Biography
In the early 1960s, he was involved in a landmark environmental case opposing construction of a power plant on Storm King Mountain located on the Hudson River in New York State, called Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, 354 F.2d 608 (2d Cir. 1965) and 453 F.2d 464 (2d Cir. 1971). The Scenic Hudson case established some of the basic first principles of standing in United States environmental law and is credited with having helped inspire the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act and the creation of environmental law as a field and career. (Card, Skip, Scenic Standing; The 40th Anniversary of Scenic Hudson and the Birth of Environmental Litigation, New York State Bar Association Journal, September 2005). In the mid-1970s, Sive represented plaintiffs in an unsuccessful environmental lawsuit challenging the Navy's Trident Submarine. Concerned About Trident v. Schlesinger, 400 F.Supp. 454 (D.D.C. 1975).
Sive also was involved in the preservation of the "forever wild" clauses of the New York State Constitution preserving the Adirondack Park and Catskill mountains. Sive has been described as a "pioneer" and "elder statesman" of environmental law by the New York Times. (Reinhold, Robert, The Law; Coming of Age of the Environmental Lawyer, New York Times, April 29, 1988). Sive is a founding partner of the environmental law firm Sive, Paget & Riesel, located in New York City.
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