314 The Environmental Debate
- After more than $100 million had been spent and the project was in its final stages, the Supreme
Court ruled that the dam could not be completed because the operation of the dam would destroy
the only known habitat of the snail darter. See Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, in United States
Reports, 1978,Vol. 437 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1980), pp. 153-213. - John H. Cushman, Jr., with Evelyn Nieves, “In Colorado Resort Fires, Culprits Defy Easy Labels,”
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Part VII
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USDA, November 1997), p. 16. - Mark Holt and Carl E. Behrens, “Nuclear Energy in the United States,” Congressional Research
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- World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (New York: Oxford
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from Rio (New York: United Nations, 1992). - Arne Naess, “The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movements,” in George Sessions,
ed., Deep Ecology for the Twenty-first Century: Readings in the Philosophy of the New Environ-
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(March 27, 1996): 2049. - Moustafa Tolba, “The Ozone Agreement—and Beyond,” Environmental Conservation 14, no. 4
(1967): 287-90, quoted in Robert F. Fleagle, Global Environmental Change: Interactions of Science,
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ton, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1985), named for Health and Human
Services secretary Margaret Heckler. - By 2005 nearly all of the approximately one thousand commercially produced EV-1’s had been
taken back from the people who had leased them, and had been crushed and shredded. A few
survive in museums but have no ability to move. See the DVD Who Killed the Electric Car (Sony
Pictures Classic Release, Electric Entertainment, 2006), written and directed by Chris Paine, and
produced by Jessie Dexter.