Book on Mountaintop Removal Wins Award

ForeWord Magazine, which promotes books released by university and independent publishers, gave a Bronze Award in its 2007 environmental category to Penny Loeb’s “Moving Mountains” about mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.

“Moving Mountains” focused on Patricia Bragg, a Boone County woman from the town of Pie, who fought against the huge mountaintop removal mines in her area.

Bragg soon became involved in a broad lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, called Bragg v. Robertson, which temporarily halted mountaintop removal after a ruling by the late U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II.

Loeb, who lives with her husband in Loudoun County, Va., was previously a senior editor at “U.S. News & World Report” and investigative reporter for “Newsday.”

The University Press of Kentucky in Louisville published “Moving Mountains.”

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