Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Dioxins
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Dioxin Pollution in the Pigeon River, North Carolina and Tennessee
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Dioxins
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Dioxin Pollution in the Pigeon River, North Carolina and Tennessee
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Dioxins
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Slain Wood
Author: William BoydPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421413310
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The paper industry rejuvenated the American South—but took a heavy toll on its land and people. When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region’s number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In The Slain Wood, William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp and paper industry in the American South during the twentieth century and the social and environmental changes that accompanied it. Drawing on extensive interviews and historical research, he tells the fascinating story of one of the region’s most important but understudied industries. The Slain Wood reveals how a thoroughly industrialized forest was created out of a degraded landscape, uncovers the ways in which firms tapped into informal labor markets and existing inequalities of race and class to fashion a system for delivering wood to the mills, investigates the challenges of managing large papermaking complexes, and details the ways in which mill managers and unions discriminated against black workers. It also shows how the industry’s massive pollution loads significantly disrupted local environments and communities, leading to a long struggle to regulate and control that pollution.
Regulating Water Quality
Author: Jodee KuskeQuick Bibliography Series
Author: Troubled Waters
Author: Richard A. BartlettPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870498886
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Since 1908, the corporate giant now known as Champion International has operated a pulp and paper mill along the banks of the Pigeon River in Canton, North Carolina. As a result, during most of those years, this once-sparkling Appalachian stream has been virtually useless except as an industrial sewer - foamy, foul-smelling, molasses-colored. By polluting the river, the mill that brought prosperity to Canton stunted the economic growth of the downstream communities in Cocke County, Tennessee. Although public pressure to clean up the Pigeon surfaced intermittently, it has been only in the years since 1985 that two organizations - the Pigeon River Action Group and the Dead Pigeon River Council - have mounted a sustained drive against the ongoing pollution. Today, following a multimillion-dollar upgrading of the Champion mill, the Pigeon River is cleaner but hardly pristine. Moreover, there is little evidence that Champion carried out its modernization for any reasons other than economic ones.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Water Quality Standards for the 21st Century
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Proceedings of the water quality standards. The goal of this conference is to share experiences and visions, to discuss and debate the water quality standards framework and decide what should be accomplished in this last decade as we get ready to enter the 21st century. What should be the priorities, what tools do decision makers need, when should tasks be accomplished and what are the resource implications. All these subjects and other related sectors are discussed in these proceedings.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and TransportationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description