Crude Justice
How I Fought Big Oil and Won, and What You Should Know About the New Environmental Attack on America
$53.61
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2026
Summary
One day in the small Mississippi town of Laurel, a 26-year-old expectant mom named Karen Street sat down at the edge of her bathtub—and felt her hip split in two. The episode was so bizarre it wasn’t until later, after she saw the doctor, that she realized her bone disease was almost certainly linked to her father-in-law’s business. Winston Street ran a machine shop that drilled the gunk out of pipes used by Chevron, Shell and other giants of the oil industry—creating a white powder that cove…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781637749395 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1637749392 |
| Author: | Stuart H. Smith |
| Publisher: | BenBella Books |
| Imprint: | BenBella Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Stuart H. Smith
Stuart H. Smith is a practicing plaintiff attorney licensed in Louisiana. He is a founding partner of the New Orleans-based law firm Smith Stag, LLC. The firm’s practice is concentrated in the fields of environmental law and toxic torts. Smith has practiced law for nearly 25 years and is recognized internationally as a crusader against major oil companies and other polluters for damages associated with radioactive oilfield waste.
Smith has also been lead counsel on more than 100 oil pollution cases, which focus primarily on damages caused by the wastewater and sludge oil companies discharge into the environment. Smith’s litigation experience includes a lawsuit against Ashland Oil for contaminating the Lee aquifer, once one of the largest sources of fresh water for residents in eastern Kentucky. He also sued Chevron Corporation for damages associated with that company’s contamination of the groundwater in the rural town of Brookhaven, Mississippi. His firm also represents clients injured by chemicals and defective drugs.
Smith is currently representing commercial fishermen, whose livelihoods have been devastated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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