LEADER 04194nam 2200553 450 001 9910468027903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-1807-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501718076 035 $a(CKB)4340000000266387 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5354034 035 $a(OCoLC)1010620024 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65805 035 $a(DLC) 2017053547 035 $a(DE-B1597)496563 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501718076 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5354034 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11547864 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000266387 100 $a20180515d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEmbattled river $ethe Hudson and modern American environmentalism /$fDavid Schuyler 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) 311 $a1-5017-1805-3 311 $a1-5017-1806-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Battle over Storm King -- $t2. Politics and the River -- $t3. Pete Seeger and the Clearwater -- $t4. The Fishermen and the Riverkeeper -- $t5. The Continuing Battle against Power Plants -- $t6. Scenic Hudson's Expanding Mission -- $t7. Linking Landscapes and Promoting History -- $t8. A Poisoned River -- $t9. A River Still Worth Fighting For -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1950s. Through his investigative narrative, Schuyler uncovers the critical role of this iconic American waterway in the emergence of modern environmentalism in the United States.Writing fifty-five years after Consolidated Edison announced plans to construct a pumped storage power plant at Storm King Mountain, Schuyler recounts how a loose coalition of activists took on corporate capitalism and defended the river. Led by Scenic Hudson, later joined by groups such as Riverkeeper, Clearwater, the Hudson River Valley Greenway, and the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, the coalition won the first of many legal and publicity battles that would halt pollution of the river, slowly reverse the damage of years of discharge into the river, and protect hundreds of thousands of acres of undeveloped land in the river valley.As Schuyler shows, the environmental victories on the Hudson had broad impact. In the state at the heart of the story, the immediate result was the creation in 1970 of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to monitor, investigate, and litigate cases of pollution. At the national level, the environmental ferment in the Hudson Valley that Schuyler so richly describes contributed directly to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, and the creation of the Superfund in 1980 to fund the cleanup of toxic-dumping sites.With these legal and regulatory means, the contest between environmental advocates and corporate power has continued well into the twenty-first century. Indeed, as Embattled River shows, the past is prologue. The struggle to control the uses and maintain the ecological health of the Hudson River persists and the stories of the pioneering advocates told by Schuyler provide lessons, reminders, and inspiration for today's activists. 606 $aEnvironmentalism$zHudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)$xHistory 606 $aEnvironmental protection$zHudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) 607 $aHudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)$xEnvironmental conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnvironmentalism$xHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmental protection 676 $a333.91/4097473 700 $aSchuyler$b David$0129757 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910468027903321 996 $aEmbattled river$92458079 997 $aUNINA