《低谷中的抗争：一位律师在美煤炭灾难后的正义斗争》

Jared Sullivan | 2024 | ISBN: 0593321111 | English | 384 pages | ePUB | 9 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剧，讲述了美国历史上最大规模环境灾难的受害者们的故事——以及那个决心挑战“在美国，正义可以被购买”的国家律师。 超过五十年的时间，田纳西州小城金斯顿的一座发电厂每天焚烧十四万吨煤炭，逐渐形成了一个高六十英尺、覆盖了八十四英亩土地的灰烬山，仅由一道土堤保护。在2008年圣诞节前夕，那道土堤突然崩溃，释放出致命的煤浆波浪，淹没了三百英亩的土地，破坏了近三十座房屋，并引发了需要花费超过十亿美元清理工作的行动——以及五十多名因吸入它释放的毒素而罹患疾病的清洁工的生命。 吉姆·史特克，一位当地的个人伤害律师，在他们开始生病后同意为工人辩护。这意味着与联邦拥有的大型田纳西河谷管理局进行法律斗争，后者曾是前总统富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福新政时期的一座著名基石。史特克和他的仓促组建的团队收集了大量的不法行为证据：对工人的威胁；报复性的解雇；忽视的安全措施；以及在清理现场隐藏或更改后的测试结果，这些结果表明灰烬山中有害浓度的砷、铅和放射性材料的存在。在每一个阶段，史特克——人手不足且几乎走投无路——都必须克服田纳西河谷管理局及其聘请来执行清理工作的公司所构建的法律障碍。他与一名受害者的感情尤为深厚，后者病情恶化的速度让他愈发渴望正义。随着令人震惊的证据不断积累，清洁工似乎在每一方面都处于优势地位，包括真相，但这是否足够？ 史特克为工人提起的诉讼当然是关于他们的疾病。但它也关乎蓝领员工能否击败高管层；“山地律师”能否击败精英企业辩护律师；强有力的确凿证据是否足以战胜巨额资金。通过悬疑和丰富细节，《铁血正义》生动揭示了美国司法系统的轻慢残酷，并质疑联邦政府是否以及如何已经失职于人民。

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