This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
Earl Ray Tomblin
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How Real Journalism Brought Real Justice to West Virginia
Because an anti-environmental platform is a prerequisite to win office in West Virginia, coal-related spills and other disasters are often overlooked by government officials who want to be re-elected.
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Proposed Fracked Gas Pipeline Sparks Opposition In Virginia and West Virginia
If construction crews come on 78-year-old Virginia landowner Andrew Gantt's property, “Then I’ll lie down under their bulldozer. I’m serious.”
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Impunity in West Virginia As Criminal Law-Breaking Polluters Still Walk Free
Freedom Industries, which failed to show up at a Congressional hearing this week, knew about the leak of toxic chemicals but chose purposely not to report them – one of many company crimes for which managers should be behind bars.
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Exclusive: Why West Virginia No Longer Trusts Its Water, Government or Coal Industry
The spill is leading some state natives to question the fate of the coal industry that long sustained them economically – and causing organizers to take West Virigina’s subpar regulation of extractive industries into their own hands.
