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In late 1994, wells in Pie, West Virginia, began to go dry, leaving many residents of the small coal-mining town without potable water. When local housewife Trish Bragg made a few phone calls in an effort to solve this problem, she had no idea that her inquiries would eventually lead to her becoming the named plaintiff in a major lawsuit, a summa cum laude college graduate, and a hero of her community. Moving Mountains recounts the struggle of Trish Bragg and other ordinary West Virginians for fair treatment by the coal companies that dominate the local economies of southern West Virginia. The

Mountaintop removal mining --- Coal leases --- Coal mines and mining --- Groundwater --- Mining leases --- Coal mining --- Collieries --- Energy industries --- Mines and mineral resources --- Ground water --- Subterranean water --- Underground water --- Water, Underground --- Water --- Hydrogeology --- Decapitation mining --- Mountaintop decapitation (Mining) --- Mountaintop mining --- MTR mining --- Strip mining --- Criminal provisions. --- Law and legislation --- Pollution --- Bragg, Patricia, --- Bragg, Trish, --- United States. --- COE --- Corps of Engineers (U.S.) --- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers --- U.S. Army Engineers --- U.S.E.D. --- US Army Corps of Engineers --- USACE --- USED --- U.S. Army Engineer Department