ABOUT THIS BOOK: An epic courtroom battle against big oil over the restoration of  a gulf coast marsh. When Cajun native Bill Dore, who had made his fortune from servicing the big companies of the Oil Patch, decided in 2001 that he had no choice but to turn around and sue the largest oil company in the world, Exxon Mobil, for badly polluting Cameron Meadows, his 28-square mile private field of dreams on the southwest coast of Louisiana, he knew that the suit was very risky, and that even if he won, it would cost him far more than money. From time immemorial, Cameron Meadows's pristine freshwater marsh had served to break the fury of hurricanes, to incubate many forms of flora and fauna, and to be home and winter refuge to hundreds of species of birds. But sev-enty years of oil and gas extraction operations had left toxic materials in the marsh and had nearly completed its conversion from a fresh-water to a saltwater environment; its future was seriously in doubt. Before this court battle, the oil companies' huge war chests and phalanxes of lawyers had usually either prevented ordinary landowners from Florida to Texas from suing, because of the high costs that the landowners had to bear, or had prevailed in the courts. But Dore had the resources to take them on, and was deter-mined to do so. 

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