Valley So Low
One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought
“[A] tense investigative chronicle.” —The New Yorker
For more than fifty years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste sixty feet high and covering eighty-four acres, contained only by an earthen embankment. In 2008, just before Christmas, that embankment broke, unleashing a lethal wave of coal sludge that covered three hundred acres, damaged nearly thirty homes, and precipitating a cleanup effort that would cost more than…
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October 15, 2024JARED SULLIVAN has written for The New Yorker, Time, Garden & Gun, and USA Today, and he previously worked as a writer and editor at Men’s Journal and Field & Stream. He lives in Franklin, TN.
