The Snail Darter and the Dam

How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Natural Resources, Environmental, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book The Snail Darter and the Dam by Zygmunt Jan Broel Plater, Yale University Press
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Author: Zygmunt Jan Broel Plater ISBN: 9780300195262
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: June 18, 2013
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Zygmunt Jan Broel Plater
ISBN: 9780300195262
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: June 18, 2013
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English
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Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish that blocked completion of a TVA dam is still invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the lawyer who with his students fought and won the Supreme Court case—known officially as Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill—tells the hidden story behind one of the nation’s most significant environmental law battles.
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Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish that blocked completion of a TVA dam is still invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the lawyer who with his students fought and won the Supreme Court case—known officially as Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill—tells the hidden story behind one of the nation’s most significant environmental law battles.

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