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Author Maysilles, Duncan

Title Ducktown Smoke : the Southern Appalachian Story of the Supreme Court's First Air Pollution Case
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: The View from the Mountain; 1 The Setting, the Cherokees, and the First Era of Ducktown Mining, 1843-1878; 2 The Revival of Ducktown Mining and the First Smoke Suits, 1890-1903; 3 The Farmers and the Copper Companies Wage Battle in the Tennessee Courts; 4 Georgia Enters the Fray; 5 The Ducktown Desert and Georgia's First Smoke Suit; Map; 6 Will Shippen, Forestry, and Georgia's Second Smoke Suit, 1905-1907; 7 Attorney General Hart, the National Farmers Union, and the Search for a Remedy, 1907-1910
8 The Smoke Injunction and the Great War, 1914-19189 Power Dams, Whitewater Rafting, and the Reclamation of the Ducktown Desert, 1916-2010; EPILOGUE: The View from the Mountain; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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 i
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Tennessee -- Ducktown Region
Liability for environmental damages -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Liability for environmental damages -- Tennessee -- Ducktown Region
Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects.
Liability for environmental damages.
SUBJECT Georgia -- Trials, litigation, etc
Subject Southern Appalachian Region.
Georgia.
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807877937
080787793X
0807834599
9780807834596