Fighting Westway : : Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City / / William W. Buzbee.
From 1971 to 1985, battles raged over Westway, a multibillion-dollar highway, development, and park project slated for placement in New York City. It would have projected far into the Hudson River, including massive new landfill extending several miles along Manhattan’s Lower West Side. The most exp...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t List of Figures -- |t List of Acronyms -- |t Westway Chronology, 1971–1985 -- |t Introduction -- |t 1. The Westway Plan -- |t 2. Highways, Subways, and the Seeds of Dissent -- |t 3. The Art of Regulatory War -- |t 4. The Road Warriors and the New Environment -- |t 5. Searching for Westway’s Achilles’ Heel: Air Pollution? -- |t 6. Westway’s Fill and America’s Protected Waters -- |t 7. The Public Fish Story -- |t 8. Enter the Independent Federal Judiciary and the Power of Law -- |t 9. Reexamining the 1971–1982 Debacles -- |t 10. Westway’s Second Chance -- |t 11. The Trial Crucible -- |t 12. The Cross-Examination -- |t 13. Judgment Days -- |t 14. Assessing Westway’s Outcome -- |t Epilogue: If Westway Were Proposed Today? -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Notes -- |t Index |
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520 | |a From 1971 to 1985, battles raged over Westway, a multibillion-dollar highway, development, and park project slated for placement in New York City. It would have projected far into the Hudson River, including massive new landfill extending several miles along Manhattan’s Lower West Side. The most expensive highway project ever proposed, Westway also provoked one of the highest stakes legal battles of its day. In Fighting Westway, William W. Buzbee reveals how environmentalists, citizens, their lawyers, and a growing opposition coalition, despite enormous resource disparities, were able to defeat this project supported by presidents, senators, governors, and mayors, much of the business community, and most unions. Although Westway’s defeat has been derided as lacking justification, Westway’s critics raised substantial and ultimately decisive objections. They questioned claimed project benefits and advocated trading federal Westway dollars for mass transit improvements. They also exposed illegally disregarded environmental risks, especially to increasingly scarce East Coast young striped bass often found in extraordinarily high numbers right where Westway was to be built. Drawing on archival records and interviews, Buzbee goes beyond the veneer of government actions and court rulings to illuminate the stakes, political pressures, and strategic moves and countermoves that shaped the Westway war, a fight involving all levels and branches of government, scientific conflict, strategic citizen action, and hearings, trials, and appeals in federal court. This Westway history illuminates how high-stakes regulatory battles are fought, the strategies and power of America’s environmental laws, ways urban priorities are contested, the clout of savvy citizen activists and effective lawyers, and how separation of powers and federalism frameworks structure legal and political conflict. Whether readers seek an exciting tale of environmental, political, and legal conflict, to learn what really happened during these battles that transformed New York City, or to understand how modern legal frameworks shape high stakes regulatory wars, Fighting Westway will provide a good read. | ||
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650 | 0 | |a Express highways |x Environmental aspects |x History |x 20th century |x New York (State) |x New York. | |
650 | 0 | |a Express highways |x Environmental aspects |z New York (State) |z New York |x History |y 20th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Express highways |x Law and legislation |x History |x 20th century |x New York (State) |x New York. | |
650 | 0 | |a Express highways |x Law and legislation |z New York (State) |z New York |x History |y 20th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Green movement |x History |x 20th century |x New York (State) |x New York. | |
650 | 0 | |a Green movement |z New York (State) |z New York |x History |y 20th century. | |
650 | 4 | |a U.S. History. | |
650 | 4 | |a Urban Studies. | |
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653 | |a environmental activism, hudson river, environmental legal battle, environmental policy, opposition coalition, mass transit, highways and the environment, striped bass, regulatory battle, modern legal frameworks. | ||
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