On a sunny January afternoon, Paula Jean Swearengin, a 43-year-old accounting clerk and single mother of four from Coal City, West Virginia, steers a red rental SUV up a narrow back road in southern Kanawha County. She points at trailer homes caked in a fine layer of black soot, blown off the coal trucks that thunder through the area – "You see the coal dust on these homes!" she says – and
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Revolt in West Virginia's Coal Country
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