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IS CLEAN COAL A ‘DIRTY LIE’?

The United States is increasingly searching for cheap forms of energy with the inevitable result that mountain top removal or ‘strip mining’ of coal in the Appalachia range in West Virginia has received little scrutiny by government regulators. But the toxic mining methods of “King Coal” have had devastating environmental and societal impacts and left what was once a pristine wilderness a moonscape of rock, debris and polluted rivers.

Join Host Paulie Abeles on NoQuarter Radio’s Sins of Omission this Monday, June 29th at 9 pm (ET) www. blogtalkradio.com/NQR, as she talks with prize winning journalist and Vanity Fair Contributing Editor, Michael Shnayerson, author of “Coal River” as he tells the story of coal mining companies that have run the state like feudal lords, and the courageous people trying to stop them.

In March 2009, United Artists and Highway 61 announced that a film adaptation of “Coal River” is in the works.

Archived here after broadcast:
Sins of Omission at www.blogtalkradio.com/nqr/2009/06/30/Sins-of-Omission

Bio for Michael Shnayerson:
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Michael Shnayerson has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine since 1986, writing over 75 stories for the magazine. He began his career in 1976 as a reporter at the Santa Fe Reporter and moved to Time as a staff writer in 1978. In 1980 Shnayerson became editor in chief of Avenue. He has been a consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler since its inception in 1987. Shnayerson lives in Sag Harbor, NY.

He is also the author of Irwin Shaw: A Biography (Putnam, 1989) and The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM’s Revolutionary Electric Vehicle (Random House, 1996), which was named one of the best business books of 1996 by BusinessWeek. Shnayerson is the co-author, with Mark J. Plotkin, of The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria (Little, Brown, 2002).

Shnayerson’s latest book, Coal River (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), tells the true story of how a West Virginia coal-mining town fought for—and won—the right to protect their land against both the government and Appalachia’s infamous kingpin of coal, Massey Energy’s Don Blankenship.

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