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Title:
Ducktown smoke : the fight over one of the south's greatest environmental disasters
Author:
Maysilles, Duncan.
ISBN:
9780807877937

9781469603155
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 333 pages, [12] pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Abstract:
In 'Ducktown Smoke', Duncan Maysilles offers a summary of the environmental devastation caused by sulfur dioxide pollution in a Southern Appalachian mountain basin in the late 19th century. A byproduct of the smelting practices of two copper mining giants operating in Tennessee, toxic smoke, combined with destructive logging by the industry, gradually laid waste to timber stocks and crops, most of which were in neighbouring Georgia. It also gave rise to decades of litigation - more than 250 private nuisance actions were filed against the copper companies in a 25-year period by residents, loggers, and farmers.
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