Classic lessons from a little fish in a pork barrel : featuring the notorious story of the endangered snail darter and the TVA's final dam / Zygmunt J.B. Plater.

"The 'snail darter story' has become an iconic episode in modern American history -- a classic case regularly voted one of the top three Supreme Court environmental decisions but also enjoying dubious public notoriety as the 'most extreme environmental case ever'. Behind the fish marched a bedraggle...

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Main Author: Plater, Zygmunt J. B., 1943-
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, 2012.
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Physical Description:28 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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