| COAL RIVER Michael Shnayerson New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-374-12514-1 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-374-12514-7 | 321p. | HC | $25.00 | |
| Page 54: | "With the unassailable proof of those dust-blacken paper towels in Baggies, they did win..." |
| Transcription typo: S/B "dust-blackened". |
| Page 59: | "Sometimes it seemed to Joe that every bridge, highway and building in West Virginia was named after Robert C. Byrd..." |
| S/B "Joe Lovett" since it begins the chapter. |
| Page 67: | "Almost as soon as Bush took office, key restrictions on mountaintop removal were eased, loopholes were widened, oversight was softened, and a flood of Nationwide 21 authorizations were approved, to the celebratory sounds of blasting in the mountains." |
| Number error: S/B "was approved". |
| Page 169: | "Heyman learned that the MSHA had been far more forthcoming before the Bush administration. In fact, an environmental group had made the same request in early 2001 and been given the reports unedited." |
| Oops! 2001 is during the Bush administration. |
| Page 185: | "The anti-McGraw campaign had been Don's first victory as a public figure. His second—defeating Governor Manchin's pension plan—had been his second." |
| His second victory was his second? I soitenly hope so. |
| Page 212: | "Through FOIAs in the fall of 2005, they had forced the Corps to admit..." |
| S/B "FOIA requests". |
| Page 213: | "...the investment it stood to lose by stopping work on the site would outweigh the environmental harm the plaintiffs would suffer, since the valley was already destroyed." |
| S/B "additional environmental harm". |
| Page 252: | "So a consultant comes to you and says. 'We found some streams somewhere in a much lower down watershed that usually has some bank problems..." |
| Number error as transcribed: S/B "have some bank problems". (Or, should have been transcribed as "some stream somewhere".) |
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