Penny Loeb
Southern Exposure Contributor
A journalist for 25 years, Penny Loeb has been a member of the investigative team at Newsday and U.S. News & World Report. She has won the Scripps Howard and Society of Professional Journalists public service reporting awards, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award. Loeb is now writing a book and screenplay about mining in southern West Virginia. Bob Gates is a photographer and award-winning documentary filmmaker living in West Virginia. His film In Memory of the Land and People, a documentary on strip mining, has been credited with helping cause passage of the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. (2004)
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Articles by Penny Loeb
January 1, 2004 -
Four years of unprecedented rainfall left much of West Virginia devastated. Now residents, activists, and regulators struggle to reform the logging and mining industries that bear much of the responsibility.
