《低谷抗争：一位律师在美煤炭灾难后的正义之战[Audiobook]》

English | ASIN: B0CTN3MJC2 | 2024 | 12 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 368 MB

A riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought. For more than fifty years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste sixty feet high and covering eighty-four acres, contained only by an earthen embankment. In 2008, just before Christmas, that embankment broke, unleashing a lethal wave of coal sludge that covered three hundred acres, damaged nearly thirty homes, and precipitating a cleanup effort that would cost more than a billion dollars—and the lives of more than fifty cleanup workers who inhaled the toxins it released. Jim Scott, a local personal-injury lawyer, agreed to represent the workers after they began to fall ill. That meant doing legal battle against the Tennessee Valley Authority, a colossal, federally owned power company that had once been a famous cornerstone of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Scott and his hastily assembled team gathered extensive evidence of malfeasance: threats against workers; retaliatory firings; disregarded safety precautions; and test results, either hidden or altered, that would have revealed harmful concentrations of arsenic, lead, and radioactive materials at the cleanup site. At every stage, Scott—outmanned and nearly broke—had to overcome legal hurdles constructed by TVA and the firm it hired to help execute the cleanup. He grew especially close to one of the victims, whose swift decline only intensified his hunger for justice. As the incriminating evidence mounted, the workers seemed to have everything on their side, including the truth—and yet, was it all enough to prevail? The lawsuit that Scott pursued on the workers’ behalf was about their illnesses, no doubt. But it was also about whether blue-collar employees could beat the C-suite; if self-described “hillbilly lawyers” could beat elite corporate defense attorneys; and whether strong evidence could beat fat pocketbooks. With suspense and rich detail, Jared Sullivan’s thrilling account lays bare the casual brutality of the American justice system, and calls into question whether—and how—the federal government has failed its people.

一部扣人心弦的法庭戏剧，讲述了美国历史上规模最大的环境灾难中的受害者们的故事——以及那位决心挑战“在美国，正义可以被买到”这一观念的当地律师。自五十年代中期以来，田纳西州小城克林顿的一座发电厂每天燃烧十四千吨煤，逐渐形成了一个高达六十英尺、覆盖八十四个街区的灰烬山，仅由一道土坝保护着。2008年，在圣诞节前不久，这座大坝崩塌了，释放出致命的煤炭浆浪，淹没了三百个街区，毁坏了近三十座房屋，并引发了超过十亿美元的清理努力——以及五十多名吸入它所释放毒素的清洁工的生命。吉姆·斯科特是一名当地的个人伤害律师，当工人开始生病时，他同意为他们辩护。这意味着要与田纳西河谷管理局进行一场法律斗争，后者曾是美国总统富兰克林·德拉诺新政的一个著名基石——一个联邦所有的巨大电力公司。 斯科特和他的匆忙组建的团队收集了大量关于不法行为的证据：威胁工人；报复性解雇；忽视安全措施；以及被隐藏或篡改过的测试结果，这些结果原本会揭示清理现场有害砷、铅和放射性材料的浓度。在每一个阶段，斯科特——人微言轻且几乎要崩溃了——都必须克服田纳西河谷管理局及其雇佣来执行清理工作的公司所构建的法律障碍。他尤其与一名受害者建立了深厚的联系，那名受害者的病情进展之迅速加剧了他的求取正义的愿望。随着令人不安的证据日益累积，工人似乎在所有方面都有优势，包括真理——但这一切是否足够让他们赢得这场官司？斯科特为工人们打的诉讼案当然是关于他们的疾病，当然。但它还关乎蓝领员工能否战胜高管层；非正式称作“山地佬律师”的人能否战胜精英企业辩护律师；以及强有力的证据能否打败深口袋。“悬念迭起且细节丰富”，贾德·苏利文令人兴奋的叙述揭示了美国司法系统的粗暴残忍，并质疑联邦政府是否以及如何已辜负了人民。

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