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Ducktown Smoke - The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters (Hardcover, New edition)
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Ducktown Smoke - The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters (Hardcover, New edition)
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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.
|Maysilles examines one of the South's worst environmental
disasters caused by the Ducktown Mining District in the Southern
Appalachians, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian
conservation.
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