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Classic Lessons From A Little Fish In A Pork Barrel - Featuring The Notorious Story Of The Endangered Snail Darter And The Tva's Last Dam, Zygmunt J.B. Plater Jul 2013

Classic Lessons From A Little Fish In A Pork Barrel - Featuring The Notorious Story Of The Endangered Snail Darter And The Tva's Last Dam, Zygmunt J.B. Plater

Zygmunt J.B. Plater

Canaries are small, fragile, sensitive creatures weighing no more than 20 grams, about seven-tenths of an ounce. They have become a familiar and significant metaphor, however, due to the important role they played as vivid warning indicators of substantial threats to human welfare. Because canaries are extremely sensitive to the presence of methane and carbon monoxide—deadly but odorless gases that seep from deep coal deposits—miners in England and the U.S. carried canaries in little cages along with them as they worked in underground coal seams. When the canaries began to sway and slump noticeably on their perches, the miners could …


Clear The Air: Lopsided Journalism In Public Policy Debates, Zygmunt J.B. Plater Oct 2011

Clear The Air: Lopsided Journalism In Public Policy Debates, Zygmunt J.B. Plater

Zygmunt J.B. Plater

A point-counterpoint to Professor Plater's article, "Law and the Fourth Estate: Endangered Nature, the Press, and the Dicey Game of Democratic Governance, Environmental Law, 32 (2002): 1-36.


Environmental Law As A Mirror Of The Future: Civic Values Confronting Market Force Dynamics In A Time Of Counter-Revolution, Zygmunt J.B Plater Oct 2011

Environmental Law As A Mirror Of The Future: Civic Values Confronting Market Force Dynamics In A Time Of Counter-Revolution, Zygmunt J.B Plater

Zygmunt J.B. Plater

No abstract provided.


From The Beginning, A Fundamental Shift Of Paradigms: A Theory And Short History Of Environmental Law, Zygmunt J.B. Plater Oct 2011

From The Beginning, A Fundamental Shift Of Paradigms: A Theory And Short History Of Environmental Law, Zygmunt J.B. Plater

Zygmunt J.B. Plater

No abstract provided.


The Snail Darter, The Tellico Dam, And Sustainable Democracy — Lessons For The Next President From A Classic Environmental Law Controversy., Zygmunt J.B. Plater Oct 2011

The Snail Darter, The Tellico Dam, And Sustainable Democracy — Lessons For The Next President From A Classic Environmental Law Controversy., Zygmunt J.B. Plater

Zygmunt J.B. Plater

This presentation was the product of an invitation to speak at a symposium for students and faculty from a variety of different non-law departments at the University of Tennessee, where in 1973 I had started what became a six-year legal campaign to divert the Tennessee Valley Authority from impounding the last flowing 33 miles of the Little Tennessee River behind TVA’s Tellico Dam.


Through The Looking Glass Of Eminent Domain: Exploring The “Arbitrary And Capricious” Test And Substantive Rationality Review Of Governmental Decisions, Zygmunt J.B. Plater, William Lund Norine Oct 2011

Through The Looking Glass Of Eminent Domain: Exploring The “Arbitrary And Capricious” Test And Substantive Rationality Review Of Governmental Decisions, Zygmunt J.B. Plater, William Lund Norine

Zygmunt J.B. Plater

No abstract provided.


The Three Economies: Rethinking The Connections Between Society, Ecology, And Money, Zygmunt J.B. Plater Dec 1997

The Three Economies: Rethinking The Connections Between Society, Ecology, And Money, Zygmunt J.B. Plater

Zygmunt J.B. Plater

No abstract provided.


Following Up The Aals Symposium: An Environmental Justice Network, Zygmunt J.B. Plater, Charlie Lord, William Shutkin Dec 1993

Following Up The Aals Symposium: An Environmental Justice Network, Zygmunt J.B. Plater, Charlie Lord, William Shutkin

Zygmunt J.B. Plater

No abstract provided.