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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
Ducktown Smoke
Author: Duncan Maysilles
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080787793X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills--a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. In Ducktown Smoke, Duncan Maysilles examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation. Beginning in 1896, the widening destruction wrought in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina by Ducktown copper mining spawned hundreds of private lawsuits, culminating in Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., the U.S. Supreme Court's first air pollution case. In its 1907 decision, the Court recognized for the first time the sovereign right of individual states to protect their natural resources from transborder pollution, a foundational opinion in the formation of American environmental law. Maysilles reveals how the Supreme Court case brought together the disparate forces of agrarian populism, industrial logging, and the forest conservation movement to set a legal precedent that remains relevant in environmental law today.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080787793X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills--a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. In Ducktown Smoke, Duncan Maysilles examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation. Beginning in 1896, the widening destruction wrought in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina by Ducktown copper mining spawned hundreds of private lawsuits, culminating in Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., the U.S. Supreme Court's first air pollution case. In its 1907 decision, the Court recognized for the first time the sovereign right of individual states to protect their natural resources from transborder pollution, a foundational opinion in the formation of American environmental law. Maysilles reveals how the Supreme Court case brought together the disparate forces of agrarian populism, industrial logging, and the forest conservation movement to set a legal precedent that remains relevant in environmental law today.
The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers
Author: United States. President
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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The Abridgment
Author: United States. President
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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United States Reports, Supreme Court
Author: United States. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers
Author: United States. Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Reports of the Department of Labor
Author: United States. Department of Labor
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Syllabus Series
Author: University of California (System)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Control of Poverty
Author: Jessica Blanche Peixotto
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Category : Poverty
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Category : Poverty
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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United States Reports
Author: United States. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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