While Peabody Energy may have hired a notorious public relations firm to hawk its international ad campaign, a village trustee and her rural farming community have exposed the devastating legacy of the world's largest coal company near its historic Illinois beginnings.
On the 20th anniversary of that tragedy, my most urgent hope is that we have learned to recognize the uniquely devastating legacy of violence and are better prepared to help those threatened by the sudden tsunami of tomorrow, but also those slowly drowning in the rising tide of everyday violence today.
Tensions around the issue are high in the area, which has among the country's highest rates of emigration to Mexico's northern states and to the United States because of the devastating poverty, a legacy of generations of mining going back to the Spaniards that left large swaths of barren landscape and depleted water.
The show is a calm, often devastating argument that the legacy of slavery, and forced labor dating to Reconstruction, persists in the country's prison system.
March 14, 2014 David Wearing (@davidwearing) Tony Benn in the House of Commons after Thatcher's resignation gives devastating speech on her legacy https://t.co/Ar3PjVW7O5 March 14 , 2014Robert Peston (@Peston) Tony Benn was the most charming & kind politician I encountered as a political editor.
This demands the courage to pursue an equitable and science-based 2030 decarbonisation target of around 80%. Anything less and the EU will renege on its 2°C commitments and, as the Commission rightly notes, bequeath to future generations a legacy of "devastating impacts".
Writing in the Guardian this week, in an article designed to reach out to the 1.5 million people who supported Labour in 1997 but who have since switched to the Lib Dems, Ed Miliband said: "Our society is at risk of being reshaped in ways which will devastate the proud legacy of liberalism".
National Gallery, WC2, Wed to 15 Jun SS Iraq is a country defined by the terrible legacy of dictatorship and the devastating invasion led by western powers.
The Italian, whose once illustrious CV was tarnished by the defeat to the Faroe Islands while in charge of crisis-hit Greece, appears to have embraced his predecessor's legacy and strengthened it to devastating effect.
Marrying exemplary reporting with lively, lucid writing, she makes a convincing -- nay, devastating -- case that Levin wrecked the legacy of Henry Luce, the founder of Time Inc., in the service of his ego.
