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Environmental

Apr. 4, 2014

The 'founding parent of American environmental law'

David Sive is dead - the boy from Brooklyn who helped shape the environment of his country and through it, the world. By Nicholas C. Yost


By Nicholas C. Yost


David Sive is dead. He passed away last month. More than any other single person he was the founding parent of American environmental law - the boy from Brooklyn who helped shape the environment of his country and through it, the world.


In his life Sive played two distinct but complimentary roles - as a passionate environmentalist and advocate who fought to preserve our nation's air and water and land and physical beauty, but als...

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