Parallels Between Victims of Mountaintop Removal and Hurricane Katrina

I would like to tackle the topic of the differences and similarities, mostly similarities between victims of Mountaintop Removal and Hurricane Katrina. These are two groups of people that most would think to be extremely different, but in actuality I have already found many similarities between the two. Governmental treatment of both groups of people is absolutely disgusting, specifically the governmental association of FEMA with regards to both groups. Class is a definite issue in treatment of both groups of people with regards to governmental funding in both areas of the country as well as production of fossil fuels. In Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio, coal is the reason that people and the environment are being treated so poorly. On the gulf coast, oil is taken out of that area on a daily basis, yet the states see no profit from it. The education systems in both areas are extremely poor. But to get to the specific point about people who have been and are being affected by both of these terrible disasters, no one is doing anything to better the situation. People are suffering everyday, having coal slurry in their backyards, not being able to go home to their houses because no one has given them funds to attempt to rebuild their homes, becoming sick because of the amount of pollution in the air from the coal pollution, dying because medical records have been lost. I also want to compare and contrast the Millennium Goals established in Agenda 21 and how they apply to situations in both the coal fields and the Gulf Coast. Water pollution has also been an issue, and is an issue in both areas and I would like to address it within my paper. There are so many aspects of this project I want to cover that I am honestly excited about writing it.

so i have decided to switch back to my original topic of parallels between victims of mountaintop removal and hurricane katrina instead of community gardens within secondary education because i am much more passionate about the first topic. yeah.
heres my working bibliography.....

No Author Listed. What Lies Beneath: Katrina, race and state of the nation. Cambridge, MA: Southend Press, 2007.

Dyson, Micheal Eric. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. New York: Basic Civitas, 2006.

No Author Listed. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?: a collection of stories and essays set in the Big Easy. Seattle: Chin Music Press, 2006.

The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: lessons learned. Washington D.C. White House, 2006.

Waugh, William. Shelter from the storm: repairing the national emergency system after Hurricane Katrina. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2006.

Summary of federal funding for water and wastewater infrastructure damage by hurricanes Rita and Katrina in Louisiana. Washington D.C.: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, 2006.

Summary of federal funding for water and wastewater infrastructure damage by Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi’s six southern counties. Washington D.C.: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, 2006.

EPA’s and Louisiana’s efforts to access and restore public drinking water systems after Hurricane Katrina. Washington D.C.: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the Inspector General, 2006.

EPA’s and Mississippi’s efforts to access and restore public drinking water systems after Hurricane Katrina. Washington D.C.: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the Inspector General, 2006.

Van Hardeen, Ivor Il. The Storm: what went wrong and why during Hurricane Katrina: the inside story from one Louisiana scientist. New York: Viking, 2006.

United States Department of Homeland Security. A performance review of FEMA’s disaster management activities in response to Hurricane Katrina/Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General. Washington D.C.: Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspections and Special Reviews, 2006.

Hartman, Charles. There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: race, class and Hurricane Katrina. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Horne, Jed. Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City. New York: Random House, 2006.

Vollen, Lola. Voices from the Storm: the people of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. San Francisco: McSweeney Books, 2006.

Surface Coal Mining Reclamation: 15 Years of Progress: 1977-1992. DIANE Publishing, 1992.

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources. 1979.

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. 1979.

Hope, Diane. Earthwork: Women and Environments. New York: The Feminist Press, 2001.

Barry, Joyce. Mountaineers are Always Free? An Examination of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in West Virginia. Thesis/Dissertation, 2004.

Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Assessment of Surface Mining Methods-Head-of-Hollow Fill and Mountaintop Removal, 1979.

Engelherdt, Elizabeth. Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, 2005.

Kennedy, Jr. Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and his Corporate Pals are Plundering the Country, 2004.

Palmer, Tim. The Heart of America: Our Landscape, Our Future, 1999.

Montrie, Chad. To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining, 1999.

Kennedy, Barbara. Surface Mining, 1990.

Reece, Erik. Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia. Penguin Group: New York, 2006.

Adams, Noah. Far Appalachia: Following the New River North. Dell Publishing: New York, 2001.

Fritsch, Albert. Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains. The University Press of Kentucky: Kentucky, 2004.

Pancake, Catherine. “Black Diamonds (videorecording): mountaintop removal and the fight for justice”. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 2006.

Websites

www.appvoices.org

www.ohvec.org

www.wvcoalfield.com

www.wvhighlands.org

www.forestcouncil.org

www.nola.com/katrina

www.katrina.louisina.gov

www.katrina.com

www.hurricane-katrina.org

www.deadlykatrina.com

www.hurricanekatrinasurvivors.com