Protecting central Illinois communities and farmland from destructive coal mining
- “Lost Mountain” by Eric Reese, 2006
- “Big Coal” by Jeff Goodell, 2007
- “Coal River: How a few brave Americans took on the corporation and the Government to save the land they love” by Michael Shnayerson, 2008
- “Something’s Rising” by Silas House and Jason Howard, Univ. of Ky. Press, 2009
- “Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water” by Maude Barlow,2007
- “Reckoning at Eagle Creek” the Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland by Jeff Biggers, 2010