The Biggest Environmental Law Case in Twentieth-Century Tennessee

…and Where Was the Press? 

builds on the notorious little snail darter, the endangered fish that for a time halted TVA's Tellico Dam. My students at UT and I carried the case up through all three branches of government over six years, including the Cabinet-level God Committee that held that the citizens' river-based development for the project made better economic sense than the reservoir,  but the public never saw past the silly fish-big dam cliché.

Yale is publishing my book on the case in a few weeks, and a large part of the book is how citizens can work better with journalists to make sure basic information for governance gets through to the government and the American public.

 I attach a conference flyer, and a flyer for the book. It would be very good to have a contingent from your department with us on Thursday at the Baker Center at 3:30, and thereafter for a reception and panel across Cumberland Avenue at the College of Law.

Warm good wishes.

Zyg Plater