The snail darter and the dam : how pork-barrel politics endangered a little fish and killed a river /

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 Supr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plater, Zygmunt J. B., 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Tennessee Valley Authority.
United States. > Endangered Species Act of 1973.
United States. > National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (United States)
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (United States)
Environmental policy > United States.
Percina tanasi > Law and legislation.
Endangered species > Government policy > United States.
Endangered species > Law and legislation > United States.
Rare fishes > Government policy > United States.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Poissons rares > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biological Diversity.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Endangered species > Government policy.
Endangered species > Law and legislation.
Environmental policy.
Tellico Dam (Tenn.)
Tennessee > Tellico Dam.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • God is speaking, by committee
  • Of time, a river, and the Tennessee Valley Authority
  • At the old fort : the start of a crusade for a little fish
  • Pushing the snail darter onto the endangered species list
  • Trial and tribulation in TVA's home court
  • An appeal for justice as bulldozers roll
  • The snail darter goes to Washington
  • Endangered, on the banks of the Potomomac
  • The snail darter gets its Congressional hearings
  • The highest court?
  • Another trial and vindication, in the God tribunal
  • 140 days of a slow-ticking clock, ending in 42 seconds
  • A phone call from Air Force One
  • A few years later, on the CBS evening news.

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