It was the only time in U.S. history that a sitting president led troops against his own citizens.

She discovered that the lab had doubled the reporting limit from 10 mg/L to 20 mg/L. Since the amount now fell beneath the new reporting limit, it wasn’t listed. What a clever trick this seemed to be. To Kendra, it implied that the lab could be at fault too in changing protocols to hide

Each spring, this anti-federalist spirit flourishes in downtown Washington, where Whiskey Rebellion reenactors march beneath the uneasy gaze of George Washington, whose statue still perches atop the county courthouse.

She realized that the problems related to the waste pond at the Yeager site were neither secret nor isolated. She suspected she was uncovering a systematic problem of Range’s: the impoundments were leaking, and so were the white temporary pipelines between them.

Once the pressure and fluid splintered the rock, the clay pellets propped open the new fissures so that gas could flow up to the surface. But gas wasn’t the only thing that rose: 10 to 40 percent of the water and chemicals used in the frack returned too, as did radioactive materials, both natural and synthetic, and bacteria that hadn’t seen

Against this blood-soaked background, Thaddeus Dod attempted to civilize the community at Ten Mile.

Although Pappy loathed Range, he focused on what he could do for others with the money. He could be generous with his grandkids in a way he’d never been able to be with Stacey and Shelly.

Coal was exempted from most federal regulation, including the 1972 Clean Water Act and the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act. (For the 2005 Energy Act, Vice President Dick Cheney successfully lobbied to exempt the fluids used in fracking from these same regulations. This was the “Halliburton loophole,” which gave the industry much of the immunity from

From its beginnings, however, the conservation ethic was sharply curtailed by the coal industry.