@article{867239,
      recid = {867239},
      author = {Griswold, Eliza,},
      title = {Amity and prosperity : one family and the fracturing of  America /},
      pages = {xii, 318 pages :},
      abstract = {"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."--Jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/867239},
}