Amity and Prosperity: one family and the fracturing of America
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"Tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia--and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking industry comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors' mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong. Alarmed by her children's illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what's really in the water and air. Against local opposition, Haney and her allies doggedly pursue their case in court and begin to expose the damage that's being done to the land her family has lived on for centuries. Soon a community that has long been suspicious of outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who is responsible for redressing their ills. The faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values--and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice."--Dust jacket.
Subjects
Subjects
Amity (Washington County, Pa. : Township) -- Social conditions
Biographies
Biography
Energy policy
Environmental aspects
Gas wells
Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Amity (Washington County : Township)
Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Prosperity
Hydraulic fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania
Political aspects
Political science
Prosperity (Pa.) -- Social conditions
Public policy
Rural conditions
Social conditions
Social reformers
Social sciences
Sociology
Biographies
Biography
Energy policy
Environmental aspects
Gas wells
Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Amity (Washington County : Township)
Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Prosperity
Hydraulic fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania
Political aspects
Political science
Prosperity (Pa.) -- Social conditions
Public policy
Rural conditions
Social conditions
Social reformers
Social sciences
Sociology
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9781250215079
9781427298171
9780374103118
9781427298171
9780374103118
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"Tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia--and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking industry comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors' mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong. Alarmed by her children's illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what's really in the water and air. Against local opposition, Haney and her allies doggedly pursue their case in court and begin to expose the damage that's being done to the land her family has lived on for centuries. Soon a community that has long been suspicious of outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who is responsible for redressing their ills. The faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values--and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice."--Dust jacket.
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Biography
Energy policy
Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Amity (Washington County : Township)
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Hydraulic fracturing -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania
Political science
Prosperity (Pa.) -- Social conditions
Public policy
Rural conditions
Social reformers
Social sciences
Sociology
Biographies
Biography
Energy policy
Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Amity (Washington County : Township)
Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Prosperity
Hydraulic fracturing -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania
Political science
Prosperity (Pa.) -- Social conditions
Public policy
Rural conditions
Social reformers
Social sciences
Sociology
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Amity and Prosperity : one family and the fracturing of America
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Amity and Prosperity : one family and the fracturing of America / Eliza Griswold
Amity and Prosperity : one family and the fracturing of America [electronic resource] / Eliza Griswold
Amity and prosperity : one family and the fracturing of America / Eliza Griswold
Amity and Prosperity : one family and the fracturing of America [electronic resource] / Eliza Griswold
Amity and prosperity : one family and the fracturing of America / Eliza Griswold
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Energy policy
Environmental aspects
Gas wells
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Political aspects
Political science
Public policy
Rural conditions
Social conditions
Social reformers
Social sciences
Sociology
Energy policy
Environmental aspects
Gas wells
Hydraulic fracturing
Political aspects
Political science
Public policy
Rural conditions
Social conditions
Social reformers
Social sciences
Sociology
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