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DLM Coal Company had already obtained the ncessary permits from government agencies for “surface miryng” on nearby sites. (“Surface mining” is the official euphemism for strip mining.)
In 1980. DLM Coal Company sued Rick for $200,000. The company cited "libelous” statements which accused it of polluting seven miles of mountain streams and endangering a river. Rick had made these allegations a year earlier, in a Mountain Stream Monitors newsletter and in official complaints to federal agencies. (His complaints had resulted in temporary suspension of DLM’s permits.)
Rick, Susan, their children, and their farm quickly attracted national attention. The most notable publicity was an on-the-farm CBS television interview, as part of a special story on their conflict with DLM.
But Rick and Susan found that media attention didn’t focus on the mining issue. The TV camera crew, for example, persuaded Susan to make the morning coffee and teach the kids’ lessons a second time, so the activities could be filmed. Their private lifestyles — not the private rights of citizens — was under public scrutiny.
They acknowledged that the publicity helped their cause, but nonetheless resented the invasion of their privacy. “I’m a private person,” Susan asserted again, this time in a different context. "Oh, I had a knot in the pit of my stomach watching that film this morning,” Susan now says, referring to a video showing of the CBS interview. “I'm sorry we had to leave (the farm), but this is good for us too.”
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