David Sive, a Father of Environmental Law, Dies at 91 David Sive, considered one of the founders of environmental law, who argued precedent-setting cases and helped establish a string of advocacy groups when such issues had barely penetrated public consciousness, died on March 12 in West Orange, N.J. He was 91. His family confirmed the death. At his death, Mr. Sive was a retired founding partner of Sive, Paget & Riesel, a prominent environmental law firm in Manhattan. Well before 1970 — the year in which the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency was established, the federal Clean Air Act was passed and the first Earth Day was celebrated — he had begun working to preserve wild areas across the country from pollution and development. His efforts centered on the Northeast — in particular the Hudson River Valley, the Adirondacks and the Catskills — but also extended as far afield as Alaska. A significant early case, which Mr. Sive joined as a litigator in the mid-1960s, was Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission. At the center of the case, which originated in the early ’60s, was an immense hydroelectric plant that Consolidated Edison had planned to build into Storm King Mountain, on the west bank of the Hudson about [...] newsnyork/david-sive-a-father-of-environmental-law-dies-at-91/
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