..., mainly farmers, industrious people whose labor brought forth the promise of the underdeveloped lands of Illinois that had years before been reclaimed by nature. In addition to tillable land, the farmers utilized erodible land for pasture to feed domestic livestock. In 1867, the US Army Corps of Engineers...

... subterfuge reportedly instigated by Governor Cuomo himself. The second Cuomo strategic effort to sidestep judicial and regulatory hurdles to Westway involved circumventing the usual sequence for Army Corps of Engineers decision making. Cuomo Mario Second Circuit Court of Appeals Section 404 permit...

... theory Dovel’s Rockefeller David Environmental Protection Agency EPA Exhibit MMM Houston Len Mastro Randy New Jersey Consortium for Westway Curran Paul lawyers government Exhibit NNN McCarroll Jean Angell Phil Daggett Chris Exhibit OOO Army Corps of Engineers Draft to Final SEIS language...

... fill in rivers like the Hudson. The chapter shows how the courts and the lawyers worked to sort out these issues. Congress judicial deference New Jersey opposition to Westway opposition to Westway trade in provision Army Corps of Engineers Dovel William Houston Len lawyers government...