Appalachia, as an energy “sacrifice zone,” has long been devastated by the coal industry and related negative actors: and environmental law has comprehensively failed to protect the region from such industry-produced harms. Environmental law’s failure emanates from its essential supportive role within liberal capitalism’s ecologically unsustainable paradigm. The capitalist mode of production is driven by ceaseless capital accumulation through commodification of nature and functionally requires perpetual economic growth; however, this paradigm has reached its limit in a world of finite resources, as illustrated by the destruction of niche sacrifice zones such as Appalachia, and more broadly, by the global ecological crisis. Consequently, Appalachia does not require further environmental law reform within this unsustainable and deeply exploitative paradigm. Rather, Appalachia requires truly transformative change beyond the liberal order. Appalachia Reconstructed further contends that such transformative change should be steeped in certain strains of ecofeminism, which focus on economic degrowth, critical justice (along lines of class, gender, race, indigenous status, etc.), local-global connections, and; intersections with ecosocialist approaches. In this way, Appalachia Reconstructed is fundamentally concerned with the pursuit of transformative economic and socio-legal change for a region that has long been subordinated. At the same time, however, this book is concerned with how such regional change can both inform and be informed by comparable radical transitions at the broader national and global levels.