Reviews Coal River by Michael Shnayerson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, 321 p., $25. Share this: Share via email (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to print (Opens in new window) Print By Science News September 12, 2008 at 12:07 pm Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 A Vanity Fair journalist exposes the ongoing battle between West Virginia activists and the company whose mountaintop mining threatens their homeland.