Capitulation, Vivian Thomson offers an insider's account of how power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level. Thomson, a former member of Virginia's State Air Pollution Control Board, identifies a “climate of capitulation” in state government—a deeply rooted favoritism toward coal and electric utilities in states' air pollution policies. Thomson narrates three cases involving coal and air pollution from her time on the Air Board. She illuminates the overt and covert power struggles surrounding air pollution limits for a coal-fired power plant just across the Potomac from Washington, for a controversial new coal-fired electrical generation plant in coal country, and for coal dust pollution from truck traffic in a country hollow. Thomson links Virginia's climate of capitulation with campaign donations that make legislators politically indebted to coal and electric utility interests, a traditionalistic political culture tending to inertia, and a part-time legislature that depended on outside groups for information and bill drafting. Extending her analysis to fifteen other coal-dependent states, Thomson offers policy reforms aimed at mitigating the ingrained biases toward coal and electric utilities in states' air pollution policy making.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Drinking water |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kris Maher |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1501187341 |
Erin Brockovich meets Dark Waters in this propulsive and heart-wrenching legal drama set in Appalachian coal country, as one determined lawyer confronts a coal industry giant in a battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community--from Wall Street Journal reporter Kris Maher. For two decades, the water in the taps and wells of Mingo County didn't look, smell, or taste right. Could it be the root of the health problems--from kidney stones to cancer--in this Appalachian community? Environmental lawyer Kevin Thompson certainly thought so. For seven years, he waged an epic legal battle against Massey Energy, West Virginia's most powerful coal company, helmed by CEO Don Blankenship. While Massey's lawyers worked out of a gray glass office tower in Charleston known as "the Death Star," Thompson set up shop in a ramshackle hotel in the fading coal town of Williamson. Working with fellow lawyers and a crew of young activists, Thompson would eventually uncover the ruthless shortcuts that put the community's drinking water at risk. A respected preacher and his brother, retired coal miners, and women whose families had lived in the area's coal camps for generations, all put their trust in Thompson when they had nowhere else to turn. As he dug deeper into the mystery of the water along a stretch of road where the violence from the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud still echoes, he was pulled into the darkest corners of Mingo County, risking his finances, his marriage, his career, and even his safety. Bringing to life a rich cast of characters and the legacy of coal mining in an essential yet often misunderstood part of America, Desperate is a masterful work of investigative reporting about greed and denial, a revealing portrait of a town besieged by hardship and heartbreak, and an inspiring account of one tenacious environmental lawyer's mission to expose the truth and demand justice.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Groundwater |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Linda Hager Pack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780813125565 |
An alphabet book featuring words about Appalachian culture, plus additional stories and facts, a glossary, and a list of places to visit in the region.
Author | : Katherine J. Livie |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2015-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625853920 |
This cultural and ecological history explores the rise of Chesapeake’s mighty mollusk from Colonial-era harvesting to contemporary cultivation. Oysters are an essential part of Chesapeake Bay culture and cuisine, as well as the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these abundant shores, they described massive shoals of foot-long oysters. In later years, however, the bottomless appetite of the Gilded Age and great fleets of skipjacks took their toll. Disease, environmental pressures, and overconsumption decimated the population by the end of the twentieth century. To combat the problem, Virginia began leasing its waters to private oyster farmers. Today, these boutique oyster farms are sustainably meeting the culinary demand of a new generation of connoisseurs. But in Maryland, passionate debate continues among scientists and oystermen whether aquaculture or wild harvesting is the better path. With careful research and interviews with experts, author Kate Livie presents this dynamic story and a glimpse of what the future may hold.